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Wolf King #1

ALC provided by Simon Maverick Audio 

Author: Lauren Palphreyman

Narrators: Zara Hampton-Brown and Shane East

Thanks, Simon Maverick for the audiobook.

The Wolf King is book one in the trilogy of the same name. Aurora is a princess about to be married off as a political pawn, but on the day of the wedding, she spares the life of a young werewolf forced to fight for sport. In a sequence of events that spiral out of control, Aurora ends up being kidnapped (or rather saved) by Callum, the alpha and that will change their lives forever. 

This book is compared to Game of Thrones and ACOTAR and I can safely safe that for most of the book Aurora gives season 1 Sansa so much that you want to shake her. She’s the innocent and spoiled little princess but mostly because she was forced into that rule and also for the fact that she is so clueless about so many things it’s not even funny. 

Besides Callum, we meet another very intriguing wolf, Blake, who’s so morally grey you spend the whole book trying to figure him out. 

This is pretty much a book 1 in a trilogy, so expect a lot of world building and establishing canon. Lots of subplots are also being set up. It ends in a “happy for now” cliffhanger, which is interesting. 

The audiobook is narrated duet style by Zara Hampton-Brown and Shane East. Since it is single POV, with the story told through Aurora’s eyes, Zara gets to narrate most of it, with Shane giving voice to all the mara characters. Both narrators are amazing in this, but when you have Zara in your ears, you know that it is a a guaranteed treat. She takes Aurora from “season 1 Sansa” to a young woman coming into herself, finding agency and figuring out that she has more power than she thinks and that there are secrets that was definitely not prepared for. 

If you are a fan of fantasy with werewolves, princesses and people fighting for power, this one is for you. 

Content notes: violence, “animal” cruelty, threats of SA, torture