Rune Kingdom

Uncommon World: Northern Isles

By: Alisha Klapheke

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan

J. R. R. Tolkien, Tamora Pierce, and Sarah J. Maas fans are raving over this USA Today best-selling author’s newest fast-paced fantasy teeming with secrets, magic, and betrayal.

A blood sacrifice. A power-hungry mage. A magical bestiary.

When the ruling mage of Snowfallen chooses Bryn’s mother as the next sacrifice, Bryn decides she’s had enough. With her own burgeoning magic, Bryn claims a forbidden grimoire and brings a host of dangerous - and potentially evil - creatures to life.

But will her new power save her mother or turn Bryn into a mage far more vicious than her enemy?

©2018 Alisha Klapheke (P)2018 Alisha Klapheke

This Was Interesting

While I did find the story engaging, I had a hard time understanding which characters were speaking when. I really had to pay super attention so that I could follow along and kept feeling like I was missing things. The story does hold your attention! The characters are fleshed out pretty well and the plot is solid.

good

Rune Kingdom I really enjoyed this book it had an interesting and entertaining story can't wait to check out more books from this author

Fantasy world

A great fantasy! You felt like you were living in the shoes of this world! From war to love! Narrator was good

Question what you always known

This is amazing fantasy novel which if you read sky in the deep will fall right along with the vibes from that series. The Nordic influence is very rich in this story. Bryn is a strong character that questions how things have always been in her world. Why are things the way they are? Characters like this really shape the world they are in and have the tendency to come out stronger at the other end. Since this is a stand alone novel Bryn starts out as young reckless youth but due to a variety of situations she becomes an mature adult. So this story while starting out in the young adult realm does at the end land squarely in adult fantasy.

The lesson i took from this novel is that there is value in questioning and confronting things in society that you see that are not right. By doing so we end corruption and favoritism in our world. We strive to make things better by striving for change. A wonderful novel and i really wish it was not a stand alone and that there was more story.

Good story, so so narration

Overall 3.75. I enjoyed the storyline, and found it to be compelling. The main character is very young and almost annoyingly arrogant, but that seems to be by design. Not entirely predictable, with some nice world building. The narrator was just ok, with a near robotic intonation most of the time, and not a lot of variance between character voices. I think it may have taken away from my overall enjoyment of the book, as a result.

*I received this book free in exchange for my honest review.