Sweep of the Heart (Dramatized Adaptation)

Innkeeper Chronicles, Book 5

By: Ilona Andrews

Narrated by: full cast, RJ Bayley, Robb Moreira, Cody Roberts, Nora Sofyan, Danny Gavigan, Zeke Alton, Wyn Delano, Karen Novack, Elena Anderson, Terence Aselford, Gail Shalan

From the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a fun and action-packed new adventure in the Innkeeper Chronicles! We invite you to relax, enjoy yourself, and above all, remember the one rule all visitors must obey: the humans must never know.

Life is busier than ever for Innkeeper, Dina DeMille and Sean Evans. But it’s about to get even more chaotic when Sean's werewolf mentor is kidnapped. To find him, they must host an intergalactic spouse-search for one of the most powerful rulers in the Galaxy. Dina is never one to back down from a challenge. That is, if she can manage her temperamental Red Cleaver chef; the consequences of her favorite Galactic ex-tyrant's dark history; the tangled politics of an interstellar nation, and oh, yes, keep the wedding candidates from a dozen alien species from killing each other. Not to mention the Costco lady.

They say love is a battlefield; but Dina and Sean are determined to limit the casualties!

Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music!

Performed by Nora Sofyan, Danny Gavigan, Zeke Alton, Wyn Delano, Karen Novack, Elena Anderson, Terence Aselford, Gail Shalan, RJ Bayley, Robb Moreira, Cody Roberts, Khaya Fraites, Crystal Lee, Marni Penning, Richard Rohan, Gabriel Michael, Tony Nam, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, Chris Davenport, Shravan Amin, Bradley Foster Smith, Tia Shearer, Torian Brackett, Samantha Cooper, Jon Vertullo, Nicole Perez, Michael John Casey, Holly Adams, Peter Holdway, Rob McFadyen, Debi Tinsley, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby, Charlie Albers, Elias Khalil, Alejandro Ruiz, Andrew James Spooner, Aure Nash, Scott McCormick, Nhea Durousseau, Eva Wilhelm, Henry W. Kramer, Morgan Dalla Betta, Helen Day, and Yasmin Tuazon.

©2022 Ilona Andrews (P)2024 Graphic Audio LLC

YES

I enjoyed this graphic audiobook Interesting and intoxicating read. Enjoyed the different characters and the love relationship of Dina Miller.

Another winner

i desperately want to hear more on this series. it's so good. i want crazy about the new voice actor doing Sean's voice, but the new voice actor was adequate. I'm sure part of it is just what i has gotten used to, but the previous voice actor just had more character and range. that being said, the rest of it was acted and narrated amazingly.

this entire series has been some of the best audiobook listening I've ever experienced, and I've listened to a lot of them. get them all, you won't regret it.

An amazing performance of a great story

2/26/24 reread

Again the graphic audio was a wonderful way to experience this world. I really enjoyed the whole spousal search with all the sound effects and different narrators. I highly recommend this series in graphic audio format.
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Series: Innkeeper Chronicles #5
Rating: 4 stars - It was really good

Dina DeMille and Sean Evans life gets very chaotic when Wilmos, Sean’s werewolf mentor, gets kidnapped. But to find him they have to first survive hosting an intergalactic spouse-search for one of the most powerful rulers in the Galaxy.

This was wonderful. From the very beginning, I didn’t want to put this book down, but I also didn’t want it to end. Dina and Sean are hosting a huge group of people, all of which live to kill their enemies. I don’t enjoy spouse searching shows, but Andrews made this whole situation exciting and intense. I think it helped that the aliens who are participating in this spouse-search were all very interesting and deadly. We also get to see the return of the vampires, the Otrokar, and the Merchant Clan.

We finally learn more about Caldenia and why she has to stay at Gertrude Hunt. It was great finally getting to learn about this lady who has been a constant present throughout this book. I was very surprised by what we learned about her. Dina also finally gets some information about her parents' inn and I really can’t wait to see how she deals with that information in the future.

