Valor of the Healer

Rebels of Adalonia, Book 1

By: Angela Highland

Narrated by: Gia St. Claire

The Rook

An assassin hired by vengeful elven rebels to kill the calculating Duke of Shalridan, Julian walks into a trap and barely escapes with his life. Healed by a beautiful captive in the dungeons, he's enthralled and vows to free her from the duke's clutches.

The Hawk

A Knight of the Hawk duty-bound to cleanse elven magic from Adalonia, Kestar has a secret - and heretical - ability to sense the use of magic from afar. He knows something suspicious is happening in the duke's keep, but he has no idea how deep the conspiracy goes.

The Dove

A half-elven healer with no control over her magic, Faanshi is the goddess' to command. She's always been a pawn of the powerful, but after healing two mysterious and very different men, she faces a choice that may decide the fate of the whole kingdom....

©2013 Angela Highland (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Hard to listen to

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The narrator was hard to understand. Her accent slurred several words together so that much of the time, I wasn't sure what she was saying. Her pitch was also a little high, so that could've added to the problem.

I can't comment on the story itself as I really couldn't get past the first 10 minutes.

Would you ever listen to anything by Angela Highland again?

With a different narrator, probably.

What didn’t you like about Gia St. Claire’s performance?

Her accent.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Valor of the Healer?

Couldn't say as I didn't finish listening to it.