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What a refreshing story!

Review from Cities of Smoke and Starlight →

I really enjoyed listening to this book. The narrator has an excellent way of differentiating between characters. Story wise, I was hooked. What started out as a slow paced world building, quickly became a fresh perspective on magic, sci-fi and serious Anastasia vibes. Loved the bickering between Hallie and Kase. I was expecting another Maas..

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Swoony X-Men meets the first season of The Flash

Review from Unleashed →

I loved this twisty, action-packed story about a group of people who were granted power by a big event. At first, the Gifted are accepted and acclaimed. But then jealousy sets in and persecution follows. Reminds me of a Tricia Goyer WWII novel – a high compliment indeed! There’s also an X-Men meets that first..

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Too preachy..

Review from Riot →

I realize this was classified as a “Christian” book, So were the first two books. References to religion were intermittent and tolerable. Not so in this book. Seems like.every time the female lead POV was narrated religious references were in every other sentence. I liked the story overall but it was tough to finish.

Nope

Review from Cities of Smoke and Starlight →

This book was very painful to listen to, and I only finished it because I used a credit. The author inserted the word “stars” for every possible curse word, phrase, insult, and for all ranges of emotion. I felt this was a lazy way of writing, and I wish the author was more creative with..

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Failed Attempt at World Building

Review from Cities of Smoke and Starlight →

The absolute desperation at which the author attempted to insert the word “star” into every other sentence was painful to listen to. There is no romance, which is fine but don’t advertise this as anything even remotely romantic or having any sort of romance because it doesn’t. The world the author is trying to build..

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