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Never Keep

Sins of the Zodiac, Book 1

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Never Keep

By: Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Narrated by: Bridget Bordeaux, Jake Bordeaux
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From the Amazon.com and Wall Street Journal #1 bestselling authors of the Zodiac Academy series Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti.

The dragons are lost.

The elements are at war. Enlisting isn’t optional.

And I’m falling for a man who wants me dead.

I’m a wielder of hearts and summoner of corruption. Heir to nothing and born to a fool in the wrong damn month.

But I’m also one of only two Fae in this divided land of hellions who might be starting to see through the lies we’ve swallowed for so long.

In the year we turn twenty-one, conscripts from across the warring nations of air, fire, earth and water are sent to Never Keep – the only place in our besieged continent where our magic can be Awakened.

But something is wrong inside Never Keep. Something which might extend far beyond the reaches of this desolate fortress. Within the gothic walls of this frigid castle in the snow, we’re left to hold our own against the brutal Fae from the opposing lands.

The Reapers are merciless. The Royals are lying. The Werewolves run rampant and Vampires roam the wastelands in bloodthirsty covens. But even though death lurks in every shadow of the Keep, it’s the least of my worries.

I’m delving into secrets the stars don’t want me uncovering, making alliances with Fae born to be my enemy, falling for a sinner while promising my heart to a different heathen and somewhere amid it all, I’m supposed to win a war.

I thought the only thing I had to do was survive my magical instruction.

Turns out, fate doesn’t favour the wicked.

***This is an enemies-to-lovers romantasy series set in the same world as Zodiac Academy, but it's a dark and villainous tale of its own. You haven't met tainted souls like these before or enemies that hate each other as deeply as these characters do. Book 1 in the series will leave your heart raw and bloody. You'll be left gasping for breath and aching for more of the twisted Fae and they might just be irredeemable... ***

©2024 Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti (P)2025 Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
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This started off a bit slow I thought at first but it had me in stitches so often… and then the ending… dammit… new book boyfriend - Kai ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

What an ending!

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I really enjoyed the character of Everest. Good start to this new series I'm looking forward to the next instalment.

Great start to new series

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You can tell this book is the first book of a longer series. This book is mainly world building and character introductions with light relationships. It picks up in the last 3 hours and I can’t wait for the next book!

Builder book with major cliff hanger

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just a delicious little slow burn. loved their stories tying together, and some spice that's oh so right!! can't wait for the next book

I need the next book now!

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Incredible plot with some serious twists and turns that leave you with mouth open but be warned it ends in a huge cliff hanger having you begging for the second book.
Fantastic performance and structure between the 2 FMCs
Loved it so much, can't wait for the second book.

AMAZING!

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I cannot wait for the next book, this has to be the best book from the sisters to date. what an end. Amazing job by Bidget and Jake.

wow another amazing book from the twisted sisters.

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Took me a little to get into it, but I loved the 2 main fmc. Both fierce and strong and so interesting in their own ways.
Dark and twisted and painful world I loved the story line and only got better and better. Cannot wait for the next one. This series will be soo good.
Performance was perfect as always from Bridget Bordeaux

Epic

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I’m happy the twisted sisters are back in Solaria! Keen to see where this story goes

I’m interested to see where this goes

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The way the 2 FMC are voiced is overly dramatic and unnatural, one sounds she is snarling every. single. word. And the other is supposed to sound, I don’t know… sensual, I guess, but instead she sounds condescending. Like I say it’s not natural speech - there needs to be variety of intonation and inflection so that the listener gets a sense of the character’s emotions, in relation to the plot. The narration is so distracting that it’s hard to keep up with the storyline - which for the most part, is one long battle scene. DNF, even though I really, really tried.

The narration is terrible!

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It took me a while to get into this story. I felt like there was a lot of back and forth with not really much happening. Considering it's the same world there are a lot of new rules and information that we needed to get through before the 'story' actually begun.
It felt as though they left everything for the last 10% of the book, with a lot of the information and characters we had learnt about pretty much becoming void but the time the story ended.
There are also quite a few mistakes in terms of editing for the audio book; I wish they would spend a little more time hashing out the story and audiobooks rather than rushing to push out as many books as they can.

I wish they would get an editor

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