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  • The Road of Bones

  • The Ashen Series, Book 1
  • Written by: Demi Winters
  • Narrated by: Islay Jacobs
  • Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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The Road of Bones

Written by: Demi Winters
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Publisher's Summary

A woman on the run. A crew of Viking mercenaries. A forbidden romance. And the secret that threatens them all.

Silla Nordvig is running for her life.

The Queen of Íseldur has sent warriors to bring Silla to Sunnavík, where death awaits her. When her father is killed, his last words set Silla on a perilous quest: travel the treacherous Road of Bones—a thousand-mile stretch haunted by warbands, creatures of darkness, and a mysterious murderer—and go to Kopa, where a shield house awaits her.

After barely surviving the first stretch of road, a desperate Silla sneaks into a supply wagon belonging to the notorious Bloodaxe Crew. To make it to Kopa, she must win over Axe Eyes, the brooding leader of the Crew, while avoiding the Wolf, his distractingly handsome right-hand man. But the queen's ruthless assassin has other plans and hunts Silla obsessively.

Will Silla make it safely to Kopa? Or will she fall prey to the perils of the Road of Bones?

Featuring an immersive world blending fairy tales with Vikings, The Road of Bones leads you on an adrenaline-fueled chase with fun banter and a slow-building enemies-to-lovers romance. It is book one in the Ashen Series.

©2023 Demi Winters (P)2024 Podium Audio

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What a winding, twisting road

I loved this story. Silla is so likable, yet so human, and an incredibly nuanced female character. The rest of the cast of characters is diverse, yet always relatable, and so well written! I can’t wait for the second instalment to get to audiobooks, but would love to see this one done in a dramatic rendering, even though the narration is excellent. I do appreciate her “man voice”, and all the diffferent voices she gives the female characters. I’m not usually a Viking story fan, but this pulled me in ❤️

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Great read!

Lots of fun! Enjoyed this one a lot. Interesting characters, good pace and plenty of surprises.

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Immersive exciting fantasy!

What’s not to love? The narrator was excellent, I really enjoyed listening to her voice. The story and world building were fantastic. This world and story blows SJM out of the water.

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A true romance fantasy

Absolutely loved this book, and I don’t like Viking stuff 😅 but here I am. Great performance, could not stop listening, I could easily picture the places and felt I knew the characters. I loved how the romance was done in this book. I totally recommend!

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Absolutely Fantastic!

This is the first time I haven’t been able to put down an audiobook since the Empire of Gold! It was so well narrated and so well written.

*SPOILER*

I really appreciate how it so accurately depicted an abusive relationship, where an older man takes advantage of a younger, inexperienced, vulnerable woman. Not that I loved that part of the story of course, the character was despicable for what he did, but I almost feel that the author is writing from experience, I could feel myself getting nervous, it was so accurately depicted. And for a fantasy, it is grounded in realistic and flawed characters. It’s like if ACOTAR was written with better, more human characters. I’ve already preordered the next book, it was fantastic!

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Love the story line

Great character building, plot is intriguing and unique. Level of romance to story is beautifully balanced. Can’t wait for the next book to be released.

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Awesome find

So glad I found this during the 2 for 1 credit promo. I’m hooked! Looking forward to the next in the series!

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Wonderful story!

I quite enjoyed this book! It always had me narrowing my eyes at little things mentioned and wondering what was going to happen with that later, the author does a great job at planting seeds in your mind!
The characters are what makes the story, they each have their own personalities and reactions, they feel real. They had me rolling my eyes at some decisions, but I know it was meant to. Once you start yelling and cursing at characters while listening you know you’re invested!
This story had secrets, friendship, fear, lust, laughter, and to my surprise I did sob like a baby. It’s exactly what I wanted, something familiar in a new tale never done before. They are in the thick of it and the author doesn’t sugar coat things, I really enjoyed the depth and flaws of these characters that felt grounded in the story itself.
And I have to say the voice actress was EVERYTHING I needed! She actually told the story, she didn’t read it line by line. She slowed when things were sad and sped up when it changed to a fight at such a perfect inflection I hung on every word. She read it like I would read a physical book, with emotion, and I find that is very hard to come by! Not once did I redo a sentence in my head to change the tone, she nailed it. The character voices were wonderful and she had a perfect levelled volume throughout. Cannot say enough good things about this performance!
Jumping to the second book now, cannot wait!

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Fantastic Story!!!

The book was so good from beginning to end. I loved everything about it. The characters, the creatures and magic. The narrator did a wonderful job. I am really looking forward to the next book.

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Story was great - narrator was lovely

Honestly loved this book! Give it a listen you won’t regret it! Narrator did a fantastic job bringing each character to life!

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