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    Twilight's Dawn

    Written by Anne Bishop

    Narrated by John Sharian

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop's Black Jewels novels have enthralled readers and critics alike. Now, in Twilight's Dawn, Bishop returns to the Blood realm with four captivating novellas: Winsol Gifts, Shades of Honor, Family, and The High Lord's Daughter.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 1, 2011
    ISBN9781101432495
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    Twilight's Dawn
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    Anne Bishop

    Anne Bishop is the bestselling author of the Black Jewels series, the Tir Alainn Trilogy and the Landscapes of Ephemera series. Her novels are published in Australia, Germany, the UK and Portugal, as well as the United States. In her free time, she enjoys gardening, reading and music.

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    • 4/5
      Bittersweet but beautiful ending

      This wasn’t my favorite black jewel story but it did tie-up a lot of loose ends. It was bittersweet but held a lot of promise for the future of Janelle Satien. I won’t write more because I don’t want to give away any spoilers. The door is open for a spin-off if Anne Bishop so desires. I would read it.
    • 5/5
      The ninth book in the Black Jewels series contains four wonderful stories. WINSOL GIFTS is a great slice of life story that lets us see old favorite characters and experience the winter holidays the way the SaDiablo family does.SHADES OF HONOR fills in the details about whatever happened to Falonar after he broke Surreal's heart.FAMILY is the story of a betrayal and what the SaDiablo's do when someone messes with their family. Saetan's love Queen Sylvia is essentially ambushed when she goes on a simple family visit to a manor near Little Terreille. Her death needs to be avenged, her children protected, and the villain eliminated before he can do any more damage. THE HIGH LORD'S DAUGHTER made me cry. It tells the story, centered around Daemon, after the love of his life - the woman he waited for for 1700 years - dies and leaves him to pick up his life and start again. There are a number of heart-wrenching losses in this one but lots of new children born too.
    • 5/5
      This was a fantastic set of novellas set in the Black Jewel series world. I absolutely loved it. I think having reached the end I am ready to buy the series now. I don't need every book but the first three, and this one for sure are keepers. They're different, sometimes a little ridiculous yes, but daring and most of all they are great fun. The characters are what makes it for me and the clever writing behind those characters makes them what they are. Strangely enough I never did invest much in the women, just the men. But then, the men are more than enough to keep me entertained. There are still three books in the series for me, those that were only loosely centered around Daemon and Lucivar. I'll most likely see about reading them sooner rather than later.
    • 5/5
      Twilight's Dawn is the 9th book in Anne Bishop's Black Jewels series. This is a collection of four novellas that feature characters from the series. I would recommend having read the main trilogy and Tangled Webs for a full understanding of the characters and the events they've experienced prior to reading this collection. The remaining books are helpful in regards to timelines but not required to enjoy these stories.The first story is Winsol Gifts. Daemon and Jeanelle are settling into married life and it will be their first Winsol together without a crisis to deal with. This was a sweet, day in the life story that shows how the SaDiablo family is when the Realms are at peace and what it means for the Blood to celebrate their version of the winter solstice. Next is Shades of Honor. Set not long after events in Tangled Webs, Surreal has returned to Ebon Rih still recovering from her wounds. The visit is meant to help her heal both physically and mentally. When her former lover Prince Falonar begins to challenge her family's rule on the region it may be just enough for Surreal's mind to begin walking the paths to the Twisted Kingdom. This one has all the intensity and drama that I love about the Black Jewels books. Lucivar is shown in his full Eyrien Warlord Price glory. We're given more insight into Eyrien society and what it means to be a warrior in peace time. The story stays focused on Lucivar and Surreal, which I enjoyed as their character interplay is a lot of fun to read. The third novella is Family. This one takes places 10 years later. Lady Sylvia, Queen of Dhemlan, is taking her sons on a trip to see another blood family, but not all is what it seems. A serial killer with a penchant for young boys has laid a trap for the family. Things quickly turn vicious. This one reminds me of Daughter of the Blood in style with regards to the level of violence and it's target being children. It is one of the shorter stories so the mystery is solved fairly quickly and the story shifts to focus on the Saetan/Sylvia dynamic.The final story is The High Lord's Daughter. This is a story that spans several decades. I cannot talk about this one without major spoilers so click the tag at your own risk. It begins one year after Jeanelle's death as Daemon is still coming to grips with the loss. As readers we always knew this day would come, he being one of the long lived races and she is not, but I never expected Bishop to write about it. I started to tear up within the first couple pages and the story does not pull any emotional punches. Jeanelle left Daemon with the instruction to "take a year to grieve, and when that year is over, promise me you'll take up your life again." While Daemon does as instructed and involves himself in the world around him, he does not open himself back up to love. A little time passes and then we also witness Saeten pass into the darkness with Daemon's help. Again, never something I thought Bishop would ever write. With some help, and several centuries for his heart to heal, Dameon finds out that, yes, he can live life to its fullest and love again though it will never be the same as what he had with Jeanelle. It is tragic, hopeful and ended much different than I was expecting even after I read the blurb on the back of the book. It definitely feels like the end to the series and quite a bittersweet ending at that. Bishop has written on her blog that she may come back to the series again at some point but I wouldn't be surprised if that's not for a long time if ever.I am torn. I think this is a great read for fans of the series but I can also see that last story really pissing fans off. Overall I enjoyed the stories and was moved by them. Read that final story at your own risk.
