A Whisper Before Dawn

Briarwitch Academy Series, Book 1

By: KC Kingmaker

Narrated by: Meghan Kelly

I don't look for trouble. It finds me: murderous teachers, sexy supernaturals, devious plots.

My name is Dawn Rose. I was the food-scavenger for my group of outcasts in the Fringe - what used to be LA County before the Abnorms and supernaturals turned it into a hellscape. But I never expected to witness a brutal murder-by-magic.

Now I've been whisked off to Briarwitch Academy, the place where magic goes to grow. The faculty think I have an ancient untapped power. Yeah, right. Like I'm going to fit in with drunken gnomes and goth pixies. And then there are the smoldering shifter-dudes. One of them basically stalks me. The other hates me. I want them both.

I'm just trying to survive the bullies and my classes and the magical weirdos who don't think I belong here. But when evil threatens the academy, I have to stop it from reaching back home. And that whole murder thing? I know who did it. And he knows I know. And life's about to get way more complicated....

©2020 KC Kingmaker (P)2021 Tantor

excellent

the only thing that can make this book better is if they had dual narration a male narrator for the male voices and a female narrator for female voices instead of the same narrator for everybody (personal preference)but other then that AMAZING and the narrator does an excellent job of pulling and immersing the reader in

ehh

It feels like a man tried to write from a womens POV. Especially the spicy scenes, they were kind of cringe worthy. It is a good story tho. It's a bit choppy in it's transitioning from one part to another.

The narrator

I liked this story but the narrator is a little annoying so it brought down my overall rating. Plus some of the word choices got to me. Like what 21 year old woman says bosom. But other than that I liked the story.

Interesting story but...

The thing that most frustrates me about this story is the lead character Dawn. She seems to have a personality disorder with being either strong willed one minute then weak and crying the next. She just stands there forever watching people get hurt with these excessive inner thoughts and does nothing. Book 2 better be different and she finds more of a backbone. For someone being so powerful she fights like a weakling as though she doesn't learn or retain anything. She gets bulldozed at every turn. Hard to continue reading a book when you can't stand the main character.

Left unfinished

I really wanted to listen to this series but I could not suffer through the narration. I tried but after several chapters I had to stop female narrators tone was not only annoying but story wasn't depicted accurately based on what characters were saying and how she was narrating it. It frustrated so I quiet.