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A Touch of Poison

Shadows of the Tenebris Court, Book 2

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A Touch of Poison

By: Clare Sager
Narrated by: Sarah Sampino, Liam Price
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In Elfhame, bargains are currency, lies are weapons, and your heart is your greatest weakness.

Reeling from Bastian's revelations, Kat wakes from her dire illness wanting nothing more than to sever all ties with the man who betrayed her. But fate has a different plan—she's trapped in Elfhame, the fae realm where nothing is as it seems. And worse, she's trapped with him, reliant on his touch to stave off a poison that threatens her very life.

Thrust into the center of Dusk and Dawn Courts, they must balance the two in order to maintain a delicate peace. But in a world where alliances are forged and shattered in a heartbeat, danger looms. A mysterious group infiltrates the city, and spies whisper of an ancient artifact powerful enough to destroy an entire court.

As enemies close in from all sides and attacks on the city escalate, Kat and Bastian must unearth deadly secrets and their own complicated feelings to survive—or risk a war to destroy faekind itself.

Full of betrayal, bargains, and broken hearts, A Touch of Poison is the spellbinding second book in Shadows of the Tenebris Court, a searing romantic fantasy trilogy perfect for fans of The Bridge Kingdom and A Court of Thorns and Roses. Intended for mature listeners.

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I’m really enjoying this series, the storyline is good, a bit of spice and some humor but the big downer for me is guy who narrates the character Bastian… he’s so monotone and robotic, it almost sounds like they’ve had it narrated with AI l, he does my head in and I find my mind wandering when he’s speaking. I’m sticking it out though and hoping he hasn’t narrated the next book in the series. The female narrator is good though.

Great story, narration is a bit wanting.

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really liked this, wish all the books were on audible, I didn't realise there were way more stories before these, so I'll need to listen to previous books once available

loved it

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Interesting story and characters. The female narrator was excellent . I’m sorry to say the male narrator, Liam, was disappointing…quite robotic at times. It detracted from the story.

Enjoyable

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The story line in these first two books is amazing, I’m very excited to start the third book!! Character development is perfect, the spice is a slowwwww burn in this one but once it starts…. Wow.

Loving this series

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I am loving this story. And Sarah Sampino is doing a fantastic job of bringing Kat and her world to life. However I am finding it very hard to get through this second book because Liam Price is incredibly hard to listen to. So much so that I find myself regularly sighing in frustration during the chapters he narrates as this has the effect of constantly throwing a reader out of the world the rest of the book has drawn them into. It sounds like he has recorded every single sentence separately, out of order and then edited them together so that each line seems to bare almost no connection to the line before or after it, which creates a jarring delivery, And he puts an upward inflection behind every full stop making it sound like a half question. And the emotional content of the words are lost in a choppy sea, instead of flowing naturally. I mean on the surface he should be pleasant to listen to, his voice has a nice tone and depth, but as other readers have mentioned, he sounds robotic, mechanical, unnatural. I even went to the lengths of finding other books he had narrated to see if this was a true indication of his style … sad to say it is. And I am left wondering who keeps hiring this guy and why?

Liam Price is really hard to listen to!

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Loved the development of the storey line and the voice acting. Excited to listen to book 3.

Great continuation from book 1

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Really liked the storyline but the male narrator made it very difficult to listen to, his breathy stunted reading spoiled the enjoyment. The female narrator was very good

Great storyline

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I love Kat's character and how she's grown. the narrater for her is perfect. Sebastian's narrator definitely sounded like AI. It was terrible.
Still worth the read though, it just takes some getting used to.

Good read

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Terrible male narration. I found it so hard to get into the book when he starts up. He puts pauses in the wrong spots, and doesn't get involved in his character. I couldn't listen to the book. I loved Book 1 with just a female narrator doing all the voices.

Bad Male Narrator

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Female narrator is excellent but the male narrator reads in monotone without any emotion at all.
Great story

Male narrator ruins it

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