Four Ruined Realms

The Broken Blades, Book 2

By: Mai Corland

Narrated by: Jaine Ye, Sophie Oda, Greg Chun, Zion Jang, Roger Yeh, Donald Chang

THE KING OF YUSAN MAY BE THE GREATEST LIAR OF THEM ALL.
His sister’s ring is in his sights, and he will do anything to get what he wants. Even manipulating the five blades to steal it …
Bonded by deceit, the blades must rely on their skills to pull off King Joon’s pursuit or risk his legendary wrath.
A foreign rule of law stands between them and Quilimar, the Queen of Khitan.
Now they have one month to steal the powerful Golden Ring of the Dragon Lord. But that impossible task might be easier than trusting one another, even though their lives, their families, and the realms depend on it.
They can all agree on one thing: the king can’t win. But can they beat him at his own game?
Because for the blades, this time it’s not just personal, it’s revenge. Lies may have torn them apart, but now vengeance will bring them together.
Narrated by Jaine Ye, Greg Chun, Sophie Oda, Donald Chang, Roger Yeh, and Zion Jang

©2025 Meredith Ireland (P)2025 Recorded Books

Incredible story. ALMOST Incredible voice acting

the book is incredible and written beautifully. but the voice actor for Tiyung isn't my favorite. his pacing is a little off and pauses in odd places while reading a sentence.

Clever Plotting

The plotting was clever, though I still think I preferred the first book.

Loved most of the narrators. Only exception was Tiyung’s narrator - there were weird random pauses throughout the reading that made his POV chapters seem to drag.

The secrets of life

Amazing read . I am ready for part three. Some parts are drug iut but others keep you on the edge of your seat

Oh my god

Sooo many things happened and so many secrets were revealed! I am surprised by how our team has changed and how the relationships have developed. I never expected Yun to die after all this! I am also surprised by someone’s royalty status but it explains sooo much!!

4.5 ⭐️

This was such a great sequel for Five Broken Blades! The story picked up right after FBB and we dove into action pretty quickly. I absolutely love the writing style for this series of bouncing between the six POVs constantly - there’s never time to get bored of anyone, we get different perspectives of the action and the fallout afterwards, and not knowing whose head you’re going to jump into next makes you want to keep going. My favorite character from FBB reigns in FRR - my girl Sora has been through some shit, but she’s still strong and loving and protective, and I never want anything bad to happen to her. We did get a number of new characters in this book, but it wasn’t overwhelming because the plot always kept moving. There was fun new world building and lore and politics and magic that I can’t wait to see play out in book 3 to close the trilogy.

This is still one of my favorites to listen to on audio because of the full cast for all the POVs. The narrators are all great.

Thanks to Entangled Publishing and NetGalley for the ebook ARC! I purchased the audiobook myself, so I could go back and forth between the two while enjoying the stellar narration. I also participated in the Entangled Insiders Readalong discussion. This is my honest review.