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Queen of Fire

Book 3 of Raven's Shadow

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Queen of Fire

By: Anthony Ryan
Narrated by: Steven Brand
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The spectacular conclusion to the New York Times best-selling Raven's Shadow series, which began with the critically acclaimed Blood Song.

Empires will fall. Queen Lyrna has survived the bloody siege of Alltor. Now she must rally her troops and take back the capital from the Volarian invaders. But driving her hated enemy out of the Realm will not satisfy her lust for vengeance - she wants to pursue them across the ocean and burn their empire to ashes. To do so she must place her faith in the Seventh Order: men and women who wield terrible powers born of the Dark itself.

Vaelin Al Sorna would sacrifice his life for his queen - and may yet have to. Only by unmasking the Volarians' mysterious ally can the tide of war be turned. To this end Vaelin must travel deep into the icebound north, in search of a man who cannot die - and he must do it without the aid of his blood song, which has fallen ominously silent....

Queen of Fire is the epic conclusion to the acclaimed Raven's Shadow series by New York Times best-selling author Anthony Ryan.

©2015 Anthony Ryan (P)2015 Penguin Audio Fantasy Fiction Historical Royalty War

Critic Reviews

"An utterly engrossing high-fantasy epic from a major new talent." (Buzzfeed on Blood Song)

"Anthony Ryan is a master storyteller." (Mark Lawrence, author of Prince of Thorns)
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Really enjoyed the first book in this series but by book 3 I had to force myself to keep listening - I wanted to like it but just kept hoping it was nearly finished. It just dragged interminably in places, overwrought battle scenes became repetitive; felt there were too many characters & disparate threads to really care enough about any of them in the end.

Began so well but fizzled

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When you see a series as long a this, you inevitably ask yourself, is it going to become boring? Well, Fear Not, this book series is incredible and continues throughout the whole series to be ever-changing and always interesting. For me, it's been one of the best series I have listened to and I have listened to hundreds of books. The only issue I had with this series is for the sheer number of character stories and the similar names used were at times difficult to keep track of. Otherwise, this gets a highly recommended from me.

Awesome Series

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The ending came to quick and feel Like more information is need regarding certain storey threads. Overall worth a read

Ending was a let down

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Loved it, very enthralling and drew you into each and every characters journey across the battle of the two realms

Gripping to the end

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an excellent conclusion to the ravens shadow tale! Great story! Great characters! Very well written! highly recommend!

fantasy well written

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A masterful plot beautifully presented. My only disappointment being it had to end. Will listen again.

Wonderful. Totally absorbing

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Started strong in the first book with good character development but proceeds to introduce so many new one dimensional characters with the same personality, that I couldn't keep track of them. If I have to listen to one more long, tiresome, drawn out description of a battle...

Started strong

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Fast moving as I have come to expect, however after the first book I found it came to lack a certain lure.

Fast moving

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I was enthralled by this books from the first page couldn’t stop listening to it. I highly recommend it to all who like gore, magic, adventure, mystery and unfulfilled love. I have made the mistake of choosing way too many books that read like twilight or 50 shade of grey (nothing wrong with these two books but after reading the same formula it gets too boring). This book is original. Happy listening.

Best epic story in a very long time

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This third instalment definitely didn't disappoint, except that I wanted it to keep going and going! What a fantastic, epic journey. I love all the characters, the lore, plot, the massive scope that the story encompasses. Brother Frentis (sp?) is definitely my favourite, and his story arc is so intriguing but some things I couldn't understand the 'why' of. I felt the story was a bit drawn out in places, but in a way I'm glad because it made the story longer and I didn't want it to end. One of my new favourite authors, definitely one of my new favourite series! Another thing, please release these in kindle to Australia so we can read along! It's such an intricate story I for one would like to go back and look things up again etc. And I can't figure out how to spell the names just by listening lol.

What a Ride!

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