My Dark Beast

A Hades & Persephone Retelling

By: Olivia Wildenstein

Narrated by: Blair Thatcher, Zachary Johnson

DUET NARRATION WITH A BONUS CHAPTER!

SLEEPING BEAUTY x HADES & PERSEPHONE

Tarian Hadez—thirty-three, real estate mogul, mob lord, most eligible bachelor in New England, god. The god-part is an exaggeration. After all, if true deities existed, then the world would be a magical place, and it's really not. At least, my world isn't.

Calanthe Bloom. That's me. Twenty-four, college graduate drowning in debt, true crime addict, florist by default, single by design. Although not living my best life, I'm enthusiastically pursuing it. Especially, in my dreams, which, since a recent flower-delivery snafu, all feature none other than lethally private Tarian.

Oh, the things he does to me when I sleep.

Wickedly surreal.

Except . . . are they?

Enter a world of gods and monsters where dreams are made of flesh. My Dark Beast is a paranormal romance standalone brimming with spice and intrigue.

Content warning: strong language, sexually explicit scenes, graphic violence, Alzheimer's, alcohol drinking, abduction of an adult, addiction to "magical" drugs (off page), death of a loved one (off page).

©2024 WildStone Publishing (P)2024 WildStone Publishing

Awesome story

Love the voices chosen! They did an awesome job emulating tarian and calamity! Would def listen to both of them again!

COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN!!

This book will have you on the edge of your seat and leave your heart full of love and adoration for the characters! A TRUE DEFINITION OF A “MUST READ”!

I had no idea

I had no idea what I was in for. This was an interesting g book. Something g that I def did not expect. Loved the duet/dual narration which is what I search for most these days!

Not A True Duet, A Bit Too Long, But I Liked This!

A bit of false advertising when saying this is a duet but I guess you could say it's A partial duet? Only Zachary Johnson voiced Tarian and only Blair Thatcher voiced Calanthe but all the other male and female characters were fair game; depending on whose POV the chapter was. Not ideal, but I would take a partial duet any time before duel style. Olivia Wildenstein is new to me and wow...she spun a really good, really detailed unforgettable yarn. Unfortunately, I feel that it was a tad overlong, there were times where the pacing slowed down and seemed to lag a bit so it took away from the momentum of the story. But still, at the end of the day I truly enjoyed this reimagining of Hades and Persephone / Sleeping Beauty.

4 starz - worthy of a repeat listen

Nice

The characters were really well written.
The romance made me blush and kicked my feet like a school girl.
But I did not like the mystery part of it, I got confused a couple of times because of all the names. But yet again, I don’t like mysteries in general so I might just be biased.