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Lightlark

By: Alex Aster
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
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Summary
 #BookTok phenomenon and award-winning author Alex Aster delivers readers a masterfully written, utterly gripping YA fantasy novel

Welcome to the Centennial.

Every 100 years, the island of Lightlark appears to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The invitation is a summons—a call to embrace victory and ruin, baubles and blood. The Centennial offers the six rulers one final chance to break the curses that have plagued their realms for centuries. Each ruler has something to hide. Each realm’s curse is uniquely wicked. To destroy the curses, one ruler must die.

Isla Crown is the young ruler of Wildling—a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with. They are feared and despised, and are counting on Isla to end their suffering by succeeding at the Centennial.

To survive, Isla must lie, cheat, and betray…even as love complicates everything.

Filled with secrets, deception, romance, and twists worthy of the darkest thrillers, Lightlark is a must-read for fans of legendary fantasy writers Marie Lu, Marissa Meyer, and Leigh Bardugo.©2022 Alex Aster (P)2022 Recorded Books, Inc Fantasy Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Romance Romantic Suspense Science Fiction & Fantasy Thrillers & Suspense Fiction Exciting Suspense
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Loved this book! Took me a while to get into with it being in 3rd person but when I got into it, it was great! Recommend !

Loved this book!

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I couldn’t get over how the voice actor couldn’t articulate certain words. Couldn’t, sentence, wouldn’t, for example were consistently pronounced as ‘coutint’, ‘setence’, ‘woutint’.
Strange because similar words or other words some usually struggle to announce correctly were perfect. I’m sorry but it was really frustrating 😂
I doubt it was an accent thing.
Otherwise her voice was pleasant and expressive, she did each character justice.

The story itself was fun, whimsical & unique.

Good story

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Really easy to listen to and differentiate between characters. However there were inconsistencies in the story line

Good narration

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Needed a good prune! Complex world building that felt overly so. Some loose logic threads. Moderately engaging characters but I didn’t care enough about them to read further.

Some twists and turns. Enjoyable

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Wow I have put this off my TBR for too long! The narrators were easy to understand and added colour to the story telling.

This book got me hooked from the beginning and I was kept on my toes the whole time. Grim was ever so mysterious and I loooove it about him— my heart broke for him though. And Isla absolutely stole the show. She was stunning and resourceful, no amount of power defined her character. Oro, our untrusting king, played with my heart at various points of the story. I didn’t expect the twist, but what I do know is I’m getting on to the next book right now!

Craving for more of Isla, Grim, Oro

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