    • 3/5
      I always enjoy Bishop's Dark Jewels tales, but none of the later books have been as satisfying as the original trilogy. This set of tales provides welcome time with characters who are like old friends, but falls far short of the glittering-dark intensity of the first books. Still, I'm glad I bought it and will probably dip into it again in the future.
    • 4/5
      Confession time: I've not read any of the previous books in Anne Bishop's 'Black Jewels'' series. I'm just looking for audiobooks to listen to while I make Christmas gifts. I enjoyed her 'The Others' books, so I checked out 'Twilight's Dawn'.Winsol GIfts': *** Got a little too cutsey at times, but not a bad look into a winter solstice (?) celebration. Princes Daemon and Lucivar have trouble figuring out what to give their father for Winsol. What do you give a 50,000-year-old man? Grandfather's advice on how to safeguard fragile gifts might be useful to parents of small children.'Shades of Honor': Would that what happens to Surreal in this story could happen for all who carry darkness in them. As for Falonar, her ex-lover, he would have been quite at home among the SS officers in Nazi Germany. Personally, I think a real sadist would have let the first choice of punishment stand. Lucivar gets to strut his stuff on the killing field in this one. Good advice for persons who get a bad injury is included.'Family':**** As in the second story, this story seems to have a considerable amount of wish fulfillment in it. I could have done without one of the things that happens to Queen Sylvia. On the other hand, I'm a former victim of [mild] childhood sexual abuse. I have no problem with the fate of the homical pedophile.'The High Lord's Daughter': I've read some of the reviews and the description at Ms. Bishop's website, so I'm not bothering with this one. After all, my local library may get more of the Black Jewel books on CD.
    • 2/5
      Rather disappointing sequel to Black jewels story. I hoped that she will add more explanations and fill-up some plot holes that are left, not run trough 70-90 years of story and throw a lot of more things at us.
    • 5/5
      I was a bit concerned when I finished the first of the four stories in this book... it wasn't a bad story, but it didn't have any angst or darkness or threat or suspense... it was just a glimpse into the (somewhat mundane) lives of the Black Jewels' characters. The darkness and stress (will everything work out okay?) picked up in the following three stories. It seems that many people were disappointed in how some of the characters were "resolved" at the end, but I thought it was very fitting, believable, and had just the right level of heart-broken-ness.It was as well written as the rest of the books in this series. Even the characters felt like they really were the "same" people as in the earlier books, without being repetitive about how/why they behaved the ways they did.
    • 3/5
      When I marked this book as read, I actually mean I read the first 3 stories of the 4 that are in Twilight's dawn. The reason is that a friend warned me about the fourth story: it completely ruined all the Black Jewels books for her (see this review). So I didn't risk reading that one. As for the first three, they are similar to the other short stories in the series: in essence not really very special, but satisfying nonetheless, due to the incredibly sympathetic and engaging characters and the intricacy of the Black Jewels world.
    • 5/5
      This review maybe controversial for some, but I really liked this book.Of course I cried, of course I said WTF when the Surreal/Daemon connection appeared. But I got it because it was real. He didn't forget the love of his life, he struggled, but loved. He loved because the love of his life healed him in a way. I think what iludes some readers is that they forget that Surreal really loved and felt devastated, also about Jaenelle's death. She didn't sit in the sidelines waiting for her turn. She was Jaenelle's closest female friend, a sister, she was instrumental in getting Jaenelle and Daemon to finally wed. She named her daughter after her.Surreal and Daemon's love wasn't cliché or based in some pseudo fantasy we harbor about being the only thing the other wants or needs. She wasn't second best. She was loved and loved and it was all thanks to Witch.I will never be a fan of killing off characters in a book. Mostly its done as a quick way to give drama to a plot (I'm looking at you J.K. Rowling!). But none of the deaths were really a surprise. We have been hearing about them coming. Perhaps Jaenelle's death deserved the gravitas that was bestowed upon Saetan's but maybe Ms. Bishop thought we had cried enough... The thing I liked more about Anne Bishop's fantasy is that it seems real. They are real people who shop, read books, eat, take naps, etc. Often fantasy characters live only for the quest and their lives and day to day are only important when they are doing something other worldly. The insight into the mundane (which isn't that mundane) gives depth and sets Ms. Bishop's work apart.In the end, this is the conclusion of a saga that is really close to my heart and it was a worthy ending. If you are a fan, but want to stay in the illusion that life isn't as unstoppable as the tides, then don't read it.
