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  • Of Dreams and Shadows

  • The Ealdspell cycle book 1
  • By: Jesikah Sundin
  • Narrated by: Olivia King
  • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Of Dreams and Shadows

By: Jesikah Sundin
Narrated by: Olivia King
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Summary

DREAMS ARE DANGEROUS

Unless she unlocks the powers of her mind.

He fights his Otherworld shadow self.

And with only fae magic to re-spin their tales.

Princess Æroreh Rosen was faerie blessed before her birth. To promote the New Dawn Era, the Queen coded her daughter with every feminine perfection.

Beauty. Gentleness. Obedience. Musicality. Kindness. Grace. Good cheer.

Hunger and lung sickness plague the kingdom of Ealdspell. But Æroreh is plugged into the Dream, a program created by a sect of faeries to control the realms through illusions of beauty and contentment. All Æroreh has ever known is blissful servitude to a cursed system, and she believes her realm is prospering. Until a different faerie sect decides to wake her sleeping mind and set her true magic free.

Meanwhile, Félip Batten MacKinley holds a dangerous secret. One made more threatening by the frostbite scar across his cheek. He’s spit on, beaten, and demonized by a community that values a pretty face over all else. With no easy future in sight, he accepts that he’ll die a burden to his foster parents, his true history erased. But a tempting offer from the faerie’s Fate Maker leads Félip to cross paths with the hauntingly beautiful Æroreh - a young woman who represents all he loathes.

Yet only she has the power to awaken a new Dream.

Æroreh is a gritty spin on the romantic tale of Sleeping Beauty and blends faerie magic and pagan ritual with high technology. For fans of Margaret Rogerson, Holly Black, fairy tales, and young adult dystopian fantasy.

Can be heard as a stand-alone.

Name pronounced like Aurora.

©2019 Forest Tales Publishing (P)2020 Forest Tales Publishing
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Unexpected great retelling with amazing narratos

I picked this book because I saw the book box on Etsy and it looked fantastic, so I wanted to know if I liked the story before buying the amazing box. I'm definitely getting the box because I adored the story. It is a teen story without any steam at all, but it was so beautifully written I didn't care for the nonexistence of hot scenes. The author kept the core of sleeping beauty and span the story in a high tech, yet medieval, industrial setting. This dystopian society worked in a dream state and a bunch of stuff happens until Prince Filip, a bunch of fairies and Aurora get stuff sorted. It was confusing at times and I had to re-read the first few chapters a couple of times to fully understand what was happening, also the variation of the pronunciation of some words made it hard to keep up in the beginning. I did a hybrid reading (audio and kindle simultaneously) and it was awesome because the performances were outstanding (the accents were done in a way we could understand all quite easily). Totally recommend , off to get the second book and the book box now.

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