• The Exiled Queen

  • A Seven Realms Novel
  • By: Cinda Williams Chima
  • Narrated by: Carol Monda
  • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,318 ratings)

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The Exiled Queen

By: Cinda Williams Chima
Narrated by: Carol Monda
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Publisher's summary

New York Times best-selling author Cinda Williams Chima has been crafting riveting novels since her days in middle school. In The Exiled Queen, 17-year-old ex-Ragmarket street lord Han Alister is pursuing an education in magical arts. To stand up to the haters at the academy, he joins forces with a mysterious wizard—but soon discovers the price may be more than he's willing to pay.

©2010 Cinda Williams Chima (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC

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“… a well-thought-out fantasy …” ( School Library Journal)

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Excellent

Excellent sequel. Well written. I love the characters & plot development. I really like how her characters are judged to be one way by public persona but in reality they are very different.

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Never A Dull Moment

Great book...always kept me interested. I never wanted to stop listening. Recommend this book to anyone.

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great narrator and story!

I am a huge fan of this narrator and storyline. highly recommend this series. favorite and have read twice and listened to the first time with even more love for it.

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loved it

this is a great and clean book. loved it! I'm getting the next book.

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Loved it!

I really enjoy this series as this is my second time reading through them! :)
Recommended!

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Leave No Thought Unwritten

Excellent narration notwithstanding, I'm a disgruntled reader. Even though some scenes were wonderfully vivid and quite suspenseful (especially in the Shivering Fens), as a whole, I felt mildly impatient with the pedantic writing style, annoyed at the romantic developments, and irritated at the ending. Ends on a major cliff. Hanging on for dear life.

"Leave-no-thought-unwritten" writing style: Infernal internal dialogue. The author uses a character's thoughts to reiterate things gleaned from the actual events and dialogue, to be totally sure we totally know what's going on. Totally. As if we can't catch the nuance from the story itself. Chima's mental asides occur within conversations even, interrupting the flow. These thoughts offer nothing new — they are usually obvious and/or repeated info. Sometimes they restate previous passages, italicized. Emergent plot twists are hinted at too strongly, making the twist obvious even before the reader could possibly play the prediction game. Boo! Nuff said. Forgive the rant, but I felt cheated of the joys of puzzling out the plot.

This one reminded me too much of Hogwarts, complete with a Snape doppelgänger and a nasty trio to replace Malfoy and friends. I don't mind reading that same trope again, if it's well written and engrossing.

Frustrating love triangles. I totally hated what the author did to Amon and Raisa.

Foolish and obtuse hero and heroine. At times too stupid to live. The letter she wrote!! His lack of caution re Crow.

All that said, I liked some scenes and some secondary characters really caught my attention. I might read the sequel. I want to know how it all pans out.

Okay for kids? Probably. The contents are fairly harmless. No swearing. Lots of sexual innuendo (no actual sex, but occasional kissing and necking).

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Loving this story

Didn't think I'd fall in love this much with a new series, can't wait for more

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AMAZING

This book is the best book that I have ever listened to it is so dazzling

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Great story… alright voice acting

If you speed her up to 1.2 - 1.3 it’s actually not that bad. If you made it to book two. It’s prob not a problem.

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Well done

Never boring couldn’t wait to find out next steps. Cannot get enough and moving to next in the series.

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