Wives Tales: Peg and Cali, Estrella and Other Stories

The Valens Legacy, Book 16.5

By: Jan Stryvant

Narrated by: Leland King

Each of Sean's wives takes a moment to share a tale of their past while sitting around having a drink. Contains the Valens Legacy novellas Peg and Cali and Estrella and Other Stories.

Peg and Cali

Peg tells of the events that led up to her and Sheila becoming close. Cali tells the tale of why she was chosen to become and assassin and a little about her training.

Estrella and Other Stories

Estrella tells of the events that led to her becoming trapped in the Onderwereld.

Warning: Contains mature content.

©2019 Jan Stryvant (P)2020 Podium Publishing

late to the party

I've easily gone through the entire series a half dozen times. it's one of my favorites for sure. I do tend to favor the first half dozen more than later books, but I still love the story. I had picked up the add on collections of short stories. somewhere on perhaps the second or third pass through I tried to listen to the first collection of shorts and found that they were not to my personal taste and thus never finished then. I had already bought them both of them but off did not to return them just in case I change my mind somewhere down the road. I believe there's now six or seven books out for the extended storyline that covers our main characters children and a new author that has written at least three books with I believe a different set of characters but in the same universe. so I decided I would go ahead and give the wife Tales a second shot. some of the short stories I don't like flat out and not because they're poorly written, but because like I said they're not to my personal taste. that's perfectly acceptable and I hope other people enjoy them. I will say that some of the last short stories in the collection I absolutely enjoyed and I'm very pleased that I came back to give it a second shot. that holds true for the first collection and now this one. if I had left a review after I first tried to go through the short stories I would have recommended it base on the quality delivered by the author alone, but now I will add that there's something in there for everyone. at least as far as I can tell. I am a fan of this narrator so I do not know whether he still does this sort of work or is doing it under a different pen name. lastly, I will simply say Well done to everybody who had a hand and bringing these additions to a series that I very much love and do recommend.

Short but enjoyable

Short background stories about three more of Valens wives and two other stories. Leland King is still awesome.

Great addition

I love this series. I was annoyed at first by the length of the side stories, but then I realized the cash price for each works out well for the length. Both the author and the narrator for this book were great.

no fair

Donlit's son better show in the next books or at least know his fate plrase

It's fine

A very small short story collection providing backstories for some of the girls of the harem. Suitable for fans of the Valens Legacy series.