Starlight and Shadows

A Sapphic Cozy Fantasy Romance

By: Vera Winters

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A scholar’s dream. A pirate’s curse. Only one can be saved.

Illyria’s dream shop is becoming a nightmare. Abandoning her safe but stifling career teaching magic to the elite, the enterprising half-elf sets sail to open her own alchemy store. Illyria yearns to make her shop a bastion of magic for all, but she invokes the wrath of the local crime syndicate and awakens an ancient curse.

Briar knows all about curses. The pirate half-giant’s family has suffered under one for generations. She’s on the hunt for a Celestial Prism, a rare artifact powerful enough to lift her affliction. Yet the infuriating–and alluring–Illyria is after the same Prism, just as Briar’s time is running out.

Briar and Illyria form an uneasy alliance as sinister forces surround them both. But as Illlyria’s grand opening looms, will she save the store of her dreams, or the woman after her own heart?

Starlight and Shadows is the enchanting first standalone book in the Starlight Sanctum cozy fantasy LGBTQ romance series. If you like heartfelt adventures, new beginnings, and an engrossing F/F romance with a touch of heat, then you’ll love Vera Winters’s captivating adventure. Buy Starlight and Shadows to be enchanted today!

At least it was discounted

This book was so boring it’s probably top 3 meh for me. It’s one of the slowest stories to develop into predictable nothing. I kept listening hoping for something but even at 2x the speed I couldn’t wait for it to finish.

Great characters

Love the story line! Overall great only downside was the narration!! Hope to see more from this author

Virtual Voice is killing me!

I am trying so hard to get into this book but I'm going to have to change to reading with my eyes, because this Virtual Voice crap is killing it for me. I need a real person to redo this please! The story is worth investing is a good narrator!

Meh

The virtual voice is terrible. The characters are one dimensional and stereotypical. The story itself is poorly written and feels like it was mostly done by AI.

The story line was pretty good in general

You know, I am all for AI and stuff, but man, the narration was way too bad. It took me more than half the story to finally learn who was who, since the voice was the same for everyone. Also, as it’s not a surprise, there was no emotion in the narration which made listening to the story a little boring. Overall though, the storyline was pretty ok, it could have been better, but well…