Rain of Shadows and Endings

The Legacy Series, Book 1

De: Melissa Roehrich

Narrado por: Laura Horowitz, Christian Leatherman

A world the gods forgot.

Of all the worlds and life they created, the gods favored their children the most. But with that favor came the fear that their Legacy would one day become too powerful and overthrow them. Devram was created. A realm hidden amongst the stars. The gods gave their Legacy the best of all the worlds, and then they left, a sworn agreement to never return and to never interfere.

A historical event.

Forced to a life of servitude, the Fae are required to provide for the Legacy in more ways than one. Every five years, the eligible Fae are gathered for the Selection and assigned to serve in one of the six Kingdoms. To be chosen as the personal Source for a Kingdom Heir is the greatest honor, and for the first time in a millennia, all six Kingdoms have heirs choosing a Source. But their selections could tip the power balance a little too far.

A chosen that was never meant to be.Tessalyn Asura was as forgotten as the realm. But when she finds herself the personal Source to the Heir of Endings, she winds up serving in the darkest Kingdom of them all. The secrets within the Arius Kingdom are meant to be learned and kept, but this was never the life she wanted. Fighting not only the fate thrust upon her, but the temptation to lose herself to desire, Tessa will do anything to escape her new destiny. Until she starts to realize maybe their world wasn’t as forgotten as they thought, and maybe she’s the reason why.

Rain of Shadows and Endings is book one in The Legacy Series and ends on a cliffhanger. This is new adult dark fantasy romance series and includes elements that may be triggering to some listeners.

©2023 Melissa K Roehrich (P)2023 Melissa K Roehrich

Main character stayed ignorant and controlled for way too long….

I am a fan of dark fantasy romance, but this book was not that. I WILL say that it seems like the second book is set up to be much better than the first because things will begin moving. The writing and world building was good, however here is my complaint—*spoilers* —this book should have been half the length if the story was only going to progress as far as it did. There was no story or character arc. All the main characters stayed exactly the same the whole way through. The entire book (aside from LITERALLY the last chapter) the FMC who was secretly the most powerful person in the entire realm stayed completely ignorant to it. Instead she was forced to be a “source” to a complete asshole. She was literally branded, forced to sit at the dudes feet at dinner and the list goes on. And the level of degradation to the fae race by the so called “descendants of the gods” who in reality have no power if not for taking it from the fae was non stop through the whole book with no change, improvement or progress. The FMC just kept cowering down and letting the MMC walk all over her. He legit controlled what she ate and what clothes she wore. **please note—I live for morally gray characters and get my smiles from a good book scene where the male dominates BUT this was not that. The MMC had NO tender moments or a realization that he loved her and changed his ways. This book was too dark even for me and I hate that the very ending set me up for wanting to read the next book if it is just more of the same I will be putting it down right away. All that said, the author still has incredible writing skill, it was just the story itself that was a problem for me.

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Melissa K. Roehrich has done it again! RAIN OF SHADOWS AND ENDINGS is absolutely fabulous & I’m counting down the days for STORM OF SECRETS AND SORROW ❤️

Love the Legacy Series!

However the male narrator sounds like my grandpa and I just can’t listen. What happened to the guy from
lady of Darkness?!?!?

Perfection!

It’s dark but not THAT dark. The charters and the magical realm that was built just comes to life as the story was being told was perfectly written! I definitely need the second book!

Such a great book!!

I absolutely love this book from beginning to end. Getting the second book right now