Time is fluid. You are in today, but tomorrow might very well be yesterday. In Rakesfall you follow the journey of two souls through this fluid timeline. Sometimes they are symbiotic others they could be separated by the wall between worlds yet still able to feel one another's existence. Join Annelid and Leveret as they battle on earth and throughout time, but are they fighting to save one another or could one be one a solo path of vengeance?
My request for this audiobook on Netgalley was 80% cover and only about 20% the description. I absolutely love books about people searching for each other across lifetimes. My first experience with this type of story was Richelle Mead's Georgina Kincaid series, after that I was hooked. Huge thanks to Dreamscape Media and Netgalley for the advanced listener copy of this book.
You can get high from eating small amounts of C-4, but you shouldn't. Spoiler alert... she totally does!
Have you ever been thrown into the deep end of a pool and not fully known how to swim? The sensation from that is a bit like the start of this audiobook. Do I think I would have understood what was happening better reading a physical copy? Heck no, and I also don't believe the experience would have been as fun.
The whole point of the chaos in the beginning is to leave you off balance because as the story unfolds, you regain your balance little by little and start to come to some kind of understanding of what is going on. DO NOT expect this book to be in chronological order because the world that Vajra Chandrasekera has created, definitely does not feel as if anything happens in order.
I love me some Sci-Fi audiobooks, but at times they can be confusing because of the intensive world building that is needed to set the stage. This is not one of those times. Shiromi Arserio's voice does the stage setting for you. Her pace matches exceptionally well to both moments of chaos and those where the author is going for the emotional grab.
If you have read the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir then you understand how a book can make you feel inside out and upside down but also be one of the most incredible rides you have ever been on. Rakesfall is just like that! I really hope that this book is a forecast of what is to come from Vajra in the future. Obviously this book was ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me!
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