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The Queen's Weapons

Black Jewels, Book 11

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The Queen's Weapons

By: Anne Bishop
Narrated by: Gary Littman
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Enter the dark and sensual realms of the Black Jewels, a world where power always has a price, in this sweeping story in the New York Times best-selling fantasy saga.

They are Warlord Princes, men born to serve and protect. They are the Queen's Weapons, men born to destroy the Queen's enemies - no matter what face that enemy wears.

Daemonar Yaslana knows how to be bossy yet supportive - traits he shares with his father, the Demon Prince, and his uncle, the High Lord of Hell. Within his generation of the family, he assumes the role of protector, supporting his sister Titian's artistic efforts and curbing his cousin Jaenelle Saetien's more adventurous ideas. But when a young Eyrien Queen, someone Titian thought was a friend, inflicts an emotional wound, Daemonar's counterattack brings him under the tutelage of Witch, the Queen whose continued existence is known only to a select few.

As Daemonar is confronted by troubling changes within and around the family, he sees warnings that a taint in the Blood might be reappearing. Daemonar, along with his father and uncle, must uncover the source of a familiar evil - and Daemon Sadi, the High Lord of Hell, may be forced into making a terrible choice.

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Critic Reviews

"The latest Black Jewels novel (after The Queen's Bargain) continues to deliver dark fantasy with lush worldbuilding, strong characters, and high-stakes action." (Library Journal)
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Great story and characters. Anything in the Black Jewels series is captivating and worth listening to. I highly recommend these books

Anne Bishop is the Queen of fantasy!

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Anne bishop delivers another great book, that’s almost ruined by the fact that it’s narrated by a guy that sounds like he’s advertising the summers’ next block buster. I don’t know why a female isn’t narrating. I think that would make it much more enjoyable to hear.

Ugh. The narrator.

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After many, many years of reading everything Anne writes over and over again I finally found a book I love more than the original trilogy! I can't wait to see where she takes the boyos next!

Obsessed!

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The narrator is a perfect choice, and the book was great, I hopenthere will be more! 🤩🥰

Great Book, a must to read or listen to!

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I loved it all the continuing struggle and the harmony that flows with the story to its completion

the adventure continues

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this book and the one prior just ruined the whole series. the fun of the series where the message is you carry great power with great responsibility but none the less the strong people are also people who are human and can have fun is completely lost and gone in this book unlike the series...or is only present in a comical half hearted way. in this book the strong people are overwhelmed with their own power. scared and careful always of rules and consequences of breaking them, always walking on eggshells.

janelle Angelina becomes a pariah/parasite instead of the beautiful fun but terrifyingly strong Queen. anyone with her name, is doomed ...anyone who takes her role, like daemons wife is doomed too. she either needed to come back to life or just die already....clean break. High lord's daughter, was such a brave new direction and there was so much promise for a different kind of marriage, not a second rate compromising kind, and so much more potential for their daughter.....and it went nowhere really.

daemon is basically now a lecher looking for creatively cheating on his current wife without it being technically cheating and is a terrible father to boot. so you basically feel disgusted as to how he turns out in the end....yep that character is totally ruined now. the guy is now just raising a new queen even though he insisted he wasn't dissapointed in saetean not being a queen. Satan didn't dump his own daughter to raise janelle angeline.

the daughter is a beautifully portrayed annoying spoilt brat that is painful to read about with hapless parents that really have no clue on how to raise a spirited child and spoils her too much or disciples her too much....talk about extreme in incompetence.

saddest is surreal, whose brain is basically lobotomised and for whatever reason the author just destroys her character. she is now a simpering front of a wife, who stays in a loveless marriage for some misguided sense of duty , and knows she will never be a good enough wife. she wears the Gray but noone really fears her or feels her presence, but they do for karla....because she is a queen. this is the worst part, daemon and Lucifer got the happily ever after, surreal's character , the best character, just got butchered and destroyed to the point you feel nothing for ....not even care enough to hate her like you did in the previous book.

I am mourning the destruction of one of my favourite series. recommend you stop reading after ' high lord's daughter.'

ruined a beautiful series

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Narrator totally ruined the experience.
bad voice aching butchered
Audible was my escape
not any more
I have 3 more books to listen to
not looking forward to them at all
refund and buy the paperback

Great story

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