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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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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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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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I enjoyed the story but it would have been more enjoyable if Bastian spoke slower and used the punctuation marks more appropriately in the text to read with fluency and phrasing. his parts were rushed, sentences strung together and took away from the development of the story by lacking excitement in his voice. A slightly softer spoken actor might suit book 3.

enjoyable story

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I’ve enjoyed this book as much as the first canon for the next instalment . Just when I think I know where the story is going I’m pleasantly surprised it takes another turn.

The unexpected turn of events

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the male voice has been read in a mono tone with inflections at the end of %80 of sentences and is very hard to listen to. it's crazy how much this almost makes it impossible to listen to.

the male voice actor (news presenter) ruins it

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Enjoyed the story as much as I could despite male narrator’s performance. His pronunciation and enunciation is fine, but his tone and tempo makes it very difficult to follow the story. The end of every breath inflects upward making sentences string together endlessly, and it is hard understand what is being thought v spoken, who is speaking etc. I wouldn’t listen to him again. Otherwise great.

Good story, distracting male narrator’s

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The female narrator is great, however the male narrator is robotic and consistently uses the wrong inflection, which can really take you out of the story and makes you have to re-listen to get the real meaning of the words. It’s as though he’s reading from the script without actually taking note of anything to do with the story.

Disappointing male narrator

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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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