The Crimson Queen

By: Alec Hutson

Narrated by: Guy Williams

Long ago the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south the Star Towers fell, swallowed by the sea, while the black glaciers descended upon the northern holdfasts, entombing the cities of Min-Ceruth in ice and sorcery. Then from the ancient empire of Menekar the paladins of Ama came, putting every surviving sorcerer to the sword and cleansing their taint from the land for the radiant glory of their lord.

The pulse of magic slowed, fading like the heartbeat of a dying man.

But after a thousand years it has begun to quicken again.

In a small fishing village a boy with strange powers comes of age....

A young queen rises in the west, fanning the long-smoldering embers of magic into a blaze once more....

Something of great importance is stolen - or freed - from the mysterious Empire of Swords and Flowers....

And the immortals who survived the ancient cataclysms bestir themselves, casting about for why the world is suddenly changing....

©2016 Alec Hutson (P)2017 Alec Hutson

Top ranking enjoyable fantasy

brilliantly narrated by Guy Williams. Recommended for lovers of fantasy all ages, hopefully 16 year old Kaden becomes more gutsy

Wish it was a 3rd or 6th draft instead of a 1st.

There is a LOT of tell and don't show in this book, combined with pages of info dumps, which makes it kinda hard to pay attention at points. It also seems to make it much longer than it needs to be. Still a decent book though and probably will read the next 2 at some point. The narrator is terrible. He will read description of places/things at lightspeed, then slow down the dialogue. I kept having to rewind to hear what was happening.

Awesome narrator

The story is great. But the narrator Is amazing. I recommend listening. it is a great adventure.

Why is keilan even in the story.

The book hops around from perspective to perspective with the goal of weaving some grand epic. It's fine. I don't care about most of the characters. Every female pov is a girl boss that effortlessly defeats any challenge. Like for real, why in a world of 1000 year old sorcery do we care about some street girl who grew up in the streets, and in the same vain how can that same girl even be relevant to the story. If she didn't have magical girl boss powers, miss fate and chance would be an irrelevant side character in the scale of superpowerful magical queens fightinging 1000 year old immortals, and demons from the beyond. But hey she has two cool sounding daggers. getting distracted, back to my main complaint with the book. Is why is Keilan even a character in this book. He does nothing, adds nothing, legitimately just gets dragged from on place to another, and once again never does anything. It feels like the author needed to add the standard young male(farm boy) as a sudo main character. Give someone for the readers who are familiar with these types of books to have their own "main character", but Keilan is so worthless. He never does anything and I mean that. At no point in this book does he ever take an action. It's just him getting dragged from one place to the next. Even the "romance" in this book is him doing nothing. All it is miss girl boss coming up to him and explaining. Hey I know your in to me but your to young. Now I'm going to go hook up with this guy. Like for real why does this character even exist if even his romance is handled by another characters dialog.

If you read the back of the book and where hopping for a book about a young boy growing into his magical powers. This isn't the book for you. If Keilan was replaced with a magical rock. The book would read the same.

Great story

I loved this book. It took a couple of chapters to get familiar with all the characters, but after I Did, I couldn't stop listening. I hope there is a sequel in the works.