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Duel of Fire
- Steel and Fire Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary
Dara Ruminor is a serious young duelist in the mountaintop kingdom of Vertigon, a land of dramatic cliffs and misty peaks where mysterious Fire magic runs through the stones like blood. The secluded kingdom has been peaceful for 100 years. Swords are used for sport, and successful athletes live like kings as long as the crowds love them.
Eighteen-year-old Dara needs to find a wealthy patron in order to duel professionally and avoid a lifetime working in her parents' Fire Lantern shop. Her efforts are disrupted when her coach asks her to train with Prince Siv, an infuriating - if handsome - young man who refuses to take the sport as seriously as she does. But the prince's life may be in danger, and soon Dara will discover that Vertigon isn't as peaceful as she thought.
As threats emerge from the shadows, Dara will have to raise her sword to protect Siv - if he doesn't irritate her so much that she decides to run him through herself.
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- Alan
- 08-07-21
No Spark
That was awesome, Jordan Rivet has built us a fantastic world to get lost in, Dara is a Champion Dualist, A Rapier Specialist, she would love to be part of the family business, but Dara can't produce the spark required to the job, lots of cracking sword fights, lurking assassins and great worldbuilding, narrator Caitlin Kelly gives an amazing preformence with her arrange of voices, brings the whole book to life, highly recommend....😁
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- S Marshall
- 07-11-19
If only the Writer knew what was good
The Narrator is lively and full of energy which puts her above many who read for Audible. Unfortunately she has a habit of reading certain characters the way a teenager would relay the words of a dumb boy. This gets pretty annoying when you have to hear a a character talk at length like that.
The story has lots of interesting elements which are pushed into the background for a really dull romance, which isn’t even as sophisticated as Ross and Rachel from Friends.
Dara is hot. Siv is hot. They’re the only people in the whole kingdom who have physical traits which are positive (other people have good physical traits which are revealing of character traits the author doesn’t like such as confidence in your own sexuality)
So Dara and Siv’s will they won’t they is the crux of the book which literally everything is in service of. An interesting political plot appears, out of nowhere, near the end but it’s only there to keep two hot people apart.
It’s still enjoyable in some ways. There’s clear energy to the prose and lots of interesting ideas thrown in. However they all serve this incredibly banal romance. It’s tough to even call it a romance as there’s not much romantic character development to speak of either. Just the question of will two hot suitors hook up against the back drop of incredibly contrived resistance.
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