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The Warrior Midwife

The Warrior Midwife, Book 1

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The Warrior Midwife

By: E.P. Bali
Narrated by: Austin Rising, Katie Anvil Rich
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"The fae are no joke, girl. Be wise. Be smart. Be cunning if you can…"

What are you supposed to do when your father reveals that he made a binding agreement to marry you off to the Dark Fae Prince across the mountains?

He'd done it to save our kingdom; that was fair. What's not fair is that I have to leave everything I ever knew to marry a monster. Under the cover of night, I escape the palace to use my secret magic and be a midwife to the city's women, and now I have to leave them all behind.

The fae prince is an arrogant jerk and a dirty fighter. The commander of their elite forces is a terrifying enigma. When they arrive to take me away, what happens next is nothing I could have ever dreamed of.

I end up at the fae warrior academy for their males, disguised as a male, and have to share a dorm room with my fae fiancé. There are big powers at play here, and I'm the only person with the power to make a difference.

Could things get any worse? The answer is yes.

She's the Man meets Sarah J. Maas in this slow-burn spicy romantic fantasy.

©2023 E.P. Bali (P)2023 Podium Audio Fantasy Romance Fiction Warrior Royalty
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The story was interesting and unique. However it was let down by the female narrator. The narration was very clunky and as another reviewer has noted, the female narrator stopped at odd times for lengthy periods. I will give the next audiobook a listen but if the narration is the same, I will finish the book on kindle.

Good story

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When I tell you I could not put this book down, I mean I devoured it in less than a day, it was so freaking fantastic!
Aussie author Ektaa Bali comes through with a knock-out in her first NA novel!

Saraya is a princess with a magical gift for healing and midwifery. The book opens on a birth scene and you can just tell the author has a medical background with the level of accuracy here. Saraya helps the women of her kingdom to safely birth their children, despite her stepmother, the Queen, trying to stop her at every turn.
In a devastating turn of events, it transpires that Saraya's father promised her hand to the son of the Dark Fae King in exchange for a peace agreement between the two kingdoms. Saraya worries how she will leave the women of her kingdom to marry an evil, brutish monster, but when the fae retinue arrives, they aren't as she had first thought. Crown Prince Draxian is an arrogant ass, but he doesn't appear to be evil. And the commander of the King's forces, Drakus, comes with a bad reputation, but his actions don't match the rumours which perplexes Saraya. The fae are about to find out they got more than they bargained for with this princess.

But there is more at work than Saraya realises, when she is approached by the spectral form of a Warrior of Temari, an ancient sacred order of women who had all been massacred long ago. In order to become strong enough to fight the evil that plagues her kingdom, Saraya must disguise herself as a fae male and train with them at their mountain academy. She must decide between her duty to her blood oath, and her duty to her people in this fast-paced, kick-ass adventure.

There is so much to love about this story. Saraya and her sister Altara are biracial, curvy young women who are so strong of character, they impressed me so much. Their relationship reminded me of the Sharma sisters on Bridgerton. There is also a great non-binary character.
There is enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, a cute (and useful) animal sidekick, and a twist that had my jaw on the floor!

Fans of FBAA, The Prison Healer, ACOTAR, Mulan and more will love this one!

An amazing start to a new romantasy series!

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This is a great first book in the series. It captured my interest really quickly. I really like the FMC and her back story of being a midwife and her love for her mother and her culture. There are definitely lots of interesting elements to this story. What I will say is there isn’t really much romance in this first book, it’s more of a set up of the world and a hero origin story for the FMC. I didn’t mind that though as I’m hoping the payoff will be worth it and there was a lot of world and character building. There was some tension build up but no actual romantic interactions but I’m excited to see where that goes. Pretty big cliffhanger but at least the series is completed so I’ll go straight to the next one. The only draw back is the narration is a bit clunky. At times there are random pauses for no reason that go a bit too long and make me wonder if my AirPods have died. I swear I had to check so many times if the audio was still connected and it would be mid-sentence some times, like it spots you don’t expect a long silent pause. Overall the I think narrator did a good job, I liked her voice for the main characters, however she sometimes did the side male character voices in quite a high pitched feminine sounding voice which I didn’t understand and at times on some words it almost sounded like she was uncertain of the word as she was pronouncing it. It didn’t happen too much but enough to be noticeable. Overall I still think it’s worth a listen, I didn’t feel the oddities I mentioned were too bad and it didn’t take away my enjoyment.

Entertaining story and badass FMC, narration a little bit clunky

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I really enjoyed the book overall, but it didn’t have enough mystery or hidden elements to keep me fully hooked. It felt like most of the twists were revealed too early, and the cliffhanger wasn’t quite strong enough to pull me straight into book two. The female narrator did a great job with the characters, though at times the narration felt a little disjointed, almost like it had been over-edited. Still a solid listen, just not as gripping as I’d hoped.

Good Story, But Missing Some Spark

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What a unique take on this genre… onto book two after staying up too late listening to this story.

Not what I expected in the best way.

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Honestly, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I always get so excited for authors I find on Tiktok and read their books but always end up a little disappointed but this book was far from it! I loved the details of knowledge about the human body and midwifery, the girls protecting girls and I loved that pure rage that the female lead expresses, it made me feel it too and honestly it was very therapeutic! The only thing I had a bit of criticism on might be (SPOILERS?) when she was in the school. I kinda would’ve liked a bit more time there, really delving into that system… I felt like it was a little too short for me to really enjoy it and to really get to know those other characters she interacted with. I’m sure we’ll probably get to see them eventually but again, I would’ve really liked to connect to them a little more and to have deepened the characterisation of the female lead a TAD bit more during that time she was in the school. Honestly, that was my only iffy bit but the rest I absolutely ADORED! I really recommend this book, it gave me that feeling I had the first time I read a Sarah J Maas book (literally 10 years ago). This got me kicking my feet and giggling type shit when she was kicking all their asses mentally.
ALSO! Can we appreciate that fact that she’s a brown girl!? I’ve never read a book where I could relate to the main character!? I feel seen

Best book I’ve read in a while!

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Pros:
- Interesting characters and abilities

Cons:
- Predictable Or inconsistent plot lines
- Disrupting pauses and pace of audio actors.

Not a series that I would recommend, or read sgain

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The female narrator needs to practice narrating. The constant hesitation in the middle of a sentence is very annoying. It’s like they run out of breath or can only read half a sentence before moving on. It’s a shame for the author because the story may be good but hard to concentrate with the constant pausing. I tried to refund my credit it’s that bad and in the end tried to push through however I did not finish it.

Femal narrator 👎🏼

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