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A GRIPPING TALE OF IMPOSSIBLE LOVE, DISCOVER THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NO.1 ITALIAN BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH

Legend speaks of the Maker of Tears: a man with eyes like glass, who crafts all the fears that dwell in people's hearts... What will it take for star-crossed orphans Nica and Rigel to face him and his creations?

Growing up within the walls of Grave's Orphanage, Nica's imagination burned with fantastical stories. Including that of The Tearsmith, a mysterious craftsman, guilty of having forged all the fears and anxieties in the world.

When at seventeen, she's adopted by Mr and Mrs Mulligan, Nica thinks she's leaving her world of dark fairy tales behind her.

But the Mulligans also adopt Rigel, an orphan who is as mesmerising and handsome as he is troubled. They share a past filled with grief and isolation, and the ever-gentle Nica starts to fall for her forbidden love.

However it isn’t long until the fears and the darkness of her childhood threaten to unravel her future.

Can Nica find the courage to embrace the future?

Forget her past?

And fall for her secret love?

©2024 Erin Doom (P)2024 Penguin Audio Contemporary Dark Fantasy Fantasy Fiction World Literature Romance Heartfelt
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I really liked the characters so much depth. And the narrator was soo good really agree with the previous comments she brings the book alive.

Really good story!

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I litened to this after watching the recent netflix movie that I enjoyed but didn't really make sense in lots of places. It missed out too much of the story. "The Tearsmith" is a great story, the reader is wonderful and the book has an ending done exactly the way I love!

AMAZING!

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I loved it, I listened to it so I could get on with my housework in my own world and its addictive! I was playing it to fall asleep, on my way to work in the car...beautiful story x

dark fairy tale

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Having watched the movie I decided to buy the audio book and get more of the story, it kept me listening but at times I found it toxic and disturbing.
It could have been a lot shorter had the author stopped mentioning Rigel's dark eyes, his raven black hair, being a wolf, the words 'fragile', 'broken' and Nica's 'band aids'!! We get it!
Nica was described as innocent and naïve but quite often she's downright stupid and I found myself shouting at the book 'ffs Nica'. 😂
There's such a lack of communication too, so many issues could have been sorted out it everyone had just talked properly especially about them being in love and the adoption. Lots of mountains made out of molehills!
On the plus side the narration was excellent, though a bit slow so I recommend listening to it on a higher speed.

Hmm ok ish and a bit repetitive!

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I was absolutely obsessed with this story. I loved everything about all the little details. she describes everything so magnificently. I will listen to this over and over for years to come! So dark and yet so hopeful. I loved it!

loved it

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