Amazing Audiobooks (#AA2022) Featured Review of Lore by Alexandra Bracken

LORE by Alexandra Bracken, read by Fryda Wolff - Audiobook Extract by  Hachette Children's

Lore by Alexandra Bracken; narrated by Fryda Wolff
Disney Hyperion
Publication Date: January 6,  2021
ISBN: 978-1368075107

Lore, or Melora Perseous, is a fighter who knows she is destined for greatness despite her family’s ignominious reputation. She has steadfastly avoided the bloodbath of the Agon, a punishment of nine Greek gods that dooms them to be hunted by the Greek families and killed for their power. That stubborn resistance to becoming a hunter is tested when Castor, her childhood friend and beloved companion, returns–seemingly from the dead as a new deity. Her resolve is further tested when Athena shows up on Lore’s doorstep with a mortal wound, a vendetta, and a way to bind Lore through oath to keep Athena safe.

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Best Fiction for Young Adults (#BFYA2020) Nominees Round Up, April 19 Edition

Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
Tor Teen / Macmillan
Publication Date: January 22, 2019
ISBN:978-0765397249

Isoka is used to fighting to survive. As a ward boss, it is her job to use her combat magic to be the street enforcer for her masters.  However, as much as she is used to being a criminal, she is rattled when her little sister is threatened unless Isoka attempts an impossible task – stealing the ghost ship Soliton, a legendary vessel from which no person has ever returned. The ship is a world unto itself and the deeper Isoka gets into the bowels of the ship, the more frightful the creatures and more savage the tests she and her team must survive.

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