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The Traitor Queen
- Bridge Kingdom, Book 2
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang, James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Lara has only one thought when her husband is taken prisoner: I will do whatever it takes to set you free.
A queen now in exile as a traitor, Lara has watched Ithicana be conquered by her own father, helpless to do anything to stop the destruction. But when she learns her husband, Aren, has been captured in battle, Lara knows there is only one reason her father is keeping him alive: as bait for his traitorous daughter.
And it is bait she fully intends to take.
Risking her life to the Tempest Seas, Lara returns to Ithicana with a plan not only to free its king, but for liberating the Bridge Kingdom from her father’s clutches using his own weapons: the sisters whose lives she spared.
But as Lara and her companions formulate a plan to free Aren from her father’s palace, they soon discover that while it is easy to get in, it will be quite another thing to get Aren, and themselves, back out. Not only is the palace inescapable, there are more players in the game than Lara ever realized, enemies and allies switching sides in the fight for crowns, kingdoms, and bridges. But her greatest adversary of all might be the very man she’s trying to free - the husband she betrayed.
With everything she loves in jeopardy, Lara must decide who - and what - she is fighting for: her kingdom, her husband, or for herself.
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- Fatima Samatar
- 2020-03-13
A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!
This book took me on a wild trip from the get go. Lara and Aren have easily become two of my favourite leads. Although this book was full of action, the emotional journey these characters went on was intense.
Maybe not the best idea to listen to this under my hijab at work since I was just bursting into tears randomly...
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- Dustin
- 2021-03-05
So fun
This series is just such a fun ride. A lot more action in this book compared with the first!
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- KathC
- 2023-10-14
I Want To Be Laura!
Really entertaining with a mixture of romance, adventure, bickering, politics, kick ass females and of course, family feuding.
The narrators were fabulous and lifted story off the page. But… let’s address those endless drums, yah?!
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- jen hentz
- 2023-10-05
Good stuff
Really enjoyed listening to this story- everything you need- love, betrayal, “kick ass” women fighters- what more could you want.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-09-27
Great Job
Great performance. Both narrators did a great job. It really brought the story to life!
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- Marina
- 2023-09-24
Amazing.. I love Aren & Lara
This is my absolute favourite of the series. I love Lara’s come back story !! I don’t know which book I love more the 1st or 2nd.
I LOVE AREN !!
I hope this book gets more hype & makes it to booktok for it to get more attention
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- Mary
- 2023-09-18
Exceptional second book
My only complaint about this book is the drumming each chapter end. The pace was strong, the rhythm and tone remarkable, and the narration was very strong. I definitely enjoyed this one better than the first, and am looking forward to the next. This is an author I will watch for.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-08-15
Great series
Enjoyed reading this series! The first book was a little to slow for me to get through but this one was so fantastic! The storyline,the action and the narration all went well together!
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- JennTodd
- 2023-08-12
Great sequel!!
The only complaint I have for this was the drums they used to signify the beginning of another chapter. They honestly drove me nuts. In the first book it was thunder and rain which I loved, it really fit the theme and intensity. The drums fit the theme very well but there were certain scenes where it didn't and it really annoyed me. Other than that, this was a great book!! the voice actors did a great job and I loved the story!!
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- Krista
- 2023-08-10
Awesome story
Fast and engaging…great read and story… definitely can’t wait for next in series must read
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-02-28
loved it enough to take time to write about it
My favorite part of this story are all the CAPABLE, INDEPENDENT, STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS!
Thank you Danielle Jensen for adding this story to the universe. Seriously, thank you. I cannot accurately express my enthusiasm for violent female characters with weapons and wit. I just loved this story.
Wishing I could experience it all over again for the first time!
narrators were great. weird transition music was a nice change from the normal audiobook format.
