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My Review:Title: Four Shifters and a Stranger
Author: Annette Marie
Series: The Guild Codex: Spellbound #0.25, Guild Codex Universe #3.5
Published by: Indie
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Format: ebook
Pages: 26
Genres: Urban Fantasy
Source: Book Funnel
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My rating:
Blurb:When a bounty hunting job goes wrong, a mysterious aeromage saves Aaron's life...
Delve into the three mages' pasts in this exclusive Guild Codex short story, available as a free download for subscribers of the author's newsletter.
4.5 stars — This was a tasty little short story, a perfect treat! I highly recommend reading it between books 3 and 4, just like I did. I loved that I already knew and loved our mages, and so I was desperate for this little glimpse of how the duo of Aaron and Kai became a trio. It’s making me EVEN MORE DESPERATE to know what in the WORLD Ezra is hiding. I seriously hope we’re getting something in book 4, but I’m kinda thinking we must be. YAY!
My Review:Title: A Damsel and a Demigod
Author: Annette Marie
Series: The Guild Codex: Spellbound #0.5, Guild Codex Universe #3.6
Published by: Tantor Audio
Release Date: October 13, 2020
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Nelson Hobbs
Length: 2 hours and 29 minutes
Genres: Urban Fantasy
Source: Hoopla
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2020 Audiobook Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:Only one thing matters to Kai: getting the job done, and doing it better than anyone else.
But when a beautiful thief crashes his security gig, claiming she's trying to protect the valuable artifact he's guarding, all his careful plans go up in flames. He doesn't believe a word she says - until the item is stolen right out from under them.
Recovering the artifact before the real thief can unleash its ancient magic requires insider knowledge - information the mysterious trespasser possesses. Teaming up with a stranger isn't Kai's idea of smart, but he'll need all the help he can get to take on a notorious rogue and arcane power from the time of the gods.
This novella can be read as part of The Guild Codex: Spellbound series, as an introduction to The Guild Codex World, or as a standalone adventure.
Originally published in the limited-time charity anthology, Love Potion.
3.5 stars — I’m not sure if it was the narrator, or the fact I made the insane decision to start listening to this while doing a puzzle (and maybe my concentration just can’t be split), but I found it a bit harder to get into this one…it just didn’t grab me as much.
Which is not to say that I don’t enjoy Nelson Hobbs as a narrator — he has good voices, good pacing, and he’s consistent. And honestly, he fit with how I imagine Kai. It was just slightly flatter in tone.
I’m not sure I got sucked in by the connection with Izzah either…which is not to say they didn’t have one, but there was a part of me that was always waiting for a shoe to drop or something. And I can’t help but wonder if she’s going to come back in the main stories, or if this was just a one off. Basically I had a hard time investing myself. I just read some other reviews, and it looks like she does make an appearance…so I wonder if I would have been better off reading it after I already met her. Might have enjoyed it more if that makes sense.
The mystery of the Andromeda spell was super fun though, and I enjoyed the way it played out in the end!
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