Twilight of Embers

By: Tessa Hale

Narrated by: Vanessa Moyen, Joe Arden, Jason Clarke, Connor Crais, Teddy Hamilton, Jacob Morgan

Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

I’d always wondered what it would be like to have a family. I just never expected to find it with five mysterious strangers who have more secrets than I could ever imagine.

Getting a scholarship to Evergreen University and majoring in premed means I need to keep my head down and focus on my studies. But campus is full of distractions…

The football god with his golden retriever charm. The tortured one with his vicious tongue. The broken boy with his determined protectiveness. The merciless billionaire with a penchant for spoiling me. And the genius professor with his brilliant mind.

They make me feel like I belong for the first time since my parents were murdered. And when they touch me, my whole world sparks to flame.

But they have enemies. Those who would give anything to harm what they hold dear. And while they’ll do whatever it takes to keep me safe, sometimes falling in love will put you right in the line of fire…

©2023 Tessa Hale (P)2023 Tessa Hale

Loved this!!

OVERALL: 🌟🌟🌟🌟.5/5
•Storyline: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
▪︎Spice Level: 🌶🌶.5/ 5
•Swoon level:🫠🫠🫠🫠/5
•Bookshelf Worthy: 📚📚📚📚📚/5
•Platform: E-Book and Audio -DualStyle and Full Cast
•Recommend: Yes!
▪︎Re-read/re-listen: Definitely
•Trope: Fantasy, Why Choose.
•Narrators: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧/5


• Thoughts:
I loved this!!! I couldn't stop listening to this book, and this is part of a trilogy, so it does leave us on a cliffhanger. Totally don't care, and I know I will be re-listen to this before book 2 comes out. The author is new to me as well. I very much enjoyed her writing style, and they way she captures your attention. She immerses you into her world flawlessly. I was so engaged. I can't wait for book 2, and I will definitely be reading Tessa's back list.

Narrators:
This is a full cast and dual style narration. This book is mainly in the POV of Hayden, who was narrated by Vanessa Moyen. Vanessa is new to me, narrator, and she slayed it! I loved listening to her voice and her performance.
Jason Clarke, Connor Crais, Teddy Hamilton, Jacob Morgan, and Joe Arden. I mean, come on! They were incredible.

Perfect Starter Fantasy

The performance was phenomenal! I mean when you have an all star cast like this one it’s going to be good. They all brought this story to life in a way that I throughly enjoyed. I absolutely loved this story and cannot wait for book two!

Twilight of Embers

It will keep you waiting to hear what happens and in the fact you will be happy you chose this book

Good story, couldn’t stop listening!

It does end on a cliffhanger which I didn’t realize until til half way through book 1…
But it was good and I’d still listen again even knowing the 2nd book isn’t out yet.

Audiobook elevated the story

I already knew I loved the story but this all-star narration cast really elevated the experience! Mild complaint is there are some discrepancies between pronunciations between narrators but the differences are small enough that it didn’t impact my listening experience.

Fantastic Fantasy

Quick world building and executed really well. Love all the narrators! The only thing I would really want would be if this was a duet style narration. With as many narrators duet would have been the cherry on top.

Great story line

I just wish it wasn’t so much slow burn. So many things could’ve been different in the beginning and then the second book would’ve picked up more towards the middle of where the first book should’ve ended. 

Loved the full-cast dual-style narration!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️🌶️🌶️
>>>>> God, I wanted to touch her. To hold her in my arms and assure her that there wasn’t a damn thing she could do that would make me love her any less. <<<<<

📚 Book Review 📚
This is shaping up to be Tessa’s best series yet! I found this first book, Twilight of Embers, to be a quick and highly entertaining read, full of magic, mystery, and action.

In Twilight of Embers, we are launched back into Tessa’s supernatural world of shifters and other magical beings, fated mates, naïve FMCs, and dangers from all sides. This time, we have a hoard of dragon shifters who discover that the new freshman at their school may not be human at all but a suppressed dragon shifter and their mate.

There is some moderate angst due to rejected mates vibes by two MMCs who need to pull their heads out of their asses (looking at you, Grumpy Cat Easton and Professor Maddox), but the rest of the males are ALL-IN from the first moment they meet Hayden. I loved the golden retriever, Knox, and the touch-her-and-die combination of Cáel and Cillian. I cannot wait to see how their relationships evolve through the series. They will be helping Hayden navigate the truth of her shifter nature and coming to terms with having five mates.

The romance is medium-burn with mild spice.

I was so engrossed in the story that I was unprepared for that ending. Holy cliffhanger! These next few months until Book Two’s release are going to be rough as we wait to find out what comes next for Hayden and her mates.

🎧 Audiobook Review 🎧
What an excellent cast of narrators! This is the first of Tessa’s books offered with a full-cast production (also the first of her books written with multiple POVs). I loved the way the audiobook turned out. I felt a greater connection to each of the MCs, with them being given their own highly unique voice. Cillian was to die for dreamy!

Genre: Paranormal Romance
Tropes/Features: PNR elite college, fated mates, age gap (x2), traumatic pasts, FMC naïve to supernatural world, dragon shifters, chosen family, “brothers” and twins, forbidden romance, professor/student, golden retriever MMC, unhinged MMC, touch aversion, OTT J/P MCs, touch her and die, rejected mates vibes
Narrator: Multiple 1st Person POV
Narration Type: Dual Style, Full Cast
Narrator(s): Vanessa Moyen, Joe Arden, Jason Clarke, Connor Crais, Teddy Hamilton, and Jacob Morgan
Relationship Type: Why Choose MFMMMM, medium burn, mild spice
Book Type/Ending: Book one in series, cliffhanger ending
TW/CW: None listed

Everything I want!

It has everything I look for! It has dragons, hot alphas, slow burn for some and heat for others, and an older guy! i always love possessive males and smart FMCs! I really love this narrators!

Love!!

Love this story so far. Can’t wait to listen to the next one. this book is not that spicy but it’s a good plot you don’t really miss it.