Radiance

Wraith Kings, Volume 1

De: Grace Draven

Narrado por: Gabrielle Baker

The prince of no value

Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined.

The noblewoman of no importance

Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn't just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she's known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light.

Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart.

©2014 Denise Shaw (P)2015 Denise Shaw

Great story, but sex maybe too graphic for YA?

Just a warning: there are some quite graphic and detailed love scenes in this book which I posit may be a little too intense for younger readers/listeners.

Although the love-story aspect is pivotal to the book, I almost felt like the sex scenes - though more-or-less well-written - were gratuitious.

Also, I found the sexy slang a bit grating at times; a bit immature. The word 'cock' was used too often. I kind of wondered how Gabrielle Baker read it through with a straight face (or voice?), but kudos to her, she narrated those scenes with conviction. Although her lisp, though cute, doesn't really lend itself to sensuousness... Sorry.

I do get that the author probably thought using the actual binomial nomenclatures of body parts would seem too clinical and ruin the mood.

love it

I've listened to this a couple of times now. I really enjoy the fun, honest way the main characters interact and how those relationship develops sweetly over time.

Great story, hard to get over the lisp

Absolutely loved this story, however, the lisp of the narrator was hard to get over. The narrator did a great job with the voices, but the lisp was a little distracting.

Lovely

I loved the first 4 chapters ... probably my favorite. I have listened to it many times.. The story is lovely, and cant help but love the characters.

Delightful!!

A very welcome change of pace from the routine romance novel. Quite charming and refreshing.