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The Lightning-Struck Heart

By: TJ Klune
Narrated by: Michael Lesley
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Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone completely by accident.

Of course, this catches the attention of a higher power, and Sam's pulled from the only world he knows to become an apprentice to the king's wizard, Morgan of Shadows.

When Sam's 14, he enters the Dark Woods and returns with Gary, the hornless gay unicorn, and a half-giant named Tiggy, earning the moniker Sam of Wilds.

At 15, Sam learns what love truly is when a new knight arrives at the castle - Knight Ryan Foxheart, the dreamiest dream to have ever been dreamed.

Naturally, it all goes to hell when Ryan dates the reprehensible Prince Justin, Sam can't control his magic, a sexually aggressive dragon kidnaps the prince, and the king sends them on an epic quest to save Ryan's boyfriend, all while Sam falls more in love with someone he can never have.

Or, so he thinks.

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Love this book! Interesting topic, you flow right into it and through the hole book. Funny, sassy and vulnerable at the same time. So I am sooooo glad this is a serie. I laughed and cried, so just read this book! The narrator is perfect!

Best book I have listened to for a long time!!!!!!

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Would love this to made into a Disney film lol
Fantastic farce can't wait for the follow up

Laugh out loud

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I purchased this book in paperback a while ago and just couldn’t get into reading it. The story was great and the humor was there, but the writing style was more screenplay then traditional novel and I just couldn’t get into it. Purchasing it on here was a WAY better experience! The narration is excellent, characters come alive, and you can really lose yourself in it. I started the next book immediately!

The Narration Makes This Five Stars

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This book has made others see me as a complete lunatic as it has made me laugh out loud in many public places, including the gym!
Michael Lesley’s narration is nothing short of genius even if it did take me a minute and a half to get used to it, and I love the camp deliciousness of Sam and Gary amongst others. The story is wonderful and the characters even more so but the underlying humour has lightened my very own lightning struck heart! Thank you so much to TJ Klune for giving me this experience. Can’t recommend highly enough.

Oh my Gods!

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Would you consider the audio edition of The Lightning-Struck Heart to be better than the print version?
I have got both and they both bring different qualities. I know reading the print version and absorbing the author's text descriptions of tone and inflections I would have expected different choices to be made by the narrator as his choices sometimes completely changed a scene or description for me from my original perception but I still really liked both versions.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Lightning-Struck Heart?
The moments for me that stood out were not the comedy (sometimes overly heavy handed) but the emotional scenes, either lone character realisations or connections between two or more of them.

Which scene did you most enjoy?
Ryan, Tiggy and Gary rescuing Sam and Justin from their captor.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
See it to believe it....

Any additional comments?
I really, really enjoyed this book. It's overly long and hideously self-indulgent but so light and frothy and sparkly and downright enjoyable that you just don't care. I'm a big fan of both the writer and the narrator so basically had a really good time. Some of the accent choices are downright weird - and horribly off, HORRIBLY - but the whole production is slick, entertaining and the narrator is very, very easy to get swept away with and take you away as he obviously enjoys every single second of what he's reading. I would LOVE the writer to get a strong editor that would help him streamline his works to something a little less cumbersome and unwieldy as I would say at least two-three hours of this book is completely redundant but it doesn't detract from your enjoyment at all and I can't recommend this enough. Spend the credit, you won't regret it!

Good use of a credit

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