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  • By a Silver Thread

  • DFZ Changeling, Book 1
  • By: Rachel Aaron
  • Narrated by: Naomi Rose-Mock
  • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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By a Silver Thread

By: Rachel Aaron
Narrated by: Naomi Rose-Mock
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Summary

A new DFZ series from the author of Nice Dragons Finish Last and Minimum Wage Magic!

In the world’s most magical metropolis where spirits run noodle shops and cash-strapped dragons stage photo-ops for tourists, people still think fairies are nothing but stories, and that’s exactly how the fairies like it. It’s a lot easier to feast on humanity’s dreams when no one believes you exist. But while this arrangement works splendidly for most fair folk, Lola isn’t one of the lucky ones.

She’s a changeling, a fairy monster made just human enough to dupe unsuspecting parents while fairies steal their real child. The magic that sustains her was never meant to last past the initial theft, leaving Lola without a future. But thanks to Victor Conrath, a very powerful—and very illegal—blood mage, she was given the means to cheat death.

For a price.

Now the only changeling ever to make it to adulthood, Lola has served the blood mage faithfully, if reluctantly, for 20 years. Her unique ability to slip through wards and change her shape to look like anyone has helped make Victor a legend in the DFZ’s illegal-magic underground. It’s not a great life, but at least the work is stable, until her master vanishes without a trace.

With only a handful left of the pills that keep her human, Lola must find Victor before she turns back into the fairy monster she was always meant to be. But with a whole SWAT team of federal paladins hunting her as a blood-mage accomplice, an urban legend on a silent black motorcycle who won’t leave her alone, and a mysterious fairy king with the power to make the entire city dream, Lola’s chances of getting out of this alive are as slender as a silver thread.

©2023 Rachel Aaron (P)2023 Rachel Aaron
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Good but not as good as other works

Rachel Aaron is one of my favourite authors. I love her works from the dragon in the DFZ to the Eli Monpress and especially her foverever fantasy online books similar to Sword Art Online anime. I didn't enjoy this work as much as her other works. I will listen to it again in case I missed something but I definitely prefer her other books. It this is your first Rachel Aaron story please don't let it put you off her other works, they are so so good

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