New voice. Not bad!

I’ve listened to several from Hannibal Hills, but this is my first DO Thomas book. It’s old-school urban fantasy with a few twists. Kind of cool that it takes place in the UK. A lot of characters to follow, but it all comes together.

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Great Beginning

Hannibal Hills is one of my favorite narrators and once again he doesn't disappoint. This is a great beginning of a magical series that kept my interest with in depth characters and descriptive world building. I look forward to more by this Author

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Entertaining Urban Fantasy

Born of the Shade is a very entertaining intro to a urban fantasy world. Story might've been a little too focused on world building than the story itself, but was still a fun listen. Narration was great, but after listening to a handful of his performances I was pretty confident of that fact going in. I'm definitely interested in seeing what happens next in this world. I received the review code for this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this honest review.

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Awesome!

I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook. I read a lot of fantasy and paranormal and this is definitely a story that I haven't heard before. It was a fantastic beginning of a series. I would love to get my hands on the rest of these books! I think this series is going to be great. Oh, and the narrator did an AMAZING job. He brought so much life to the story, And he made the characters pretty easy to tell apart. So far, I am def a fan and I can't wait for more! This book was given to me at my request. I am providing a voluntary and honest review.

Give it a chance or four...

It took me four restarts to finally get into this book. Once I gave it my full attention and kept the characters straight, I loved it. I chose it because HH is one of my fav narrators and the book is one of my fav genres. As always, HH gave a fabulous performance that brought the book to life. I’m very glad I didn’t give up on it!

Interesting Start

I received this book for free. I am voluntarily posting this review and any opinions expressed herein are my own. This is the first book in the Viventium series. I was somewhere between a 3.5 and a 4 star rating on this one. The book has a very interesting premise but this first book spends a lot of time world-building and introducing a lot of characters with the story lightly woven in throughout. With that being said, I am interested to see what happens to them and how the story evolves in the next book in this series. Without a doubt, it was the narration of Hannibal Hills which made this book come to life. I don't know if I would have been as drawn in or interested in the characters if I had just read this instead of listening to it. Hannibal Hills creates the personality of each of the characters through his voice - and is able to completely differentiate each character. I have listened to several books narrated by Hannibal Hills and he has become one of my favorite narrators!

Very entertaining

Really enjoyed this book. Well written and Hannibal Hills does a fantastic job narrating. Book was over 6 1/2 hours long, but it flew by. The mythos and characters were well thought out and all play a part. Great book and I'm very excited about this series! “I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.”

Building

This start to this series seems to be a build up to all the characters. It does change scenes quite a bit. All and all looking forward to see how it all plays out. Narration was top notch. This audio was given to me free and I voluntarily gave this review.

what the heck did I just listen to...

This book seemed more of a "introduce everyone and a little of the story" book. Too me it was more to set up the characters. you still don't know exactly were the story( of the series) is going. You sort of do but not really. But in the end, it did get me invested in the characters and get me to want to know "what's next" So in the aspect I am looking forward to the next book in the series. The narration was awesome. Very dramatic and dynamic. I did receive this copy for review and these are my honest opinions.

Great listen

Enjoyed this book. The story line is great. Not a lot of action but it does have a great plot. It’s really good.