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The Mortal Blade

Magelands Eternal Siege Series, Book 1

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The Mortal Blade

By: Christopher Mitchell
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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A city ruled by Gods, a mortal champion, a misfit girl, and a disobedient dragon....

Stolen from his home, Corthie Holdfast has arrived in the City of the Eternal Siege as a new champion.

He must fight alongside the Blades, whose lives are dedicated to the defense of the city against the hordes of monstrous Greenhides; or die at the hands of the Gods who rule.

Maddie Jackdaw, a young Blade, faces her last chance. Thrown out of every unit defending the city, either she takes on a new role, or she will be sent to the Rats, a company of misfits given the perilous tasks beyond the Great Walls.

Her new role, if she takes it, will bring her face to face with her deepest fears, for beneath the walls, in a secret and hidden lair, lies a dragon, imprisoned and waiting....

©2020 Christopher Mitchell (P)2021 Tantor
Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Young Adult Dragons City Siege
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The ending gets very interesting

The development of the characters and story was quite long and a bit hard to follow. I lost the thread between the main characters and few times. The narration is sometimes like a news cast. The ending got very interesting so I may get the next book in the series to hear more about the dragons and a couple main characters

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This is a CrackerJack of a story...

This is a CrackerJack of a story! I stumbled across this in an ad on Facebook and damn I'm glad 😊 I did!
As the story unfolds you realize that it's actually following 4 different storylines, And that all of 'em take place in the God City.
The first introduced is Aila and we learn right away that not only can she change her appearance with glamor but that she also a top tier assassin... the second is Corthie Holdfast a mortal and inducted into the Blade's to fight against the Greenhides an insectoid race and surprisingly Corthie has god-like Battle-vision and he can also see through glamor, next we learn about Maddie Jackdaw a somewhat argumentative young woman that is seriously just trying to hang on and join the Blade's but her chances keep slipping by. The forth and final POV is Daniel Aurelian a young officer joining the militia. All the stories are fascinating in their own right and seemingly independent of each other until they're not!!
Ohhhh and did I mention that there are Dragons, only 2 but jeez how many do you need?!?
I happened to really like Shaun Grindell narration so go ahead and grab this awesome book or better yet the boxed set...

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not bad, but could be better

The beginning didn't grab me and keep me interested. it picked up towards the end, but was suddenly over. A more intriguing storyline could've made it outstanding.

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Great story

I have listened to all 6 books that have been uploaded and love them all.

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Decent, if formulaic story

Fairly entertaining, but the narrator was not great. Character development was shallow, but the dragons are cool.

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CLIFF HANGERS for 17 books DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME

This is a great story, but it ends on a cliffhanger. Book 2 isn't even a cliffhanger; it just ends with NOTHING resolved. It just flat hangs you out to dry. I discovered there are 17 books and 11 of them aren't even available. Good grief. Neither of the books I've listened to so far tie anything up so you can feel just a little gratification for listening to 27 hours of a great story with no ending. It would help me want to move on to the next one if there was a smidgen of satisfaction but there is NONE.

DON'T WASTE YOU TIME unless that's all you have is time because I fear there is no ending whatsoever in any of the books.

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Unreasonably stupid characters.

The premise, world building, and general delivery of the story are quite good. The narrator is also very good.

The only problem I have with the story is that every character we get as a PoV is makes obviously objectively bad decisions in pretty much every scene they are in. The story is mostly propelled by the blundering of the main characters which I find infuriating

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Exciting

I liked how there were different stories going on all at the same time. Each character added to the story as a whole. Great read!

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Black rose

The entire story line was attention grabbing from start to finish. extremely exiting read. Can't wait to read next book

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Great Story!!

Awesome story as well as the performance of the guy reading it aloud.. He has a beautiful way of bringing the story to life.. Thank you

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