Listeners will be drawn in and left wanting more by Eileen Stevens’s engrossing narration of Sara Holland’s fantasy, the first of a pair. Jules is a girl from the kingdom of Sempera, where blood is the source of both money and time and the poor people’s only hope for survival is to sell their future years. Jules returns to Everless, the capital, in spite of her dying father’s warning to try to save his life. There she begins to face both forgotten hopes and unimagined dangers. Stevens excels in portraying the characters’ emotions, especially Jules’s. The teen’s longing when speaking to Roan and her worry about her father are especially well done. Listeners will eagerly await the next installment. E.J.F. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
If you’re anything like me, the new royal wedding is pretty much the only news you care about these days. But we have until May 2018 to wait until Prince Harry and Princess Meghan (sorry, I don’t care what the official rules say, she’s a princess!) tie the knot…so here are fifty royal reads to […]
It’s not too late to read more new books before 2019! Let this trio of fantasies cast a spell to keep you turning pages before the clock strikes midnight. Christopher Paolini kicks off a new, Eragon-adjacent tales series, and Sara Holland and Laure Eve conclude their respective duologies, full of magic and mystery.
Summer reading season is nigh, and we’re getting ready with books that take us places: on the road, through the looking glass, away on wild adventures. To help you fill out your hot-weather reading list, Barnes & Noble has partnered with Epic Reads to create the Let’s Get Lost table, a curated reading list celebrating […]
Walk through a book that feels like a ballad, return to the word-drunk world of Weep, discover new tales set in beloved fantasy realms, and dive into retellings that feel completely new. These are the fantasy books we’ll be building cottages in the woods out of this late summer and beyond, to lure in readers […]
It takes a lot of books to make a book, and you can safely bet your favorite fantasy author grew up on a steady diet of other authors’ incredible words and worlds. We asked the writers behind 17 of our most anticipated fantasy books to hit shelves January through June to book chat a fantasy […]