• Darkling

  • By: K. M. Rice
  • Narrated by: Gail Shalan
  • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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Darkling

By: K. M. Rice
Narrated by: Gail Shalan
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Publisher's summary

How far would you go to save your family?

Midsummer used to be a day of feasts and bonfires. A day when cares were set aside for the joy of grass between our toes, warm hands in our palms, laughter in our hearts. Our celebrations dimmed with the light. Something upset the balance of our woods. Something so deep that even our bonfires can't lure the sun back. And he has something to do with it. Of that we're sure, which is why I'm being given to him.

K. M. Rice is a national award-winning screenwriter and author who has worked for both Magic Leap and Weta Workshop. Her first novel, Darkling, is a young adult dark fantasy that now has a companion novel titled The Watcher. Her upcoming Afterworld series is set to debut with the first book, Ophelia. Over the years, her love of storytelling has led to producing and geeking out in various webshows and short films. When not writing or filming, she can be found hiking in the woods, baking, running and enjoying the company of the many animals on her family ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.

©2017 Kellie M. Rice (P)2017 Kellie M. Rice

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An enthralling tale, beautifully written

Gail Shalen's voice is a perfect match for Willow. The story is enchanting, heartbreakingly beautiful, both tragic and hopeful and wraps itself like a cashmere cloud around the listener. I Absolutely loved Willow and Tristan. I expect that I will be thinking of them for a long time to come.

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I Love this story!

I loved listening to this story with my daughter. We binge listened to it in one day.

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Predictable not well structured

Oh boy this book started out so well. The Audiobook was amazing especially the song. But after a few chapters in the story took a big nosedive. Just with the answer to one question "Who is doing all this?" as soon as I found out I immediately became uninterested. I had 2 hours left and almost quit until I saw comments about the big twist. I never found the twist it was all pretty predictable and they mentioned one person near the end who was the cause and I was like.........who? So it was not set up very well for any kind of twist to occur. About the only thing I enjoyed about the book was the narrator and the spookiness of it all but overall a very predictable story and not well structured.

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