Ruin

Fire & Blood Series, Book 1

By: Alexa B. James

Narrated by: Chris Chambers, Elizabeth Hart

In a world of perpetual night, vampires rule and humans have no chance of escape.

On the surface, my life must appear one of lavish design. As a courtesan for the vampire royals, extravagant gowns are tailor-made to hug my curves, ensuring I look my best as an ornament decorating a luxurious palace.

What is the cost of all this splendor? My blood, my body . . . and my soul.

After being arrested for war crimes, I volunteered to become a consort to the three kings to allow my family time to escape. But when the malicious leader of the human rebellion demands I betray my new lovers, even I'm surprised to discover my loyalties have shifted.

My body now craves the touch of my vampiric kings, awakening a burning passion within me to protect them from an uprising that could bring them to their knees. Can I find a way to protect all those I love, or will I pay with my life for daring to care for both sides?

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Alexa B. James (P)2019 Tantor

Not greatest story. Terrible male narrator

The story is meh. Not the worst I’ve heard. Not worth returning, but not on the top 20 list. The male narrator is terrible. Before every line, he takes an audible breath and it’s so damn distracting. I also listen with an ear bud so he is essentially breathing right into my ear. It’s creepy. He’s also using a terrible accent and intonation. I want to skip all his sections, but then the story doesn’t mKe sense. He also talks so slowly that I need to put the speed up to 1.5 just to deal with it.

well that was exciting 😯

pumped for book 2... the ending nearly killed me! I was so angry the book ended!

great book sick of not having rest of series

this was an awesome book but I'm sick to f***ing death of listening to 1 book and audible not having the rest of the series!! why wouldn't they do it in order? it's a money racket!!

Spicy

The book isn’t bad and I enjoy the story with all the spice. I had to DNF the book for listening due to the male reader of the story. I couldn’t get past the inhale he takes before each line. Not bad but would rather read.

Waste of time. Meandering and not worth the listen as no other books are available anywhere…and this was from 2019.

A waste of time. Bother very intriguing and it ends with a cliffhanger to NOWHERE! Why bother making and uploading an audiobooks when there isn’t another?

There is plenty of time to write a book of this caliber in a year and another to record it. For some reason the next book is not out there, making any time listening to this a waste. They even got decent narrators and then didn’t follow through. This is only acceptable when the author has died. I consider this series dead.