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House of Ash and Shadow

Gilded City, Book 1

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Written by: Leia Stone
Narrated by: Vanessa Moyen
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“And what if I go dark?” I whimpered.

His face sobered. “Then I will jump into the shadows and pull you back to the Light.”

Seventeen-year-old Fallon Bane was born with a curse: A single touch from another person will always cause her excruciating pain. Thus, she has accepted that she will die without ever being kissed, without even hugging her own father.

But when her beloved father falls ill, she breaks into the magical Gilded City to find a healer fae who can save him. When handsome healer Ariyon Madden agrees to help, everything she knows about herself and her curse changes. Because during her father’s healing, Ariyon reaches out and touches her bare skin. She waits for the agony...but it never comes.

For the first time in her life, she imagines a new future for herself. However, that fantasy is short-lived, because not only does Ariyon flee from her in disgust when he learns of her curse, he also reveals her existence to powerful fae who want to hurt her.

Fallon is then swept away to a magical academy, where she learns the terrifying truth about her family history and her dark magic. Her life and the future of fae everywhere hang in the balance, and all the while Fallon is dreaming of being touched by Ariyon Madden one more time before she dies....

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it's good and it was a fun listen, the only thing that was kinda annoying for me (spoiler) is that the first thing she thought of when she found out she could touch the healer her first thought was to get married and have kids, like you just meet him two seconds ago and why is that the first thing you think of, and he leaves after there two seconds of meeting and is depressed

it's good

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Well the diacritic. Really says it all.
It was another amazing book by this amazing author I can’t wait for book 2😊

Another amazing book!

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I was sucked in right away and loved the undertone of the whole story concept. I found it a bit repetitive but other than that I’ve already downloaded the second one and can’t wait to continue to hear the story unfold! Great book!

Very captivating story

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Couldn’t get past the plot hole. The narration is fine. I just couldn’t buy into a curse with an obvious work around.

DNF

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