Nowhere Stars 2

Nowhere Stars Series # 2,

By: Anemone

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly

For most Keepers, slaying harbingers is a choice. For Liadain, it's a dark necessity.

Liadain's power over sickness and corruption has alienated her even from her fellow Keepers. Alone in her new life, she races on legs that have barely ever walked to master her abilities, understand the twisted minds and bizarre magic of Harbingers, and rip the keys to her immortality from their remains while she still can. Her explorations take her down dark and strange paths through the wilderness beyond New Claris, where the world melts away and Harbingers vie to reshape reality in their image.

Delving deeper into magic drives Liadain ever further from humanity. She spares a newborn Harbinger's life, planning to watch it grow, learn all she can of her enemies, and harvest its heart when the time is right. But it has its own plans and its own dreams, as deep and desperate as hers.

Liadain must decide how far she's really willing to go to pursue immortality.

©2024 Anemone (P)2024 Tantor

Love the series still, just a little bit of criticism.

While I loved the story as a whole both in the first and second books, this book has a bit of an issue. While it was great, it was super slow at times, with a lot of scenes that felt like they could've been cut down to leave more room for other or more plot points. While, I can clearly tell that the author was being very hyper-descriptive and eloquently word-y on purpose, I just feel like it could've been toned down a but cuz at some points it went from interesting to kinda just droning on.

Overall, loved the book, and I can't wait for the next one!

Madoka-like in the best ways while also standing out as its own thing

I'm invested and upset that I only have one more book's worth of content on Audible! One of the more unique (positively) web serial turned Audiobooks I've read so far. I love the reality-warping, incomprehensible Harbingers, and in this volume in particular i enjoyed seeing the MC dive deeper into her powers despite the possible (and very probable) implications. I'm looking forward to the next one!

Great plot, characters and worldbuilding

Don't trust anyone who can't sympathise with Aulunla, they have no sense of vision within themselves.

A fantasy book that’s truly original

This is an intriguing world; nothing like the other fantasy books I’ve read. I will continue to follow Liadain’s heartbreaking journey.

meh...

first book was fine, but in this one, it felt like the author just opened a thesaurus and splattered his pages with enough gibberish to drag one big fight out for hours more than it needed to be so he didn't have to push the plot further. felt like I was listening through a massive filler.