Demon Daughter

A Penric and Desdemona Novella

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona into conflict—with each other. It will take all of Penric’s wits, his wife Nikys’s wisdom, and the hand of the fifth god’s strangest saint to untangle the threads of their future.

©2024 Lois McMaster Bujold (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing

Skilled writing and narrator

Grover Gardner is one of my favorite narrators. I also love how Lois M.B. is able to convey with each book how mature Pen becomes. Her characters grow.

Authentic Storytelling. Sorcery slice of life.

It’s a good story. Slow pace, but heartwarming and entertaining. The narrator fits the story, and does a decent job of maintaining several different voices.

A joy to listen to

Did not disappoint! My favorite series for a long while now. Can't wait for the next one!

Best Pen story yet!

And that's saying something.
I loved the variety of narrators in this story and how smoothly we move between them

Authentic voices, grand world, beautifully read

Penric is a remarkably talented, thoughtful, focused main character, not unlike one of my all-time favorites, Miles Vorkosigan. This episode in the ongoing story of Penric is set among his family, wholly welcome to this reader. Ota, the young girl he helps, is one of the most authentic child voices I have met in literature. Perfectly narrated by Grover Gardner. Highly recommended.