Mandate of Heaven

Beneath the Dragoneye Moons, Book 11

De: Selkie Myth

Narrado por: Andrea Emmes

Duración: 22 h y 56 m

Resumen del Editor

Sentinel Dawn has returned.

As Sentinel, Elaine has no end of tasks. From a shakedown run to find a fellow Earther, to Iona's new kitsune [Squire] Nina, to a whole new set of skills and abilities from [Loremaster], Elaine is busy. Her name is starting to be known on the world stage, whether she likes it or not.

Through all that, Elaine is informed that the Sixth Legion is going to be deployed to the Han Empire, to put their thumb on the scale in the great civil war, with each of the factions claiming the Mandate of Heaven has fallen on their shoulders. From the thousands of men and women of the Sixth, engaged in deadly battle, to a low-level and vulnerable [Squire], Elaine has to shield and protect her allies and prevent them from coming to harm. As an Immortal, she's not supposed to interfere in mortal affairs. If the deadly Wardens catch wind of her, a swift execution is the best she can hope for.

The bigger question looms, her sacred [Oath] demanding a response—When does she heal her enemies?

©2023 Selkie Myth (P)2024 Podium Audio

Great Series!

I'm always left wanting more, but the ending was less than satisfying this time around. A few small details Really didn't have to be left for the next book. Wrong kind of cliff hanger imo. But overall, love the book!

Another great adventure

Can't wait til book 12 comes out and see the next adventure we go on

Love This series

I absolutely love this entire series and hope it continues, I was drawing out the last book as much as possible in wait for this one, I can't wait to see what comes next I love it!

the voice actress is great

The story is great, I actually enjoy it, but, I spend half the book fast forwarding through the constant moral mental arguments the MC repeats over, and over, and over... it gets really tedious when all you think is, my god get over it already.... it's completely unrealistic. But, if you get past that, then the story is actually really good!

Can’t wait!!!

Can’t wait for the next book in the series to come onto Audible really loving this series!!

Story All Over The Place

I love this series. I wouldn’t have spent 11 credits and countless hours listening to it otherwise. I was crushed from the huge time jump and reshuffling of the cast, but it has been growing on me. I don’t understand the brushing past seemingly significant events and people that could create a great catharsis for Elaine and the reader. Last book was the Flora disappointment. Why was that a nothing storyline after the so cleverly placed touchstones throughout the prior books?

This book was the playwright. That episode was insane and infuriating and seems to be a needless diatribe against the state of isekai anime or something. Not an incorrect take, just seemed entirely like a “blooper” when it was built up like a reasonable plot point. I mean she gets there and it’s literally never mentioned that he allegedly wrote this play from Earth. He just starts talking about nukes (which Papillon made sure nobody understood) and has a gross harem. Really?

It seems like the realities and applications of the oaths in this series is inconsistency personified at best, morally ambiguous philosophical handwringing at worst. Having a virtue ethics lesson poleaxed by incongruous utilitarianism in the middle of a war skirmish is not entertaining. Having Iona eviscerate untrained conscripts under the guise of “greater good” makes no sense. Having her try and make a power play by capricious goddesses into a suicidal crusade for righteousness also is dramatic. Iona hating immortals but also somehow loving the divine who are clearly just immortals…?

Also Elaine refusing to do anything interesting or fun because “she has forever” is tedious.

Truly hoping Book Twelve isn’t bogged down with this wonderful narrator performing Auri chirps for 25 minutes about whether or not arson bad and water bad but good.

TLDR; I spent the credit, I enjoyed most of the book. Love Pallas, love Night, wish the humor wasn’t always at the expense of the brilliance of the world building and story. Also, Elaine is not Aristotle, right?

Fun but naive

While I did enjoy the book as always it didnt really hold up to the promise of our MC having to face and question her oath and morals.

No real situation where her morals clashed with common sense or repercussions of her actions. Example? she says if a her general was about to die or 3 soldiers she'd heal the 3 because 3 is more than 1 and she values them all equal. YET common sense states is the general dies thousands will die in the transfer of command alone in the chaos or more if it causes the battle to lose. Yet our MC refuses to consider the results of her actions only the action itself which is quite selfish and childish. Especially because she does consider it when it's her own life. She will thinking term them if the 3 who she can save is worth more then her own when she will heal thousands later. Just not what others will or wont later. Convenient.

Like she even says if she came across a world destroying horror who was dying she would heal it and deal with it killing cities after but refusing to take responsibility for its actions even if she knows what actions it's going to take.

A more simple example? A general orders his troops to kill civilians in a city but before they can a hero attacks and mortally wounds the general to stop the slaughter. Our MC then would heal the general so he can live then knowing he will send his troop out to keep killing. Knowing she cant heal all the city at once but she wont care because all life is sacred and our generals life matters even while ordering such things.


I had hoped our MC would have to face those consequences and while she thinks of the scenarios and what she would do our MC never has to face what will happen if she keeps to such short sighted blind healing. I had hoped one general would order and atrocity then harm new soldier after soldier to keep her locked in place healing while not harming her already healed patients. Or have her heal someone fighting her love then have her valkyrie die right after due to her healing them.

I think that would be a good judge her healing a known killer who gets away and later comes back to kill Julian. Making her face the whole not judging and even healing the worst of evils.

I love this story from the first book 😍

The only thing wrong is that the wait between books seems like a lifetime😞 I have read so many books and stories, I've lost count. So I can say this is one of the top 5 stories in my 50 years of experience.

Annoying oath

I get that she’s oath bound and all but damn way too much time on her inner dialogue about it. It just gets aggravating the amount of time she spends on it even if it’s her thing to be oath bound.

Love the mc and her skill set, but…

We’re on book 11. She’s been oathbound since book 1. I understand that the dilemma around her oath is the premise for the book, but huge sections of inner monologue debating the same things she’s debated in the past 10 books is overkill. We really don’t need to hear her 5 different thought processes going over the morality of her healing every time she chooses to use a spell. I also respect her relationship, but dialogue about wanting to jump each others bones in a bush seem out of place. They’re in love. We got it.
Keep it up selkie, but maybe stick to the story more and her constant questioning of her oath less.