• The Ash Moon

  • The Ariane Trilogy, Book 1
  • By: Michelle Dare
  • Narrated by: Chandra Skyye
  • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (84 ratings)

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The Ash Moon

By: Michelle Dare
Narrated by: Chandra Skyye
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A kept secret. A life altered. A new journey.

Ariane lived her life one book at a time. She would never have guessed those books were about to change everything.

They led her to Orion. Tall, dark, with eyes only for her. The rest of the world ceased to exist when Orion was around. But during a fateful ash moon, he shifted into a wolf.

Ari thought she was dreaming, but she'd recognize those eyes anywhere.

Fiction became reality. Fantasy was actually history. And soon, Ari would learn her role in it. A pack war was on the horizon, and she was the only one who could stop it. Nothing would ever be as it once was, because Ariane was now part of the Avynwood Pack.

Contains mature themes.

©2018 Michelle Dare (P)2019 Tantor

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Sigh...This narrator, though...

I can't decide if the story was written by a nun, or if it's the narrator's grandmotherish style of narrating, but everything feels like a 1950's housewife retelling a romance story.

I think this narrator also narrated the Vanessa Vale stories, which also turned out cheesy and eye-rolly.

I am proud to support an African-American author, but I can't with the lead female's constant self doubt and compliments -fishing. "who, me? Why, I'm just a plain girl. Nothing special..."

Ultimately, the amount of cheese layered on, the narrator's inflection, and the author's elementary style of storytelling makes the next book "no" for me.

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Wow what a cliffhanger!

First of all the narrator sounds so dry. It can be distracting at times. I hated how she spoke for Orion enunciating word and consonant. He almost sounded Russian. It was weird.

I really enjoyed the book though. Although I thought for someone who was obsessed with a shifter series and the author who wrote the books, I would have thought she would have been so excited to find out it was all real and that she was now part of the story. I thought her reactions didn’t match her apparent love for her favorite series.

I like where this series is going. It moved along at a fast pace. I never felt bored, I was always ready for what was going to happen next.

Oh and why does her mom check on her so much in the middle of the night? Strange.

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Narration could be better

The narrator sounded like a robot. The story was okay but as I said the narration was not very good.

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Twilight anyone?

Change the names and you have Twilight almost verbatim. Werewolf vs Vampire fighting over teen girl who is a loner.

Deja vu

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DNF

DNF at 128 pages. Most of this read as a bad knockoff of twilight where the wolf gets the girl instead of the vampire. Everything was extremely rushed and the character even talks about how rushed it all feels. This just didn’t hit the mark.

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Wolf shifters and vampires, oh my!

If you like paranormal romance, wolf shifters & vampires, this is the beginning book in the series for you! The whole series is awesome and is a great escape from a mere human’s day to day normal

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OMG!

So I have to be completely honest. I read the Paranormals of Avynwood before I read this trilogy. I didn't know about the trilogy to be honest. I'm kind of glad that I read the series first. Yes, it spoiled a lot of the trilogy for me. However, I love Ari so so so so much and I think if I had read this first I would have found her annoying at the beginning. Just saying. MAJOR CLIFFHANGER!!!!

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It’s okay... clean, which is nice

Some might not like that this is pretty clean, but others like myself prefer that. I like the genre, but get really tired of endless teenage hormones taking over the entire story. This series, at least the first 3 books, has a decent story. The books that come after, don’t bother with, in my opinion. They’re pretty stupid and predictable, and get progressively sex oriented as the characters get more and more shallow and meaningless. This book is not bad, although there are parts that make me roll my eyes... why did she make the main character so stupid? But in general, it’s enjoyable enough. The narrator is not great. Is she a bored chain smoker? It’s just a very strange sounding voice that’s hard to get used to, but I sort of did after a while, especially after I turned up the speed. Anyway, not the best book ever, but a clean listen with a bit of plot. I’ll be getting the next ones. If I remember right, the next 2 books are better with the 3rd book ending the series fairly well.

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Love it

I have really loved this audibook as I did when I read it in ebook. Love that story. Great introduction to Ariane and Rion and all the paranormal of Avynwood world by Michelle Dare.

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Awesome Book and Audio!

I loved this book. It was an amazing story! I love Ari, Rion, Ford, and all of the characters. It is very easy to get attached to these characters, so much so that the ending made me cry. The Narrator was also amazing! Her character voices and tone were terrific! I can’t wait to listen to the next book!

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