A Far Better Thing
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A Far Better Thing
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Narrated by:
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Nathaniel Priestley
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By:
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H. G. Parry
About this listen
“Narrator Priestley excels at voicing Carton's interiority.” — AudioFile
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell meets A Tale of Two Cities in H. G. Parry’s A Far Better Thing, a heart-rending fantasy of faery revenge set during the French Revolution.
Most Anticipated SSF Books 2025—The Nerd Daily, BookPage
I feared this was the best of times; I hoped it could not get any worse.
The faeries stole Sydney Carton as a child, and made him a mortal servant of the Faery Realm. Now, he has a rare opportunity for revenge against the fae and Charles Darnay, the changeling left in his stead.
It will take magic and cunning—cold iron and Realm silver—to hide his intentions from humans and fae and bring his plans to fruition.
Shuttling between London and Paris during the Reign of Terror, generations of violence-begetting-violence lead him to a heartbreaking choice in the shadow of the guillotine.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.
Long, Complex and so rewarding!
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It is an absorbing fast paced action driven historical fantasy drama with the heightened drama of the original with the looming and dangerous French Revolution alongside a parallel equally intense political machinations of the fairy realm and how they bind their mortal servants to servitude and leave behind fairy changelings. Thrust in the midst of all this is our beautifully damaged Sydney Carton, a mortal servant with a wickedly sharp brain but riddled with pain and the need for revenge.
The story is told to utter perfection by Nathaniel Priestley who is one of the absolute best and his delivery of this is so sharp he manages to hook you in and have you in his thrall at the end of each chapter you are waiting with bated breath. His range of character work is extraordinary and he manages to perfectly capture the multi-faceted elements of Sydney's character from his sarcastic wit, his blase attitude to life, his pain and vulnerability he keeps locked away - everything.
Its an utter joy to listen to this book, I immediately want to listen again as I loved it so much.
Best book of the last decade!!!!! 20 stars
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