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Mark of Fire

The Endarian Prophecy, Book 1

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Mark of Fire

By: Richard Phillips
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
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An ancient prophecy. A young woman's destiny.

Lorness Carol, coming of age in the kingdom of her warlord father, Lord Rafel, aspires to wield magic. But she's also unknowingly become the obsession of Kragan, an avenging wielder as old as evil itself. He's waited centuries to find and kill the female prophesied as the only human empowered to destroy him. However, dispatching the king's assassin, Blade, to Rafel's Keep, ends in treason. For Blade arrives not with a weapon but rather a warning for the woman he's known and loved since he was a child. With a price on his head, Blade flees - as Carol and her family are urged away on their own desperate route of escape.

Now, traversing the lawless western borderlands, Carol struggles to understand the uncanny magic she possesses and must learn to master. Though separated, Carol and Blade are still united - not only by the darkness pursuing them both but by a quest toward destiny, revenge, and the revelations of an ancient prophecy that signal the ultimate war between good and evil.

©2017 Richard Phillips (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Action & Adventure Coming of Age Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Sword & Sorcery Magic Destiny
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I really enjoyed Richard's Rho books but this one and book 2 are frankly quite boring which is really surprising. It's like they have been written by a different person then had his name put on. There is nothing interesting or clever about about the magic system at all, there are no stakes involved because you know who is going to win, Any challenges that are set up for any of the characters are almost always solved very quickly again killing any sense of danger or stakes, There are too many contravances to do with the characters around how they just happen to meet for example. The love stories such as they are really kind of pathetic. Another review described the narrator as being robotic like an AI I would not say that but I did not enjoy her style of narration, I don't know if it's her voice or intonation I just found it irritating after awhile.

Mediocre story

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Interesting story and character development over course of the book. I was convinced that some of the narration was ‘siri - like’ and artificially generated - pace, inflection, cadence etc unnaturally consistent to my untrained ear. I’ll probably reach for the Kindle rather than audible book for the second in the series.

Good story but ‘robotic’ narration...

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