#MacmillanAudio Review of Fall of Ruin and Wrath by Jennifer Armentrout

Jennifer Armentrout's first in a new hard fantasy series has everything fans of the genre want.
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ASIN: B0BSP42B37
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Release Date: 09-12-2023
Length: 16 hours & 57 minutes
Source: Publisher for Review
#1 Awakening series
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Overview:

SHE LIVES BY HER INTUITION. HE FEEDS ON HER PLEASURE.

From Jennifer L. Armentrout, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of From Blood and Ash, comes the beginning of a searing fantasy romance for adults, Fall of Ruin and Wrath.

Long ago, the world was destroyed by gods. Only nine cities were spared. Separated by vast wilderness teeming with monsters and unimaginable dangers, each city is now ruled by a guardian—royalty who feed on mortal pleasure.

Born with an intuition that never fails, Calista knows her talents are of great value to the power-hungry of the world, so she lives hidden as a courtesan of the Baron of Archwood. In exchange for his protection, she grants him information.

When her intuition leads her to save a traveling prince in dire trouble, the voice inside her blazes with warning—and promise. Today he’ll bring her joy. One day he'll be her doom.

When the Baron takes an interest in the traveling prince and the prince takes an interest in Calista, she becomes the prince’s temporary companion. But the city simmers with rebellion, and with knights and monsters at her city gates and a hungry prince in her bed, intuition may not be enough to keep her safe.

Calista must choose: follow her intuition to safety or follow her heart to her downfall.

Breathtaking suspense and scorching romance meet in this immersive new fantasy from a mega-bestselling force, Jennifer L. Armentrout.

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My #MacmilanAudio Review:

Fall of Ruin and Wrath

 

Book one in Jennifer Armentrout’s Awakening series is intense, full of vicious battles, and bloodshed. Plus there’s a slow-burning and sizzling romance between Calista a lowborn and Thorn a Highborn Prince and believe me this couple’s chemistry is off the charts. Calista is a joy, she’s fierce, loyal and feisty and finds that feistiness lands her in trouble more often than not. Thorn is a larger than life, God-like character who lacks humility but finds himself enthralled by Calista. The story is a fast-paced and often brutal page-turner, and the audience will find themselves under Armentrout’s spell from page one until the cliff-hanger ending and as she spins her fantastical tale leaving them impatient for book #2. Fans of hard fantasy, the work of J.R. Ward, Laurel K. Hamilton and this masterful storyteller will not be able to put this novel down.

Narration:
Soneela Nankani is the perfect narrator for this novel bar none!

The Highborn rule the world as it is now and the world is not kind to lowborn like Calista and her best friend Grady. Orphaned at birth with abilities that could have labeled Calista a forbidden conjurer she and Grady have spent their lives watching out for each other and doing anything they could to survive. After years of a nomadic life have found sanctuary at the court of Archwood. Calista aides the Baron of Archwood using her innate abilities giving him critical information about his friends and his foes and in exchange the Baron gives she and Grady home and shelter. Calista is always careful using her intuition but has no choice but to act when she senses someone in dire need of help, the victim turns out to be a very powerful Highborn Prince. Unbeknown to Calista and Prince Thorn their meeting is not a coincidence but has been predestined setting them on a path filled with uncertainties, and with the winds of change blowing and Calista’s precognition showing her a world at war with only death and catastrophic destruction she’s not sure if Prince Thorn is her salvation or her ruination.

 

#1 New York Times and #1 international bestselling author JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, hanging out with her husband, her Border Jack Apollo, Border Collie Artemis, six judgemental alpacas, two rude goats, and five fluffy sheep. In early 2015, Jennifer was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic disorders. Due to this diagnosis, educating people on the varying degrees of blindness has become a passion of hers, right alongside writing, which she plans to do as long as she can. Jennifer has been nominated for and won numerous awards for her young adult and adult fiction.