The Phantom King

Kings Series, Book 2

De: Heather Killough-Walden

Narrado por: Antony Ferguson

Siobhan Ashdown was born of magic; it rides her blood like a phantom, tainted and dark and unpredictable. She is a warlock, and the power within her is unlike any before known to her kind. So it's no surprise that the most powerful of the demons who feed off of this warlock magic not only recognizes the enormous potential she represents but determines that he will possess her at any cost.

Even if it means war with the entire supernatural world.

Thanatos has ruled Purgatory as the Phantom King since time immemorial. King of a vast plane of solitude, he is a free spirit, a lone rider, a tattooed man of wind and dust and nonexistent boundaries. Then he turns around one morning to find himself face-to-face with Siobhan Ashdown, a woman with hair as red and wild as his soul, eyes like melted gold, and a spirit as elusive as his own. Time stops, the world tilts, and the fact that she attacks him right off the bat does little to deter his romantic convictions - or his desire to sink his fangs into her neck.

Thirteen Kings are severed by lust and greed, an ancient vampire and his rogue creation lay claim to what is not theirs, the whisperings of war begin to shake the foundation of the supernatural world, and primordial evil awakens from its slumber to slither across the land in this second installment in Heather Killough-Walden's Kings series.

©2012 Heather Killough-Walden (P)2013 Tantor

this is a great book and series I really enjoy it this was the second one and I can't wait to listen to the next

I absolutely love this series I'm on I just finished book two can't wait for the next one I'm glad I have a credit to pay for the next one otherwise I'll be upset cuz I need to hear more. absolutely love this author highly recommend that Siri is it definitely must listen if you love sci-fi and vampires and werewolves and witches and all that so it's great story I'm telling you and I love how it has romantic stuff to it as well so it's like a good Sci-Fi Romance

Much better than the first...

I admit that the first book The Vampire King was a let down and allowed me to judge the entire series. I came back to the series six months later to give this a listen and was pleasantly surprised. If you are like me, give this a chance. The relationship between Thanos and Chevon is much better and there’s more story building. Seemed like book one was a trial run and the writing got much better with this.

A solid follow-up to a good foundation

What made the experience of listening to The Phantom King the most enjoyable?

Compared to The Vampire King, I felt the chemistry between Siobhan and Thane was much more believable than Roman and Evelyn, so I enjoyed the book overall, more than the first one. In general, I thought everything she brought up in this one was more interesting than the first.

What aspect of Antony Ferguson’s performance would you have changed?

Ok so here's what I'm going to say about his performance and I will leave it at that: On an episode of Family Guy I saw one time, Peter and the guys cause a ruckus in a pub, and a British guy convinces them to leave using his "superior linguistic skills." This is how I feel, more or less, about British narrators. I mean, c'mon Ferguson, these are American characters so at very least...but everyone sounds British (ok so Steven (Stephen?) you gave a US voice, but it wasn't very convincing). So, on one hand, totally lame. American accents are easy. But, on the other hand, if it's one or other, I choose Brit v. American accent 8 times out of 10. I hope that helps.

Any additional comments?

I think part of what I like about this series is the potential. Theoretically there are 11 more opportunities for the author to build up a nice over-arching plot while getting some nice lurve stories at the same time. Hope she keeps it up!

Two books in and I hope it gets better

Two books into the series and I’m seeing a pattern-H and h meet, H rescues h, they have sex (mate), then move onto the next book and couple. That’s it, no build up! For a romance book, it is seriously lacking. The story and characters are still building, but I would like to see more relationship building between couples. There is literally none. I hope it gets better as the series continues. As for the overall world building, it’s pretty good. It’s a new spin on supernatural creatures and their world. There are a lot of characters to keep up with and previous events and couples mentioned that led me to look up other books from this author. From what I can tell there are two other series before this one that probably should be read first to help better understand what is going on and who all the characters are. Unfortunately I didn’t know this and there is no mention of it in the blurb. So I’m going to keep moving on through this series and maybe go back and read the others. I’ll see how this one turns out first.
The narrator is okay but over lengthens pauses between sentences and commas, so the reading doesn’t flow very well. I changed the speech settings to go faster and this helped a little but doesn’t fix the problem. His voice is nice but he needs to work on accents. Sometimes it’s hard to tell who is talking but that’s probably due to how many different characters there are. I think using at least two different narrators would help out with this problem. Overall it’s not too bad to listen to. I’ve definitely heard worse narrators.

Terrific listen

Got confused at one point, as sometimes I was unsure which realm they were in, but it sorted itself out eventually.

But it's a great series! Id recommend this to lots of my friends.