The Shadow Wand, Laurie Forest
The Shadow Wand, Laurie Forest
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The Shadow Wand

Author: Laurie Forest

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Unabridged: 19 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/09/2020


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling series!

Her world-altering secret can't be hidden much longer. Prepare to be spellbound by the third book in The Black Witch Chronicles by critically acclaimed fantasy author Laurie Forest.

Elloren Gardner hides the most powerful secret in all Erthia—she is the Black Witch of Prophecy, and destined to triumph…or be used as the ultimate weapon of destruction.

Separated from everyone she loves, isolated and hunted, Elloren must turn to the last person she can trust—her fastmate, Commander Lukas Grey. With the Mage forces of Gardneria poised to conquer all of Erthia, Elloren has no choice but to ally with Lukas and combine their power to keep herself out of the hands of Gardnerian leader Marcus Vogel…the holder of the all-consuming Shadow Wand.

With just weeks to train to become a warrior, and no control over her magic, Elloren finds unexpected allies among those under orders to kill her. It’s time to step up. To fight back. And to forge onward through the most devastating loss yet.

Critics are raving about Laurie Forest’s incredible debut, The Black Witch:

“Forest uses a richly imagined magical world to offer an uncompromising condemnation of prejudice and injustice.” —Booklist, starred review

“A noteworthy debut.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Briskly paced, tightly plotted.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Books in The Black Witch Chronicles:

The Black Witch
The Iron Flower
The Shadow Wand
The Demon Tide
The Dryad Storm
Wandfasted (ebook novella)*
Light Mage (ebook novella)*

* Also available in print in The Rebel Mages anthology

About Laurie Forest

Laurie Forest lives deep in the backwoods of Vermont, where she sits in front of a wood stove drinking strong tea and dreaming up tales full of dryads, dragons and wands. She is the author of The Black Witch Chronicles, including The Black Witch, The Iron Flower, The Shadow Wand, The Demon Tide and the prequel e-novellas Wandfasted and Light Mage, which are also available in print as The Rebel Mages anthology. Enter her realm online at www.laurieannforest.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laurie

I hear there's a lot of kissing in this book. And Realm War. And dragon armies. And did I mention the kissing? ;) Fasten your seatbelts, everyone.........more

Am I still reading The Black Witch Chronicles? Because I could swear this book in no way seems connected to the previous two books and I say this because I really wish it was the case. This series which I have loved with all my heart since the first book has, for the first time, disappointed me trem......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

Well, blah. I had high hopes for this one and they were not met. The first 200 pages especially were weighed down with a ton of secondary characters that were mostly unimportant and impossible to keep track of. There was also just way too much information without any interesting character interactio......more

My brain hurts. That was quite a bit of plot and character introductions for my tiny brain. The third installment in the Blackwitch Chronicles was a wild ride to say the least. It gave me an entirely different vibe from the last two books. Spoilers from here on out so GOODBYE. There are 71 pages of ch......more

Goodreads review by AlexisP

*SPOILERS AHEAD* I’m so saddened to say this but I am incredibly disappointed by this book. There were parts of this book where I felt it was waaaay too rushed and I really just wanted things to slow down. But then other parts went at a glacier pace and were filled with such needless description that......more