The Witch of Shadowmarsh

The Moonstone Chronicles, Book 1

By: Sara C. Roethle

Narrated by: Mark Rice-Oxley

The Empire rules with an iron fist. The Valeroot elves have barely managed to survive, but at least they’re not Arthali witches like Elmerah. Her people were exiled long ago. Just a child at the time, her only choice was to flee her homeland, or remain among those who’d betrayed their own kind. She was resigned to living out her solitary life in a swamp until pirates kidnap her and throw her in with their other captives, young women destined to be sold into slavery.

With the help of an elven priestess, Elmerah teaches the pirates what happens to men who cross Arthali witches, but she’s too late to avoid docking near the Capital. While her only goal is to run far from the political intrigue taking place within, she finds herself pulled mercilessly into a plot to overthrow the Empire, and to save the elven races from meeting a bloody end.

Elmerah will learn of a dark magical threat, and will have to face the thing she fears most: the duplicitous older sister she left behind, far from their home in Shadowmarsh.

The Witch of Shadowmarsh is the first installment in the Moonstone Chronicles, an Epic Fantasy series suitable for all ages.

©2017 Sara C. Roethle (P)2021 Sara C. Roethle

overall

overall I'm on the fence with this one. I really wanted to like it but took a bit to get into it

Performance average

Performance was average. I don’t know if I would like the story more if it was dramatized.

The Story is enjoyable narrator not so great

The narrator is just hard to listen to. All the characters speak the same, his voice is through his nose.. terrible.

The story is interesting

I had to stop listening and go back and read the book because the narrator was dreadful. It was like listening to a death dirge.

Nothing

It was hard to follow with the narrator, I gave it 4 chapters and then gave up.