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When sisters Muna and Sakti wake up on the peaceful beach of the island of Janda Baik, they can’t remember anything, except that they are bound as only sisters can be. They have been cursed by an unknown enchanter, and slowly Sakti starts to fade away. The only hope of saving her is to go to distant Britain, where the Sorceress Royal has established an academy to train women in magic.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-01-19
Part Sorcerer to the Crown, part Diana Wynne Jones
The first book in this series, Sorcerer to the Crown, was very much a fantasy of manners. It had humor, action and magic, but all was anchored in a portrait of the strictures of 19th-century British society. Race, class, gender and politics were as central to the story as sorcery.
The second book focuses on a different set of characters. While listening to it, I kept being struck by how much it felt like a Diana Wynne Jones novel--Castles in the Air, one of the books in the Wizard Howl series, came particularly to mind. It was much less grounded in real human society, much more free-wheeling and fantastical (and some of the characters a little more arch and ridiculous).
Finally it dawned on me that the narrator, Jenny Sterlin, also read the Wizard Howl books! That doubtless accounts for part of the remblance, but the fact remains that I never considered it with book 1. If you miss the late, great DWJ, this would be a great choice. But if you're yearning to dive back into politics and propriety, you might be a little disappointed.
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- Hugh J
- 06-08-19
A Delightful Return to Cho's fantasy Regency
When Muna washes up on a beach after a terrible storm, she can only remember two things: Sakti is her twin sister, and they have both been cursed. In order to break the curse, save her sister and discover who she really is, Muna will have to travel to the distant and strange island of Britain and pass herself off as a great sorceress. But with war brewing between Britain and Faerie within, will she be able to save her sister, or will she be drawn into the intrigues of the Faerie Court, or worse, English high society?
The follow up to the delightful novel Sorcerer To The Crown, Zen Cho returns to her Regency-era fantasy filled with dour magicians, witty witches, and blithely cannibalistic faeries. The author has carried over all of the charm of the first book, telling a new tale with just enough of her beloved cast of characters while introducing new main characters and shifting the spotlight. Muna is a fantastic main character, and I loved spending more time with Henrietta, Rollo, and of course, Ma Geng Gang.
Cho’s fantasy England is centered on the sort of very real people who were pushed to the margins by 19th Century British society: women, people of color, gays and lesbians. Cho deftly presents high society through Muna’s point of view, making it as strange and inaccessible to her as the Faerie Court. It is a welcome and fascinating shift, carried over from the first book that continues to astonish.
Jenny Sterlin returns to narrate, and does an excellent job. Her acting and narration flow well together and her voice is perfectly suited to the story.
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- chuck
- 03-21-19
charming!
I found this book to be really delightful and very charming good adventure good characters in and a Sweet Love story
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- Kerry
- 06-04-21
Great book with Interesting Magic Perspective
I really enjoyed this book and the one before it in the series. It was a very interesting perspective on how magicians might interact with the world
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- Creedy
- 07-15-20
More Please
As with every story you create, I am left wanting the characters lives to continue to the next adventure
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- R. Mahrling
- 04-25-20
Amazing book
I am a fan of high fantasy and sci fi and I just absolutely love this book. This is unlike anything I have ever read. I can't recommend it enough.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-06-21
v nice
I don't usually review.
but this was v. nice.
peculiar way of telling a story.
amazing read
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- Lucy Hodge
- 04-01-19
Wonderful!
The first book was an absolute joy and so I’m not at all surprised that this one was too. I loved the characters from start to finish, as well as the excellent plot. Highly recommended!
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- Donna Maree Hanson
- 10-10-19
Great work!
I loved this. A different take on magic and a rich tapestry of non-Anglo magic and characters.
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Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off marriage to a local mill owner. But just as she is on the cusp of accepting a life of misery, events take a stunning turn when a handsome stranger - the poet and notorious rake Lord Byron - arrives at her house, stricken by what seems to be a curse, and with a cryptic message for Lucy. Suddenly her unfortunate circumstances are transformed in ways at once astonishing and seemingly impossible.
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A Little Better than Just OK
- By Cariola on 02-10-12
By: David Liss
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With This Curse
- By: Amanda DeWees
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Can a curse strike twice in a woman's life? In 1854, 17-year-old chambermaid Clara Crofton was dismissed from Gravesend Hall for having fallen in love with Richard Blackwood, the younger son of the house. Alone in the world, Clara found a tenuous position as a seamstress, but she always blamed the Gravesend curse for the disaster that had befallen her - and for Richard's death soon after in the Crimean War.
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So romantic !
- By RueRue on 05-17-16
By: Amanda DeWees
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The Midnight Witch
- By: Paula Brackston
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Lady Lilith Montgomery is the daughter of the sixth Duke of Radnor. She is one of the most beautiful young women in London and engaged to the city’s most eligible bachelor. She is also a witch. When her father dies, her hapless brother Freddie takes on his title. But it is Lilith, instructed in the art of necromancy, who inherits their father’s role as Head Witch of the Lazarus Coven. And it is Lilith who must face the threat of the Sentinels, a powerful group of sorcerers intent on reclaiming the Elixir from the coven’s guardianship for their own dark purposes.
