Dawnbringer

They thought the last time mage was dead. They were wrong.

Taly is back. Finally free of the Queen and out of the loop. But freedom doesn't mean safety.

Tempris has changed while she was gone—and so has she. With enemies closing in from all sides, Taly must navigate a world that keeps rewriting itself beneath her feet.

Skye got her home. That should've been the hard part. But now he's just a boy in love with a girl everyone wants to kill—and keeping her alive might cost him everything.

The Aion Gate is stirring. The island is under siege. And the enemy is circling ever closer.

The war for Tempris is coming. And it's coming for her.

Contains mature themes.

©2025 Stephanie Fisher

Amazing storyline

Elizabeth Evans is once again incredible at bringing these characters to life with her voice acting. Stephanie Fisher has outdone herself with this next book in the Tempris series. It’s easy to lose yourself in the vibrant story she has created with a strong female lead character. You’ll fall in love alongside her with all the wonderful side characters in this universe; each unique and interesting in their respective ways. The action was intense throughout the book as it built into several different challenges and tribulations she must face. The magical world Stephanie has created is riveting with its details and descriptions. Like the two previous books this one leaves the reader craving more and eager to know what happens next.

Amazing Narrator and great storytelling

I personally started this series because I love the narrator (She narrated the Throne of Glass series) and how she becomes the characters so naturally, but I stayed for the story. As the 3rd book in this series it was very engaging and brought tears, outrage on behalf of the characters, and laughter at all the witty jokes and sarcastic remarks. Can’t wait for the next book in the series

Apparently, and unfortunately, takes place in an alternate universe of the Tempris I came to know and love.

While Stephanie Fisher has my sympathy for everything she's gone through in the years between Acolyte and Dawnbringer, I would rather have waited a bit longer than been presented with this disappointing installment It's like she didn't even reaquaint herself with the first two books BEFORE writing the third and gave fan fiction written by a middle schooler (who had no concept of the world-building and language structure of Tempris vs. modern day America, nor between young adult and juvenile mental development and emotional maturity in general) a quick edit simply to increase word count. Prior to this, I believed I could listen to Elizabeth Evans read anything but this book has proven me wrong and I won't be continuing the series.

Boring Story, Amazing Narrator

Came to change my review, now that I’m 50% through.

I loved book 1 and 2, but gods, not even Elizabeth Evans can get me through this book 3. It’s far too long, nothing is happening. It feels like a slice of life book that is ignoring the impending doom attacking the city walls (supposedly daily). There were so many scenes that just had no purpose, and the “knock on the door” every time they start kissing is chalk board gratingly over done in this series. Some characters feel like they aren’t the same. The secrets being kept by the MMC don’t make any sense. There is no negative thing I can imagine that would come from just saying them. Author sort of forced a lot of aspects in and they don’t make sense, or the characters are just meant to be really really dumb.

I know this sounds harsh, but I’m truly disappointed after how excited I was to see book 3 coming on audio since Ive only done this series on audio. Waiting months just for this to be so boring that I’d rather go to sleep in silence than listen to it. 14 hours in and I could explain everything that’s happened to catch someone up in less than 5 minutes.

As of now I’m moving back to The Crowns of Nyaxia series, I’ll listen to this one some day when I don’t have a good option.

Elizabeth Evans is still the GOAT, no knock to her here.