Gemini Queen

A Dark Witch Academy Standalone

De: Laura Navarre

Narrado por: Laura Navarre

I summon the lightning.

I claim my power.

The warlocks of Icarus Academy claim me.

I start my night as a cat burglar in Singapore and I end up queen of the witching world. Too bad this rags-to-riches fairytale's a gig I never applied for and won't accept. My witchcraft is wild and lethal, so I've renounced my power. I'm a fish out of water at Icarus Academy.

But these four sexy warlocks who rule the school just won't take no for an answer.

They want me to claim my power. They want me to summon the lightning. And they want to claim me as their consort.

Because the witching world is dying, and I'm their last chance. But there's a queen killer on the hunt. Unless I figure out how to claim my power before the killer claims my head, there's a global extinction event looming.

With my name written all over it.

Listen for an intense dark witch academy why choose paranormal romance that delivers teacher-student forbidden love, steamy group interactions, possessive males, sexy shifters, first-time M/M, bi awakening, a lightning witch heroine who doesn't have to choose, and enough heat to set your Academy uniform on fire.

©2022 Laura Navarre (P)2023 Laura Navarre

Should have hired a professional narrator!

The premise and story were enough to keep me trying to listen for a while, but it became excruciating. The author decided to narrate the story herself - big mistake! The story had several male characters. In trying to come up with distinctive voices for each, the author opted for bizarre accents which made them sound cartoonish. As with any pain that continues without much variation, I was able to muffle my instinctive cringing to some degree. However, every time the author badly mispronounced a word was a sharp jab. It wore me down to the point I couldn't keep listening.
I understand that most of us speak using a fairly limited vocabulary. Avid readers come across and learn words we may never hear spoken. Writing a story about magical dynasties means using a word such as "scion" (the child of a wealthy or influential family), is entirely reasonable, even if it's a word one has never heard aloud. It only takes a couple of seconds to find an online dictionary with an audio recording to learn how to pronounce unfamiliar words. (Hint the "sci" of scion does not sound like the first part of "skirt". Instead, it is "sigh-un"
The story is engaging enough that I may try to finish the story in print.

A well written Enemies to Lover

I don't often review books but I have to recommend this one.
This book is a reverse harem with enemies to lover/ bully romance. If you don't like reading about polyamorous relationships with MM themes, then this is not a book for you.
This is a great book with well written polyamorous relationships. In the book there is always some sort of mutual respect for each character of interest, which is why I recommend this book. Often in similar books with a bully trope, the male leads take it too far and insult/ degrade/ hurt the female lead. This book doesn't do that.

Witchy Good Fun

Trope: Fated Mates, Enemies to Lovers, Forbidden Romance, Bully
Number in harem: 4
Relationships pairings: MMMMF
Contemporary or PNR: PNR
Type of Burn: Fast
How long until the smut: Chapter 3!
Completed? Maybe…
How many in series: Two
Would I read it again? Yes
Laura Navarre has created a scorcher with Gemini Queen. Zara has spent years running away from her heritage when she is pulled back into a world she has tried very hard to leave behind and not only has to grapple with the new title of Queen in Waiting that is thrust upon her not so willingly, but also picks up four handsome warlocks to call her own. With their newly budding relationships to navigate, and a Queen killer on the loose, Zara and her guys must fight to stay alive long enough for her to figure out if she really wants this gig and all it entails. When your harem contains a hot wolf shifter (who is also your professor), a dreamy virgin (on two counts) who is the head of his class, a scorching Adam Driver lookalike, and the Goblin Kings doppelgänger, how can you stay away? Let’s just throw in a couple of bi-awakenings for good measure and this book has everything you could hope for in a Reverse Harem.

Listening to the audio version was actually my second time with this book as I also read the ebook last year, and I would gladly read it again. Having the added bonus of the author herself as the narrator was quite interesting. Especially since it allows you to be 100% certain on the pronunciation of names and words you might not be familiar with. I love that she made it clear which voice belongs to who and was even able to do Ronin’s British accent, but I would have loved to hear the accents of the Europeans in the harem. Even so, I understand she was a sole narrator and not even the best voice actors out there can do every accent in the world. Major props to Laura for taking on this beast herself!

AMAZING REVERSE HAREM - PURCHASE NOW

I just loved Gemini Queen. Zara, the main character, is such a bad ass but with an amazing heart. The male characters in the book all have amazing personalities and their relationships with Zara makes the book super spicy! Laura Navarre does an amazing job describing everything so you can actually picture the faces of the warlocks, the sex scenes, and the location of the academy. Try this book, if you are into reverse harem, this is it! Can't wait for the remaining books to go on Audible.

narrator ruined it for me

I wanted to like this story it had everything I was looking for but I wish the author didn't narrate her own book...the men's voices especially Neo was terrible kept picturing a scrawny tiny guy with the voice that she used for him instead of the buff man he's suppose to be...please stick with the ebook format...

Great story

I really enjoyed the story even though I hated the fMc through most of the book. The VA is the author and props to her for doing it. (I hated Vasili’s voice but I got over it)((sorry!)) I’m glad the story continues because I can definitely see the storyline going on for at least 3 or 4 books.

easy listen

I'll be honest, the narrator almost did me in. I know it's wicked expensive but this book really needed a cast, what with all the accents they should have had. The story was good, and I hope that. years and several dozen books from now the author comes back to polish this up the way it deserves.
I like the main characters, the very minimal strife between the love interests, the hot 🥵🥵 scenes ⚔️ and aftercare to die for. Overall, I would recommend to a friend!

Very steamy!

Single narrator, multiple point if view. Loved Zara’s voice!!!
Fast paced, steamy, paranormal, reverse harem.
I loved the writing! Great plot. I’m very impressed the author is also a talented voice actor.

Story is great, but…

The story was great! Plenty of spice! But it would have been better with a professional narrator…. Looks to be narrated by the author, and her different character voices are terrible and annoying. I hate to say something bad about it because I really liked the story. But after about 10 chapters, I wanted to switch to a digital copy to read instead of listen…

Horrid narrator!! So VERY bad!!

I'm seriously struggling here. I'm having a very real problem concentrating on the story due to the narrator. I have NEVER heard one that's worse. I normally don't take the time to leave negative reviews. However, if I can save even one person from the pain of listening to this I have to. I get wanting to save money by narrating their own books. But this audiobook should be used as the prime example of why you shouldn't.