Untamed City: Carnival of Secrets

By: Melissa Marr

Narrated by: James Marsters

Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

Warriors Kaleb and Aya will stop at nothing to destroy their competition. But when Kaleb finds his fate entwined with that of Mallory, a 17-year-old human girl, he can’t seem to separate the vicious Carnival contest he’s entered from his sudden devotion to her. He and Aya may be prizefighters from the otherworldly Untamed City, but his strange, obsessive connection makes staying away from the witch-ruled human world, and Mallory, harder every day.

All Mallory knows of the Untamed City is what her elders have told her - that it’s full of debauchery and daimons looking to destroy her. But she knows she’s being pulled toward Kaleb with an emotion so fierce that it’s utterly foreign.

The two are forced apart by Mallory’s overprotective witch father, stranded by necessity between warring populations that can’t coexist. But when The City’s ruler raises the stakes of the Carnival’s prize, there’s nothing Mallory, Kaleb, or Aya can do to stop the two worlds colliding. Mallory’s about to discover her true identity - and stumble into a fate she’d die to avoid.

Fans of The Hunger Games will devour this tale of lush secrets, dark love, and the struggle to forge one’s own destiny from the best-selling author of Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr.

©2012 Melissa Marr (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers

Pleasant read

I selected this book because it was read by James Marsters and I wasn't disappointed, he reads beautifully and I didn't want to stop listening. Storyline was unique compared to other paranormal fantasy which made it even more enjoyable.

I can't remember a thing about this book

Ok, sure I listen to a ton of audiobooks due to having a job that takes zero brain cells. But when only a few weeks later I can't remember a single detail about a book? That is a bad sign people. It tells me that although it didn't annoy me in any way, it also did not interest me at all either. This might be a good book to go to sleep to. I just might give it a few more listens and test this theory out.

Great book! I wish the others were on audible.

Loved this book! Can't wait to get the other books on audio, really like the way James Marsters reads books.
He did 3 books for The Greyfriar Audio Book - The Vampire Empire Series , got me looking for more of his reads.

This book made me angry. So misleading

I understand an author can't always help it if a book series doesn't get completed or even really off the ground if they have a major publisher it's out of the author's hands. But there was no indication whatsoever that this was the first book in a series that never really got made. This book is sold as though it were a standalone and there is NO ENDING. It's a F***ing cliffhanger!

So there is no resolution. To anything. I just wasted 8 hours of my life I can't get back and I WILL be returning this.

This is complete BS. The narration was brilliant but I cannot forgive this book with a cliffhanger and NO resolution. Not in any other book and no indication that there WILL be any resolution. I was invested in these characters and now I guess I just have to make up my own fanfic ending in my head. Thanks a lot. A**holes.