Exodus

The Ravenhood, Book 2

By: Kate Stewart

Narrated by: Maxine Mitchell, Joe Arden

Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

Can you live a lie?

It’s a ghost town, this place that haunts me, the one that made me. It’s clear to me that I’ll never outgrow Triple Falls or outlive the time I spent here.

I can still feel them all, my boys of summer. Even when I'd sensed the danger, I gave in. I didn’t heed a single warning. I let my sickness and my love both rule and ruin me. I played my part, eyes wide open, tempting fate until it delivered. There was never going to be an escape.

All of us are to blame for what happened. All of us are serving our own sentences. We were careless and reckless, thinking our youth made us indestructible, exempt from our sins, and it cost us all. I’m done pretending I didn’t leave the largest part of me between these hills and valleys, between the sea of trees that hold my secrets. It’s the reason I’m back. To make peace with my fate. And if I can’t grieve enough to cure myself in my time here, I’ll remain sick. That will be my curse.

But it’s time to confess...to myself more so than any other, that I’d hindered my chances because of the way I was built, and because of the men who built me.

At this point, I just want to make peace with who I am, no matter what ending I get. Because I can no longer live a lie.

The Ravenhood trilogy is a gritty, modern-day take on Robin Hood filled with suspense, thrills, and all the feels.

©2020 Kate Stewart (P)2021 Podium Audio

Buckle up

You’ll get thrown around on the rollercoaster of emotions this book will take you on. Brace yourself for high highs and low lows. You’ll love, lose, laugh, cry, and ache. Other reviews say this book is terrible, but I say it reflects life’s imperfections and I loved it all the more for it.

Wow!

Part two of The Ravenhood trilogy. What I loved most about this book is the narration. It’s duet style and Joe Arden and Maxine Mitchell kill it in this one. Joe’s french accent is fantastic and I just love these two together! I listened to the story pretty quickly so that says something about how good it is.This one has a lot of angst emotion and drew me in. However, one thing that bugged me is that the h had a bit to much inner dialogue that got a little repetitive and depressing towards the end. But speeding those parts helped get it moving along. I’m wondering where the heck book 3 is going to go and can’t wait to start the 3rd book. I do highly recommend these series!

5 stars for Liar, Thieves & Killers

How does one judge a story like this with mere words and designate stars. The grief and torment it generates is immeasurable and as one of the reader so eloquently put it- you can't just read it, you have to survive it. This wreckage of Cecelia Horner and Tobias King!
“Because loving you made me sick and losing you twice has made me terminal.”
I'm not sure what have I left intact, cause my heart is in tatters.
My emotions have been through a winger, my sentiments scattered in tphe sentimental hurricane that Kate has penned This second book in the Ravenhood Duet following in the footsteps of book 1- Flock, is Pure agony in word form. Exposed like a festering wound, raw as the salt poured over it, it hurts oh-so-bad. I cried ALL throughout the book. My tears streamed in uncontrollable rivulets, whenever I felt dessicated and screamed No More Kate!!,
I turned the page and started with fresh downpour. I legit couldn't breathe, suffocating and choking on huge lumps of emotions stuck in my throat, my heart writhing in constant, torturous onslaught of pain
"I’ll always be the girl crying for the moon.”
kate distills the pain of unrequited love and bottles it for us to devour and die. Her merciless writing took me to dark places in my soul, where the sunshine of truths hadn't shone for years. It was a very personal journey for me and I recognized the river of pain that flowed straight from Kate's heart to my own. In that way I feel a kinship to her.
She speaks fluent angst and I read and weep in the same dialect. Cecelia is an addict.
"Meggie fell for a priest. I fell for a prophet. We declared war on their calling and cause, and neither of us won."
Having sang the sweet song of love while pierced in the heart with the sharpest thorn, she's forever on the lookout for the next high, next sharp thorn, to sing her painful melody again!
She is on a journey to find closure after the devastating turn of events in Flock. Stumbling around with just one shoe, half a heart without the two pieces of her missing soul, She's grown older, none the wiser but definitely educated in dejection and rejection .
betrayals snipping at her heels, she goes back to ground zero - Triple Falls, looking for Closure
Tobias is a man on a mission. He wants to control and monitor the world into a better tomorrow, but in his quest to conquer the world, he loses to his own basic instinct to love.
Their coupling is detonation and explosion, anger and violence and both incur heavy battle scars
“I loved the fiend I met, the thief that stole me, and the king who claimed me, but I refuse to love the coward. I hate the coward.”
I can't go into details but suffice to say, Kate kills you at every step. Heals your wounds and then stabs with her plot twists again. When all seems to fall into a comfortable pattern, halfway through she drops the device of atomic proportions. After that the story is in apocalyptic somber mood. And the end is like what happened in Hiroshima!! Boom !!!!
“We don’t get a happy ending, Cecelia. We just get an ending.”
I must be afflicted with same sickness as Cecelia because, after the severe punches to the heart, I kept going back for more. Unparalleled writing, unbelievable story and unprecedented ugly cryfest is guaranteed in this Duet.
Read and weep, hurt and howl, devour and die...then come thank me!!

