The Cursed

Coven of Bones, Book 2

De: Harper L. Woods

Narrado por: Ellis Evans, Emilia Bauer

Betrayal.

He was the deception waiting in the night; the truth I never saw coming. After a lifetime of manipulation, I finally learned the truth. I was his puppet—even if I never saw my strings.

Even knowing how deep his betrayal runs, I can’t shake the undeniable connection between Gray and I—the way a single glance from him sets my soul on fire. We are not the same. We’re enemies, poised to battle for the future of the very thing I’d wanted to destroy.

With the Covenant gone, the revenge I thought I wanted is no longer my priority. The witches that remain played no role in my aunt’s death, and the only person standing in the way of righting those wrongs is the very man determined to keep me in his bed.

But the remaining members of the Coven will never forgive me for the role I played in their demise and subjugation, and the worst part of all is that I can’t even blame them for it. I’d been naïve, believing my own delusions of grandeur when destiny clearly had other plans for me—plans that had been set in motion centuries before my birth.

But even that had been a lie, and now it is my duty to do everything in my power to undo it, to protect my Coven from my husband’s hatred—no matter the cost.

©2023 Harper L. Woods (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

Enjoyed thoroughly🖤🌹

Unlike other reviewers, I didn’t walk into this with unreasonable expectations for a spicy fiction fantasy novel.
I found the character development of the main characters to contain their own tantalizing tensions, as well as the little that was given of the supporting cast.
It is clear the author has plans for these characters, and that we can look forward to a glimpse into their version of hell, and a daring rescue is on the horizon that will offer an opportunity to develop the supporting characters more fully with the probably new adventure.
The glimpse at the end of this novel gave just enough enticing details to have me looking forward to that whenever the author makes that announcement.
Magic courses through the book in satisfying helpings, and I appreciate the authors attention to a lead female character who is self possessed, as much as a witch bound to the devil himself can be.
And the Devil himself is as much a feminist as the devil can be, which I appreciated. His gestures are sweet and sincere.
I love the storyline of the tension between heaven and hell, the devil and god, and the goddess.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, if having to struggle through some of the triggers that are apparent and predisclosed at the beginning of the book, and look forward to where a hopeful future book goes.

I wanted more

I enjoyed the book but I felt there was more romance than plot which threw me off. I loved book 1 and wish there was more character development.

Like the story Don’t like the voice acting

The voice acting ruined the story for me. It’s like Patricia Star (sister of Patrick) narrates a spicy story with no intonation or inflection.

2nd Book in a Row with Chapters Missing

I really love the story and the voice acting is good too BUT the book is missing chapter 48 & epilogue, as well as, chapter 47 seems to be totally rewritten for the audiobook verse the book.

Please for your 3rd book make them the same!

People just reading the book and not listening to the audio are missing so much of the story.

it could have been better!

i feel like it was missing something to the story. also i dont feel like willow learned and actually faced the consequences to her own actions which would be part of character development like we see with grey. overall it was ok , i will give it another try next year and i will keep it cause I enjoyed the first book so much but i feel like it was a dull end to willow and grey story. 😢 the narrators were amazing and spice was good !

PRIMAL HEAT

This book brought some heat and did it well. It is easy to get very bored with cookie cutter sex screens. It is equally as bad when the sexual content is bizarrely out of place. This book provides the appropriate mental foreplay with zero awkwardness. As in it provides appropriate characters and settings and then turned the heat up to high with a cohesive flow that nailed it. The story is really good and carries over from book 1 (The Coven) seamlessly. The author fully embraces the nontraditional anti-hero leads. The underlying theme, without giving any spoilers, is to remember the quote "History is written by the victors."
Performance was great even with shifting between two narrator's which I normally am not a fan of. Both narrator's one female and one male did an excellent job. This helped immensely with the sexual content. No weird pauses or pitch changes that distract from the sceen.

Meh.

I had such high hopes for this book after being INLOVE with the first book The Coven. But after awhile I got bored. It was too much and nothing at all happening all at once. I finished it and it was a cute ending but I wouldn’t read this one again

Cld be better performance

Honestly I feel like the performance cld have been better by having the man do the male voices. I just didn’t like how the lady narrated men’s voices

Ok story but the narrator

Book one was interesting and I was excited for book two. The story drags quite a bit in this one and honestly could have been one book, not two. The female narrator makes matters 1,000 times worse. She’s awful at voicing the men’s lines, horribly monotonous and trying to sound ethereal but failing hard.

Enemy to lovers

The story overall was good and I wish there was more to Willow and Grey’s story to read. The one thing that I did not care for was the female actor that voiced other characters. I really wished I could have heard both voices speak their own parts.