Beautiful Beasts

De: Nicholas Knight

Narrado por: Michella Ames

What do you choose: your sanity, or your freedom?

Loretta Maradona is the heir of her house, set to one day inherit her mother’s title of duquesa and rise to prominence among the peerage of the Queendom of Freutsche. She is capable, headstrong, and pure of spirIt. An exemplary young diamond souled woman. Until she is betrayed, cast down, and transformed.

Women rule the world. Men rule the beasts.

Rampant beasts, women of impure spirit who have been consumed by the power of the seeds of creation and driven mad with bloodlust, roam the wilderness. Only the knight keepers keep the queendoms safe, binding their spirits together with those of the beast’s. In doing so, they restore the beast’s sanity and enforce her loyalty. Beasts bound to knight keepers are the greatest weapons of any queendom.

Bound to a mercenary who has lost everything and possessed of a mission of his own, Loretta must come to terms with both her new station and incredible new abilities, all while trying to reclaim her humanity. If she can become human again, then maybe she can save her family, and the queendom from the greatest threat any have ever known.

If she regains her humanity, she might not have the power to keep anyone safe.

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Fleshed out fantasy world

I really love the universe, and how it addresses "real life" situations that a lot of fantasy novels don't take into account - like economics and how the details of the world would influence it, and things like cancer being a part of the world without being the focus of the story. Plus, matriarchal society, a trans character, and no using the universe's mechanics as an excuse for non-con. Great performance, looking forward to the next book.

1st audio book

My first audio book, great story, enjoyed the narrator's ability to use different character voices.

Cute and Creative

Only complaint about the performance is there are some points where a sentence is clearly spliced in because the tone of the reader is completely different. I really enjoyed the story and am looking forward to more books in the series.

waiting for second book

this book was much better than I thought it would be going in. I normally dont write reviews but I had to for this one. the start of the book is... to put bluntly really odd. it gave me the feeling of the wheel of time series where women just looked down on men and stuff like that. getting past that part was kind of hard I almost quit listening multiple times. the narrator doesn't really help matters. shes not the worst I've heard but shes not super great either. thankfully she does seem to get better as the book goes on. if I had to classify this book I would consider it a coming of age story for the main character trying to get a handle on her new life. its honestly fantastic and far more than i was expecting after that first couple chapters. would recommend and am eagerly awaiting the next book.

Amazing audio performance, such a thrilling tale.

I loved listening to this book on Audible. The narrator really made the story come to life. Great tone quality and just an awesome overall listening experience. I really love the characters and the story twists.