    • 1/5
      WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERSOkay, I don’t even know where to start. Dear Anne Bishop, What the f**k?! Wasn’t it enough that all the books since the Black Jewel’s Trilogy weren’t really about Jaenelle, or that she only appeared as someone who gave advice and was never truly part of the adventure? No, you had to kill her and Saetan on the same short story. They didn’t even deserve a whole book?I know what you tried to do, the only logic thing to Jaenelle being human and all, I know Surreal was the only person that made sense for Daemon, and being there as a Song in the Darkness so he wouldn’t feel lonely at the level of the Black was kind of conforting. And yes, in Daughter of the Blood I kind of hoped Surreal and Daemon would be together. But that was centuries ago, that was before the living myth, that was before Witch. That was before Jaenelle. And though she was human, this is a fantasy book! You could made her eat a cake of Lorn’s scales or something and tã-dãã, she’d live as long as Daemon.And what about that Jaenelle Satien having more to do with little Jaenelle than with Surreal? That didn’t even made any sense. Daemon should have had Jaenelle’s children to cherish and take care of when she was gone (if she really needed to be gone).Having only Daemon and Lucivar and Surreal left makes me remember those first years in Terreile, feels hollow, incomplete. Even with the new children.I love happy endings, not books that make me cry a whole afternoon. I hope we hear more from Jaenelle, from her happy years, from her grown-up adventures. Now I’m doing the same as Saetan, I don’t care about the world of the living blood until I hear from the daughter of his soul again. And I’m not buying this book!! I don’t want it on my shelf!!
    • 4/5
      I was slightly disappointed with this collection.Winsol Gifts was an okay story, but nothing new.Shades of Honor was a good story, but it didn't seem to quite mesh with Surreal's question about Falanor in Shalador's Lady.Family was my favorite story in the collection.The Highlord's Daughter started as a good story, but the events at the end and the explanation for them seemed rather forced.
    • 5/5
      Four novellas featuring Daemon, Janelle, Lucivar and Surreal, as well as several other familiar faces. As always, death isn't necessarily the end for Bishop's characters, but neither does life/afterlife last forever. Events play out over decades, with a few gaps between allowing for further adventures to be told later (I hope!). All four novellas highlight the importance of family and bonds that go deeper than blood, but the first entry, Winsol Gifts, is the gentlest of the four. Revolving around the holiday and highlighting the changes family brings, it introduces themes made more violently clear in the later two entries.Shades of Honor finds Surreal and Rainier struggling with the aftermath of the Spooky House episode. Some wounds cut deeper than the physical - Lucivar, tasked with seeing the two back into fit fighting shape, has his work cut out for him.In Family Saetan and Sylvia finally get their chance at happiness - but as always, some things come at a high price.Finally, in The High Lord's Daughter a devastated Daemon must carry out his last promise to Janelle. Ever cast in the role of protector and escort, when Surreal steps over the line she finds more than she bargained for - but will her constancy be enough to protect herself and the realms Daemon rules?Different than I expected - which isn't a criticism. Not as emotionally wrenching, and lacking a cliff-hanger ending, Bishop seems to be wrapping up her work with this generation. I look forward to seeing what crises Bishop brings to bear on the latest characters. All is trending far too happily to last for long, so hopefully this won't really be the last Realms novel!
    • 4/5
      This collection of short stories was a lovely continuation of one of my favourite ‘comfort reads’, fills in some of the pieces of the story readers of the Black Jewels books might have been wondering about, and continues the story of the SaDiablo family. I love the characters and the way in which they interact with each other, and was entirely satisfied (and moved) by these stories, although the last particularly has apparently received mixed reviews.
    • 5/5
      Just one more tally on the list of why I LOVE these books! The only reason it doesn't get a full 5 stars is because I'm devastated that the series has to be over. I laughed (like I usually do with these guys) and I cried A LOT. And I absolutely loved it all.I'm glad Bishop was able to find some conflict, otherwise reading abut their daily lives, like in "Winsol Gifts" (while entertaining because of the characters) would not have lived up to her standard. All of the stories did not disappoint. "Shades of Honor" gives a good bit of closure for a few stories - Daemon still makes me shiver sometimes :)I almost put off reading "The High Lord's Daugter," simply because I knew what it would do to me - I'm going to have to re-read it and try not to cry as much. It was sad, sweet, painful, and awesome. "Family" was excellent, and I was very glad to see that Sylvia and her boys were back. I loved it, and I'm sad it's over. But I'm sure I'll be reading the whole series again once summer arrives.
