Of Dreams and Shadows, Jesikah Sundin
Of Dreams and Shadows, Jesikah Sundin
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Of Dreams and Shadows

Author: Jesikah Sundin

Narrator: Olivia King

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/23/2020


Synopsis

Previously published as: ÆROREH
She is forced to dream while awake.He must face his nightmare—her.
Something is terribly wrong. What her eyes see conflicts with what she feels. But Princess Aroreh Rosen doesn't know she is under a glamour, one that forces her to see only illusions of beauty and contentment.
Not how hunger and sickness plague her factory-choked land.
Or how her mother's cruel, dark magic is amplified when Aroreh is awake and why she's enchanted to never sleep.
And definitely not how the handsome young man her mother prepares to sacrifice is demonized by her realm.
Not until a rebel sect of faeries, that is, releases her mind and unleashes her magic—the power to weave new realities while dreaming.
Now on the run, Aroreh’s unspooling world collides with Félip Batten McKinley’s, the young man her mother had captured and the surviving heir to the throne of faerie. The very throne the queen maneuvered to annihilate through Aroreh's magic. And why the faeries hid Félip as a child in the factory slums. But an uprising pushes Félip from the shadows of his life and into the hauntingly beautiful light of Aroreh Rosen—a young woman who represents every nightmare he knows.
Yet only she has the power to awaken a new dream and save their people.

✨ OF DREAMS AND SHADOWS ✨ is a young adult elven fantasy spin on the romantic tale of Sleeping Beauty, blending faerie magic and pagan ritual with an Industrial Revolution meets medieval faerie tale inspired setting. Guaranteed to please readers who love angsty, enemies-to-lovers medium-burn fated romances, twisted fairy tales, and strong found family themes.
STANDALONE in a connected series / shared world

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on July 09, 2021

I am a big fan of fairy tale retellings and YA, so I really thought this book would be right up my alley. Unfortunately, it fell short for me. While the prose was good, the story itself felt bland and confusing. The author tries to weave in so many different elements that nothing really sticks. The......more

Goodreads review by Sydney on November 11, 2022

“People who know their own mind aren’t controlled by pretty lies.” This book is the pure embodiment of the "Grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one" trope, and it's WONDERFUL. It's a beautiful mashup of the Sleeping Beauty faerie tale and the Matrix in the Victorian Revolution. It's a world where magi......more

Goodreads review by Tyffany on October 15, 2019

I had the absolute pleasure of beta reading this beautiful book and guys. You are in for a treat. Æroreh (Aurora) is a mythpunk Sleeping Beauty retelling; meaning that while you see a lot of the traditional fantasy elements, there's also high technology and Sundin blends these worlds seamlessly. As p......more

Goodreads review by Sarah Elyse on September 29, 2022

Princess Aroreh Rosen is beautiful and graceful, delicate and kind, docile and gentle. She was made this way at birth by the faeries who blessed her, and for her entire existence, she’s been living in a perfect, dreamlike state of bliss. Aroreh has never known anything else, but the harsh reality is......more