Tales of the Celestial Kingdom

Celestial Kingdom, Book 3

By: Sue Lynn Tan

Narrated by: Ewan Chung, Natalie Naudus

Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

Return to Sue Lynn Tan’s highly acclaimed, bestselling Celestial Kingdom fantasy romance duology with this new compilation of stories from before, during, and after the events in Daughter of the Moon Goddess and Heart of the Sun Warrior.

Journey once more to the Immortal Realm, a world of gods, magic, and legendary creatures—and embark upon new adventures of valor, danger, and love.

Tales from the Celestial Kingdom collects nine spellbinding stories—two previously published, seven original, including the epilogue to the duology—set in the enchanting world of Sue Lynn Tan’s stunning debut. Filled with magic and mythology, friendship and love, these stories intertwine through the past, present, and future of the two novels, told from the perspectives of multiple characters, including Chang’e, Shuxiao, Liwei, and Wenzhi.

These wondrous tales make the perfect complement to Sue Lynn Tan’s breathtaking series.

©2024 Sue Lynn Tan (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

Incandescent storytelling

I love everything this author has written - magical, epic adventures, stunning character development, and incredibly impressive world building

Tales of the celestial kingdom

Beautiful story of love, forgiveness and commitment . The writer brought back some sections from the past story to complete the connection . I recommended this book

What’s up with the guy who doesn’t want to be here?

I was enchanted by the first 2 books. This is a good side story, and I appreciate the author sharing these subsequent events. Somehow the female narrator is an engaging performance, while the male narration is taking away from the story ?

I am hesitant to leave this review without more information about that narrator, but it’s as though he is reading at me without comprehension of the character. It is not a performance it is a high school senior forced to read to a child or elderly relative. I am often skeptical of reviews that are critical of the narration. I have many times purchased the book in-spite of the review, I have over 1,000 books in my library, I am an avid audible listener. So especially if it’s a book in a series I’m pretty much finishing that series. Again I am a huge supporter of audio books,

In Celestial Kingdom- I would just start enjoying the story & then a guy who would rather be doing anything else than reading this story would interfere. Don’t worry buddy we wish you were surfing instead of reading monotone, without inflection-to your 90 year old aunt in a smelly old folks home for 13 hours as well.

I hope this isn’t the end and we can finish with not this.

Great stories!

Loved how the book closed any loose ends of the series! Wish it was longer!

I

Learned how to pronounce some of the names that I didn’t know how to pronounce.

Filling in the blanks

Thank you Sue Lynn Tan for the amazing duology! The celestial kingdom was a great relief to the ending of an amazing fantasy of immortal and mortal life. I can not wait for what the future holds for additional books by her!

Love the stories and the female narrator/performer

It was wonderful to hear the prequels and especially the epilogue. The female narrator is wonderful and dynamic, truly performing the stories, keeping my attention and excellent differentiation between characters. Unfortunately the male narrator is much less talented and reads in a near monotone with minimal difference between male characters and bad voices for females. It was difficult to listen to his sections. I would have preferred to hear the whole book performed by the more skilled performer, who did a wonderful job with the novels.

Love it!

A few great stories ! Im addicted! Please consider making more books to follow the characters .

Great ending to those wanting a little more!

Loved the story telling from the different characters point of view. It gave insight and answering any questions one may have regarding the moon goddess story.

Why?

I wish Natalie Nudus had read the entire book as she did the first two books. I understand why they made the change but she was as much a part of the series for me as Liwei, Wenzhi, and Xingyin!