The Memory of Souls

A Chorus of Dragons, Book 3

By: Jenn Lyons

Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Vikas Adam

Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

The Memory of Souls is the third epic fantasy in Jenn Lyons’ Chorus of Dragons series and one of Library Journal's best SF&F books of the year!

THE LONGER HE LIVES
THE MORE DANGEROUS HE BECOMES

Now that Relos Var’s plans have been revealed and demons are free to rampage across the empire, the fulfillment of the ancient prophecies - and the end of the world - is closer than ever.

To buy time for humanity, Kihrin needs to convince the king of the Manol vané to perform an ancient ritual which will strip the entire race of their immortality, but it’s a ritual which certain vané will do anything to prevent. Including assassinating the messengers.

Worse, Kihrin must come to terms with the horrifying possibility that his connection to the king of demons, Vol Karoth, is growing steadily in strength. 

How can he hope to save anyone when he might turn out to be the greatest threat of them all?
A Chorus of Dragons
1: The Ruin of Kings
2: The Name of All Things
3: The Memory of Souls

©2020 Jenn Lyons (P)2020 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

“Lyons has cleverly taken the epic fantasy tropes of prophecy and lineage and stood them on their heads, all while delving deep into her multidimensional characters and spinning great battles with high body counts.” (Booklist, starred review)

“Lyons braids multiple points of view, tenses, and time lines into a richly detailed and elaborate story with increasing tension and stakes.... The third Chorus of Dragons book is an exciting entry in the series, culminating in an intriguing endpoint that will have readers excited for the next book.” (Library Journal)

LGBTQ fan fiction

All the gay stuff ruined a good story. This appears to be what Amazon or audible wants these days.

Damn good series

This reviews is kinda for all 3 books that have come out so far.

In the first book I found myself enthralled. The story was fairly easy to follow and got only better once you made realizations between past keerin and present keerin and all the pieces fell into place. I found myself pleasantly surprised by the take on sensuality and how it was dealt with (after all, gay people do exist).

The second book was almost just as good as the first book and once again I found myself excited by a book that kills boring gender norms. The concept of trans in this book is really well done. Before the heavy spread of monotheistic religions concepts of homosexuality, trans and 3rd gender was fairly prevalent. It only makes sense that a place untouched by unnatural concepts like "being gay is a sin" would be quite accepting. overall I hope people can learn and get over their bad preconceived concepts to enjoy a truly good book series.

The third book was damn good. I finished it in about 3 days. The book honestly felt like several different stories that fit into a nice puzzle. It was nice to see the characters all grow together and realize that those who made the rules are intact fallible and "not gods" as several would say. This series gives you many characters to identify with regardless of side. The concepts of sexuality were in no way pandering or(as some clearly biased homophobic comments would say) being shoved down your throat. It's nice to see that the characters are realistic people with fears, love, hate, and maturity. It's not the same old boring generic hero character put in the world to slay the villain, act cool, and get the girl. It's multiple people who do what they can to survive and find a better way for everyone. It's nice to see that keerin, even though he is the main character who you follow, is not the only hero, and that he doesn't always get the kill, he doesn't always make it in time. He fails and he's human.

Best one yet!

I really enjoyed it, one of the best I've read this year! The world histories and magic mechanics have all been spelled out in the first 2 books, so now the plot is flying and taking some really surprising turns! Khirin is back in the driver's seat of the story and craftier than ever and I can't wait to see what's next.

ugh

I really enjoyed the first book, 2nd book felt like I was getting preached to, this book has just lost me. I hope others can enjoy it, I am checking out now.

Gender Dysfunction...

I forgot about how this author introduced her "horses" identifying as Stallions, Mares or Geldings. Perhaps this author is having her own identity crisis. I AGAIN wish that Audible would better Label these books as part of the #LGBT so people like myself can "pass" on the story & get something more to my liking.

Scenes of 2 men lying next to each other while one also has a female love interest on his other side? my issue is that I DO NOT want to hear or read the story about what they're doing with each other!!

Getting my money back on this book.

I tried... a convenient mess is still a mess.

I listened to the first two books. My first review talked about how this series was crazy pants. Everyone is scheming and the plot, while insanely all over the place, is also kinda ambitiously fresh in it's complexity and the sheer fact that the author can keep it all together. The Stormlight Archives WISHES there was this much scheming. But this is also where it falls apart.

I just can't take any more new characters, or convenient plot devices that fast forward through real depth to get to the next back stab, convoluted history, birthright or betrayal. The characters are on rails for the most part, just plowing through whatever is in their way, fighting dragons, discovering magic, chatting with gods... but where is it even going anymore and who the hell is going there?

The characters are sometimes so oblivious when it's convenient so that they can be used to move us in a direction. Some are completely forgotten during the journey only to pop up for some kind of interpersonal drama. There's also convenient character traits that pop up to make issues for more drama and plot movement, and it's too obvious. The trick to using cliche right is to obfuscate it with real creativity and sincerity... and we get none, and no ones deals with their issues so no one can move on or grow, that way, it can be an issue later when it's convenient. But in the in-between times, similar situations will arise and we'll hear nothing of it, or they'll just keep it to themselves.

I am very curious to see how the story ends but not right now... maybe when I get bored and want to return to it. I like all of the inclusiveness and different relationships. So many review complaints about the sexual content, but it's so rated G... I assume it's just obnoxiously loud prudes that should be asking themselves hard questions before they start complaining about other people's preferences IN A MADE UP WORLD.

Either way. I don't know the intention behind the writing so I can't assume too much. I feel like the author needs to take a breath, and help the reader live in the world. Everything is described so quickly and sparsely that the world feels over simplified for expediency. The reader never gets to settle, and not for the sake of the moment... but just for the sake of movement. You CAN still inhabit the world and move through it quickly. They definitely tried to be more descriptive in this book but it was like comic book style. Where the characters moved into a space and were removed from it but still gazing at it and the most ephemeral of ways. "Look at all of this stuff... welp, gotta go... Wow... look at all this stuff... welp... gotta go..." Rinse, repeat.

Anyways... I can see being forgiving and being into it... but I have run out of forgiveness juice for the time being.

Too much Sex

This book had way too much Male on male sexual innuendo. It talked about men get hard on laying against other men. I personally don't like mixing fantasy with sex. Not my thing. Never reading anything grom this author again.

Brilliant. Intense.

This is so damn good! I love every chapters of it! It made me sad, cry, laugh, frightened. The battlescenes were perfect! It gave me goosebumps when characters from Books 1 and 2 all came together in that battle. I can't wait for my copy of The House of Always to arrive in September so that I can read it asap.

Feodor Chin and Vikas Adam did a fantastic job as always!

Soooo awesome

Jenn Lyons did such a good job on this book it is the best book so far in this series. Well done Jenn Lyons another awesome book

It's official: It is Joe, Jenn and George

Like any memorable meal, I grew hungry to eat, a bit of 'hangry' perhaps...altho truly just mild impatience. And like any memorable meal, it was absolutely worth the journey.
Jenn Lyons' stories are somehow not the same destination as Joe or George. I can't quite put a finger on it. Thats the brilliance, can't predict how this will end. A Mt Rushmore of the greatest epic fantasy writers would include her for sure. Just after Joe and honestly...yes, before George.