Fires of Change

The Fire Blossom Saga, Book 2

By: Sarah Lark, Kate Northrop - translator

Narrated by: Anthea Greco

Length: 23 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Sarah Lark, author of The Fire Blossom, continues her epic family saga as a defiant new generation of women comes of age amid social unrest and precarious love in colonial New Zealand.

It’s 1863, nearly twenty years since Ida Lange came to New Zealand to change her life and realize a dream. With her best friend, Cat, she established a thriving sheep farm on the continental plains where their combined families settled - and succeeded. But the idyll of Rata Station could be reaching an end. The fires of change are coming again, and this time it’s Ida’s and Cat’s daughters - Mara, Carol, and Linda - who will get swept up in the ensuing chaos.

The spirited Mara is in the first blush of romantic awakening with a half-Maori boy torn between two heritages. Mara’s love for him is a greater risk than either of them can imagine. Carol, engaged to the son of a local sheep baron, has a prospect that seems safe - yet fate has other plans. And Linda, Carol’s sweet-natured “twin,” who holds the family secret of her heritage close to her heart, can’t imagine a life outside Rata Station. Then a sudden tragedy throws the families into peril and desperation.

As tensions escalate between the warring Maori tribes and English settlers, Mara, Carol, and Linda struggle to overcome increasing hardships for themselves and for each other. Drawing on their strong will, resilience, and unbreakable bond, they’ll do anything to secure their future at Rata Station before it slips away forever.

©2020 by Sarah Lark (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2020 by Kate Northrop.

great book as all the ones from sarah Lark

really enjoyed the story, the characters and the general atmosphere
if you enjoyed sarah lark, you will enjoy this one.

Sara Lark does it again

I loved this book, the authors attention to historical facts really helped to create a wonderfully enriching backdrop to her well developed characters.

The details about New Zealand and its history are very interesting.

I enjoyed most of the character development, the history and the details about the geography. It did not make sense to me that Linda and Carol made such impulsive and poor choices after they lost the farm. The choices seemed contradictory to the characters’ personalities as initially portrayed. Their choices and the consequences seemed so unlikely that I almost stopped listening to the audiobook out of frustration. But I liked the first book in the trilogy enough to stick with it. Plus I wanted to know how Chris and Cat were later found.

Excellent Audiobook!

Usually just listen in the car, but this one had me listening whenever I had a chance. Stayed up till 2am to finish...

Brilliant

A realistic depiction of the hardships endured by all Newzealenders at that particular time in history.

Skips like a scratched CD.

Love the book. However, the audio is terrible. It skips constantly, first word of sentence.

Terrible narrator!

I’m not done listening to the book but want to go ahead and leave a review. I listened to the first book in this series and the narrator was fantastic!! I don’t know why anybody thought it would be a good idea to change the narrator for the second book. This one is absolutely horrible at trying do any kind of accent for Ida and Carl or the tribesmen. There’s also basically no difference between the male and female voices and she doesn’t even pronounce the names the same! In the first book Ida was pronounced ee-da not eye-da. The character she’s calling Jane was pronounced Yayna in the first book. She doesn’t even say stymied correctly!! She says stym-ide!! And neck-lace instead of the normal way to say necklace. The only reason I didn’t return the book is because I had just returned one in another series because the narrator got changed in the second book and it was just as bad! For the love of all that’s good in this world PLEASE stop changing narrators during series!!