As a narrated book, I was impressed with Caitlin Davies‘s performance loving the pace at which she read the story and her tonal adjustments for the dialogue. I thought it had a great plot to start off a series with and had a good amount of action-packed fighting scenes as well as heart-wrenching images of the horrors of war but this balanced beautifully with hope, love and fantastically written banter. I liked the way Ms Breene introduced us to her new fantasy world, its history and our heroine, Shanti.

It wasn’t long into this book before I was asking myself why I’d put off reading it for so long I thought it was amazing and I was completely engrossed. I added the Audible narration recently hoping that would help me with the genre and number of pages.

High/epic fantasy isn’t my first choice of reading material and the length of this book kept putting me off. Breene’s Darkness series but it’s been waiting patiently on my Kindle since then. I must confess that I bought this book back in 2015 after reading and loving K.F. The only question is this: Which side do you choose?Ī Fantastic Start To This Gripping Epic Fantasy. But to trade her to Xandre, the warlord desperate to add her to his war machine, would be to give up their entire way of life. If they band with her, they will face certain death. But when the war spreads its arms and lands on her borrowed doorstep, Shanti has no choice but to reveal her secrets, plunging her saviors into danger. Oblivious to the weapon they now have in their possession, they are content to harbor the mysterious woman until she is well enough to continue her journey. It seems like any other day when Sanders and his band of misfit boys find a foreign woman clinging to life in the wastelands. The problem is, she doesn't believe in her own divinity, and when she flounders, she nearly fails in the duty hanging so heavy on her shoulders. Carrying rare abilities and an uncanny fighting aptitude, Shanti is the only hope of salvation for her people. Since she helped her people defeat a raiding party by using a special power, she's been a hunted woman. Shanti has grown up under the constant threat of war. It is said that when war threatens the world, one individual will be selected by prophecy to lead the Shadow Warriors out of the Land of Mist and reclaim the freedom that has been stolen.

Chosen by K.F. Breene