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Awakening

By: Bethany Adams, Cassandra de Cuir
Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki
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An unexpected duty

For 300 years, Princess Dria has avoided the drama of the royal court by training as a battle mage. When her father summons her back to court just as she begins to rise up the ranks, she's furious. Even worse, she must work with her estranged brother Ralan on a mission to Earth. But as soon as Dria arrives at Moranaia's new outpost, her brother drops the leadership of the entire place into her hands. Now she's in charge of fortifying a new outpost on a planet she's never even visited.

An abhorrent task

Prince Vek of the Unseelie has spent millennia as his father's enforcer, working in the shadows to eliminate evil, but after sparing his nephew Fen from the king's judgment, Vek must tread carefully. One false move, and he will lose the king's trust—and Fen's life. But when the king gives Vek a new, more sinister task, Fen becomes the least of his worries. The Moranaians have a new colony on Earth, and King Torek wants the energy source that's contained within. Vek must retrieve that power - even if he has to kill the Moranaian leader to get it.

A threat unknown

From the moment she catches Vek sneaking into the cavern, Dria knows the truth—the dark and mysterious prince is her soulbonded. But she's certain he's up to no good, and although she's drawn to him, there is no way she can trust him. His reputation, and that of the Unseelie in general, precedes him. Unfortunately, more than desire is awakening. As they dance around their budding attraction, Dria and Vek uncover a deathly illness lurking among the fae—and a sinister plot that will damage both their worlds.

©2019 Bethany Adams (P)2019 Skyboat Media

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ONCE AGAIN!

Except for the ridiculously long evidently unpronounceable names & the fact the narrators sounded like mush mouth saying them, the pure volume of characters & their relationship ( or not) to each other AND the fact that once again audible plus gave us a series that we can't finish unless we buy the remaining books or maybe upgrade to the premium subscription (MAYBE?!), this was a good book. Most of the series was pretty good, but to spend days ,yes days (10 or 11 hours per book) listening to an unfinishable story is getting old real quick. I only buy books I'd listen to again , this series, while pretty good, is not one of them. It has too much confusion to unravel. Once was enough. I'm just disappointed that I'll never know the ending.

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Finally a worthy woman

I declined to make my impish comments on the last two books, but the chicas were stupido. I endured many eye rolling moments of exasperation with the previous. I finally found a strong likable female character with a feasible love match. Of course the narration has had confusing inconsistencies where Vek sounds like a cranky old man, sexy assassin, or mysterious older eccentric. I mean old guys need love too but after a few books an image is created so it's confusing to discover new pertinent details that seem to contradict.

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Pretty Good

I actually enjoyed this series surprised me it wasn’t too overly exciting it wasn’t too simple it was kind of right there in the middle

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Vek

Vek is arguably one of my favorite characters in this series. This was enjoyable and the plot progression is interesting

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The Characters

Character development throughout the series is awesome. It took awhile for me to get used to the narrators switching off, but it was appropriate as the story went on.

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Loved the story so far...great storytelling!!!

I liked the two narrators telling the story, I listened from 1 thru 6 now and liked the history built in the story...and how they incorporate all fae.

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love the plot of the story an the characters. makes me want to read more.

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My fave book of the series!

I love this part of the story. The characters are darker but not the villains. The development is so surprising how everyone ends up connected. Beautiful writing.

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Interesting characters

The story moved along at a pace that kept me wanting more. I loved the way the new characters interacted with the characters from the previous books. It feels like family and I don’t want their stories to end. Want more and more.

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not bad

not bad at all loved it actually but I never give a five-star rating cuz there's always room to improve

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