The Sinking City

By: Christine Cohen

Narrated by: Christine Cohen

Venice is a carnival of opposites, and Liona Carvatti thinks she understands it all: canal and palace, magician and merchant, plague and pantomime. As a patrician's daughter, Liona enjoys the sparkling life of a noble family—although she would prefer to be tending to her flowers than practicing violin or standing around in a ball gown. But what Liona fails to realize is that Venice is a city of stone in a world of water. And ruling the dark waters are the Seleni—ageless, cold, and calculating.

When she loses everything she relies on, Liona must set a new course that will shake the foundations of Venice itself.

This book is published by Canonball Books. Canonball Books is the children's imprint of Canon Press. At Canonball, we believe stories are soul food, so you can expect excitement, danger, loyalty, virtue, and family in your Canonball books. Feed your kids the right books!

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Sooooooo gooood I loved it 😍😍😍

the story was so interesting and romantic at the same time and I love how lions is brave the hole time and it was magical also love this story and I think who ever is reading this should read the sinking city!!!!!!!

MAGA Ray

We loved MAGA Ray’s character and how he really was a sweet person underneath is brash personality. And especially how brave Leona is!

clever mix of history and fantasy

The idea of monstrous mermen and pompous magicians in Venice is what caught my eye and the story 100% delivered.
Having the author narrate her own story is a mixed bag. Her voice fits the main character perfectly, but her range for different characters is a little limited. Also she stumbles over some pronunciations, mostly foreign words and names adopted into the English language.
But the story of a young girl finding her own fate in Medieval Venice is well worth it.
Highly recommend it.

Liked but not loved

Not as good as the authors first work. Felt like a lot of things fell conveniently or easily in place for the sake of the plot.

Perfect

This story is woven together with thread spun from life. Great work. I enjoyed it at least as much as her first book.

This was so good, I loved it!

I love this book I have listened to it two times and every time I listen to it I like it even more, I also love the author I just love the way she writes her books.

make a second one

this was amazing!!!! you must continue the story, or make another story. maybe even combine both books you wrote.

Best book I have ever listened to!!😍😍

I have read this book before but my best friend had not and she absolutely loved it! The narrators voice Framed Mago Ra’s exactly how imagined it we adored this book so much we even listened to it in the beach!I plan to listen to more work by this author for this audiobook somehow made the story even more loveable!!

I liked that it was quick and kept me wanting to come back to finish listening.

I think it was a good story line, will recommend this to a couple 5th-7th graders. Maybe some 4th graders. I’m 39 and enjoyed the story.

Hendrickson's review

it was super confusing because there's just so many names that are kind of alike so your brain is like oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no