Sunday, August 19, 2018

SOUL OF STONE by Traci McDonald


Title:  SOUL OF STONE                             
Series:  Ice & Stone #1
Author:  Traci McDonald
Narrator:  Amanda Stribling
Length:  9 hours 49 minutes
Audible Release Date:  06.20.2018
Publisher:  TraciMcdonaldAuthor.com
Publish Date:   04.10.2018
Category /Genre:  Romance
Recommended for:  18+ due to adult situations
Listenability:  OK  or  NSFW
Received from:  Traci McDonald (via Audiobookworm.com as an Audible gifted copy)
Goodreads link: Soul of Stone
Date completed: 07.23.2018

Description from the publisher:
Danielle Lyndon, owner of a 200-year-old bookstore in Greenville, Alabama, has built a fortress of suspicion around her heart. A tragic fire has taken the lives of her beloved Grandmother and mother, leaving her with nothing but an ancient collection of magical books.

Facing what seems like an eternity of loneliness and abandonment, her life is inexorably altered late one night when a runaway teenage girl breaks into her store and Danielle receives a mysterious text message…from her dead mother.

The only person who can help her is Aaron Donnell, a reckless, tormented drifter with haunting silver-blue eyes who is searching for the burglar, his younger sister. Aaron somehow holds the answers to the mysterious texts, but he’s arrogant, dangerous, and is clearly no good for her. The problem is . . . . She’s falling in love with him.

Consumed with Aaron’s mysterious darkness and the prospect of locating the source of the texts, Danielle allows him to unwittingly drag her into an insane, mystical world where human trafficking is the usual, black magic reigns supreme, and inhuman power lasts forever.

Are the dark chasms of magic and eternity too wide and deep for love to cross?  Is the collateral damage in their battle too high of a price to pay if it leaves someone with their soul encased in stone?
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SOUL OF STONE is the first book in the Ice and Stone series.  They will need to be read in the order of release.

Of course, now knowing the ending is coloring my perceptions of the beginning.  Now I understand why.  Now I know how and who.  Oh, but the path to get there is heart wrenching, twisted, and magical – so magical.

The plot was imaginative and wonderfully unique.

I wanted to embrace Aaron, Danielle, Jessa, and Piper so many times.

The story was action-packed and the mystery was well written.  It kept me guessing nearly to the end. 

I loved the interaction between Aaron and Danielle.  Their sweetly denied romance is the reason I want the next book in this series.

Narration (3 CROWNS):  Amanda Stribling is a good narrator.  She speaks very clearly and has a very nice voice, but tends to get a little too rhythmic in her cold reading. 

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted audiobook copy via Audiobookworm Promotions, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Ice and Stone series:
1.      Soul of Stone
Also from Traci McDonald:
·         Burning Bridger
·         Killing Casanova

 







 
 







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