A detailed & dynamic story, with magic & mystery!

🌟🌟🌟🌟 4+ stars
🔥🔥🔥 Heat Level: 3
🎧🎧🎧🎧 Narration: 4

Wow! Such a detailed urban fantasy adventure!

Hailey has created a new world; with magic, demons, and danger. I was hooked from the start. So much mystery and intrigue are unlocked as the story progresses, you can’t help but be drawn in. Patrick is a great character with so much depth you just need to know more! As a battle is brewing Patrick must help figure out who is making these demonic killings and why and when he does, disaster strikes.

Patrick’s back story and nature is explained and detailed so well it’s easy to get lost in the world Hailey has created and cause you to forget what came before. This story is a fantastic adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat while being drawn into a world only Hailey has the power over. With twists and turns, I can’t wait to see where Patrick goes next. The ending will leave you wanting more and thankfully book 2 is already out to be devoured.

A detailed and dynamic story, with magic and mystery. A great listen!!

Thanks for reading!

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I rather enjoyed the story

I liked it, greek gods, explosions, romance.
The narrator is male sounding American, does a Cockney accent a bit like Johnny Depp might, rather than say, Danny Dyer but I suspect that's preferable to most audiences. Going to invest in the second in this series now.

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An interesting story ruined by the narration

I quite liked the story, it had some interesting ideas and a good cast of characters. Unfortunately I had to fight to get to the end because the narration was terrible.
The whole thing was read in a tired monotone, stripping the main character of any vulnerability. This meant it took me a lot longer than it should to warm to him at all. In addition, it wasn't until Jono told us he was from London that I realised he wasn't South African, Once I realised, it became clear that the narrator had used Grant Mitchell as his inspiration and was using it as his own audition for Eastenders. This coupled with the authors continued use of 'Love' made him the worst London stereotype.
I looked to see if perhaps a new narrator had picked up the series after the first book but alas no so unfortunately I'm going to have to give the rest of the series a miss.

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Interesting story

I've not read any other books set in this universe of magic and demons, where Gods and immortals can cross to earth for a chat. But this was an excellent jumping in point. The author fed the information into the story without info dumping, especially helpful when you're listening while doing something else. The story threw you straight into the action and didn't let up. I got swept away with it, always trying to sneak in an extra 5 minutes listening.

I eagerly await the next story in the series.

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Everything I love about Hailey Turner

I admit to struggling a little in the beginning with this one, but that was because its not my usual genre so it took a while for me to fall into place with all of the magic. But once I did Hailey's great story telling captured me. She does such wonderfully intricate books and fantastic characters I can't wait for more from her!

Gary's narration was perfectly gas and he did a wonderful job!

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Great!

This was an awesome audiobook.
I was hooked from the beginning and couldn’t stop listening.
I can’t wait to listen to more of this engaging series.

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Hailey Turner - wow!

Hailey is a insta-clic author for me so I was always going to be buying this book (in print & audio as I think you gain something extra from the audio - if it's done right)
However that said I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this book and what looks to be a storming new series to anyone who hasn't read/listened to something from Hailey before.
As ever the world building is excellent, the world as we know it so intracately woven to now include Were creatures, Vampires, Gods and Magic users as common place is immersive and drags you into Patrick's story. I really felt his sadness, his anger and his pain at the unfairness of the situation he's in. I just wanted to hug him!
The supporting cast of characters are vast but well thought out so it's not hard to remember who is who and Gary Furlong does a fantastic job of creating a range of different voices for this full cast.
I also loved the London accent he chose for Jono, being a Brit I've lost count of the cringeworthy British accents I've heard but I loved Gary's choice and it was a slightly unusual London accent too which I thought worked really well.
I thought I picked up on a couple of stumbles with words but this really didn't detract from my enjoyment of this book. Good job Gary! And thank you Hailey for yet another Diamond!! Xx

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phenomenal

I have the whole series and have listened to it twice now. I loved it.

the narrator took a minute to warm me up but he does an awesome job of delivering a different voice for each character with believable accents and acting.

this is a beautifully written book with layered and complex characters who you will love. promise.

get the whole series. worth every penny.

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Fast and Exciting New Series, Furlong is Wonderful

A Ferry of Bones & Gold is the first book in Hailey Turner’s Soulbound series. Narrated by Gary Furlong, the audio version is a mystical, magical adventure. Gods, vamps, werewolves, mages, and more come together to fight a war as old as time.

A fast moving adventure, A Ferry of Bones & Gold is filled with action, and the story of witchcraft and mythology is intriguing. There’s a great deal of information in this one, granted it’s the start of a series so that’s to be expected. I’m glad I listened to the audio version so I could review some of the more complex aspects of the story.

My all-time favorite narrator, Gary Furlong delivers an amazing performance. There are so many different types of characters in this one I think it would have proved a real challenge to anyone else. Mr. Furlong’s wealth of accents and different voices are perfectly suited to this story, and his rich and sultry voice is spectacular for the love scenes.

Fans of paranormal, urban fantasy stories are going to love this one!

an audiobook copy of A Ferry of Bones & Gold was provided to me for the purpose of my review

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Excellent start to the series!

Struggled a bit to begin with with the narrator, but he definitely got better as the book went on.

Excellent story, Hailey never disappoints!

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