The Mark of the Tala, Jeffe Kennedy
The Mark of the Tala, Jeffe Kennedy
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The Mark of the Tala
The Twelve Kingdoms

Author: Jeffe Kennedy

Narrator: Cris Dukehart

Unabridged: 11 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/28/2014


Synopsis

The tales tell of three sisters, daughters of the high king. The eldest, a valiant warrior-woman, heir to the kingdom. The youngest, the sweet beauty with her Prince Charming. No one says much about the middle princess, Andromeda. Andi, the other one.

Andi doesn't mind being invisible. She enjoys the company of her horse more than court, and she has a way of blending into the shadows. Until the day she meets a strange man riding, who keeps company with wolves and ravens, who rules a land of shape-shifters and demons. A country she'd thought was no more than legend—until he claims her as its queen.

In a moment everything changes: Her father, the wise king, becomes a warlord, suspicious and strategic. Whispers call her dead mother a traitor and a witch. Andi doesn't know if her own instincts can be trusted, as visions appear to her and her body begins to rebel. For Andi, the time to learn her true nature has come.

About Jeffe Kennedy

Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning, bestselling author who writes fantasy with romantic elements and fantasy romance. She is an RWA member and serves on the Board of Directors for SFWA as a Director at Large.

She is a hybrid author, and also self-publishes a romantic fantasy series, Sorcerous Moons. Books in her popular, long-running series, The Twelve Kingdoms and The Uncharted Realms, have won the RT Reviewers' Choice Best Fantasy Romance, been named Best Book of June 2014, and won RWA's prestigious RITA® Award, while more have been finalists for those awards. She's the author of the romantic fantasy trilogy The Forgotten Empires, which includes The Orchid Throne, The Fiery Crown, and The Promised Queen.

Jeffe lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with two Maine Coon cats, plentiful free-range lizards, and a very handsome Doctor of Oriental Medicine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robin

Sale Alert: 14Mar18 Currently $2.99 on Amazon. Solid Romantasy (It is totally a thing) [URL not allowed] 3.5 Stars This is an adult romance with a few high fantasy points thrown in. Andromeda or Andi for short is the middle daughter and a princess of the twelve kingdoms. She has......more

Goodreads review by Mara

3 1/2 I now see why all those mixed reviews out there. All those three stars, but not really glowing words. The Mark of the Tala is an intriguing fantasy tale that nonetheless fails to engage completely the reader. Or at least this reader. I liked it, mind it, but I was at the same time off - put by t......more

I actually liked this book. Like, really liked it. Rate: 3.5/4 stars.......more

Goodreads review by Gail

Romantic shifter fantasy princess story. I found the characters and the romance quite engaging but the world-building left me a bit cold. I've bought the second one in the series, and the third features a warrior woman (one of my favorite tropes), but I'm talking a breather with something more deve......more