When the Moon Hatched

A Novel

By: Sarah A. Parker

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Fajer Al-Kaisi

Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

THE OVERNIGHT VIRAL SENSATION AND NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The bestselling phenomenon, When the Moon Hatched, is a fast-paced fantasy romance featuring an immersive, vibrant world with mysterious creatures, a unique magic system, and a love that blazes through the ages.

The Creators did not expect their beloved dragons to sail skyward upon their end. To curl into balls just beyond gravity’s grip, littering the sky with tombstones. With moons. They certainly did not expect them to FALL.

As an assassin for the rebellion group Fíur du Ath, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and never get caught. When a rival bounty hunter turns her world upside down, blood spills, hearts break, and Raeve finds herself imprisoned by the Guild of Nobles—a group of powerful fae who turn her into a political statement.

Crushed by the loss of his great love, Kaan Vaegor took the head of a king and donned his melted crown. Now on a tireless quest to quell the never-ebbing ache in his chest, he is lured by a clue into the capitol’s high-security prison where he stumbles upon the imprisoned Raeve....

Echoes of the past race between them.

There’s more to their story than meets the eye, but some truths are too poisonous to swallow.

""A wild ride that thrills as much as it enchants . . . This remarkable book is an instant classic.” — Thea Guanzon, New York Times bestselling author of The Hurricane Wars

“When The Moon Hatched breathes new, beautiful life into the genre, as Sarah A. Parker weaves lyrical prose with undeniable chemistry. I laughed, I cried, I got everything out of this. It’s an absolutely stunning fantasy world that everyone should sink their teeth into.” — Raven Kennedy, internationally bestselling author of The Plated Prisoner series

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2024 Sarah A. Parker (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

Read it!

The author has a beautiful descriptive nature in her writing. I enjoyed this book and will continue the series. The main character is clever and funny. Sarah Parker’s best book this far.

Cool Start But Could Use More Pages

The first 300 pages I flew through. The next 400 were okay. The world building is amazing and atmospheric but the central plot takes so long to unravel. It is done really well. But this could’ve used more pages. I don’t think 700 pages was enough to do this first book justice. Can’t wait to see where this goes but I feel like it was missing more to the ending.

Understanding the hype

4.5⭐️ for each is more accurate, but it was worth rounding up rather than down.

This was a refreshing piece in terms of being a unique story line with lots of twists and turns. some of the recent hypes have felt like let downs but this certainly was not. Once I was into I loved it, but it did take a touch longer to get into than I’m used to. Looking forward to book 2.

Gripping story

Wow I loved this from beginning to end. Great performance and voice acting by the narrators/cast. I had a feeling this book would be a 5 star read. It did not disappoint!

Amazing story but

I would’ve really loved if the narrators would have collaborated. the fact that the girl gave the guy an accent and then when the guy reader read, there was no accent was really annoying and disrupted the story. I thought the girl did a fantastic job though she could’ve breathed a little less into her words and maybe not drug out every pronunciation. I hope that you don’t use the narrator again in the next book. Assuming there is one. I did, however love how unique the world was. I loved the love story. This book was really well written and thoroughly explained in the beginning of the book all the terms to learn in this new world. Seriously fantastic so glad I was able to experience this world. I really hope that the author explorers it more in the future because I need more. But for the love of God, please use a different male narrator It would’ve been a five star read had the narration been better.

This book!

This book is right up there with everything Sarah J Maas! Loved it! So sad I have to wait until fall 2025 for the next book 😩

Soul gripping

Sarah blew my mind with this story of hers let alone the performance on the audio omg! I’m determined to own this book in every version/format I’m in love with it! Thank you so much to everyone for doing a phenomenal job bringing this story to life for me. I thought my soul was played with enough just from reading the book but after listening… holy cow!!

Favorite read this year

This story was a wild exciting ride from start to finish! Sarah A. Parker’s writing is amazing and never disappoints. I was left guessing until the very end. The narration was phenomenal, and really brought the story to life!

Amazing narration

4/5 for story
6/5 for narration
Sarah does a fantastic job jumping in and out of character and using male and female voices.

DNF due to narrator, switched to regular book

I don’t know how people are loving this so much. I had to quit and get the kindle version the narration was so annoying. It like listening to an infomercial with vocal fry and has a weird intonation that just repeats every sentence with an uplift at the end. The story is definitely worth reading in whatever format you can because it’s honestly great.