Outcast

Warden of the West, Book 1

De: Annabel Chase

Narrado por: Amanda Dolan

I live by one simple rule: no magic. Not too hard in the human world, plus it keeps me hidden from my evil sorcerer father. Safe.

When I’m forced into using magic to save an innocent family, the jig is up. Or so I believe. Instead, I’m whisked off to an academy of magic in a place I never knew existed. The problem is - my power is completely raw, which means I don’t know my butt from a broomstick. At first, it's all wands, witches, and a new wardrobe...until I get caught in a restricted area with a dead body. Now, it's going to take more than magic to clear my name.

Thanks to new friends and a magically delicious vampire called Gray, I don't have to fly solo anymore. I'm out of my depth and out of options. Can I catch a killer before it's too late, or am I doomed to live a life on the run?

Outcast: Spellslingers Academy of Magic, the first audiobook of the Warden of the West series, is a fantasy mystery with humor, action, a powerful heroine, and a fang-tastic hero.

©2018 Red Palm Press LLC (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

Warden of the West

Brinn orphaned by her Mom, is hiding from her evil sorcerer father amongst humans. She has magic but is terrified to use it because it will alert everyone, including her father as to her whereabouts.

On her way home from a night shift Brinn is forced to make a split second decision to use her magic to save an innocent family. She's instantly spotted but instead of being taken into custody she's whisked off to an academy of magic in a different realm. Here they're going to teach Brinn how to use her power responsibly. Trust comes hard for the once street kid - and it gets tougher when she's found in a restricted area with a dead body.

Brinn meets and befriends Gray, an ex-warden and vampire. Together they're going to try and figure out who at Spellslingers Academy has it out for the love child of one of the most hated sorcerers in their history.

Incredible and Outstanding book and series

Beautifully done, the performance and story was amazing and the series is so inspiring. The character backstory is very well written, the spellslinger academy as a building has its own personality which is difficult to acheive. Seriously underated series. Highly suggest! ❤️💅❤️

My thoughts.

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS. The story was awesome, and the narrator was VERY good. I will DEFINITELY be continuing the series.

Loved this book.

Voices very clear and enjoyable. Kind of got into the excitement. Will buy the next one.

great story

Love the characters. Narrator is great too. That is always important. This is one of my favorite authors

was expecting more

Story just stopped unfinished and left more questions than answers. the plot was confusing at times too

Loved the story, but the narrator hesitates

Story was pretty good. I got these out of order so playing catch up. Kinda glad there is a different narrator for each quadrant. This narrator though is hard to digest. Not sure who teaches narrators to wait one to two seconds between the speaking part and who does the speaking but it throws off the narrative quite a bit. At each pause, I'm expecting to hear the voice of the other character but no.. I hear: She said. I'll give one of the other quadrants a try before my time runs out and see if the narrator is any better.

Weak YA

Arbitrary magic, instant relationships, disconnected scenes (in media res is a fine technique, but not recommended for every scene in a book), convenient cluelessness on the part of presumably more experienced characters, random "jokes" involving references to mundane world media properties that of course the other characters don't understand ... this might be good enough to get a B- in a freshman creative writing class.

Except it's also derivative.

All of the incoherence of Harry Potter without the charm of the early entries in that series or the emotional involvement in the later entries.

Good start...but

The story really seemed to have promise. She's a waitress and an orphan surviving on her own at 20. I really liked the first couple of chapters, but after she got to the school, the story and character development became rushed and weak. It felt more like a weak high-school drama. I didn't mind the main character, but her friends and the love interest were so rushed and weak it was difficult to feel anything for them. The humor was... yeah again, weak is the best I can describe it. Overall disappointing. The narrator was ok, though.

Kinda boring

Predictable and kinda boring. Not interested in finding what happens next. Read Harley Merlin instead