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    Empire of Dust
    Empire of Dust
    Empire of Dust
    Audiobook13 hours

    Empire of Dust

    Written by Eleanor Herman

    Narrated by Graham Halstead and Jennifer Grace

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    In Macedon, war rises like smoke, forbidden romance blooms and ancient magic tempered with rage threatens to turn an empire to dust After winning his first battle, Prince Alexander fights to become the ruler his kingdom demands-but the line between leader and tyrant blurs with each new threat. Meanwhile, Hephaestion, cast aside by Alexander for killing the wrong man, must conceal the devastating secret of a divine prophecy from Katerina even as the two of them are thrust together on a dangerous mission to Egypt. The warrior, Jacob, determined to forget his first love, vows to eradicate the ancient Blood Magics and believes that royal prisoner Cynane holds the key to Macedon's undoing. And in chains, the Persian princess Zofia still longs to find the Spirit Eaters, but first must grapple with the secrets of her handsome-and deadly-captor. New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Herman entwines the real scandals of history with epic fantasy to reimagine the world's most brilliant ruler, Alexander the Great, in the second book of the Blood of Gods and Royals series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 28, 2016
    ISBN9781501926693
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    Eleanor Herman

    Eleanor Herman is the New York Times bestselling author of Sex with Kings, Sex with the Queen, and several other works of popular history. She has hosted Lost Worlds for The History Channel, The Madness of Henry VIII for the National Geographic Channel, and is now filming her second season of America: Fact vs. Fiction for The American Heroes Channel.

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      I have to admit, I was hoping for more from the second in this series. Since the first book was so overwhelmed by introducing multiple POVs, I thought the second one might better be able to settle into things and offer a smoother read that wasn't so disjointed. Unfortunately, the problem was actually amped up here. This second book in the series added in yet a few more POVs that were given short sections, and expanded the lengths of the other chapters that belonged to already established characters. The effect was jarring--you'd finally be getting engaged in one of these long chapters and characters, when suddenly it would end and throw you into another character in a whole different setting, whose immediate concerns had little to do with the last few chapters, if anything. By the end of the book, I'd actually begun feeling less connected to those characters I was really engaged with in Book 1.This book also felt like it was being held in check--unnaturally so--by the author. Some chapters clearly wanted to move into more adult territory, and were being held back by the YA classification. The multiple romance subplots were also a bit much, and although they didn't quite feel repetitive... it got close.All told, I think there's just too much happening at once here. The series would have been better off focusing on fewer characters and allowing others to be more minor, or else offering them their own books rather than trying to push everything together to the point where nothing is quite given enough depth or attention. Unless a reader was specifically looking for historical fantasy related to Alexander the Great, at this point, I don't think I'd be able to recommend this series.