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Daughter of the Deep
- The Children of Lyr, Book 1
- Narrated by: Katie Morrowick
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A wedding to end a war. It’s been four years since the blood feud between the Branwens and Mathonwys started. Four years of sunken ships and loved ones lost, four years of wounds both seen and unseen. Keira Branwen is no stranger to duty. As the first mate of a legendary pirate ship, blessed by the sea-god Lyr, and heir apparent to her clan, she would sail to the Otherworld and back to keep her family safe. But when the Council threatens banishment for her people, Keira is faced with a choice; she must either marry her father’s alleged killer, the sea-snake Ronan Mathonwy, or curse her family to the deep.
But in the Seven Isles of the Deyrnas, secrets sleep just beneath the surface of the water. Her father’s death is still shrouded in mystery, and Ronan - her childhood friend, the man she once loved - is hell-bent on proving his innocence. As enemies become friends and friends become suspects, Keira must wade through the waters of doubt to expose the truth, save her family, and restore her father’s legacy. But Keira soon learns that there are ties thicker than blood, and there is more than one way to sacrifice a life.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- da_bunny
- 25-12-2023
if Pirates of the Caribbean and Romeo and Juliet had a YA fanfic love child...
TBH.. I tried listening to this book much longer than I should have. Review contains spoilers.
Story: 1 star. I am thinking the author had a fanfic in mind and wanted to ship Jake Sparrow and Will Turner, but wanted a MF rather than a MM romance aspect to it.
pros: some side characters are interesting, the lore that's behind the world is familiar (especially if you've watched Pirates of the Caribbean), and the love interest is almost likeable ( but hes constantly victimized by the MC so yea... trigger warning, he's the target of lots of verbal abuse)
cons: take PotC plot, gender swap Will Turner, make said gender-swapped Will an angry, aggressive, person with a really big chip on her shoulders and you've got the premise and MC of the book. The world building is very minor, the MC is so dislikable I was rooting for the baddies and the snooty floozy cousin to win, as well as the love interest of the lead to just runaway. The side characters are more interesting than the lead. I wish someone would have listed this as a YA because the MC and writing are very immature.
Narrator: 2 star. I had to speed up to 1.6x to make it palatable. Was ok on voicing female characters and accents were okay (not always consistent), but very little tone differentiation between male and female characters so I lost track of who was saying what during the interactions between the fmc and the various side characters.
Would I recommend? no. I am all for strong female leads, but I really thought the aggression and animosity was so over-the-top that when the "romance" tie-in came about, I was getting whiplash. I dnfd this book and gave up at the halfway point. Although there's a mystery to solve (who killed her dad) I stopped caring. Based on clues, it's a scheme cooked up by the "greasy" councilman, either her uncle is the councilmans' partner or the fall-guy, she obviously discovers this, and offs the uncle or another of her relatives, thus violating the non-aggression clause of the marriage pact (borrowed straight out of the Romeo and Juliet due to the montague/capulet-esque fueding) and thus the premise for book 2. -sigh-
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