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Narrated by:
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Natalie Naudus
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Molly X. Chang
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By:
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Molly X. Chang
About this listen
She has power over death. He has power over her. When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will they end a war . . . or ignite one?
“A thrilling tale of magic and murder, intrigue and betrayal.”—Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sword Catcher
Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen.
Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal bodies, Ruying shouldn’t have to fear these foreign invaders, but she does. Especially because she wants to keep herself and her family safe.
When Ruying’s Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, he offers her an impossible deal: If she becomes his private assassin and eliminates his political rivals—whose deaths he swears would be for the good of both their worlds and would protect her people from further brutalization—her family will never starve or suffer harm again. But to accept this bargain, she must use the powers she has always feared, powers that will shave years off her own existence.
Can Ruying trust this prince, whose promises of a better world make her heart ache and whose smiles make her pulse beat faster? Are the evils of this agreement really in the service of a much greater good? Or will she betray her entire nation by protecting those she loves the most?
©2024 Molly X. Chang (P)2024 Random House AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
“With hauntingly poetic prose, Molly X. Chang spins a tale at the intersection of science fiction, fantasy, and the very real devastation that colonialism brings down on colonized peoples.”—Xiran Jay Zhao, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Iron Widow
“This book is a thrilling gut punch, both lavishly magical and devastatingly human.”—Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of Strange the Dreamer
“Readers will be on the edge of their seats wondering what’s going to happen next.”—Adalyn Grace, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Belladonna
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- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Xue, a talented young musician, has no past and probably no future. Orphaned at a young age, her kindly poet uncle took her in and arranged for an apprenticeship at one of the most esteemed entertainment houses in the kingdom. She doesn’t remember much from before entering the House of Flowing Water, and when her uncle is suddenly killed in a bandit attack, she is devastated to lose her last connection to a life outside of her indenture contract.
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A BEAUTIFULLY WOVEN TALE
- By Heinisch on 09-16-24
By: Judy I. Lin
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The Scorpion and the Night Blossom
- The Three Realms, Book 1
- By: Amélie Wen Zhao
- Narrated by: Annie Q
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Nine years ago, the war between the Kingdom of Night and the Kingdom of Rivers tore Àn’yīng’s family apart, leaving her mother barely alive and a baby sister to fend for. Now the mortal realm is falling into eternal night, and mó—beautiful, ravenous demons—roam the land, feasting on the flesh of humans and drinking their souls. Àn’yīng is no longer a helpless child, though. Armed with her crescent blades and trained in the ancient art of practitioning, she has decided to enter the Immortality Trials, which are open to any mortal who can survive the journey to the immortal realm.
By: Amélie Wen Zhao
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Threads That Bind
- By: Kika Hatzopoulou
- Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Descendants of the Fates are always born in threes: one to weave, one to draw, and one to cut the threads that connect people to the things they love and to life itself. The Ora sisters are no exception. Io, the youngest, uses her Fate-born abilities as a private investigator in the half-sunken city of Alante. But her latest job leads her to a horrific discovery: somebody is abducting women, maiming their life-threads, and setting the resulting wraiths loose in the city to kill.
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Amazing Story, the Narration!!
- By Thatchels on 08-13-23
By: Kika Hatzopoulou
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The Night Ends with Fire
- By: K. X. Song
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilin’s father refuses to answer the imperial draft. Trapped by his opium addiction, he plans to sell Meilin for her dowry. But when Meilin discovers her husband-to-be is another violent, ill-tempered man, she realizes that nothing will change for her unless she takes matters into her own hands. The very next day, she disguises herself as a boy and enlists in her father’s place.
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Interesting
- By Tristan R on 09-28-24
By: K. X. Song
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Immortal
- A Novel of the Celestial Kingdom
- By: Sue Lynn Tan
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
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As the heir to Tianxia, Liyen knows she must ascend the throne and renew her kingdom’s pledge to serve the immortals who once protected them from a vicious enemy. But when she is poisoned, Liyen’s grandfather steals an enchanted lotus to save her life. Enraged at his betrayal, the immortal queen commands the powerful God of War to attack Tianxia.
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Good
- By Sandy on 04-04-25
By: Sue Lynn Tan
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A Song to Drown Rivers
- A Novel
- By: Ann Liang
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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Xishi’s beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue—convinced that the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi draws the attention of the famous young military advisor, Fanli, he presents her with a rare opportunity: to use her beauty as a weapon. One that could topple the rival neighboring kingdom of Wu, improve the lives of her people, and avenge her sister’s murder. All she has to do is infiltrate the enemy palace as a spy, seduce their immoral king, and weaken them from within.
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Impactful story
- By Survivor T on 10-26-24
By: Ann Liang
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The Starlight Heir
- A Novel
- By: Amalie Howard
- Narrated by: Anais Inara Chase, Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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When the gold-dusted court invitation arrives at Suraya Saab’s forge, she believes it’s a joke. Nobles might seek her skills as a bladesmith—one of few who can imbue her work with precious jadu, the last source of magic in the realm—but she has no qualifications as a potential bride for the crown prince. Still, the invitation is the chance at adventure, and the means to finally visit the capital city her late mother loved. But what awaits her in Kaldari is nothing she could have imagined—and fraught with danger.
