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Solace

The Return of the Elves, Book 8

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By: Bethany Adams
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
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A lady without a purpose

After the death of her soulbonded 20 years ago, Lynia has struggled to find her place. Her son, Lyr, has the estate well in hand, and there are no pressing duties for her to attend. Aside from keeping peace between their many visitors and ignoring her growing attraction to the cranky healer, her days blur into uncomfortable monotony. Not even her work doing research brings much excitement. Then an unexpected prophesy shoves her into sudden action - and the healer’s company - as a plague threatens all she holds dear.

A healer without hope

For nearly five centuries, Lial has treated injured warriors and residents around Braelyn, but not even the small friendships he has formed can fill the increasing loneliness of his life. Worse, he made the mistake of falling in love with Lynia, who still mourns the soulbonded she lost. He buries himself in work to avoid her, but it seems the gods have other plans. According to his seer cousin, a new disease is coming, one capable of killing elves and fae alike. Lial’s only hope? Working with Lynia to find a cure.

An ancient threat

While fighting to ignore their attraction, Lial and Lynia must search for answers. Deep in Moranaia’s history, there are murmurs of such a plague, but finding the details is no easy matter - especially when a mysterious assassin strikes near the heart of Braelyn. As Lyr hunts for the traitor, Lial and Lynia scramble to unlock the mystery of the virus. But the two events may be more related than they realize, and failure can bring only one thing - death.

©2021 Bethany Adams (P)2021 Skyboat Media
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Amazing!

I do not know where to start, I absolutely love this book and the entire return of the elves series. Due to declining mental health I have found myself lost in Audible, in particular this series. I feel at home in Morania, and feel like I know the characters well. Brilliant writing. Could (and probably will) re read forever!

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Very Enjoyable.

This story is very engaging with the main character being the grumpy doctor. It's the first opportunity to learn more about his life and how it's affected his career and his love of medicine, people and even animals.
Not to mention his ability to deal with an unknown plague.

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Repetitive

After all the other books , so much of this addition is just repeating itself. not just information and story from those previous books but constantly repeating information thats just been mentioned in this book.
very tough going
wouldn't recommend, especially as this comes with a price and not just included in the plus catalogue like all the others.

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Terrible narrative choice by Gabrielle de Cuir


When Gabrielle de Cuir voiced Lynia she enunciated every word and slowed her speech considerably. I don't know if she was trying to give Lynia a royal manner of speaking but she came off as haughty, uncaring and standoffish. It was extremely painful to listen. I tried to increase the speed to make it tolerable but Gabrielle only chose to narrate Lynia like that and since Stefan Rudnicki narrated everything beautifully I had to stick to normal speed.

Gabrielle de Cuir's terrible narration choice completely ruined the book for me. The story itself was slow paced and her terrible narrative chosen style for Lynia's character meant I constantly felt frustrated and irritated. This is the first book in this series that I have not been able to finish

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