Drums of War

Ard's Oath, Book 4

By: Bruce Sentar

Narrated by: Christopher Boucher, Jessica Threet

Winter was supposed to be a time for Ard to relax and train; instead, he finds himself repairing a ruined city. The battle at Faylin has made waves, and people are starting to have expectations for Ard and, more importantly, for Gwen. The Elder Trial is set, and Ard heads back into the den of vipers that is the capital.

While his mother prepares to become an Elder and take over House Aldis, Ard is plotting and planning to ensure he doesn't get caught up in Carmilla's machinations this time around.

In the far distance, you can almost hear the drums of war warming up as the frost thaws. While Avente fights over their leadership, Garrish is preparing their invasion.

©2024 Bruce Sentar (P)2024 Bruce Sentar

Another Excrllent Installment.

This is the only author whose books I buy before even considering what they’re about. Obviously, that isn’t a concern with a sequel, but it points out how consistent both the stories and performances are.

Great Series

This series of books is must listen. I cannot wait until book 5 comes out. The author did awesome job and let's not forget the narrators hats you both very good job thank you.

The epilogue

The narration fell right into the epilogue and it really pushed the story into the final climax. Masterpiece again.

Great story, but the narration makes it come alive

It’s a niche genre, and not for everyone, but that doesn’t mean these books are, or should be trashy. This is a story that has real feeling characters in an unreal journey. Yes he’s OP and the whole world is something we don’t expect here, but that’s the point. It’s fantasy. It’s fun.

But there are other good stories and other good storytellers. The narration puts this one over the top. It feels like they understand these characters and the story in a way that they don’t always do. Always a pleasure to see a new Ard’s Oath book drop. I hope this story goes in a nice long journey. Sentar is a 6-book series guy I think but maybe he’ll break his own mold and go longer. I’d read 20 of these

Maribelle is the best character.

Just saying I love how this book went back to bring us more spice. We get so many new girls added. We get some big fights and some grandstanding. Plain girls are just as good. Missy and Maribelle are my favorite pair. I'm loving the series and can't wait to see the super spy. Maribelle is main girl at this point. She gets the most time and has the most spice and even gets one up on Emlyn. Normally don't listen to a book this quick but I've read the book 3 times at this point and follow the Patreon.

This needs to become a movie franchise

This series just keeps getting better and better, with Bruce seemingly hitting a new peak of his writing capabilities with each new installment. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you might even say ‘oh my!’ This has become my favorite of all of his series, and it basically started from the first installment, definitely worth checking out!

That slime keeps escaping

I do hope certain plot lines don’t get dragged out. With the introduction of multiple pantheons this Martin is going to survive just a bit longer…also worried there is some manufactured stupid into Ard. I still enjoyed the listen but I’m keeping an eye on you Bruce.

Another Banger!

It sucked waiting for this to come out and it remains my favorite series. Now I have to suffer till the next one.

Proof that good stories need good characters.

Once again the interplay between characters keeps you wanting to know what's next. I was worried of another OP main character ruining a good series. Thankfully the ending shows that there is a way to keep the MC growing as the stakes get higher.

The king

Love the story and how ard kept messing with the king and then saves his mother ugh so good can’t wait for the next book