The Regressor King

De: A J Sherwood

Narrado por: Zachary Zaba

Death, paradise, and the gods themselves—all rejected for the sake of love.

When King James Kronenscheld dies at the hands of the Demon King, he thinks his suffering is finally over and that he can join his Edwin in paradise. And, hey, at least he'd taken the Demon King with him, right?

But then the gods try to send James to paradise without his Edwin, and that is simply unfathomable. So he does the unthinkable—he turns it down and negotiates for one more chance to fix his mistakes.

Armed with memories and regrets, James regresses to before he was crowned. He is determined to woo the man he lost, even if it means facing down all his previous failures. For Edwin alone will James face wraths and plagues, court politics, and demon kings. He will avoid the horrors of the crown and attain paradise for them both.

Failing this time means losing Edwin forever. And that is not an option.

©2026 A J Sherwood (P)2026 Podium Audio

Absolutely Must Listen Again

This book/audio is one of my absolute favorites AJ has ever written. I cannot recommend this book enough. I was not ready to say good bye and I hope to see snipets in the future of Edwin and James together. Read/listen to this if you haven't yet. You will not regret it!!!

A Chonky Book

While this is a hefty book, it is worth the time. James and Edwin are so perfect for each other, and despite James' desire to rush, their relationship arc feels organic. There was a lot of plot to fit in, and it even though there were a lot of lines to keep together, it didn't feel long for the sake of being long.
My only quibble is that I'm a little sad the glossary didn't make it into the audio for sine reason, but the author has shared it on her patreon. Overall, this book was fun, sweet, and the narrator had a great voice.

killed the mood

I usually love her works and did enjoy this book for the most part the narrator did an excellent job and the overall story was good I just had one problem the princess is engaged to a man who I think the author was going for stupid and spoiled to the point of incompetence but he just comes across as severely autistic so having everybody keep referring to him as stupid and treating him like a bad guy kept taking me out of the story and making me angry at the good guys which is so frustrating I know what she was trying to do but it just made that whole part of the book hard to read

Loved it!!

Even after 804 pages, 20-1/2 hrs of audio, am I too greedy to say that I wanted more? What would have wrapped this up with a bow, IMO, is if we could have seen them as the old men that they were told they would die as. Just a glimpse into their future after everything was all said and done would have been perfect. But again, that is just me being greedy and wanting more. I love this author and when I found out they were creating this book I was like, I'm all in and waited impatiently for it to be released. We start out with James having defeated the demon king, but dying in battle. When he is ready to head off into the afterlife, he finds out that his love Edwin isn't there to go with him. At that point he was like, no, nope, not doing it. So he strikes a bargain and is sent back 10 yrs to set some wrongs to right, the main one is not getting married to his banshee of a wife and to let Edwin know of his love for him. Needless to say, not everything goes as planned as there are other forces at work. I loved watching these two navigate their day to day challenges along with fighting against the wishes of others. I'm glad there was no unnecessary misunderstandings between our MC's. Their love rolled off the pages and there was never any doubt. Zachary Zaba did an awesome job narrating this book.

A New Favorite! Excellent!

Wow! I am currently in the process of trying to figure out how to write this review because my brain has so many thoughts and getting them into any sense of order isn’t easy.

First, AJ Sherwood outdid herself with The Regressor King. It is a long book, full of action, romance, humor, danger, and heart. I ended up buying the audiobook so that I could keep going with the story when I wasn’t able to read on my ereader.

Edwin and James might be my new favorite characters by this author. I also think that this might become a new favorite reread or relisten. The book is about 800 pages with the audio about 20 hours, every page and every minute are worth the read. I think this might be my favorite performance by the narrator Zachary Zaba. I was able to just listen and get lost in the story. Very well done!

I received an early copy of this book but purchased the audiobook myself.