A Tongue So Sweet and Deadly

Compelling Fates Saga, Book 1

De: Sophia St. Germain

Narrado por: Abigail Reno

Half-Fae Elessia could have had everything. Literally.

Since her magic allows her to compel anyone to do her bidding by merely looking into their eyes, the world was at her feet. But after a tragic accident, she is thrown into the Fae king's dungeons and forced to swear a blood oath to him, binding her to his service.

Five years later, she's living amongst humans in Ellow and has created a life for herself—as much as she can with the king's promise to call in his debt looming over her.

When he finally comes to collect, she is made to infiltrate the human elections to determine whether the current regent is involved in the strange things happening in the land of Fae.

With the promise of freedom from the king's claws, Elessia is determined to see it through. Liberty is within reach as long as she can keep the lethal Fae guard watching over her from eliminating her before she unearths the information the king seeks.

But as she grows closer to the brooding human regent and secrets begin to unravel, Elessia realizes greater forces may be at play. And she might stand before the choice between her own freedom and that of a nation.

Contains mature content. A complete list of content warnings can be found on the author's website.

©2024 Sophia St. Germain (P)2025 Podium Audio

Fantastic Fae adventure

Blood oaths, trials, mystery and tension woven into a luscious adventure for a fae hafling heroine with an extraordinary gift. Such a gripping story of loyalty and passions . The audio experience enriches the adventure - highly encourage purchasing the audiobook

A slow burn that actually slow burns

I had to keep switching between the audiobook and ebook because I did not want to stop reading.

The mystery is what pulled me in the most. There’s a lot we still don’t know, and I like that the story doesn’t give everything away upfront. There’s one big identity reveal, but even that only raised more questions. Other characters are clearly hiding things too, and I’m looking forward to seeing how that plays out in the rest of the series.

The love triangle was surprisingly well done. Both love interests felt like real options, and for most of the book I couldn’t pick a side. Now I’m leaning towards one in particular but I don’t doubt that I might find myself switching sides as it’s not super obvious who the fmc is going to end up with, While this one is minimally spicy (only one scene that is close to the end) there’s plenty of tension to keep it interesting.

The narrator was a great fit—easy to listen to and matched the tone of the story well.

Great start

I really liked this book. It is the first of the series and I believe was a great first book. This is a political fantasy with some romance.

Elessia is a half-fae living amongst the humans. We learn about this new world with little pieces that is shared as the FMC is going through the trials for becoming the new regent of the land. She has to do things that she does not want to do and as she is fighting for her freedom and also truth you can’t help but fall for her character.

I believe there will be a little of a love triangle the further we get into the story and I sure have my hopes on who she will end up with.

While she is completing there are secrets that everyone is keeping. She has multiple and so do many of the other characters. Some of the plot twists are predictable but that never detours me. I really enjoyed this and will continue the series.

narrator was great

the narration was good but the story drug on until the last 3 chapters. also, I hate loche and have from day 1 so kind of hope that doesn't work out

Compelling. Passionate. Heartbreakingly beautiful.

Genuinely don’t know what to say. Loved every single minute of this. Narration was great. Writing, storyline, characters (and their development), world/realm building, all of it, was amazing. Desperate to get the next audio released, esp with both male and female narration.



SPOILER …


Dying to know how these characters will eventually be reunited - the circumstances, location, immediate thoughts when they see eachother again, how do they reconnect - I NEED MORE!!!

Les, Merrick and Ardow fleeing on the ship feels a little like Celena boarding the ship to Wendoly.

Amazing!

Loved every second. Hard to put down. Twists and turns. Slow burn. Can’t wait for book 2!

Incredible!!

I usually prefer multi person audiobooks but I did enjoy the single person audio for this one. The narrator did a good job! It started off a little slow but didn't take too long to pick up. I loved the overall story and cannot wait for the audio on the second book to come out on the 19th!!

So good!!!

Dang! It was so so good! Cannot wait for the next book! The narration was spot on.

Was not as good as it was portrayed.

This book had so much potential but did not follow through. From the start, the plot was very hard to follow and the writing was all over the place. The love interest was very hard to follow and I’m not sure who it really is. Would not recommend.

hmm

I expect more, but it was still pretty good. I was told this would "scratch a TOG itch", and while it was kinda in the realm, it was like TOG lite. i feel like though it was good, I wanted more from it. the fmc felt a bit weak and I wanted so much more from her. I'm hoping to see that in the next one. I didn't realize that the next one wasn't out yet sooooo that suuucks 😣 but hopefully once it does come out, I'll still remember enough form this one to continue on 😅

ps. I literally don't trust anyone in this book.