I believe that this audiobook should have only had one narrator. What does Eric Michael Summerer and Erin Moon bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? 'Labyrinth' the film, you know, the one where David Bowie is the singing Goblin King who captures a girl's brother, forcing her to come to his magical kingdom. Fighting back is the easy part as she slowly starts to fall in love with the 'deformed' goblin. This novel follows Kate Winslow as she is captured by the goblin king, Marak, as his future bride. 'The Princess and the Goblin' because, well, for the obvious. I was constantly reminded of three stories, actually. What other book might you compare Stolen Songbird to and why? Like her, but she has some growth the take in. I don’t want to get frustrated when the audience and Cécile are given the same information and the audience pieces the clues together faster than the main character. Don’t dumb the plot down and dress it up with pretty words. How can one NOT be invested in the plot and characters? This is where the BUT comes in (unfortunately.) I was hoping Jenson would trust her readers (listeners) to understand the situations and happenstances as they came to be. Magic, a doomed race, royalty, abused servants, and sooo much more.

“Stolen Songbird” has a whole lot of potential especially because it is only book one of a trilogy.

So I have always enjoyed me some good regular-gal-meets-powerful-man-to-form-a-strong-relationship stories. I would recommend this audiobook, but with a weary warning. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? She becomes a princess, the hope of a people, and a witch with magic powerful enough to change Trollus forever. And her prince, Tristan, the future king, is its secret leader.Īs Ccile becomes involved in the intricate political games of Trollus, she becomes more than a farmer's daughter. And she begins to see that she may be the only hope for the half-bloods - part troll, part human creatures who are slaves to the full-blooded trolls. But something unexpected happens while she's waiting - she begins to fall for the enigmatic troll prince to whom she has been bonded and married. She will have to bide her time, wait for the perfect opportunity. Only the trolls are clever, fast, and inhumanly strong. But a prophesy has been spoken of a union with the power to set the trolls free, and when Ccile de Troyes is kidnapped and taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far more to the myth of the trolls than she could have imagined.Ĭcile has only one thing on her mind after she is brought to Trollus: escape.

Time enough for their dark and nefarious magic to fade from human memory and into myth. For five centuries, a witch's curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain.

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