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Gallant

By: V. E. Schwab
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
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From the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and A Darker Shade of Magic comes a stand-alone novel where The Secret Garden meets Stardust.

Sixteen-year-old Olivia Prior is missing three things: a mother, a father and a voice. Her mother vanished all at once, her father by degrees and her voice was a thing she never had to start with.

She grew up at Merilance School for Girls. Now, nearing the end of her time there, Olivia receives a letter from an uncle she’s never met, her father’s older brother, summoning her to his estate, a place called Gallant. But when she arrives, she discovers that the letter she received was several years old. Her uncle is dead. The estate is empty save for the servants. Olivia is permitted to remain, but must follow two rules: don’t go out after dusk and always stay on the right side of a wall that runs along the estate’s western edge. Beyond it is another realm, ancient and magical, which calls to Olivia through her blood.

©2022 Victoria Schwab (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Dark Fantasy Fantasy Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Fiction Paranormal Exciting Heartfelt Scary

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Critic reviews

"A haunting and beautifully tilled garden of darkness, Gallant unearths the shadows - webs of family history, the price of deadly bargains, and the secrets we guard - a triumphant tale that can’t be missed." (Dhonielle Clayton, best-selling author)
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Love how the author writes. The story gripped me up to half way but was slightly disappointed by the rest. I much preferred 'The invisiable life of Addie LaRue' by the same author.

Good enough to finish

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It was a good book but it didn’t have the WOW factor that I was looking for. The story felt original and i liked the world building. Would be interested to read something else for the author.

Good but not great?

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I love the way this was written and narrated. And, although I didn’t love the ending, it’s a twist that makes it stand out from other books with predictable conclusions and is done well

Great narration and story

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Loved it. Narration was excellent. Not my usual type of story at all but kept me immersed. Will seek out more from Schweb.

Loved it, dark & a bit scary !

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If you liked the Night Circus, or House of Sorrowing Stars then listen to this!
Olivia is a young girl who cant speak, brought up in an orphanage for girls since a baby, she daydreams of a different life, of being wanted. All she has is a journal of her mothers ‘mad’ ramblings and the ability to see ghouls. Then one day a letter arrives from her family home, begging her back, but why did her mother run away in the first place? What is beyond the wall at Gallant? Who is it that actually wants her back and why?
Brilliantly narrated, amazing story. I listened to it in two days as i just couldn’t stop listening!

Fantastic listen!

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Having just listened to Addie LaRue, I was looking forward to Galant.
The story itself was compelling, the characters interesting enough to get you involved in the storyline. More than one occasion I sat in the car just to see what happened next!
The narration was excellent.

VE Schwab does it again!!

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Loved this story. One of my now-favourite authors. Unusual, intriguing and compelling. Thank you!

Brilliant

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I love this book! It has everything you could want, a main character who you love and cheer for throughout, so many twist and turns…just when you think you have it figured out turns out you don’t. The story is beautiful written and it was voiced by such a captive voice actor. I really loved it.

Wow! What a story! A must read/listen!!!

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I've always enjoyed V.E Schwab's work, a big fan of the darker shade of magic series and the sample for this one have great promise, dark and intriguing. It is a dark intriguing mystery, slow burning but that is fine, it keeps you hooked throughout. For me the end was just unsatisfactory, it's like this pressure building up and up and then nothing really comes of it. It's a real shame because up to the ending I was really enjoying it, loving the different characters and the story. suppose I'm just a little disappointed with the ending.

More conceptual than earlier works

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It's a great setup and you don't know where the story is going and what will come next most of the time. However I feel like it doesn't pay off the end of it. The performance however it's spotless.

The thing is I have read so many books by the author I feel this pales against most of her other stories. But make no mistake it's a decent tale to be told.

It's alright but takes a bit too long to go somewhere

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