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- Kimberly
- 2020-03-20
Drum music between characters, so annoying
I hate when books put in music to break up chapters. This book has drums breaking up every chapter. When listen at night it’s a loud interruption while you try to relax. The story itself is good. I blew through the first and this one, but it’s hard to get past the constant drums interruptions since the chapters are short ones. Other wise good narrator and story
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- Shopaholic Husband/Frugal Wife
- 2020-02-28
Definitely Not As Fulfilling As Book 1
After reading "The Bridge Kingdom", I couldn't wait for book 2. Amazon warrior like princess getting back her man sounded like a great story. What I got was not as in depth as book one. The emotions and anxiousness wasn't here as I read this book. I enjoyed the sisters and wanted more. This book spent a lot of time on the couple's struggle. Many characters from book 1 made an appearance but nothing reach developed. And the Magpie, what happened to him???
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- Helen
- 2020-02-28
OMG!!!! Where do I start!!?!?😭❤️❤️❤️❤️
I have been waiting for book 2 to come out! I’m so happy it did and everyday spent waiting for it was worth it!!!!!
Characters: Lara is one Amazing Lioness Empress fighting with the biggest Will Power I have ever read! ❤️ ❤️❤️😭🥰It is amazing to me how Danielle brought character development and consistency with Lara. She made it so relatable to how Lara battles her guilt, love and sense of survival throughout this book. I cried, held my breath, screamed in cheers and felt with each of Lara’s hardships and wins and losses. Lara just made me admire her every chapter with her strength and endurance..(suddenly I started making speeches to myself about how she is a hero in the middle of listening as if letting the characters in the book know lols). The women in this series are just Incredible Warriors and it is refreshing to see how they can fight with both their bodies and their minds in fighting and strategizing as good as the men and better than the men as well.
Aren❤️❤️❤️❤️ I love Aren! Danielle really did an amazing job in not wasting time with unnecessary holding of grudges nor emotional outbursts when showing Aren’s struggles in his relationship with Lara. Aren struggles in his strong desire to hate the woman who betrayed him and facing his love for her; to put his kingdom first or his wife his Queen.
Both of them were a matchmade in heaven. Their strengths show you how two people can be so different yet be the yin and yang to each other.
Danielle did an excellent job in describing the physical struggles they went through such as in seas and dessert. By creating what it can happen in the desert or sea it made it so realistic that I was captivated and off my chair most of the time...(had to take breaks, so many intense moments). The disciption of the fighting and their skills was just breath taking! ❤️
And I have to mention the sisters! I fell in love with them and in short amount of time; Danielle wrote about them in a way that built such personalities and connection with few of them (giving us glimpses of strong women with stories of their own....hopefully more books to come for them).
There are many controversial characters also such as K crown prince whom hopefully we can learn more about in coming books (PLEASE LET THERE BE MORE🙌🏽)
Narration: I love your voice and how you give life to the characters! The different women’s voices were portrayed each with their own connotations. I loved how the emotions were put into the narration making me feel every bit of their struggles, aches and states. Thank you!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
James also did an outstanding narrations! Aren’s deep ans yet lilting voice was amazing! And also how you can put the weight of the characters personality to showcase their intentions in their voice was just❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍🏽
THANK YOU SO MUCH DANIELLE FOR YOur AMAZING STORIES AND CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT BOOK!
RECOMMEND!!!!!!!!!😭❤️😍🥰🙌🏽🎊
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- brian
- 2020-02-28
Is this really the end?
I really love the story. The romance genre is over saturated with cliché boring stories, this is not one. I finished both parts in a total of three days and for some reason I feel like this story isn't over. If this is truly the last book in the series then the end was rushed and incomplete. There's so many unanswered questions about pretty major parts of the story. Don't get me wrong I still really liked the story. I just wished that either more parts of the story were finalized by the end of this book or another planned to complete the story.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-02-28
Best Read of This Year So Far!
