The Last Warrior

By: Jennifer Ashley

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Rhianne, daughter of the powerful Lady Aisling, is in a jam. She’s been imprisoned by an ambitious Fae lord, who is abetted by Rhianne’s ruthless and cruel father.

Her prison door is shattered by an incredibly powerful creature, who in a flash settles into the guise of a handsome man with a warm smile. He tells her his name is Ben, and that he’s been sent to be her guide and a protector.

Ben, the last of a warrior race destroyed by the Fae, has lived a thousand years in exile and now has found a place among the Shifters. He’s the caretaker of a sentient house outside New Orleans, and the Shifters turn to him when they’re in dire trouble. Even so, Ben is aware of his aloneness, his people gone forever.

Ben escorts Rhianne to his world to keep her safe. Rhianne is reluctant to trust her fate to him, but she soon finds the human world, the Shifters, and most of all Ben, have captured her fascination, and her heart.

When her own strange powers awaken within her, Ben is the only one she can turn to for help.

But will assisting her put Ben in the most danger he’s ever faced?

©2021 Jennifer Ashley (P)2021 Jennifer Ashley

worth the wait

Yeah Ben gets the spotlight. The h/H interaction was funny and uplifting looking forward to the rest of the shifters story.

awesome

I have loved Ben/Gil since he fell for Kinsey.
I am glad he got his HEA with Reanne.. another awesome shifter unbound. Awesome narration by Cris Dukehart .

Continues to be a favorite PNR series

This is a series I really love. It started out just about shifters and has added several different types of fae over the years. The Last Warrior follows two fae. Ben calls himself a goblin. He is the last of his race, when he was banished from Faire. He is friends with the shifters and is the caretaker of a sentient house.

Rianne is the daughter of the powerful Lady Aisling. While this is Rianne’s introduction to the series, her mother has been in several stories. She has quite the reputation in both the shifter world and Faire.

The story starts with Rianne being held hostage. Lady Aisling asks Ben and another fae to rescue her, which they do. Rianne is then taken to our world to protect her until things in Faire are safe for her again.

I really love this Shifters Unbound series. It is an interesting dynamic in the human/shifter relationship. In this world, shifters are out and kept mostly segregated in Shifter Towns. Shifters also have to wear a magic collar that shocks them if they show signs of aggression. The collars are used as a way for weaker humans to control the more powerful shifter race.

I also love the characters in this series. I always look forward to my time with the characters in this series. Every character is very unique. It is a large cast and for the author’s ability to create so many different personalities. I highly recommend this series. And while you could probably follow along with this story without reading the previous stories, I think you will get more enjoyment out of the series by reading the stories in order.

I look forward to when the next book comes out (it is foreshadowed in this story).

Narration:
Cris Dukehart performs this entire series. She does an amazing job with the large cast of characters, both male and female. There are also several children in the series. I’ve really enjoyed her narration from book one. I’ve listened to her narrate a few other stories which were done really well, too.

I love Ben!

Finally, Ben, the man who is always there for the shifters has gotten his own story.

I enjoyed this story, getting to see Ben go from grumpy goblin baby sitter to something more. Rían e and Ben make an odd but relatively fabulous pairing. She’s soft where he’s hard, he’s understanding where she’s puzzled. They’re just right for each other.

Lady Aisling (who I am growing to like more and more) has a hand in the way these two meet. Being the mother of a very special daughter, who she’s trying to keep from harm is hard enough, add to that the knowledge that she’s been keeping a huge secret from her own daughter… and things go from crazy to scary quickly.

I’m the end, the story gives you the full scope of what it’s like to be these two, very unique and special creatures. Now I can’t wait to see what Jennifer Ashley comes up with next!

exceptional...

loved loved loved it i cant wait for the next book in this series two thumbs up this has been the best book i listened too this year if u want an escape from all the bad stuff going on...this is it!!

Not as good as hoped for

Narration was great. Story fizzled out by chapter four. Just not up to her other books in the series. You can skip it without losing anything.