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The Ninth Rain
- The Winnowing Flame Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
The first in a blistering new trilogy from Jen Williams, acclaimed author of British Fantasy Award-nominated Copper Cat trilogy. Epic fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb and Jay Kristoff's Nevernight.
Jen Williams, acclaimed author of The Copper Cat trilogy, featuring The Copper Promise, The Iron Ghost and The Silver Tide, returns with the first in a blistering new trilogy.
The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces - talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine.
When eccentric explorer Lady Vincenza 'Vintage' de Grazon offers him employment, he sees an easy way out. Even when they are joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the prospect of facing down monsters and retrieving ancient artefacts is preferable to the abomination he left behind. But not everyone is willing to let the Eboran empire collapse, and the adventurers are quickly drawn into a tangled conspiracy of magic and war. For the Jure'lia are coming, and the Ninth Rain must fall....
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- Jonathan Jackson
- 31-01-24
Amazing world building and storytelling
Absolutely fantastic book.
I found a little slow to get going but then I really appreciated the depth of world building later on in the story.
Narration was great but did occasionally feel a bit like an adult reading a story to a child - however, I can forgive and get over that for the quality of everything else!
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- Mike
- 22-05-19
Good solid book
Like other reviewers said, it's a slow start but gets better. Listened to the book in a few days so thinking on it, it gets a lot better.
Great idea for a story, read other books with similar ideas but this goes further. Excited to read the next book. Only gave 4 stars for story as I didn't like the character development of some of the main characters but gave five overall as I think that is probably just me being picky.
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- Alexander
- 17-07-19
Immense world building
Slow to start but when it gets its hooks in it just keeps getting better and better!
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- Bookworm
- 15-12-18
Slow to start, but!
Slow to start, as with a few other reviews I nearly gave up initially, I am glad I did not. It is not my favourite book or even the best one I have read recently, however it is a very entertaining one, this is why I read fantasy.
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- lee moore
- 12-04-20
Perfect
Every now and then you find a gem of a book and this book is one of those gems. The combination of Jen Williams's excellent story and jot Davies's narration is perfect. They are both new to me but are now amongst my favourites. Already started book 2. Perfect.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-10-21
Rollicking and uncompromising fantasy
New to Jen Williams and delighted to discover the fruit of her rich and blood curdling imagination
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- Kaatje
- 13-12-23
Glad I persevered!
I almost stopped listening after the first few chapters as I thought it just wasn't for me. I'm so glad I continued anyway and ended up really enjoying it. An original story and well narrated. On to book 2 :-)
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- Domonkos Kiss UK
- 18-07-17
Wait for it!
Almost switched it off after the first couple of chapters as it starts a bit slow, but I'm so glad I carried on as the story gets really get exciting later. I can't wait for the next book in the series!
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- Alice
- 26-10-23
Fantastic fantasy
Wow, it's rare I enjoy a book SO much that I buy the second novel before even finishing the first, but I did not want to stop following this story! Really interesting world building, good characters, and intriguing plot lines. I ultimately went for this novel because I knew the narrator was good from other books, but he really does make this an excellent listen.
All the facets of this novel are thoroughly enjoyable. This is simply a quite fantastic fantasy series.
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- S. Clarke
- 27-12-23
Loved it, eventually
I nearly returned it because i was finding the narrator so annoying. While his character voices are excellent, he reads the story as if it’s dreamy poetry and it’s beyond irritating. However, I followed the reviews, one reviewer said to stick with it because it gets really good, and it does.
Loved the story, loved the characters, and it became a ‘page turner’ to the point where i can overlook the horrible narration style. On the positive side, he doesn’t keep reading basic words incorrectly. Onto the next book now.
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