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Curse of Shadows and Thorns

The Broken Kingdoms, Book 1

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Curse of Shadows and Thorns

By: LJ Andrews
Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
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A rebellious princess. A cursed rogue. A forbidden love that will bring a kingdom to its knees.

As niece of the king, Elise Lysander cares about two things: sneaking into gambling dens, and avoiding an advantageous marriage at all costs.

When her uncle holds the life of her deathly ill father over her head, reluctantly, Elise puts her fate into the hands of Legion Grey, the handsome and mysterious dowry negotiator. He may be arrogant and infuriating, but soon Legion incites a blistering, forbidden passion she can’t ignore.

As their attraction grows, so do the dangers: attacks from black-eyed people, a cursed enemy who is more beast than man, and rumors of fae returning for the crown they believe was stolen from them long ago.

After a bloody coup upends the kingdom, Elise flees with Legion, but nothing is as it seems. The man she allowed into her heart reveals his own secret plans with the return of magic—and he has every intention of using Elise to see them through.

With war between magic and mortal on the horizon, Elise must pick a side to protect her kingdom. Does she stand with her people who stole the throne? Or with a man who lied his way into her heart and whose secret past could bring her destruction?

Filled with luscious world building, banter-filled romance, and epic battles, Curse of Shadows and Thorns is the first book in The Broken Kingdoms series.

©2022 LJ Andrews (P)2022 Podium Audio
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good listen

It did get a but slow there for a bit but the ending was great and worth the wait. I suppose there is A lot of world building happening and a lot of descriptions for us to understand that world.
I would recommend 👍

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Vibes of FBAA yet stands on its own💘

So this book had similarities to Blood and Ash by Jennifer L Armentrout though it stands on it's own as a different story and book of it's own! The last few hours shaped how it and I am really looking forward to book 2!! I soo love the all the characters and am looking forward to seeing where things go!!! The world building is great!!bI think this is a good beginning to what will be an outstanding!!

Stina Nielsen did a pretty great job narrating the story!

It is a bit slow going but give it a go....

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Interesting storyline but lacked intrigue

I enjoyed the book but I was left wanting more. She trained as a warrior at the start. And they called her a warrior throughout, but the demonstration of her strength was lacking

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Good listen

Good Listen if you enjoy this genre. Some parts are a little predictable and possibly dragged out a bit much. But overall the characters are well developed and the story is well written.

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Fabulous

I enjoyed every minute of this story and I really enjoyed the narration great performance
Can’t wait to listen to book 2

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Gripping read!

this book had me on the edge of my seat! dreaming I was in a foreign land and itching for more. I can't wait to start the rest of the series, I'm even considering buying the series in paperback!

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Great Voice

really engaging story, read well, straight onto the next one, gives me book tok vibes

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Bit of a non book tbh. kept waiting for the adventure to start

kept waiting for the adventure to start and it moved very slowly. nothing spesh

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Falsely advertised as unabridged

I don’t know if the narrator took it upon themselves to add their own artistic flair adding and dropping words, sentences, paragraphs, in fact some times an entire chapter may as well be omitted. I don’t know if the author approved all the cuts but it really did ruin this book.. it took all the character and relationship building out which really is needed to be able to love the characters and understand them? The book loses all its intensity. But for some reason a choice was made to leave sentences or entire paragraphs about baked bread, cutting vines, stables being muddy? and other things that really could have been dropped instead? Odd choice of cuts. Shame really could have been a good audio… thank goodness this was free.

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It was ok

The storyline was decent, enough so that I bought the second in hopes that the few issues I did find are ironed out. The story flowed strangely though, there were a few times I got lost and didn't realise the paragraph had ended as suddenly we were in a different place with different people. Made listening difficult.
I also found the relationship between the two main characters somewhat difficult to believe. They barely know each other, there's no reason the female character should trust this total stranger the way she does. I feel it could have built up more.

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