Rose in Chains

De: Julie Soto

Narrado por: Ella Lynch

#1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Soto crafts a lush, dark romantic fantasy that’s filled with intrigue, magic, and an irresistible enemies-to-lovers romance.

The war is over, the dark forces have won, and the hero who was supposed to save them is dead.

Captured as her castle is overrun by the enemy, the world as Briony Rosewood knows it is changed forever. Evil has won, and her people face imminent servitude, imprisonment, or death.

​Stripped of her Magic and her freedom, Briony and the other survivors are quickly sold off to the highest bidders in an auction—and as Evermore's princess, she fetches the highest price. After a fierce bidding war, she’s sold to none other than Toven Hearst, scion of a family known for their cruelty.

Yet despite the horrors of her new world and the role she must learn to play within it, all is not lost. Help—and hope—may yet arise in the most unlikely of places…

©2025 Julie Soto (P)2025 Forever

A Must Read!

Julie Soto is a fabulous story teller. I am in love with how she transformed this story.

Story is good but intense

It was u comfortable to read b/c it had handmade’s tale vibes and I usually wouldn’t read such books b/c of the trigger warnings. Elliot Brooks said this was going to be a book everyone was anticipating to read so I gave it a shot. The story was very good and I can’t wait to see what happens but some of the scenes were too much for me.

I ATE THIS UP

From start to finish this was SO GOOD. I read and listened but the narration really amplified the story for me!

I wasn’t sure at first…

The narrator is not my favorite. The accent and tone was off putting at times. The way she spoke as the male made me cringe.

However, the story more than makes up for it. I couldn’t stop listening!

5 star stuff. Just perfection.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Romance: 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 Plot: 📖📖📖📖📖 Side Characters: 👯‍♂️👯‍♂️👯👯‍♀️👯‍♀️ Pacing: 🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️ Ending: 🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬 MC’s: 👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏼👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏼👫👫👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏼
Briony Rosewood - Toven Hearst. Tropes: Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers, Forbidden Love. This story has been reimagined from the fanfic The Auction. The Auction is one of the best books I’ve read this year. One of the best books I’ve read EVER. Having said that….I. AM. SCREAMING. (Internally of course) This book was excellent! Just absolutely superb in every way. I am distraught that it’s over and I have to wait more than a year to read book 2 and then again another wait for book 3. There is no chance that I’ll forget what happened in this book though so I know I will pick up book 2 with no issues connecting the dots. I will be thinking about this book until book 2 is available.
Pro’s:
All of it
Con’s:
No cons. All pro’s.

Loved it!

Such good characters and story. I could not stop listening and sad I have to wait until the next book.

Finished in 48hrs

Loved the way this was narrated. I couldn't stop listening to this, its been so long since I found a book I couldn't put down or stop listening to!

Wow!! Unputdownable

For the first 100 pages I was really trying to understand what was going on. I highly recommend buying the book or e book that has a tree map of all the people. But after that I couldn’t stop. Like cancel all your plans and pretend to be sick so you can finish it. The character development, and world building were amazing. Even the way the story unfolds. This book will stick with you. The Spice was 🫑(I think there will be more in the next book) That said there is a lot of dark sexual things in the book so it’s not a ya book. Can’t wait for the next book. I’m still reeling.

Amazing narrator!

Really loved this narrator’s voice and her expressions were really nicely done throughout the story.

great storyline

fantastic storyline - it captured my attention right away, but damn was this book a lot darker than I was expecting. I felt it to my core and I wasn't expecting that. can't wait for book 2