Melanie
Written on Nov 13, 2019
This is the third (and I assume final) book in Eve Langlais’s The Forsaken Chronicles series. I say that I assume it is the final book, because it reads like the last book in a series, but I’ve also read books that continue on after the first story arc ends.
So this series follows Adara as she goes from a woman who doesn’t even know who she is to learning about the existence of vampires and werewolves. She struggles with who and even what she is, because she’s not human. She knows she has been forsaken, cast out of her homeland and even tortured.
I don’t want to go into what happens in this book, because it will spoil everything in earlier books. I also don’t quite know how I feel about the ending. Things didn’t go entirely the way I expected. I’m not even sure if I like where the story went, but I also think it does work the way it was written. It made me feel for some of the characters (some more than others). It also made me dislike some characters more. I know I’m being extremely vague, but again, no spoilers.
I think I’ve said this in every review for this series, if you’re an Eve Langlais fan, this series doesn’t have the strong humor you’d expect from her stories. This is a much darker series, showing that she is more than just a snark writer. I don’t want to discourage anyone from trying this series, I’m extremely glad I listened to it. I just don’t want a fan to pick it up expecting the humor you would expect from her normally. As a fan of humor and dark (and often the two are intertwined), either works for me, but I always know which I’m in the mood for.
Narration:
I think this series is the only series where I’ve listened to Amy Melissa Bentley. I’ve really enjoyed her narration. There isn’t a huge cast to this series, though this book had the largest cast of the three, but she does a good job of different voices for all the characters. I thought the voices fit each character’s personality. I would listen to her again, for sure.
**I'd like to thank the publisher for providing me with a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.