A Game of Love and Betrayal

The Choosing Chronicles, Book 1

By: Elayna R. Gallea

Narrated by: Kale Williams, Meg Sylvan

He requires a wife. She needs to kill him. All's fair in pursuit of love and revenge.

What's a vampire to do when the fae who made her an orphan is searching for a wife? Make him choose her and end his life on their wedding night, of course.

Brynleigh has been carefully planning this for years. Her plan is simple: date Ryker Waterborn, the Fae Representative's son, make him fall in love with her, and kill him after they say, "I do."

Unfortunately, it will not be that easy. She won't be the only one going after Ryker's hand. Far from it. Two dozen men and women are competing in the choosing, each searching for their perfect partner. The catch? It's a blind selection process, and contestants won't see each other until they have made their choice.

Nothing will stand between Brynleigh and her revenge, not even a competition for love.

A Game of Love and Betrayal is the first book in The Choosing Chronicles, a captivating enemies-to-lovers, new adult contemporary high fantasy romance.

©2024 Elayna R. Gallea (P)2024 Podium Audio

Beautiful

Wish it was a duet but man I love this book. I love the modern story with fantasy.

slow burn, wonderful world building, strong FM, cliffhanger

Ok, I was presently surprised by this book. There is a very interesting story line. The narration was good, though some of the extra character voices could have been better. The chemistry obetween
Ryker and Brynliegh wassmoking hot. The male voice was dreamy, deep, rumbly and the female voice was surprising plasing and raspy. This book ends on a huge cliffhanger, so beware if your reading it before book two comes out. I cannot wait to read book two and find out what happened

Amazing storyline, but...

I love love loved the book and the male voice, but the woman seemed to be trying too hard. There's no need to strain your voice in order to speak for a different gender, in my opinion...

Okay performance, not great plot or characters

After 10 hours of listening to the MFC be wishy washy and talk about the same stuff she was conflicted over endlessly, then immediately do the opposite, I was SO bored. I found myself skipping past a lot of her POV. Meanwhile MMC was more enjoyable, but I still found him lacking in personality. Maybe it was the setting. I despise reality tv type love game shows and I didn’t realize that was the setting for this book, almost DNF when I realized that. But I was promised a strong bad a** morally grey MFC so I thought I’d give it a chance and push through. It wouldn’t be the first series that had been like that.

But no. Finished this one and started the second and decided to be done after a handful of chapters. Our supposed assassin vampire bad a** morally grey MFC is just not that. Her character is inconsistent. The MMC is passive and dull at best.

I think it could have been better, even with the setting, had “the choosing” been only like the first third of the book, we got to see the characters interacting with their friends more and get to know them outside of their interactions with each other, and if the MFC had been more strong willed and consistent and… a little more heartless.. the more morally grey one. And if they had been more slow burn.

That all being said, the performance was Okay. I really hated the female narrator’s voice for the men. But I really liked the male narrator.

I hate to leave negative reviews. I’m sure some will love it. But if you’re looking for a strong morally grey MFC and a slow burn, this isn’t the one for you.

Great voice acting

The book is great and the voice acting made this a very nice listen would recommend!

Interesting story

I really liked this story. I loved seeing how she struggled with the task given to her. I love that I have no idea what’s going on. The ending wads mean and I didn’t know the second one wasn’t out yet so that’s a bummer but definitely worth listening to!

I expected more?

the first chapter introducing her was promising ans i was excited for the book but honestly it was very mid. it reads like a boomer trying to write for gen z.

10/10

Wasn’t sure what to expect. Went in with nothing more than the brief overall description. Loved how fast paced it was. Not filled with unnecessary fluff. Became invested in the main character. I thought i could wait for my next credit before listening to the second book, but i was wrong. 100% going to purchase it right now.

Not bad

##booktok recommendation. It was pretty easy to figure the plot out. I really didn't like the third person narration..usually when it is dually narration it just flows better for the narrators to be the characters. It does end on a cliff hanger and that is where I think it got really interesting...so on to book 2..

Great story, problematic name

I loved everything except the main character's name. Every time I heard "Brynleigh", I thought of my cousin, which was extremely problematic at times. Otherwise, what a great story with unexpected twists.