The Savage and the Swan

By: Ella Fields

Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio, Ralph Lister

USA Today best-selling author, Ella Fields, delivers a heart-wrenching tale of impossible yet unstoppable love in this all-new standalone enemies to lovers fantasy romance.

The king of wolves was more beast than man, more tyrant than king, and so much more than he seemed.

Raised to avenge his murdered parents, he’d been trained and conditioned until nothing but violence and hatred lined the walls of his dead heart.

For nearly four years, I’d done all I could to help my kingdom as we faced the wolf king’s unconquerable evil — hardly anything at all.

As the only heir to the Gracewood line, I’d been relegated to menial tasks that would keep me and my secrets safe.

A chance to do more than fret behind our castle walls arrived when I breached them after overhearing my parents’ plans for my future. Fleeing, I unknowingly raced into a fate we’d all desperately hoped to avoid.

By the time I saw him coming, it was far too late. For my family. For my kingdom.

For my heart.

Before I could staunch the bleeding, the king had me under his giant paw, and one wrong move after another caused those razor-sharp claws to sink deeper and deeper beneath my bruised skin.

I might have been trapped, naïve, and furious, but I still had a kingdom to save — and a plan.

Yet when we collided, the bloodshed, the fear, his atrocities...all of it dissolved like stardust upon the night sea.

The stars had mapped out our destiny, but it didn’t matter what they or my heart wanted.

I refused to see the enigmatic male, the heartless lost boy with a soul beneath the flesh of a monster.

The savage king who’d destroyed everything I loved would fall — even if my heart fell with him.

Inspired by Hades and Persephone, Rumpelstiltskin, and The Swan Princess, The Savage and the Swan is not connected to any other Ella Fields novel. It’s a full-length standalone romantic fantasy containing mature content.

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Great read

Really enjoyed this story. I liked the fantasy world and description of characters and settings. If you don’t like corny enemy to lover stories then this book is not for you but I happen to like books like that so I really enjoyed it. I will say the the male narrator is not suited for the character, he sounds like an old man when the character is only in his 30s so that was not a good fit.

The male narrator did now work in this role

I liked the story and I think this book would have better if the male narrator were different. The male narrator is good but does not work as a romantic lead.

Almost perfect!):

Story and pacing aren’t bad, but it should have just been narrated by the girl.. The male lead sounds almost exactly like the king troll from the Trolls movie. Not a bad voice, but doesn’t suit this character at all.):

dades voice

the voice of Dade was hard to hear I would pause and read it myself until the voice of opal would return. I dont know why but it was hard to get behind his voice.
overall the audio was really good.

great story but need to retire the male narrator

I very much like the storyline and the characters but I struggled with the male narrator which sounded way too old and his female voice was terrible.