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Court of Ravens and Ruin

A Brides of Mist and Fae Novel (The Shadow Bound Queen, Book 1)

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Court of Ravens and Ruin

By: Eliza Raine
Narrated by: Lia Holland, Gabriel Thorne
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A defiant human woman. A dark fae Prince. Two enemies bound to a marriage that could destroy their world.

Reyna was born a valuable slave to the Gold Court, imprisoned her whole life in a glittering palace by sadistic, greedy fae.

When the palace is raided, she takes her opportunity to escape. But the raid is led by her worst nightmare. The Prince of the most feared fae of all; the Shadow Court. And he wants one thing.

Her. The copper-haired, rune-marked human.

Reyna doesn’t know why the Prince has kidnapped her. But when he announces her as his betrothed, she knows that she must escape before she is eternally bound to the monster behind the mask.

Only, when he takes the mask off, he isn’t what she expects. He’s lethal, beautiful and exudes sin. And he needs her.

Drawn into a deadly world shrouded in secrets, and desperate to keep her own hidden, Reyna must find a way out. If she doesn’t, she risks more than just death. She risks giving everything to her intoxicating captor.

This is the first book in the Shadow Bound Queen series, and is inspired by Norse mythology and Vikings. Sexy fae Vikings. It has Hades and Persephone, Beauty and the Beast vibes, and is slow-burn enemies to lovers fantasy romance with a burn-the-world-down-for-her hero. The series builds in steam and is filled with magic, myth, and delicious tension.

Brides of Mist and Fae is a brand new world from Eliza Raine, unconnected to the Dark Gods of Olympus.

©2022 Eliza Raine (P)2025 Eliza Raine
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The story was okay.. It has a lot of potential, although it feels rushed and unfinished. Then the narration was a bit robotic.. almost like Alexa reading the book for you.

Story was okay..

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Eliza Raine has done it again but in a new setting based on Norse mythology. Enjoyable listen.

Entertaining

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I wish the male narrator was the primary on this book, great voice love your work, where as the female narrator sounds disjointed like a smart assistant, except when reading other characters where she will actually create a voice, everything else is robotic.

As for the story, it really doesn't make sense. The FMC has some form of impulse control issues, and in a world where she is considered a slave and can be beaten or killed for any show of defiance, I have no idea how she is not already dead before the book starts.

The worldbuilding is a bit confusing, there are humans/vikings that believe/pray to Odin and live in yggdrasil as one of the realms in the tree of yggdrasil. But there are no gods and all the humans are enslaved by the fae each of whom have taken over a realm each.
Reyna, our FMC, has the ability to create magical staffs for the "gold" fae court, allowing them to use magic, so she is treated better than most humans, until called in front of the Gold King where he chooses her to be his next bonded concubine, and as he is a disgusting pervert Reyna doesn't want this.
While trying to work out how to escape this fate, the gold court is attacked by the shadow court, and the Prince himself comes to steal Reyna away. And because our FMC is dumb as a bag of rocks she manages to get two of her friends also kidnapped along side of her to be used as leverage against her. And I say dumb, as the Prince had no wish to bring them in the slightest, but Reyna managed to force him to take them, as then tries to think of a way to get them to escape. When all she really had to do was say, no stay here I'll go with the Prince alone to save you.
So with her friends as leverage against her good behaviour, Reyna shows a next level of lethal stupidity of refusing commands by her captors, talking back and general insanity. That I feel that her captors are the actual good guys in this story, not her, given that they supposedly murder villages on mass and mentally control people to torture and kill their families, and have in fact done none of this to the insane woman.
Sometime after Reyna meets a talking owl, who also thinks she's an idiot, I uped the playback speed which made the narration and Reyna's lack of self preservation more bareable.
Incidents in the last chapters, kind of make me want to get the next book, but I'm undecided for now

EDIT: Had to come back and edit as I used the wrong name for the FMC, and yeah I haven't continued the series

It gets better at the end, kind of

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it sounds like AI or Aleza reading which makes it really difficult to invest in the story. the plot has potential, but the performance is close to making me stop listening and just forgetting the book.

horrible narration but a story with potential

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story has potential but the voice sounds so AI and the word pronouncements only cements that statement

change the main fmc

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