“Sometimes you say things that make me wonder about you.” “No need to wonder. I’m a simple man. I love you and I will protect you. And the inn. Even if I have to murder Caldenia and everyone else to do it.”

My favorite part of this book was seeing Dina and Sean work together to host this event. They have always had a strong connection but in this we really see them work in harmony to create with Gertrude Hunt and protect their residents. I just loved seeing them work together and lean on each other during the hard times. I really want more stories of these two hosting aliens and dealing with difficult cases.

My only complaint was that I wasn’t a fan of the recaps at the beginning of each chapter. I can understand why that was handy when this was a serial and coming out every week but for a novel format, I think it was just useless. I skipped it after the first chapter.

Excellent series

This is a great book & series however, is that it?! The story is still very well written and pulled me in right away. Although the cast of characters is huge in this book I loved it and enjoyed reading / learning about the various characters. I listened to the Graphic Audio book and that was amazing, the full cast of narrators is definitely quite an amazing experience! But... what about her parents? brother? "the darkness?". I don't feel like some of the main themes throughout the series were actually 'resolved'. I do plan to look at their website because it states in the ebook that this series was written in chunks there for readers so maybe there is more that I'm missing. Overall though, I really do love the books!!

Inspiring

It is rare to find an adult series that walks the borders of fantasy, sci-fi, romance, action, mystery, & intrigue without overindulging in any of them, yet this series accomplishes it so naturally, seemingly effortlessly! With such a large task, you'd think the level of cohesion would suffer, so many moving parts ... but you'd be wrong & that is where I am blown away! The imagination required alone is incredible! Innkeeper Level Imagination! Haha It was exciting, captivating, unique in many ways, unpredictable, & even heartfelt. I've become attached to these characters, even shed tears for Dina, our fabulous lead & narrator. I would love to sink deeper into the others characters!

It was such a refreshing listen, I really blasted through it all & I will be picking up more from Ilona Andrews, you have my full attention!

Still the best

I love this series and I absolutely adore the Graphic Audio version. It really just brings the story to life.

A wonderful addition to this great series

I have listened to both the original and the graphic audio version of this book. I preferred the graphic audio adaptation and the actors were absolutely perfect for their roles. I highly recommend this engaging series in graphic audio format.

This is the 5th book in the very strong Innkeeper series. Ilona and Gordon Andrews excel at story-telling, world building and character development. They are particularly good at providing wonderfully diverse supportive characters that are well crafted and add much to the story line.
This story gave us a wonderful glimpse of Dina and Sean settling into their life together and learning to manage the inn as a partnership. Of course, life is never dull for Dina and Sean and in an attempt to rescue a kidnapped friend, they must host a very complicated and risky spousal selection event for The Dominion. Not only are we introduced to some fascinating new characters it is particularly entertaining that some of the wonderful supporting characters are included as well (George, Gaston, Tony, Caldenia, Orro, Marais, etc). We need more Gaston! We also get a fun resolution to the Costco Lady (from Book 1).

We still don't have a resolution to the overarching storyline of Dina's missing parents but this book provides some tantalizing information regarding this mystery in the final chapter. I know some readers are getting frustrated with not having everything resolved into a pretty package but I am totally onboard with the authors not solving the big mystery yet as long as they keep writing these wonderfully crafted and wildly entertaining stories.

Must read/listen too series.

This was amazing like always. Leaving you on the edge of seat at times. Absolutely loved all the characters of the book in the wedding contestants. Please don't let this be the last book! it's and cliffhanger at the end that leaves it open to a possible other book/books.

Paints a Great story in Brilliant Colors

What a plethora of great voice talents! It’s so easy to keep the different Characters straight. This graphic audio series let me enjoy one of my favorite authors’ series All Over Again!

Incredible production!

I love this series and the graphic audio production was incredible! They got all the characters right and the sounds and music added so much to the experience of listening to the story. By far and away my preferred way to listen to Ilona Andrews books (especially since I loathe the versions narrated by Renee Raudman).