Ruin

Fire & Blood Series, Book 1

By: Alexa B. James

Narrated by: Chris Chambers, Elizabeth Hart

Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

In a world of perpetual night, vampires rule and humans have no chance of escape.

On the surface, my life must appear one of lavish design. As a courtesan for the vampire royals, extravagant gowns are tailor-made to hug my curves, ensuring I look my best as an ornament decorating a luxurious palace.

What is the cost of all this splendor? My blood, my body . . . and my soul.

After being arrested for war crimes, I volunteered to become a consort to the three kings to allow my family time to escape. But when the malicious leader of the human rebellion demands I betray my new lovers, even I'm surprised to discover my loyalties have shifted.

My body now craves the touch of my vampiric kings, awakening a burning passion within me to protect them from an uprising that could bring them to their knees. Can I find a way to protect all those I love, or will I pay with my life for daring to care for both sides?

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Alexa B. James (P)2019 Tantor

hot and steamy

different perspective on vampire human stories, I loved it. plenty of steamy scenes, definitely an amazing job on the reverse harem! book leaves off on a cliffhanger and unfortunately there's not audio book for book 2! 😭. I did check and kindle has it available to I'll be reading the next book. good luck and good reads folks.

Not greatest story. Terrible male narrator

The story is meh. Not the worst I’ve heard. Not worth returning, but not on the top 20 list. The male narrator is terrible. Before every line, he takes an audible breath and it’s so damn distracting. I also listen with an ear bud so he is essentially breathing right into my ear. It’s creepy. He’s also using a terrible accent and intonation. I want to skip all his sections, but then the story doesn’t mKe sense. He also talks so slowly that I need to put the speed up to 1.5 just to deal with it.

well that was exciting 😯

pumped for book 2... the ending nearly killed me! I was so angry the book ended!

great book sick of not having rest of series

this was an awesome book but I'm sick to f***ing death of listening to 1 book and audible not having the rest of the series!! why wouldn't they do it in order? it's a money racket!!

Spicy

The book isn’t bad and I enjoy the story with all the spice. I had to DNF the book for listening due to the male reader of the story. I couldn’t get past the inhale he takes before each line. Not bad but would rather read.

A great fast burn reverse harem!

I loved both of the narrators but even more I loved the story. If your looking for hot vampires, steamy romance and a great ride, than this book is for you.

Well...

I have been struggling with this book. I only have an hour left in it and I just don't want to listen. It was slow going. It just didn't meet my standards.

Waste of time. Meandering and not worth the listen as no other books are available anywhere…and this was from 2019.

A waste of time. Bother very intriguing and it ends with a cliffhanger to NOWHERE! Why bother making and uploading an audiobooks when there isn’t another?

There is plenty of time to write a book of this caliber in a year and another to record it. For some reason the next book is not out there, making any time listening to this a waste. They even got decent narrators and then didn’t follow through. This is only acceptable when the author has died. I consider this series dead.

story was good voice actors were disappointing

overall I think the story was a good read. at some point it did feel a little rushed. the woman voice actor was okay but lacked range when trying to do the male voices. the male voice actor kept breathing into the microphone and just didn't fit the characters personalities at all. I don't understand why the author would have chosen to have a male and female voice actor but have the female read most of the mail lines. a full cast would have set this book over the edge it is still new and not widely known. I am going to give this author another shot hopefully more of their work will become far more talked about

Cliff Hanger smh

Perhaps I just overlooked the info somewhere else but this is the first of an apparent series and the ending is infuriating. Retrospectively, I wouldn’t have read it without confirming that the series was complete.