A Restless Truth

De: Freya Marske

Narrado por: Aysha Kala

A Restless Truth is the second entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light.

"Narrator Aysha Kala delivers action and romance in this sequel to A MARVELLOUS LIGHT."- AudioFile Magazine

“Sublime prose, top-notch world-building, delightfully queer.”—TJ Klune, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, on A Marvellous Light

Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance!

Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plenty of it when she volunteered to serve as an old lady’s companion on an ocean liner, in order to help her beloved older brother unravel a magical conspiracy that began generations ago.

What she didn’t expect was for the old lady in question to turn up dead on the first day of the voyage. Now she has to deal with a dead body, a disrespectful parrot, and the lovely, dangerously outrageous Violet Debenham, who’s also returning home to England. Violet is everything that Maud has been trained to distrust yet can’t help but desire: a magician, an actress, and a magnet for scandal.

Surrounded by the open sea and a ship full of suspects, Maud and Violet must first drop the masks that they’ve both learned to wear before they can unmask a murderer and somehow get their hands on a magical object worth killing for—without ending up dead in the water themselves.

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Fantastic Adventure

I loved everything about this story: the mystery, the romance, the writing and narration. Can’t wait for the final book!

Great second installment!

I really loved the first book and the vocal performance of the first book and was almost sad the same actor wasn’t doing this book. I’m so glad they did! The actress was wonderful and really helped get me into the story. Love the LGBTQ representation and cannot wait for the third book!

Well written, wonderful narrator, but...

I am not sure why, but this series just does not hold my attention. It has literally every element of a story that I love. There's magic, mystery, a fun love story, it's historical...I just don't know why I space out and have no idea what is going on in the story by the time I tune back in.

Excellent

Wonderful series and this middle book was truly riveting. This narrator does her best with what I imagine were some very tricky accents (like Violet, the theatrical ex-pat, whose dialect comes in as a predecessor to a fast talking New York flapper girl, and lilts more towards her landed English upbringing the more of her ‘authentic’ self we and Maude get to see). It’s a difficult performance and there were a couple noticeable dips but overall I think she brought the characters to life, each with their own distinct style and all with vibrancy.
Of course, all of that is also due to Freya Marske and her tremendous talent. A beautiful series!

Can we talk about that cover???

Wow 3rd historical for the year, and I'm officially experiencing Edwardian burnout. I LOVED IT! But I've hit my limit of potentially ruined women for now, and I'm glad that the third book in the series isn't set to release until November. Because while I am VERY interested in how that pairing with work out, and I have a ton of theories about some of the mystery....I am glad for the break.

Maud and Violet were nearly a perfect mix for me. Maud is the naive young woman, just learning about what she wants and how to get it. Violet is the experienced seductress who is absolutely dying to be the next big scandal. Violet is the perfect person to teach Maud all about her various appetites. And holy wow the lessons are HOT.

That cover! *swoon* I mean. The symbolism of the hourglass for a F/F romance?! It's stunning!!!

The action and unravelling the mystery is so well done. I am shocked that this book supposedly only spanned 6 days....so much happened!!! I'm still reeling over the timeline, and the ridiculousness of some of the dealings. There's a stampede for crying out loud! LOL

I must say, I did take off some points because guide lights weren't a large part of this story, and they're clearly the best part of this magic system. :)