Raven Flight

Shadowfell Series, Book 2

De: Juliet Marillier

Narrado por: Henrietta Meire

Neryn has finally found the rebel group at Shadowfell, and now her task is to seek out the elusive Guardians, vital to her training as a Caller.

These four powerful beings have been increasingly at odds with human kind, and Neryn must prove her worth to them. She desperately needs their help to use her gift without compromising herself or the cause of overthrowing the evil King Keldec.

Neryn must journey with the tough and steadfast Tali, who looks on Neryn's love for the double agent Flint as a needless vulnerability. And perhaps it is. What Flint learns from the king will change the battlefield entirely-but in whose favor, no one knows.

©2013 Juliet Marillier (P)2020 Tantor

Interesting Read

This is the second book in the series. The series has certainly dawn me in as the reader.

I very much appreciate the work that narrators put into making a book available to me while I work at non demanding tasks. It doubles the impact of my time as I am completing tasks AND moving through a book.

This being said, however, ( and with respectful thanks to the narrator ), I truly struggled with the her interpretation of Neryn’s character, emotions, and voice. The tenure of the voice which the narrator gives to her makes her to feel of a weak, milk toast sort of character. Neryn is actually a tremendously strong character with deep passion to her feelings. Her narrated voice felt “mousey” or whiney to me. I don’t feel the speaker knew how to convey this “strength AND struggle combined” authentically.

The narration style was also very clipped and jerky, Ie. in her delivery, rather than allowing the reading to flow. This made it difficult for me personally to listen to. I had to get past this in order to listen. All of these elements softened somewhat as the novel went on. Perhaps I adjusted somewhat to the readers style or perhaps she relaxed a bit more and brought her authentic voice.

All in all a very good read. I was gifted a hard copy of the series for my birthday from my daughter and was drawn into the first book so deeply that I let responsibilities suffer. A compliment to the author. Audible helps prevent this for me. Thank you, Audible and thanks again to the narrator. If you read this, I hope my input is helpful and constructive.

A Riveting Story

I literally could not stop listening to this well crafted story. Now, straight to the next in rhe series, "The Caller"

Beautiful, magical, and earthy

I’ve finished the trilogy weeks ago, and I’m still missing these characters. Neryn is a gentle hero, confident is her own ways of contributing to the cause. This is in contrast to some other heroins who are unrealistic or begrudging of their abilities. There are some very dark themes, as in all of Juliette Marillier’s books, but there is always something good that grows from the darkness, and love always prevails. This is a series that leaves the reader deeply satisfied.

Excellent

Great story by great story teller. Well thought out story with heart, soul and eternal learning of love loss sacrifice and friendship.

Possibly the best narrator out there

I love Juliet Marillier, but this narrator adds depth and complexity to the story that you must listen to. 10/10, would recommend to anyone.

Love, fae and rebellion

I’ve been fan of this author since I discovered Daughter of the Forest in 2006. Some of her books can be slow in places. Not this one. Some can be for younger audiences (not this) & some very much for adults. I’m a middle aged woman. I love that the style is rich and lush with beautiful prose. Includes romance that is realistic in development with depth. You can always count on excellent writing, developed characters and strong female leads with diverse back stories and personalities. I can recommend almost all of her books. This series is good. It does have some adult themes. Recommend for older teens, YA and up. This one has the intensity of taking place in a time of rebellion under a cruel despot and features fae characters interacting with humans as all of her stories do. Enjoyable. I had already read this series but purchased audible for my re-read. I REALLY hope they make an audible of third/final book soon.

Great Characters and Plot

This series is a great fantasy series. I like that the main character has weaknesses.

Huge Disappointment

I don't know who wrote this and what happened to Juliet Marillier, but perhaps the author was just in a deep funk while writing. I have enjoyed most of her other works, but this was not the story of lively adventure I had hoped for. Instead the poor characters dragged on and on through drudgery, ruthlessness, unending misery with hardly ever an uplifting line. In these days of fear and anger all around, what I was looking for was a hopeful, uplifting fantasy. Then to add insult to injury, the book just blam, ended. No conclusion, no thoughtful or satisfying closure, it just ended! I was so shocked I couldn't believe it. The whole story was leading towards overthrowing the thrown, but no! We didn't even get the gratification of knowing what happens to the main characters, leaving an empty feeling of disappointment and sadness.