Ice & Ivy

Mages of the Wheel, Book 4

By: J.D. Evans

Narrated by: Tim Campbell, Caren Naess

A wildflower alone is all the more beautiful for the barrenness from which it grows. A single note more glorious for the silence around it.

She is a void, the empty balance of magic.

When the Grand Vizier seeks to humiliate a man who has crossed him, a woman of the humblest origins becomes entangled in political webs far beyond her understanding, and bound into a marriage she cannot escape. She does not know who is an ally, and who is an enemy. But she does know she is drawn to the man whose dreams and heart seem made of ice.

He is a mage broken, whose power has been warped.

The Blight ravages both Tamar and Sarkum, and their people, and armies, are starving. Violence and protests in Narfour have the city on the brink of rebellion. When Ihsan sees a chance to gain an ally with the only productive land left in Tamar for his cousin, the Sultana, he takes it. But nothing is as it seems when Behram Kadir is involved. Ihsan knows he should not trust the woman who has upended his life, even if she is the first warmth he has felt since fire stole everything from him.

Some broken things were never meant to be as they were.

For mature listeners.

©2023 J. D. Evans (P)2024 Podium Audio

stunning.

Everything I want in a love story, and more. Can't wait for the next book!

Do not sleep on this series.

Oooph that ending. How do these books keep getting better and better??? As the cast grows so has my depth of live for the story. The next installment can’t come soon enough.

Absolutely engrossing

Each book in this series has been lovely, engaging, romantic and so throughly woven and imagined that I could hardly expect it to keep getting better, but it has. This book has been the pinnacle, the shining jewel among them.

Amazing series, this book is no exception

Every book in this series is just so so good. The story is so masterfully plotted and it’s an absolute delight to experience how it all unravels from book to book.
I absolutely love how every book continues the story and definitely feel as a part of a whole but also each are distinct from each other.
Ice & Ivy brings us back to the court in Tamar and all the political intrigue, but with Ihsan and Nesrin as the main couple. Their story is the slowest of slow burns compared to the previous books, but it’s very well justified as their character development is so deep and well done (as is with all characters in the series).
I just can’t wait for the next books. This is series is exceptional.

Plot

Loved the slow burn of the romance, and the ups and downs of the political intrigue. Really loved the female lead and her inner dialogue.