Fractured Shadows

By: K.A. Knight, Kendra Moreno

Narrated by: Troy Duran, Brooke Daniels

Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

Shadows save me. Shadows guide me. Shadows fracture me.

Our lands are fractured. They have been split into three since before my birth, but they were not always this way. Once, we prospered, magic filling our lands before it was locked away with them: the monsters.

Now we suffer and starve even as our king grows stronger and richer. Then my sister is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice. Unable to lose the one person I love, I take her place willingly, protecting her the only way I can.

My name is Cora Black, and I’m barely twenty years old when I’m sacrificed to the monsters. If only they knew that I crave the same darkness that lives within their monstrous facades. If only the king knew I am just as much a monster as them.

©2022 K.A. Knight and Kendra Moreno (P)2023 Podium Audio

Awesome narration!

This Novel is very well written and narrated!! I am extremely glad to have purchased this book and found a new author to love!!

Yep, worth it

I was iffy about this book, but I’m glad I took a chance on it. It had enough spice and enough drama. Sometimes with paranormal romances it all spice and nothing else or no spice at all. This book has both. I wish there was a book #2 about her sister or maybe there is and I just don’t know about it. This book is definitely worth a credit though

Read it

My husband picked this book for us to listen to together and i honestly wasn’t sure about it at first. This book is great! Spicy scenes are 10/10 plot is 10/10 and the way the author has the POV’s set up is great! Definitely a good read if you’re into the fantasy/supernatural romance genre!

A Fine Read

When I read a book I can skim over or skip the sex scenes. It is harder to do in a talking book as it jumps only in 30 second intervals. The rest of the book was fine and I enjoyed the distraction while I was driving from Washington to California.

Amazing and well AMAZING BOOK

Story summed up
This story starts out with a world gone bad. The women are used and abused. There are two sisters and one hopes to be married but gets chosen to be sacrificed. The stronger sister steps in and takes her place.
After the king kicks her out of there kingdom to a land full of monsters. She does not give into the grief but fights her way past it and keeps traveling. Running into new creatures and she survives. Some big time monsters notice her and can’t help but get close to see this small fighter.
She makes many deals and gets into many troubles. But she has her eyes set on a goal. The monster she is supposed to fear but does not. She feels lust.

My take on things
This is a well done story line. Like wow. I had this saved in my wish list since it was released and always thought I would try a different book.
Fantastic story with lots of steam but the steamy bits did not take over the story. Which was well done. Cause with how many sexy parts they had. You think it would turn into word porn. Nope. The story takes all your attention and man is it good. I have listened to god knows how many books and this is one of my favs. I could not guess any outcomes but was always surprised. They had your romance built in and you felt part of that relationship. The drama and suspense had you biting your nails. Action fighting parts were great too.
The main characters were many. Even though they had a lot of people to be the main characters. You felt connected to all of them. You got some back story and the present emotions. You knew who was who and what you liked about them. The main female character was strong woman. One of the best I’ve read on. Normally reading over books on these types. They make the woman weak and depend on the man to built them up. But not her. She started out strong and grew even stronger. The men were not weak being with her. All strong characters that supported her and did not think her weak or bully her for being a woman.

I really do love a lot of aspects about this book and I wish other books would do the same but it’s not as common. They eventually make a woman depend on the man. They normally make men ass holes or think they are the main providers. Normally books with this much sexy bits takes away from the romance or storyline. This book is not normal is a great way.

The readers/narrative was top notch great. They brought emotions through the words. They helped to connect the story to the listener. They were able to do different characters voices and not have them blend.
I really wish Troy had some more parts to read. They were both great anyways. But I love Troy’s voice.
If they did a duet, ahhh that would be awesome. But no complaints here. Reading was the best.

I highly suggest if you love books with steam, mystery, drama, fantasy, romance, bad ass storyline, and strong female and male characters. You get this one. Not to forget the great narrators who will bring the story alive.
This is my first book from this author and I really really really hope this awesomeness keeps up. I’m just about to get the second book. So please keep it up.

Thank you to author for the wonderful artwork created. My favorite part was the storyline kept going strong through so many things going on. It’s getting hard to find books like that. I’ve gone through many bummers so this made me happy.
Looking forward to the next one

Loved all of it except one tiny thing

I don’t know if there is a reason the author let Cora’s father live, or let him off the hook so easily. I would have maimed his hands so he could never again knock another woman around and then cut out his tongue so he couldn’t make demands of anyone again either. 😅 either way… on to the next book!

Such a little beastie!

I loved this book! It had such a good storyline and the characters are strong and likable, the world building is excellent too! All around a good listen!

Five Stars!

Great dual narration! Troy Duran and Brooke Daniels were awesome as always! Definitely will recommend if you like dark RH romance!

Love is the strength of our oneness

This is an awesome story, love despair of so many different things with love being the beautiful outcome for all to witness that love does conquer all

Well written but perhaps a bit to rushed.

Overall this is a fantastic book, but in my opinion this could have been slightly more detailed for the first 2/3 as one book. Then in a second book further flesh out the remainder in a secondary novel. Again this is well written and an excellent addition to the why choose monster romance genre but with more detail and slower pacing at the end this could have been two books and them both get 5 stars.