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The Dryad Storm

By: Laurie Forest
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
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The New York Times bestselling series!

Magical forces clash and Erthia hovers on the brink of ruin in the can't-miss finale of Laurie Forest’s epic fantasy series, The Black Witch Chronicles!

Who can survive the Shadow storm?

Black Witch of prophecy Elloren Gardner Grey has unleashed her powers and embraced her legacy as a Dryad and guardian of the Forest. But the losses—of life, of love—have been almost too great to withstand as the Shadow continues to devour the world. With only a tattered shred of hope remaining, the Bearers of the Wand of Myth must battle their way back to each other to mount a final stand.

But Elloren and her allies are not only facing Mage Vogel's advancing forces—the armies of the Eastern Realm will stop at nothing to see the Black Witch struck down.

With Elloren's bonded mate prophesied to kill her, Shadow demons rising, and the ties between allies unraveling, can this fracturing world unite to face down the coming storm?

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Listen to all the books in the Black Witch Chronicles!

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

*Also available in audio in The Rebel Mages anthology

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Laurie Forest (P)2023 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
Coming of Age Dark Fantasy Epic Paranormal Magic Users Wizardry Witchcraft
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Great Series & A Happily Ever After

The first part of this book, is wrapping up all the characters, and their love for their partners, & family.

Then the arguing from each race & country, trying to come together for the big battle.

A BIG Revelation begins in the last 6 hours of the book. That's when the battle begins.

Love and New beginnings.

The narrator did a superb job.

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Great ending to this epic series

Wow. Just wow. The conclusion of this epic YA fantasy series was fantastic - all the storylines pulled beautifully to their individual conclusions wrapped up in love and hope. It was definitely another stay up too late, cannot put it down, it should get more than 5 stars kind of book. I was equally desperate to read it all at once and also to savor it and make it last. The storyline was imaginative, the characters were real and relatable, and the writing was captivating. It had a perfect balance of all the best plot elements and the world building continues to be phenomenal, woven together scene by scene, and layer by layer. With the addition of this book, Erthia now exists as a living breathing place full of three dimensional beings, so real it feels like I have been there and lived with these characters. This is book 5 in the Black Witch Chronicles and the overall story arc spans the entire series and this book picks up where the last book left us. Elloren has bonded with the great tree, III, to become a Dryad Witch Guardian. Lukas is dead and she has renewed her Wyvern bond to Yvan. There are multiple sets of forces out to destroy her after she was forced to participate on the attack on Voloi and her allies are scattered. To beat the evil mage Vogel, who wields the Shadow Wand, and save Erthia, Elloren and her strong allies along with all the people of Erthia with their prejudices and multitude of conflicting cultures and religions will need to find a way to unite. Be prepared, this story packs quite an emotional punch - terrifying, thought provoking,and uplifting all at the same time. It is ultimately a story of good versus evil but Forest does such a fantastic job of creating multi-layered worlds, characters and storylines that that’s an extreme oversimplification of what this story is. So strap in and enjoy all the intrigue, fighting, dangerous situations, end of the world scenarios, paranormal creatures, evil masterminds, henchmen, loyal friends and family, tragic back stories, secrets, mystical coincidences, snark, laughs, soulmates, redemption, hope, love, and so, so many plots twists.

Julia Whelan did a phenomenal job narrating the story and characters into life with enough change of inflection, tone and cadence to voice a multitude of characters quite convincingly.

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worth the wait

I just found this series a few months ago and binged all the books. I was so excited to listen to the new book and it did NOT disappoint. Easily my top 3 favorite series.

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Meh

This book is INCREDIBLY long winded and has SOOOO much liberal political propaganda that I could hardly get through it. Don’t get me wrong, I agree with most of the political views represented in this book but, I don’t purchase fantasy books to be inundated with the author’s opinions told over and over in every possible obvious way. To a degree, this seems to be a more and more prevalent theme in fantasy novels as a whole. However, I just want a good story that flows naturally. It is possible to deliver that kind of book with liberal elements naturally developing in a story without preaching to your readers. This could have been a good book if it was half the length and had been published w/in 5 years of the first book.

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