A Feast for Starving Stone, Beth Cato
A Feast for Starving Stone, Beth Cato
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A Feast for Starving Stone

Author: Beth Cato

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Unabridged: 14 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/09/2024


Synopsis

Two countries at war. A delicious taste of magic. And a fierce princess comes of age in a rousing adventure by the author of A Thousand Recipes for Revenge.Princess Solenn’s marriage into royalty should have unified the continental neighbors of Verdania and Solenn’s homeland of Braiz against a common enemy: the country of Albion. Thanks to Albion’s cunning sabotage, Verdania is now Braiz’s lethal rival. And the dead Braizian sailors washed ashore near Solenn’s château are just the beginning.Arriving in the midst of danger, Ada Garland, rogue Chef to the Gods, is desperate to reunite with her daughter, Solenn. Not only has open war begun; it’s become heart-wrenchingly personal. Ada’s long-lost, beloved Braizian musketeer, Captain Erwan Corre, is being held in a Verdanian prison, with execution imminent. And her daughter has been tasked with the near-doomed responsibility of uniting violently adversarial countries in peace.Can Solenn and Ada, coming together, stop their land from descending into all-out war? And what will Solenn become to achieve victory? As ambassador between the human and magical worlds, Solenn must now draw from both to prevent catastrophe, and this time, even the Gods are working against her.

About Beth Cato

Beth Cato is the Nebula Award–nominated author of the Clockwork Dagger series and the Blood of Earth trilogy. Her short stories and poetry can be found in hundreds of publications, including Fantasy Magazine, Escape Pod, Uncanny Magazine, and the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Beth hails from Hanford, California, but currently writes and bakes cookies in a lair west of Phoenix, Arizona, that she shares with her husband, son, and two feline overlords. For more information, visit www.bethcato.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robin on January 15, 2024

This review was originally posted on Books of My Heart Review copy was received from NetGalley, Publisher. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. A Feast for Starving Stone is the concluding book to theChefs to the Five GodsDuology.  It picks up three weeks after t......more

Goodreads review by Lucinda on January 03, 2024

This series is just amazing! Book 2 picks up right after book 1, and you're going to need to read that one first. This one is a direct continuation. The worldbuilding is impressive and the main characters, as well as the secondary, are well formed and engaging. The story kept me reading at a fast pa......more


Quotes

“Fantasy readers will enjoy Cato’s characters and her original, sensuous world.” Booklist

“The sequel to A Thousand Recipes for Revenge is an intriguing intersection of culinary magic and political machinations.” Library Journal