I just love to read and I have been waiting to listen to the 2nd book in The Bridge Kingdom for what feels like a year. There is so much that I love about this storyline; warrior princesses, heroines versus just another book full of heroes, strong female characters, great narrators, a story of fighting for love and in some cases in this book fighting with love. It’s a unique blend of all that is good in the real of fairytale fantasy and I can hardly believe that it just came out and I heard it all in less than 24 hrs. cause I just didn’t want to stop reading. YES 🙌🏽! It was that good! If you haven’t read Danielle L. Jensen’s books yet, they are a must read! The only disappointment about this book is that now that it is finished I will have to wait quite awhile to read her next. Going to have to re-listen to both stories again!
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- Christine
- 2020-03-18
Cheesy ending ruins it
They had me until the end. Then they jumped the shark. Literally and figuratively. It was like if someone took the last season of Game of Thrones and ended the last episode by having writers and directors from the Hallmark channel write and direct it. Actually, that may have made the last season of GoT better, but I digress. There’s a point where you cannot willingly suspend disbelief and they crossed that line right at the end which I felt took away from the book as a whole.
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- Tess Lewis
- 2020-03-05
Amazing second book but...
Let’s get to the point: this is an amazing set of two books.
The writing is edge of seat exciting, and the characters are believable and real. I would categorize it as more of an adventure/mystery than an “audible escape” level romance, but it does get pretty...descriptive now and then, just not as frequently as a typical ‘erotica’.
I also really like the mixing for the narration with the male and female chapters. In the emotional lines the actors really sell it in some of the best voice work I’ve heard from and audible book period. Suffice to say, I recommend it.
If you don’t want spoilers, just go read the two books.
However...(spoilers)
This might be my own personal inner feminist coming out, but God, I’m a little mad that more people didn’t come to Laura’s defense. Or that him and his people didn’t apologize more. She literally gets dragged though the mud in this book. I understand that they’re angry, and it’s justified but to a point. True, war is horrible and what was done to his people is wrong, but she obviously didn’t mean it and hell, she’s been though the same thing, if not WORSE for 15 YEARS. Just like they’re asking for sympathy, they should give her the same. There is just no winning for her. Toward the last hour or so when he abandons her on the island, I was rooting of him and his people to be killed. There is only so much a relationship can take before I call it abusive, and man does this hurt too much. Idk, it just took a step too far with no real steps being taken afterwards to make amends to all the stuff they put her though. I again was almost rooting for her to leave and go through life at least semi-happy without him at the end when she woke up, but it just ends sourly with her expecting more verbal abuse from people not even trying to look at the situation from her side.
It’s still a great book, but I think I have more of a problem with how things turned out because I was so engaged with Laura and her redemption all the way through, and the payoff just wasn’t quite there for me.
(end of rant)
I will check out the other books this author has, since I do very much like her writing in the end. And obviously she has an ear and vision for the right voicework for every book, so I’m confident I’ll enjoy and be engrossed in whatever else she produces.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-02-29
I’m so happy
This is so amazing. I can’t even wrap my brain around how good this was. I’m so in love I need to go re listen to the bridge kingdom and then this again. I need more books. I need more of these narrators!! Can’t say enough good things.
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- Stephanie
- 2020-02-28
Listen Now
I loved this book. Lauren and James do a wonderful job of bringing this story to life! It was so much fun getting to know Lara's sisters and I loved exploring other regions of the world.
If you liked The Bridge Kingdom you'll love this sequel...and if you haven't read The Bridge Kingdom yet go it now and then come listen to this one. You won't regret a minute of it!
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-02-28
Aahhh all the feels with Lara and Aren
This book was so intense with everything from political drama, war, romance to adventure. Took me on an emotional ride. Lara was so so spectacular in this one, you are going to want to cry for her and hug her. Aren was as usual a sweetheart too. If you are wondering dw, this book has an hea so you are not gunna want to forget this book. I wish we had got to know something about her other sisters too they seem coooool with their sass. All in all what an emotional ride loved every single scene with Lara and Aren.
The narration was awesome too with all the emotions in the voice (they honestly made my cry) which we often don’t get while reading. Though I wish we had it in hard copy early. It’s a deeper connection with reading it and nice to re-read it.
Definitely recommended✅
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