The Shining City

De: Kate Forsyth

Narrado por: Elle Newlands

Rhiannon, a wild and fierce half-human girl, tamed a winged horse to escape the vicious satyricorn tribe who raised her. In the human world, the handsome apprentice-witch Lewen has convinced her to stay with him and learn to use her strong magical talents. But before her training can commence, Rhiannon must answer for a past crime in....

The Shining City

Imprisoned in Sorrowgate Tower, Rhiannon awaits trial for murder and treason. While her days are spent in anticipation of Lewen’s visits, her nights are haunted by the malevolent ghost of a dead queen, hungry to live again. But not many care to listen to the prophetic dreams of a girl who has already been convicted in most people’s minds.

Then Lewen begins to cool toward her, and Rhiannon suspects one of the princesses has worked a spell to steal his heart. In a world filled with dark spirits and forbidden magic, conspiracy and intrigue, Rhiannon vows to win back her lover and escape once more, to save the land before it’s too late....

©2006 by Kate Forsyth (P)2022 by Blackstone Publishing

Great book

Really good book can wait till I can read the next book love the flying horse

Glad I stuck with it!

I became a Kate Forsyth fan when I picked up the Witches of Eileen. I was a little disappointed with the first book in this series. I felt it was way to predictable and got frustrated with some of the way to obvious choices made by the characters. That being said, this book makes it all worth it! This is the Kate Forsyth I was looking for! I CANNOT WAIT for the third book!

Also, shout out to Elle Newlands!!! I wish I could have her read me to sleep every night, lol. She is just incredible! I would listen to her read the ingredients off a shampoo bottle and be perfectly happy, lol. I wish she narrated all the books on Audible ♥️♥️♥️

Exciting all the way!!

My pledge to not binge listen….yeah right. I’m already sad that I’ll finish the series soon. So many characters to loathe and love! I’ll have a miss in my soul again when it’s over. I want more….

Good- but very illogical characters at times…

Great narration, but at times the characters and pieces of the plot are so illogical you want to bang your head at the thoughts and conclusions of the characters… Be prepared rating say - What?!!? Who would even think that?!!? That does not follow, and is so completely illogical…

fast moving story

a really good read, enjoyable, exciting, like the authors imagination, and I have come to realize that all I have read by Kate Forsyth keeps me wanting more

Suspense

Loved it! Kept me on the edge of my seat throughout along Drive. Love the narrators voice.

Great story

Such great detail to keep me hooked. Made me want to keep listening every chance I had!

Male rape scene ruined it for me

I didn’t like how long the MC was kept behind bars which seemed to drag things out way too long but the scene where the tree guy(I’m bad with names) gets drugged spellbound and then forced to have sex while satin fly hat he didn’t want it and mentioning the girl he really loves pissed me off… and then we get “her side” where she tries to feel bad about it but actually doesn’t?! The fist book was amazing this one had that and all of the characters kind of lost their backbones and the mind control repeated violation of the tree guy ruined this one for me. Here’s to hoping that princess gets what’s coming to her in the last book of the series. If they seriously try to force the MC to save her after all that she did I’m going to lose it.

The Characters are stupid and weak

If you read the Witches of Eileanan you will wonder why they have all lost their spine in this rendering.

idk man

The narrator was great, no complaints with her!

This book was alright, but the obvious prejudice of the author bled into the story. You can pretty much tell if a character is going to be evil based on if the main characters find them pleasing to look at or not. A bunch of fat phobia, too. It's pretty much without fail displayed as a "character flaw" (fat being used in place of other more useful adjectives like greedy, cruel, stupid, etc.) and not as a description of a body type.

Lewen is an actual awful person, with no care about his girlfriends trauma. He just wants to get his hotdog wet at any given opportunity and how she responds to him I find unrealistic. I doubt a girl would want to be intimate only a day after being molested by a jailer and two guards, physically abused, tortured with thumb screws, then watching a woman being eaten by rodents and seeing her (likely) grievously wounded. The female protagonist (sorry, forgot her name, that's how boring she is) is basically only an object for Lewen to lust over, or to be used and abused to propel the story forward. No one in the story appreciates her as a whole person, not even her lover... and that's just plain sad. I really want him to either die or get a big fat wakeup call. Also, creepy how preoccupied with her "innocence" he is. He is selfish and whiny and makes me want to barf.