The Shadow Ryana

The Shadow Sisters Series, Book 1

De: C. R. Daems

Narrado por: Gabrielle de Cuir

Ryana, a worthless girl-child, is sold to a mysterious woman who takes her to the home of the Shadow Sisters who are prized for their abilities as spies and assassins. She survives years of training in spite of being unconventional: adopting poisonous bats as familiars - something no one else would dare to do; choosing the blow dart as her weapon of choice - a weapon the Sisters don't teach; and relying on intuition rather than logic.

As she completes her training, the Shadow Sisters are under attack. The senior Sister selects Ryana to find out who is killing Sisters and why - because her intuitive approach has proved effective, even though her youth and inexperience makes it unlikely she will survive.

As she travels through the kingdom as a member of a gypsy clan, she finds the only way she can protect the Sisters and hope to discover the underlying plot is through ever more violence and killing. As she proceeds through the provinces, her secret enemies come to call her the Sister of Death and become desperate to find and kill her. But in her desperate fight to protect the Sisterhood and the kingdom, Ryana fears that she has destroyed herself and the only life she ever wanted.

©2012 C. R. Daems (P)2018 Skyboat Media

Wow very good!

Very well written should have ended however with 20m 54 sec left it went downhill very fast after that. That's where I pretend the book ended lol.

great story

This is a great story, even the reading is good. I will get the next book.

Sooo Very Good!!!

Narration-Good
Story Line- Good
Character Development-Good

Conclusion- if you don't listen to this book, you are missing out.

narrator great

I really liked this narrator. Her voice had great inflection and sound levels. very easy to listen

Kept me coming back for more

Very enjoyable and entertaining. The story was fun and Gabrielle did a great job narrating. Very pleased.

Fantastic! Don't hesitate - this one is a great read!

It's rare to find a great story by a talented author read by a skilled narrator when just looking through the plus catalogue for something tempting. I tend toward other types of books, but I love a good spy novel and solid world building - this has both with so many fun subplots along the way. Read it! Or even better, listen as Gabrielle brings C.R.'s story to life in her brilliant way.

love it

This is a book I keep coming back to. I don't know how many times I've listened to it!

Great Story

I really loved the whole idea and story. It kept me intrigued and the action great.

Good book!

Easy to follow, parts of the book were hard to put down. Narrator did an awesome job.

This performance is brilliant.

I loved the way the emotions of the protagonist came to life in the performance of this story. The voice actor really has a talent for this, I really look forward to hearing more work from her. The story was excellent. A great journey without gratuitous sex or violence. A gold standard for sure.