Wicked Saints: A Novel
Written by Emily A. Duncan
Narrated by Natasha Soudek and Tristan Morris
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
“Prepare for a snow-frosted, blood-drenched fairy tale where the monsters steal your heart and love ends up being the nightmare.” - Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen
“This book destroyed me and I adored it.”- Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval
"If you like your young adult fantasy full of ice, blood, and angst, Wicked Saints will sweep you up in its wintery embrace." — NPR
A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.
A prince in danger must decide who to trust.
A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings.
Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war.
In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light. Wicked Saints is the thrilling start to Emily A. Duncan’s devastatingly Gothic Something Dark and Holy trilogy.
Emily A. Duncan
EMILY A. DUNCAN is the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Saints, Ruthless Gods, and Blessed Monsters. They work as a youth services librarian and received a Master’s degree in library science from Kent State University, which mostly taught them how to find obscure Slavic folklore texts through interlibrary loan systems. When not reading or writing, they enjoy playing copious amounts of video games and dungeons and dragons. They live in Ohio.
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Reviews for Wicked Saints
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This review refers to the AUDIOBOOK only - The narrators for this book are terrible! They both have a ridiculously fake Slavic accent and keep mispronouncing one of the main characters' name (it's Mala-kee-ash NOT Mala-ka-yas!) I can't believe the narrators of the official audiobook didn't even ask the author for pronunciation instructions. Yikes!
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Performance: 3/5
Story: 4/5
The narrators were sometimes hard to follow and I would have rather had someone who already possesses a Slovak accent narrating, I think it would have been more smooth.3 people found this helpful
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Agree with lots of other reviewers- loved the story. The narrators were just not a great fit for the characters...
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really liked this book in general, I have to say the narration wasn’t my favorite. Nadeshta’s narrator often made me think of her as an old matronly woman, and I thought the Vulture was an old man before it was specified that he was young as well ? the book itself is amazing though!
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The story was quite nice, albeit a bit too coarse at times. The accents in the audiobook took so much away from the experience. I cringed and had so much difficulty paying attention to the plot because of this.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I was bored. Reminded me a little of Remnant Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson, but boring. Nothing exciting happened. Will not be continuing the sequel.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5really DID not like this book, our main character was dUMB acknowledges that she is, the plot twist was meh overall disappointment central
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The book is great but this copy of the recording is crap, it misses bits in the middle and end
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Meh. This wasn't bad but its uneven pacing kept losing me throughout the book. Inconsistent character personalities might me construed as morally grey, but were they really? I liked the plot and the political machinations but the blood magic was overly gory and I am not one to shy from gore. It just got tedious after a while.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The book was well-written, but the narration-oh God! I couldn’t listen until the end of the book. The narrators kept mispronouncing the characters’ names and spoke with a HORRIBLE accent, making the characters seem old as hell.
Recommend the book, but not the narration.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed the story, but not the accents. It is very cringe.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I like that this book is about a cleric discovering her magic and surving betrayal at every twist and turn
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While I will agree that the narrators aren’t perfect, listening to this book was much easier than reading it. I would have given up on this book way sooner had I not listened to the audiobook. Struggling with Russian pronunciations is not my idea of a pleasant reading experience. I did really enjoy this story though and am interested to see where it goes from here.