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Ridiculously inane lead character
- By Alison on 06-12-15
By: Paula Brackston
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Black Rainbow
- By: Barbara Michaels
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A troubled Byronic hero, a young governess blinded by her romantic obsession, a beautiful but forbidding manor, and a secret as ominous as the black rainbow that frames the huddled towers of the manor in the moonlight are the romantic elements of this Gothic mystery.
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Not usual Barbara Michaels, still worth a credit
- By Barbara Kindle Customer on 06-14-14
By: Barbara Michaels
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Storm Glass
- Harbinger, Book 1
- By: Jeff Wheeler
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Theirs is a world of opposites. The privileged live in sky manors held aloft by a secretive magic known only as the Mysteries. Below, the earthbound poor are forced into factory work to maintain the engine of commerce. Only the wealthy can afford to learn the Mysteries, and they use their knowledge to further lock their hold on society. Cettie Pratt is a waif doomed to the world below, until an admiral attempts to adopt her. But in her new home in the clouds, not everyone treats her as one of the family.
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Slow...very slow!
- By dawn Guenther on 11-18-18
By: Jeff Wheeler
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Nocturne for a Widow
- Sybil Ingram, Volume 1
- By: Amanda DeWees
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 1873, and Sybil Ingram has come to a crossroads. Once she was the toast of the London stage, but now that she's 28 years old - very well, nearly 30 - her draw isn't what it used to be, and her theater troupe is foundering. When her trusted mentor asks her to take the blame for his financial misdeeds, Sybil sees no choice but to retire from the life she loves and move to America to marry New York City hotel magnate Alcott Lammle.
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A comic gothic mystery
- By Maggie Tuliver on 03-28-16
By: Amanda DeWees
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Viscount Vagabond
- Regency Noblemen
- By: Loretta Chase
- Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Catherine Pelliston has just escaped a forced marriage to an obnoxious friend of her unreliable father; and now she's truly in the soup; kidnapped and helpless in a London brothel! And though she's been rescued by the very inebriated Max Demowery, Viscount Rand, she may be in even greater danger of falling in love with the shockingly outrageous, scandalously improper Viscount Vagabond!
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Excellent story but not great audio production.
- By Laura on 10-05-14
By: Loretta Chase
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Magic & Manners
- An Austen Chronicle, Book 1
- By: C. E. Murphy
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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It is a truth universally accepted that well-bred members of society are not beleaguered with magic. For Elsabeth Dover and her sisters, that truth means living in a perpetual state of caution, never using their sorcerous gifts in public. Elsabeth chafes under the stricture, although not enough to risk the possibility of good marriages for her sisters...until she meets handsome, arrogant Fitzgerald Archer
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Addictive
- By Heather on 05-05-16
By: C. E. Murphy
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Mrs. Osmond
- A Novel
- By: John Banville
- Narrated by: Amy Finegan
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Isabel Archer is a young American woman swept off to Europe in the late 19th century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naïve girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a large, unexpected inheritance, she is finagled into a marriage with the charming, penniless, and - as Isabel finds out too late - cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond, whose connection to a certain Madame Merle is suspiciously intimate.
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Clever Continuation of Henry James
- By Fate_D on 03-18-18
By: John Banville
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Crocodile on the Sandbank
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 1
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Susan O'Malley
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Amelia Peabody embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal for her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. On her way, she rescues Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been "ruined" and abandoned on the streets of Rome by her lover. With a typical disregard for convention, Amelia promptly hires her fellow countrywoman as a companion and takes her to Cairo, where strange visitations and a botched kidnapping convince Amelia that there is a plot afoot to harm Evelyn.
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Crocodile on the Sandbank
- By Morgan on 01-09-04
By: Elizabeth Peters
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The Sandalwood Princess
- By: Loretta Chase
- Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Capable, clever Amanda Cavencourt is retuning to England from exotic India, where she has been managing her brother's household. With her, she brings a treasured memento - a beautiful statue, carved in sandalwood - a gift from her friend, a noted Indian princess. When the statue is snatched from her, Amanda is determined to recover it and discover why the culprit, a dashing, notorious rogue known only as the Falcon, who is renowned for his dangerous skills in political intrigue, would want such an object.
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Not up to par
- By cccme on 08-27-15
By: Loretta Chase
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The Goblin Emperor
- By: Katherine Addison
- Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an "accident", he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir. Entirely unschooled in the art of court politics, he has no friends, no advisors, and the sure knowledge that whoever assassinated his father and brothers could make an attempt on his life at any moment.
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Give this book a chance!
- By Douglas Hardy on 06-24-21
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These Dreams: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Nicole Clarkston
- Narrated by: Leena Emsley
- Length: 26 hrs and 26 mins
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Pride and patriotism lend fervor to greed and cruelty, and Fitzwilliam Darcy is caught at the centre of a decades-old international feud. Taken far from England, presumed dead by his family, and lost to all he holds dear, only one name remains as his beacon in the darkness: Elizabeth. Georgiana Darcy is now the heartbroken heiress to Pemberley, and Colonel Fitzwilliam her bewildered guardian. Vulnerable and unprepared, Georgiana desperately longs for a friend, while Fitzwilliam seeks to protect her from his own family.
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Exasperating!
- By Betsy on 11-11-20