    • 5/5
      Anne Bishop is by far my favorite author. I was so excited when I found out she was writing another book about the SaDiablo family, and I was not disappointed. My only regret is that there weren’t more stories to read and enjoy. If you have never picked up any of her books, I highly recommend the Dark Jewels Trilogy and its companion books.
    • 5/5
      Anne has stated that for the time being, Twilight's Dawn is the last book set in the Realms. With that, she has answered some reader questions and also given some of our favorite characters some fun..."Winsol's gifts" aka the fun story. Set after Tangled Webs, Surreal and Rainier are still recovering from what happened in the spooky house. Other members of the family are both trying to understand what happened in the house, and in the meantime, some other members of the SaDiablo family are looking to make some new family traditions. A sweet story, and also sets up for..."Shades of honor" What exactly happened with Surreal and Falonar's relationship? And how did Falonar piss off Lucivar so much? This story gives a sense of Eyrien society, what was, what is, and what could potentially be. We also see Surreal and Rainier recover from what they had gone through with the house."Family" About ten years after Shades of Honor, we discover that the removal of the major taint of Dorothea and Hekatah didn't eliminate all the taints found among the Blood. And that taint has directly affected Sylvia and her family. "The High Lord's Daughter" I don't want to spoil this one, but I will tell you, you may well be weeping from this one. The story takes place over decades, showing how life can move on.The stories are all strong and fill in some gaps that have been the source of much speculation. A good collection for wrapping up the series right now.
    • 4/5
      First, if this is your first Black Jewels novel or first Anne Bishop: STOP. Go back and read at the very least the original trilogy of Daughter of the Blood, Heir of the Shadows and Queen of the Darkness. This book really isn't a standalone. If you read it before the others, it will lose a lot of its impact, you may feel lost, and you will definitely encounter spoilers. I'd also definitely recommend as well that you read Tangled Webs and the novella "Kaeleer's Heart" from the Black Jewels anthology Dreams Made Flesh. If you haven't read the Black Jewels trilogy before, well, if you love dark fantasy I think you're in for a treat. It's an unusual, imaginative, and vividly drawn world and Bishop had a way with her characters that made me fall in love with them.I admit I squeed inside when I saw the book in stores and immediately grabbed it. If you do love the Black Jewels books, I doubt you'll be disappointed. I didn't give it five stars because it didn't quite land a favorite. I didn't, as with some past books in the series, tear up, or laugh-out-loud. The flyleaf calls this a collection of four novellas. Actually, I'd call two of the stories short novels, particularly Shades of Honor. Fans of the series might remember cryptic comments between Daemon and Lucivar about Falonar in The Shadow Queen--this tells the story of what happened in a clash between Lucivar and Falonar, as well as the process by which Ranier and especially Surreal heal physically and emotionally from the events of Tangled Web.The two novellas "Winsol Gifts" and "Family" are both entertaining stories, the first, which opens the book, centered on the SaDiablo family on the day which is that world's equivalent of Christmas. Sentimental and sweet. The other, "Family" is darker--a tale of what happens when Sylvia and her family become threatened by a predator. Finally there's the bitter sweet near-novel The High Lord's Daughter, which closes the book. Some indeed might be disappointed with it--those who are of the kind who think love is not love if you can recover from the death of your loved one and heal your heart enough to share it again. I love the story. If I closed the book with a bittersweet feeling, it's because I felt Bishop had finally given closure to the main series characters in this story, and I wonder if we'll see them again. Although I wasn't dissatisfied with the end of Queen of the Shadows, I thought it left a lot of questions about the fate of several characters, and this story answers a lot of those questions.Edit Looking at the reviews on GoodReads, I can see I was right that the last story would provoke a very negative reaction from some. I can't agree with those who call it a "series killer"--and given the ratings, I don't think most readers do either. Without getting into spoilers, I can say I don't agree at all with the criticisms of the central romance--but I do rather agree with some criticisms of the title character--that she should have stood on her own, rather than being made into the copy of another character down to the name.
    • 5/5
      What an excellent addition to the series. One word of warning, have many many kleenex available for the last story!!
    • 5/5
      OH GOD IT'S PERFECT.But, oh, Anne Bishop does not pull her punches. I read the last story with tears pouring down my face.