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Fall of Ruin and Wrath

By: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
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Publisher's Summary

From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of From Blood and Ash, Fall of Ruin and Wrath is a scorching romance with high stakes, breathtaking magic and a searing enemies-to-lovers romance.

She lives by her intuition. He feeds on her pleasure . . .

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 travelling 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 prince, and the prince takes an interest in Calista, she becomes the latter’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.

Fall of Ruin and Wrath is a captivating romantic fantasy from a mega bestselling author and global sensation.

©2023 Jennifer L. Armentrout (P)2023 Macmillan Audio

Critic Reviews

Best book of the year! A masterpiece from the queen of romantasy! (Laura Thalassa, bestselling author of the Four Horsemen series)

I hope you guys love this book as much as I do! (Sarah J. Maas, bestselling author of the Crescent City series, on From Blood and Ash)
Dreamy, twisty, steamy escapism. Take me back! (Wendy Higgins, author of Sweet Evil, on From Blood and Ash)

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Good book

good book, good narration, but I have to say .. the constant description of breath .. 'the breath I held' 'my breath caught' for some reason started to grate on me. looking forward to the next book

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A little underwhelmed

I found this book to be quite slow, it took me a while to get into and Im not a huge fan of the amount of internal dialogue. Storyline picked up towards the end but don’t know if I would continue the series.

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Ok

This book has too much time wasted on sex, constantly fast forwarding. Had potential but won’t purchase next story if the story is another porn script

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When is back 2 out?

I was concerned that she wouldn’t be able to follow up with another series as good as Blood and Ash… I just had to read it until it finished, knowing that would regret finishing it so quickly.

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A great beginning…

This book had me completely invested very quickly. Great story, unexpected turns, tension, and wicked steamy scenes. Loved it! Looking forward to the next one!

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Love love loved

I did not want it to end. I could not put it down and finished it in 2 days. Dying for the next book already.

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Why can’t I just live in JLA’s stories?!

A whole new world, new cast, and new level of spice! JLA serves up a delicious new story, centred around fabulous FMC Lissa, some serious romantic tension, some secret magic, a good mix of castes - if you liked the Ascended vs Humans vibe in FBAA you’ll Love the new dynamics in this world!

Just do yourself a favour and listen to it. And listen to it some more. It’s so, so good.

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  • Jo
  • 24-09-2023

Another brilliant fantasy book by JLA

After the success of from blood and ash, I was unsure of how a JLA will again build a different fantasy world… but she has done a magnificent job with this book! It was extremely enjoyable. The narrator was excellent, however, I did need to speed the book up to 1.2 to listen to it as I found it a bit slow.

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Loved it!

I’ve listened to a lot of audio books and the narrator for FORAW was absolutely incredible, she breathed so much life into the story! I can’t wait for book two after that ending!

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Fantastic start to a new series

The narrator for this book does a wonderful job of emerging you into a new world which is well built. The story flows very well and has some good spice with twists and turns that leave you questioning who and what you do and don’t trust. It’s well set up for the next book which I will be waiting for with high anticipation.

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  • Orit Ben josef
  • 18-09-2023

Where is the story

I don't usually leave reviews but this book disappointed me so much...not what I expected from JLA. Whatever story she was try to tell could have been done in 2 chapters, the rest is a bunch of erotica and smut that really had nothing to do with anything. feels like she had some sexy scenes im her head and she wrote something around them but it didn't stick. I'm not going to bother with the sequel.
The narrator just made it worse. nope nope nope.

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  • Agvas
  • 19-09-2023

Fascinating new world from JLA

I’ll start with perhaps the least expected in the review - the Narrator Soneela Nankani. She is a first for me and I listen to a LOT of books. And what a find! Just when you think Stina Nielsen has an imprint in JLA’s high fantasy and no one can come even close, Soneela comes along and knocks my socks off with the beautiful performance. Especially of male voices, especially Thorn’s voice. [sigh] all so beautifully done and I really hope we’ll get to hear more of this talented narrator!

As for the Fall of Ruin and Wrath - what can I say. I went in without even reading the blurb. Clearly JLA is one of the favorite and beloved authors but with any new series you still have a tiny bit of hesitation before you start wondering “how will this go then”, especially before her Blood and Ash / Flesh and Fire series are finished. But I love the strategy of giving us something else to pine over while we all get heartbroken that the other books are coming to an end.

In short - I loved it. Lis is fab and refreshing in her attitude and demeanour after all the virginity we normally get from high fantasy romance. And Thorn is as Machiavellian as JLA can make them. Loved both of these characters, separately as well as together. I even loved side characters like Claude, Grady, Naomi and what JLA did with characters like cousin Hymall. Loved the idea of Lords Bas and Raz, can’t wait to hear more about them. There is lots to love. And there is lots to anticipate.

Cannot - I can’t stress this enough - CANNOT wait for the next book/s.

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  • Fooflea
  • 16-09-2023

Good but ‘samey’

Storyline so far feels like accumulation of other various series by author (which have thoroughly enjoyed), bit disappointed main character same telepathic powers as Poppy and unknown heritage again feels predictable but it’s only book one so guess lot could change? Well read by narrator.

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  • NiA
  • 15-09-2023

I’m not sure…

I don’t know if it’s the plot or the narrator, but I found this book just so so so. I’ve read most of the author’s books and have always enjoyed them, but this one, I don’t know. It’s just so predictable and a little boring. The main character is also a little annoying. She spends so much time in her head and does very little elsewhere. I’d still read the next installation though and I hope JLA gives a little more meat to characters.

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  • Nat
  • 11-12-2023

She’s done it again! Love love love!

Just want you would expect from JLA I love her other book series’s and this one is a classic JLA story with the same feel of her other series blood and ash. It’s got everything you could want spice, war and scary celestials. I can’t wait for the next book I hope there is one I need to know what happens!

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  • Charlene AE
  • 28-11-2023

love it!

captivating and kept my interest which is all you need for a 5 star review

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  • Kindle Customer
  • 04-11-2023

JLA writing keeps getting better

Ahh man I want more of this. It's cruel to end a book this way

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  • Rachel
  • 20-10-2023

Great!

Yes, it’s all the same….enemies to lovers, forbidden love, shudders of release but I bloody love it…give me more and fingers crossed I wake up tomorrow and my husband has morphed into Thor/For/(however you spell it) sexy, ground angle, god thing!

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  • Andy Griffin
  • 17-10-2023

Very hot

if you like a steamy read 📚 this book is for you. The storyline is like others she's used before but differs to keep you interested. I read the next instalments on the back of this one if/when written.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 13-10-2023

Another masterpiece from J L A

Just koved it. The hungover will kill me . Can’t wait for the next one . Each story is unique

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  • Amalie Ørbak
  • 09-10-2023

Amazing narrator!!!
But the story was very underwhelming compared to other books by JLA which is love, and too similar as well.

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