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Skullsworn

Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne

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Skullsworn

By: Brian Staveley
Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
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About this listen

Brian Staveley's new standalone returns to the critically acclaimed Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne universe, following a priestess-assassin for the God of Death

From the award-winning epic fantasy world of The Emperor's Blades...

Pyrre Lakatur is not, to her mind, an assassin, not a murderer - she is a priestess. At least, she will be once she passes her final trial.

The problem isn't the killing. The problem, rather, is love. For to complete her trial, Pyrre has ten days to kill the seven people enumerated in an ancient song, including "the one who made your mind and body sing with love / who will not come again."

Pyrre isn't sure she's ever been in love. And if she fails to find someone who can draw such passion from her, or fails to kill that someone, her order will give her to their god, the God of Death. Pyrre's not afraid to die, but she hates to fail, and so, as her trial is set to begin, she returns to the city of her birth in the hope of finding love... and ending it on the edge of her sword.

©2017 Brian Staveley (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Dark Fantasy Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Military Assassin

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Critic reviews

"Brilliant." (V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author)
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Good listen, nice to hear some back story about skullsworn. The reader was good. All in all not bad

Not bad

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narrator was good, story was good but it's a bit too dark. what did I expect though about a book about death worshipers.

Dark

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love this story and would enjoy reading more about the adventures of Pia. an interesting take on the similarities between love and killing.

more please

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I loved this story of Pyrre the Priestess/Assassin from the Trilogy the Unhewen Throne. My only problem was with the narrater, i had got so used to the voice Brian Vance used for Pyrre that Elizabeth Knowelden came as a shock, obviously with a change of narraters you get a change of voice but i do much prefer Brian Vances....not really a criticism more of a personal thing. Great book once again.

Great Story

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In a nut shell I love it. The story was great and the idea of learning more about my favourite character, next to Gwenna, from the trilogy was exciting. My only real complaint is the voice used but that's mostly because I loved the voice Simon Vance had created for her. However I did love Elizabeth Knowelden, so easy to listen to and she had a great range when it came to female characters her only let down was on the male characters but it's to be expected​. oh and I didn't like the fact that "he/she didn't show it" was not used :p

unhewn throne meets 50 shades of grey

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