Shadow Princess (Part 2 of 2) (Dramatized Adaptation)

Zodiac Academy, Book 4

De: Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

Narrado por: full cast, Gabriel Michael, Daniel Llaca, Shravan Amin, Terence Aselford, Karenna Foley, Susanne Valenti, Khaya Fraites, Jessica Schly, Gregory Linnington, Julian Dailey, Jon Vertullo

The shadows are in my blood.

I can feel them crawling through me, slithering under my skin and taking me hostage. But the darkness within me isn't nearly as bad as the darkness that lives around me.

The four Celestial Heirs will stop at nothing to destroy the lives of me and my sister. But they haven't figured out yet that we're the strongest creatures they've ever known.

And when that secret comes out, we need to be ready to face them as well as any other cruel Fae who rises against us.

It’s us or them. And it damn well won’t be us.

Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music!

Performed by Khaya Fraites, Jessica Schly, Gregory Linnington, Julian Dailey, Jon Vertullo, Ryan Dalusung, Gabriel Michael, Daniel Llaca, Shravan Amin, Terence Aselford, Karenna Foley, Lydia Kraniotis, Nora Achrati, James Konicek, Kelly Baskin, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker, Tyler Hyrchuck, Crystal Lee, Yasmin Tuazon, Jeri J. Marshall, Eric Messner, Colleen Delany, Matthew Bassett, Lise Bruneau, Darcey Lee, Michael John Casey, Megan Dominy, Kaylee Eluvian, Rayner Gabriel, Michael Glenn, Laura C. Harris, Ken Jackson, Emlyn McFarland, Nanette Savard, Kit Swan, and Bradley Foster Smith.

©2020 Caroline Peckham; Susanne Valenti (P)2025 Graphic Audio LLC

Omg!!

This series is everything! Cannot wait for the rest. Graphic audio is the only way to listen

Love this series!

Listening to the Graphic Audio version of this series takes it to another level. The production is amazing, and the voice actors did an excellent job.
This story is crazy and so many twists and turns. I love every second of it! I can't wait for the rest of this series, it's going to be so good!

I’m ready for the rest!!!

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The Shadow Princess GraphicAudio adaptation is everything I needed and more. The emotion, the tension, the absolute devastation—delivered with stunning voice acting, immersive sound design, and musical cues that had me clenching my chest like I was actually in Solaria.

Darius and Tory? Their chemistry is OFF THE CHARTS. Every stolen moment, every heartbreak, every spark of hope—it’s all so real. You feel the weight of their bond, the pull of destiny, and the impossible choices they face.

This cast continues to blow me away. Every performance is layered, raw, and magnetic. You feel every scream, every whisper, every tear.

If you thought you knew heartbreak, Shadow Princess says “hold my drink.” I was not okay and I loved every second of it. I need the rest.

And KHAYA—THE THRONE ROOM SCENE! I WAS SCREAMING!! How lucky are we to have two scenes like this from you. Iykyk 🖤

Give us all the GraphicAudio narrations forever, please.

The authors hate their MCs

This book and series has gone beyond bully romance to barely disguised torture porn with this title. The performance of the voice actors in this is absolutely great but the story is so meh in the 4th book that it makes you genuinely question what the authors were thinking with it. Some spoilers ahead but overall tldr is that this book will make you hate pretty much every major character in the story so far if you didn't already.

Literally at every turn they seem to take the twins and subject them to the worst abuse they can imagine up for seemingly no reason other than to do it. They literally spend most of the book failing to communicate with each other because one of them can't seem to remember the basic information they were given in the very beginning of the book about their order form. She whines on and on about how her sister might get interrogated despite being told they are immune and also just allows herself to be blackmailed and subjected to absolute humiliation nonstop while refusing to tell her sister until her lover literally sexually assaults her sister thinking it is her and suddenly that solves it all?

Seriously if you didn't already completely despise Seth and Darius, Shadow Princess will make sure you absolutely do. Both of them are so completely up their own butts and so completely irredeemable that there is zero chance they should ever be forgiven and then Darius has the gall to beg in the ending because he finally sees some consequences that affect him. It is written like we are supposed to feel bad for him but honestly I feel like in Tori's shoes I'd have already ripped him apart with my bare hands for even a single percent of what he has done to her.

And don't even get me started on Seth because every time they try to make you feel like he feels bad it feels so not genuine because he turns around at every opportunity to literally torture and abuse Darcy to the point that you are left wondering how much longer it is going to be before the authors just have him go ahead and fully force himself on her since it has gotten so gratuitous at this point that it feels like the only thing he hasn't done to her. I mean he already went halfway there in the first two books leading her on to cut her hair off and then forces her in this one to pretend she did have sex with him before forcing her to take a hallucinogen to further demean her. Like the toddler should be in prison but instead the second they kinda turn nice for a day the twins are like "Oh we're besties again let's hang out!" like make that make sense at all.

Genuinely I can handle some MC stupidity for the plot advancement but these girls seem to completely lose all memory of literally being nearly murdered and constantly physically assaulted the second any of the heirs bat their eyes and plays slightly nice. No one would have a snowball fight and hang out with someone who literally drowned you a few months ago and the only reason you lived is because a teacher happened to be there to save you. And their complete inability to ever communicate with anyone is so astounding that even though I'm autistic and terrible at social stuff that I feel like an absolute social master by comparison. Genuinely Darcy is basically a doormat throughout the whole book while Tori spends 85% of her time moping and throwing personal pity parties until she lashes out at whoever talks to her before going right back to crying about how no one wants her around like her outbursts aren't the reason for it.

Then you've got Orion who up until the very ending of the book has constantly been like "Dark magic is dangerous and you have to fight the shadows and don't underestimate them" and blah blah decides to just go ahead and throw himself right into them despite saying it is a bad idea and they might not be able to pull it off without the other two. Not to mention the dozens of neon signs up to this point in a society with future sight and extremely accurate horoscopes that they somehow fail to notice saying that this is a bad idea and not to do it including Orion himself saying not to trust any voices in the shadows. Like for a dude who is portrayed as pretty intelligent and knowledgeable up until that point it sure is convenient that the second there is an any opportunity for him to be stupid that will hurt Darcy the authors take it. Between being completely reckless with them hooking up despite repeatedly saying they need to be more careful and then never being careful at any opportunity to basically being left on a cliffhanger of he may or may not be dead it seems like it is all solely to punish Darcy.

I genuinely think the authors hate the twin characters after reading this book. Like if you told me they were based on people they knew in real life and had written this as a fantasy about inflicting as much pain on them as possible I would absolutely believe that.

SARA!!!! SPOT ON ⬆️⬆️

Everything Sara, the commenter before me is literally on the same wavelength as me. Every-time they have sex or be friendly with one of the “Heirs” makes me gag. They literally tried to kill them (more than once) and they just seem to be like whatever they’re cool today. Let’s be friends... I keep wanting to stop but I want to know how it ends smdh