City of Gods and Monsters

House of Devils, Book 1

By: Kayla Edwards

Narrated by: Wen Ross, Zura Johnson

Welcome to the city of Angelthene. We hope you survive.

Loren Calla has only ever been ordinary. As a human struggling to survive in a city that caters to the needs of vampires, werewolves, witches, and other supernatural creatures, she always assumed her life would remain simple, predictable, and as safe as her world would allow.

Until she barely escapes abduction at the hands of Darkslayers—supernatural bounty hunters that possess the Sight, a magical tracking ability that allows them to see a person's aura—and one of her friends is taken in her place. The abductors are demanding a ransom: Loren's life in exchange for her friend's safe return. Loren will do whatever it takes to get her friend back—even if it means accepting help from Darien Cassel, the leader of the Seven Devils, the most feared Darkslaying circle in the city.

Darien specializes in tracking down demons and criminals that are better off dead than alive, so when he takes a job to track down Loren and finds out she is human—and couldn't hurt a fly if her life depended on it—he decides to protect her instead of turn her in for a reward. As much as Loren doesn't want to admit it, Darien is her best and only chance at finding her friend alive, if she can somehow manage to get along with him—and not fall head-over-heels in love with him in the process, which is far easier said than done.

When more women start disappearing, and some of them slowly turn up dead, Loren and Darien's search for answers takes them deep into Angelthene's corrupt underbelly, where they discover a dark secret that threatens to unravel their world. And when tragedy strikes, Loren learns that love can make an ordinary person do extraordinary things.

From the author of Dreams of Ice and Iron comes a new fantasy romance perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas, Ilona Andrews, and Cassandra Clare.

©2022 Kayla Edwards (P)2024 Podium Audio

Amazing 5⭐️

Beautiful writing and imagery, felt like a movie. Tension and slow burn 🔥Cannot wait to listen / read more!

Huge miss

Why couldn’t this book have been a duet style read!? The guy doing the girl voices kept pulling me out of the story and the girl sounds like she’s in her 40s not 20s. I really hope for future books that they change the style. I couldn’t get full invested in this very hyped book due to the voice actors. The storyline however was really cool I did preorder the next book. But I am praying the step up the game on the voice acting and audible performance.

Loren is annoying and so is the male narrator

I'm usually not that much of a hater and I like the overall story but here's my beef with this series:
1. The male narrator is cheesy and when he does female voices he always makes them sound meek and timid which reflects inaccurately with how some of the characters are written.
2. The entire story revolves so much around Loren being a meek and pathetic little baby who everyone must cater to, even though she doesn't ask 🙄 because she would never 🙄 but they see how special she is because she's pretty 🙄🙄🙄 even though she seems to be at a 14 year old maturity level.

had I anticipated that, I probably would have skipped the series but now I'm invested. otherwise it's pretty good.

City of Gods and monsters

This was a really long story but parts were extremely enjoyable not a favorite but will finish the series

Feels a little juvenile/simple

I think the story certainly could have used a little more fleshing out but I definitely enjoyed it. I enjoyed that the characters weren’t perfect people and didn’t change to become perfect, just better. I know a lot of people hate the male voice actor but I really didn’t mind him. Not my favorite but not worth all the negativity. I liked this enough to continue on to the next book and I don’t feel like my time was wasted.