The Dawn of Peace

Interesting series prequel. I enjoyed how strong willed that the female lead character is. She didn't let her father dictate her life. Her father is a real piece of work I tell ya. Sounds like it will be a good series to listen to.

The Dawn of Peace was an okay short read but could have used a lot more world and character building. There were very few characters and even they had very little information given about them. There was some explicit sexual content. The storyline was decent but I think it could have been better with more details. Since this is a prequel, I’m hopeful that the next book will give me the substance I desire when reading a good series.

I listened to the audio version of this book and the narration was very robotic. The narrator sounded very much like he was reading from the book, in a robotic type way, but his expression of the different characters was done much better than an AI reader so at least that was adequate. This is a book that is best enjoyed reading it the old fashioned way.

This was a fun story and I really liked the world building with vampires and slayers fighting against each other. The author created an interesting well developed world with the FMC wanting to be a warrior, but the really fun and not backwards at all (please read that with sarcasm) rules disallow her from fulfilling her dreams. So she leaves. She just checks out of the highborn life she had and lives in a cabin, where she won't be forced to marry anyone or be stuck not doing what she loves. Cue an injured vampire floating along, and she might just change her views. She takes said vamp back to her cabin and there's only one bed...
It's an entertaining story, told in dual 3rd person POV. There's steam and some violence. This is part of a larger series and can be enjoyed as a standalone.

The narrator did a good job with the voices. He sounded clear and differentiated everyone's voices well. He's a new to me author and I'd listen to another story narrated by him.