The Heart of the World

Raven Son, Book 3

De: Nicholas Kotar

Narrado por: John Paton

A land destroyed by war. An army of giants on the rampage. Can a broken girl heal the world before it dies?

All 16-year-old Khaidu ever wanted was her own hunting eagle. Her 10 brothers laugh at her. After all, the rule-bound world of the Gumiren nomads has no place for a girl hunter, much less a crippled one. But Khaidu has a secret. Mastering the ancient magic of eagle-binding, she captures the largest eagle her tribe has ever seen.

Except, her eagle isn’t an eagle, at all. She’s a dying queen under an enchantment. Khaidu’s binding unlocks an ancient curse of blood and loss. As the curse turns Khaidu’s people against each other, the bond between eagle and hunter shatters. Desperate to find her lost eagle, Khaidu will brave monstrous beasts, face an army of shape-shifting giants, and cross the known world...only to be faced with a terrible truth.

If Khaidu cannot save the queen in time, the world itself may die with her.

Inspired by the Russian fairy tale “Finist the Bright Falcon”, The Heart of the World features complex characters, gorgeous magical landscapes, and unexpected plot twists. If you like creative twists on myths and legends and classic fantasy, then you’ll love Nicholas Kotar’s sweeping tale.

Buy The Heart of the World to continue the journey today.

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The series goes from good to awesome!

This is such a great series. I LOVE books that have well developed mythological and cosmological systems (think, Tolkien, but also Sanderson). I also really like fairy tales. But until this series, I never thought they could be mixed well. Fairy tales can be so random. In the first book, I got the fairy tale part more than the myth part; in this book Kotar shows that all the seeming randomness of the fairy tale stuff really does pattern together to form something beautify, grand, and awesome. Oh, and there's a compelling story with plenty of sacrifice, redemption, and the like. It's just so good. And getting to listen to the story just seems so right. Well done! This series will join my other favorites in regular rotation.