Blade of Secrets, Tricia Levenseller
Blade of Secrets, Tricia Levenseller
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Blade of Secrets

Author: Tricia Levenseller

Narrator: Emily Ellet

Unabridged: 8 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/04/2021


Synopsis

"Emily Ellet offers an unflinching and elegant performance of this audiobook...Ellet's vocal versatility and steady pace capture several characters seamlessly while guiding listeners through budding romance, anxiety attacks, and the steadfast strength of a character who proves herself even at her worst." -- AudioFile Magazine

In Blade of Secrets, the first audiobook in Tricia Levenseller's exciting new YA fantasy duology, a teenage blacksmith with social anxiety is forced to go on the run to protect the world from the most powerful magical sword she's ever made.

Eighteen-year-old Ziva prefers metal to people. She spends her days tucked away in her forge, safe from society and the anxiety it causes her, using her magical gift to craft unique weapons imbued with power.

Then Ziva receives a commission from a powerful warlord, and the result is a sword capable of stealing its victims secrets. A sword that can cut far deeper than the length of its blade. A sword with the strength to topple kingdoms. When Ziva learns of the warlord’s intentions to use the weapon to enslave all the world under her rule, she takes her sister and flees.

Joined by a distractingly handsome mercenary and a young scholar with extensive knowledge of the world’s known magics, Ziva and her sister set out on a quest to keep the sword safe until they can find a worthy wielder or a way to destroy it entirely.

A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends

About Tricia Levenseller

Tricia Levenseller is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Darkness Within Us and several other YA romantasy novels, including Daughter of the Pirate King. Tricia grew up in Oregon, where she spent her childhood climbing trees and playing make believe. She now lives in Utah with her bossy dog, Rosy, where she writes full time. When she’s not writing or reading, Tricia enjoys putting together jigsaw puzzles, playing video games, and finding tasty restaurants to frequent.

About Emily Ellet

Emily Ellet (she/her) is an award-winning actor, singer, and coach based in Denver with over 15 years and 850+ titles recorded. As a narrator, she's the winner of the inaugural Innovator Award from the Anna Ats Deadline Awards, a Bronze IPPY Award, as well as an Earphones Award, in addition to nominations for an Audie Award, a SOVAS Award, and an IAA Award. Emily focuses on heightened emotional authenticity, and her favorite genres to narrate are sci-fi/fantasy, thrillers, young adult, and rom-coms. She is particularly inspired by mother-daughter relationships and witty banter that reminds her of her brilliant younger siblings.Although she misses rollerblading her commutes after 10 years in NYC, Emily is delighted to finally be breathing in the pine-tinged air while hiking the Colorado mountains. She is a former foster mom to teen girls, which underpins her love of therapy and neuroscience. You can often find her baking her mom’s secret-recipe chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, giggling at her Zoom-bombing cats Graham and Sam, and dancing to K-pop as a card-carrying BTS ARMY fan club member.Emily is the co-founder of PANA, the Professional Audiobook Narrators Association.


Reviews

Goodreads review by jessica

rounding up because while this isnt the best YA fantasy out there, i cant stop thinking about it. i cant stop thinking about the social anxiety rep, kellyn, the cute banter, kellyn, the rag-tag team, the adorable sisterhood, oh, and did i mention kellyn? lol. the fast-paced adventure, extremely like......more

Goodreads review by aly

As I'm about to write a review on this (after 5 days reading them, I still squealed like I just finished it). I am honestly going into blind when I started the book and did not know what to expect. Blade of Secrets follows a story of Ziva, who loves to spend her alone time in the forge creating uniq......more

I received this complimentary ARC from the publisher, in exchange for an honest review. So...that was an evil way to end it, but in no way diminishes my love for it. Like her previous book, The Shadows Between Us, this was so much fun, which put me in such a great mood that I binged the heck out of i......more

(still sounding slightly possessed) Rating: 😊🔪🔪🔪 4.4 *me talking to the mirror pretending it's the author* Let's get something out of the way first. How dare you? Seriously. How. Dare. You. You know what? You are selfish. Bring me to the abysm of heart break, go ahead and rip the life giving elixir from m......more