Sword Sirens

Weatherblight Saga, Book 1

By: Edmund Hughes

Narrated by: Amy Soakes

Length: 12 hrs

Publisher's summary

Amongst the remnants of the ancient Saidican Empire lies Golias Hollow, an underground community of people who’ve taken refuge from the tainted surface. Completely cutoff from the outside world, the men and women of the Hollow follow the teachings of the prophet Dormiar, sacrificing a select few to the outside each year in a ceremony known as “The Choosing”.

Aristial Stoneblood, orphan and occasional troublemaker, is one of this year’s Chosen. Along with his beautiful childhood friend, Kerys Weaver, Aristial leaves the safety of the Hollow and enters an unfamiliar world of shapeshifting swords, respawning monsters, and dangerous dungeons. It’s a new beginning, a place where intimate bonds can hold power, and the price of life is paid in magical essence.

A post-apocalyptic, dungeon-crawling, fantasy harem adventure.

Warning: This audiobook contains a significant amount of explicit sexual content and some adult emotional situations. Listener discretion is advised.

©2019 Edmund Hughes (P)2019 Edmund Hughes

Excellent

This story was excellent! Best voice acting I’ve heard so far! The erotic scenes seemed natural and not forced, left me anticipating each chapter after the next. Cant wait to have book two and three on audio! Might have to read the ebook or physical book versions!

decent

The story has a bit of a stutter to it and the narration is a bit off, but it's still a decent listen.

A Very Enjoyable Read

To call this a LitRPG was a bit of a stretch, but because the story was so enjoyable I'll ignore it. The narration was spot-on, and I was really able to get into the characters. The bedroom scenes were arousing, and I found myself able to picture the scenes. Overall, I was a bit sad when I suddenly realized I was running out of chapters. I'll have to pick up book 2 in the series for sure!

A bit hard to listen to.

Lets start with the positives. The story is pretty good, definitely original. There wasn't any ridiculous monologues or overly hyped villains that talk too damn much, just a good ol survival book with some magical bits. The magic concept is a bit more traditional than most other versions out there. The characters actually had some good development, even the side characters had personality. there wasnt a point where i felt i needed to skip forward a bit.

The neg...
The biggest issue for me was the narrator. She has a lovely voice but gets severely monotone in spots. I had to relisten to those spots a couple times to understand them in the right context, like begging of the book for example. The story although unique, doesn't have a hard plot line so the story is all over the place with no clear end game, no ring in the valcano, no deathstar. Books that go in that direction are never finished, like "The Land" for example. Its good, but every journey has to have an ending or it just becomes bland. The sex was an eye roller for me. It wasnt good, but I've heard worse.

None of that is a deal breaker, so 4 out of 5.

damn good book

I really didn't think I would enjoy it first hand but I have to admit this was a damn good but I could not stop for 1 minute

Pretty good story

Interesting world building with some intriguing foreshadowing of where things went and are going. I also enjoyed the character interactions ( not a euphemism)

very entertaining

story is different and the characters are entertaining/ interesting. story progression is slow but steady, overall great story

Different but good

I would have to say this is a different sort of magic story. In putting the main character of the story isn't overly powerful but still is able to survive odds that are difficult or suicidal.
Still it was a good book, slow sometimes but picked back up. Narrator needs to work on male voices other than main character though.

Good but a bit all over the place.

While I enjoyed the main plot of the story and the concept greatly. I felt there was very little explained now I realize there are multiple books and that's ok but the majority of the first part of the book felt very rushed, There was not really much in the way of explaining the back story why people are underground or why Kids get sent out to the surface It had a Giving Tree vibe Except in the reverse instead of elderly It was the children.

Other than those few points I was impressed The erotic scenes We're well written in the point of view of two eighteen-year-olds and not overly done to the extreme which was nice.

Amy Soakes did an amazing job there was definitely different infections for each character and clear-cut distinction based on who was talking which was also really nice.

Over all the story Is good It definitely has aspects from multiple books without being without being its predecessors clone.

enjoyable

The narration is pretty good with distinct voices, The story is fun has a few too many unexpected windfalls for my taste but the main character is nice to actually have a spine and pursue what they want. One of the characters did feel a bit irritating at times but there is sight of development for them. I'll be interested in the next one.