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Dazzling High Stakes Romantasy
- By lucypkeenreads on 03-12-25
By: Amalie Howard
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The Knight and the Moth
- By: Rachel Gillig
- Narrated by: Samantha Hydeson
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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From NYT bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes the next big romantasy sensation, a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a young prophetess who is forced on an impossible quest with the one infuriating knight whose future is beyond her sight. Perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout and Leigh Bardugo.
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A Crane Among Wolves
- By: June Hur
- Narrated by: Greg Chun, Michelle H. Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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1506, Joseon. The people suffer under the cruel reign of the tyrant King Yeonsan, powerless to stop him from commandeering their land for his recreational use, banning and burning books, and kidnapping and horrifically abusing women and girls as his personal playthings.
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Historical and invigorating
- By C M on 10-07-24
By: June Hur
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Iron Widow (Book 1)
- By: Xiran Jay Zhao
- Narrated by: Rong Fu
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed.
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A fun yet uneven read.
- By Cody McGrath on 09-28-21
By: Xiran Jay Zhao
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A Dark and Drowning Tide
- A Novel
- By: Allison Saft
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and an even quicker wit, is on an expedition with six eccentric nobles in search of a fabled spring. The magical spring promises untold power, which the king wants to harness in order to secure his reign over the embattled country of Brunnestaad. Lorelei is determined to use this opportunity to prove herself and make her wildest, most impossible dream come true: to become a naturalist, able to travel freely to lands she’s only read about.
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A beautiful gay story
- By Isabel De Leon on 10-06-24
By: Allison Saft
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Water Moon
- A Novel
- By: Samantha Sotto Yambao
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones—those who are lost—will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets. Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike its other customers, for he offers help instead of seeking it.
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A Beautiful Dream
- By daunetullina on 01-23-25
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A Touch of Gold and Madness
- Celestials of Arcadia, Book 1
- By: K.L. DeVore
- Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb, Corvin King
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
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Princess assassin Gray Monroe is ordered by her father to kill the villainous prince responsible for throwing the modern world into a post-apocalyptic society. In a decrepit landscape where two magical species war with one another while a human militia hunts them all, Gray has only one thing on her mind: vengeance. With a single focus on killing the man who murdered her first love, she believes nothing will stop her. That is until she hesitates when she comes face-to-face with her nemesis at long last.
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Good book , annoying MMC voice ☹
- By Anonymous User on 08-08-24
By: K.L. DeVore
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- Tasha Richard
- 05-09-24
Not the ended I wanted
The story overall could’ve been better , the ending definitely wasn’t what needed to be to end the book out the way we deserved. It’s basically a book about a woman falling in love with a colonizer .
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- Anna
- 05-26-24
A great story that opens us to a new world mixed with culture and fantasy
I thought that this was a great story to the open us to the world and people in it, and can not wait for more to come.
Some may not agree, but growing up in a traditional Asian household, women are brought up to be passive to men. This story brings to light the struggles a lot of us find in learning to stand on our own feet while balancing love, honor, and duty.
I see in the comments that there are some that can not relate to the main character, but I can simply because she is just one person trying her best to save her family. This is a world where everyone is against each other in some form or another and betrayal is hard to see until it is too late, so her reaction to everyones choices are realistic to me. You can't hide important information about something and expect others to blindly comply, so her choices are just in the moments.
Every character is fighting for what they believe in, each with their own cause for it being just.
Overall this brought a great story that I enjoyed and am excited to see where everyone's choices leads them to in the end.
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- andrea garcia
- 06-17-24
Nothing happened
The build up was great for nothing to happen in the end. I get a good cliff hanger and all but literally nothing happened. It felt like everything that would have been worth the read was saved for the next book, which if there was a next book already out I’d be reading cause I need to know what happens next.
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- Aspen
- 06-20-24
Intriguing and refreshing
This book was an interesting meld of worlds with characters that are complex and realistic in the actions and emotions they portray. I’m excited to listen to the next one.
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- Noel
- 04-18-24
Temu poppy war
Noooooooo.
This has been my ted talk.
Talking heads
Two scenes of action
The relationship was weird and I didn’t like it. It reminded me of the weird relationship in Faebound
Temu The Poppy War without the war school and falling for an “good” heir.
I understand why she had to do what she did but I wish she was a double agent
The main characters powers are cool. But the entire time I was reading this I was like I get it you’re doing this all for your family but stop saying that out loud. We know you’re doing this for your family.
Narrators saved it tbh.
Morally grey done wrong 🤮 🤢
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- Anonymous User
- 01-02-25
The portrayal of morally gray characters.
The world was interesting but could have been more immersive. The ending was intriguing, I would definitely read a continuation. The pacing is great, especially for this being the authors first novel. Despite many people saying it's a book about a woman falling in love with a colonizer, I'd say it's more about humanity. we all want to love and be loved, to believe someone when they tell us things we need to hear. The protagonist is tough and the story is written well enough that she also feels vulnerable, even with her immense power.
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- Isabella Paul
- 06-18-24
eh
The main character just on a basic storytelling level is not likeable at all. No hate for what the story is trying to do, but it’s hard to get attached to anyone in this tale. Every character feels like a skeleton, with no flesh to grab onto. there is nothing to get invested in - and why, why, why, did we have a 6 month time-skip? The book itself is already not super long, and those 6 months of assassin training would’ve reallllllyyyy helped flesh out Antony, Ruying, and their relationship we are supposed (?) to care about. This book tries so hard to be so many things at once, it ultimately becomes nothing.
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