Gifted & Talented

De: Olivie Blake

Narrado por: Eunice Wong

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.

Where there’s a will, there’s a war.

Thayer Wren, the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology, is dead. Any one of his three telepathically and electrokinetically gifted children would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne.

Or at least, so they like to think.

Meredith, textbook accomplished eldest daughter and the head of her own groundbreaking biotech company, has recently cured mental illness. You're welcome! If only her father's fortune wasn't her last hope for keeping her journalist ex-boyfriend from exposing what she really is: a total fraud.

Arthur, second-youngest congressman in history, fights the good fight every day of his life. And yet, his wife might be leaving him, and he's losing his re-election campaign. But his dead father’s approval in the form of a seat on the Wrenfare throne might just turn his sinking ship around.

Eilidh, once the world's most famous ballerina, has spent the last five years as a run-of-the-mill marketing executive at her father’s company after a life-altering injury put an end to her prodigious career. She might be lacking in accolades compared to her siblings, but if her father left her everything, it would finally validate her worth—by confirming she'd been his favorite all along.

On the pipeline of gifted kid to clinically depressed adult, nobody wins—but which Wren will come out on top?

As Alexene Farol Follmuth

Twelfth Knight

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

©2025 Olivie Blake (P)2025 Macmillan Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Succession gets the dark fantasy treatment in this riveting standalone from bestseller Blake… It’s just the kind of deliciously toxic interpersonal miasma that Blake’s fans have come to expect.”—Publishers Weekly

“Told with Blake’s signature wit and driven by a cast of morally gray characters you will hate to love and love to hate, Gifted & Talented is equal parts black comedy, sharp indictment of privilege and power, and soaring, vicious drama. Addictively entertaining, this is Blake at the height of her abilities.”—Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lady Macbeth

"Incisive, unsparing, and utterly brilliant. Gifted & Talented is a remarkable character study meditating on the consequences of dynasty and power. Olivie Blake’s storytelling has risen to empyrean heights."—Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of Immortal Longings

It is finally

It is finally over. I’ve never in all my years of reading stayed up late to finish a book simply to get it over with. I’m being a bit harsh. Basically, this book wasn’t for me. I imagine many readers will love this book. In a nutshell, I didn’t like this read because I never for a minute felt the characters would not turn out okay. Good for them. I also really did not like the narrator of the book (not the voice actor reading the book but the narrator in the book [you know what I mean]). Multiple times during the book I thought to myself: I really wish this person would stop talking. Unintentionally while I was listening to this book about a magical family I was also reading another book about a very different magical family: Mariana Enriquez’s our share of night. That book has kept me riveted. Reading late into the night for reason more appealing to me. Ultimately, I think it is down to what is more interesting to you. Look at both of these books you’ll know which one you’re more interested in.