EVER READ A BOOK WHERE YOU HAD....

To constantly STOP and garther your self beforw going back to it? well this is IT. Youre in for a heck of a ride my friend!

Awesome Story & Narration

I loved this story so much! I know it’s said a lot how audio brings books to life, but I think a huge part of that is how the narrator’s portray each character and for me having this story recorded in duet narration with Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell it was absolutely incredible! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Best of 2021

Flock (Book 1 of The Ravenhood Trilogy) was intense and took me by the throat, constantly threatening to suffocate me with my emotions.
While it doesn't look like it at the start from Exodus, it goes a step further. This story completely shattered my heart. I sobbed uncontrollably for 50% of the story, and only at the end, my heart started to heal.

When I began reading, it took some time to adjust to the difference in story and writing style from the first book, but I can only conclude that both are outstanding.

I admire Kate Stewart for writing this story. It must have taken a long time to plot this complicated storyline and give each character the space to go through so much growth. But also, emotionally, writing this can't have been easy on her.  

This duet shows the journey of several people and what happened to them for them to become who they are in the end.
You definitely have to listen to Flock before you listen to Exodus and see the whole picture of both books.
While reading, be okay when some things don't make sense for a while, I promise, in the end, everything will be all tied up.

What I loved about the book is that it had a fast pace, the passion mixed with the mystery.  When I thought I knew it all, new secrets and mysteries would pop up. Dark/mystery romance isn't my go to genre, but I loved this book. It kept me engaged while reading but also afterward, I kept thinking back. I believe that is one of the biggest compliments I can give the author.

Exodus also is narrated by Maxine Mitchell and Joe Arden. As always, they are magnificent together. Joe Arden takes the role of multiple characters. I'm speechless about how each character has their own voice and how consistent he is with their voice. He is so good at bringing each character to life.  Joe Arden's french accent HOT AF and the way he says "Cecelia" makes me want to change my name to it.
Maxine Mitchell did an outstanding performance of Cecelia. She poured all the love and pain this woman felt into her voice, she made me feel it all.
Once again, this duo left me speechless. While listening, you can feel their love for their job and the story. They don't play their part, they become their character, and I think that is what makes these two narrators outstanding.

THIS STORY IS KILLING ME… AND I CANT EVEN BE MAD ABOUT IT

First off, Joe and Maxine are simply amazing as always. Just brilliant in every way in my opinion. Second, this is the second part of three and I am waiting for the third part to come out in audio because I trust these narrators to deliver the rest of this story to me so that my ears hear it from them first. Because I adore them and the way they have made this story their own. Third, Kate Stewart has killed my heart before and she has done it again this time. I have gone through so many emotions and I am seriously still feeling the after effects. This story has so much heartbreak and passion and deceit and betrayal and misunderstandings of Shakespearean proportions. It’s beautiful and tragic and all consuming. Get your tissues ready cause you will be feeling some things. This is a story full of depth.

wow!

I read the reviews on the series before reading, and just wow. Both books were suspenseful, heart wrenching, sexy af, and performed marvelously. great job all around.

Wrecked!

I don’t think I’ve cried this much listening to a book before! I’m wrecked. Completely destroyed. And confused and mad as crap. But I’m invested now and too involved to stop

Gut wrenching perfection

Exodus, Book 2 of The Ravenhood Trilogy... it is darker, more emotional, will make you sad and mad af, you'll also laugh and ugly cry. But its all worth it. In this book you'll meet The Frenchman, Tobias, who in the beginning you will HATE! But he'll grow on you, trust me. There will be ups and downs, more downs than ups, but this book is so well written and the story is such a beautiful one. Joe and Maxine's narration is absolutely GOLDEN!! Ughhh... Joe's French *chef's kiss*, absolute panty dropper. Why are you still reading these reviews spend the credit already!!