The Demon and the Fox

The Calatians, Book 2

By: Tim Susman

Narrated by: Chris Walker-Thomson

Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

Kip Penfold's apprenticeship as the first nonhuman sorcerer begins with exploring the ruins left by the vicious attack on Prince George's College of Sorcery some months before. This gruesome task results in a clue that takes him to London, but the closer he gets to the identity of the attacker, the closer the mysterious attacker gets to him.

As people around him begin suffering and dying, Kip realizes that he's running out of time to solve this mystery. His fire sorcery might be the equal of his enemy, but it also leads the hot-headed fox to rash decisions that could destroy his life before anyone else gets a chance to.

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The Story Really Escelates From The Start

While the first book was slow in setting things up, book just takes off. The story was really great and new characters sre introduced. Story made me cry a bit and am eager to continue on to the next book!

Wonderful! I simply can not wait for the next one.

Those familiar with the author's other works may find a new love in fantasy settings.

Super enjoyable series!

I can’t praise this series enough! It’s a bit Harry Potter-ish, which I’ve never really liked, so at first I didn’t think I’d like this, but I really love it! The story is great. Multilayered, but not too complicated to follow, and none of the plot points feel contrived. It gets better and better as it goes along. The narrator of this second audiobook is better than the first. It took me a bit to get used to the change, but this guy does a great job making each character’s voice unique, so you never loose track of who is speaking. These books just completely take me into their world, and are emotionally captivating. I’m so looking forward to start into the third book now, but I predict I’ll be sad when I finish it. Highly recommended!

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more than I expected

I have been looking forward to this book since I heard the first book. it's wonderful, pushing along the story perfectly and the narrator does a fantastic job at characterizing through his voice. can't wait for the next chapter!

Good but felt lacking

In my opinion, I felt that the second book was not as good as the first. This book in the series provides intresting plot developments, and lore exploration. This book felt considerably toned down comparatively to the first book in the series in terms of characteristic extremes. Such as Kip's flaring temper, and Farley's exceedingly sadistic personality. The new charecter cast introduced in this book featuring considerably lacking comparative to the initial charecter cast. Part of this is because I felt that the reader for this book was lacking compared to the last book. The charecter voices were distinctive, but forgettable. The readers voice was not as animated as the first book's reader, and I feel it took away from the book. As for my recommendations for this book. I would recommend it to those who wish to dive more into the lore of this world that has been built. I would not recommend this to those that are not a fan of lengthy plot development. The author uses violence, dismemberment, mutilation, murder, and gore as tools for the story's plot and charecter development.