The Death-Made Prince
Runewitch Saga, Book 1
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The Death-Made Prince
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Narrated by:
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Grace Gray
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By:
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Lisette Marshall
A runewitch on the run has only one option left: join forces with the sarcastic, unpleasantly gorgeous necromancer she loathes
The man Thraga loved is dead, and her future is in shambles. When she's sentenced to the gallows for killing her lover's murderers, it's a relief more than anything… until, the night before her execution, a necromancer is thrown into her cell.
Escaping with him is her only chance to bring Lark back to life—and also the start of all her troubles.
Because her new almost-ally is not just any man returned from death. Fire mage, rogue prince, and son of the man who killed her mother, sharp-tongued Durlain Averre is everything Thraga hates. Worse, he won't revive her lover unless she joins him on a mission of his own first, using her forbidden rune magic to free his sister from the dungeons of an enemy king.
But their quest turns into a deadly chase when Thraga's violent past catches up with her. And as the net of court intrigue and old fears closes around them, she begins to find out Lark was not at all the man she thought he was…
And neither is Durlain.
©2025 Lisette Marshall (P)2026 Audible, Inc.4 stars for narrator
This book suffered from terrible world building. For a huge portion of the book, I had no idea who half the characters were, why they matters, what they were doing, or why I should care. There is very little context when it's needed.
There is a lot of repetitive introspection and very little progression, which makes the story feel stagnant.
The writing itself feels overly complicated for the sake of sounding intelligent. There's a tendency to use elaborate language a and strange metaphors. Here are some of my favourites:
"My hand slid from his fingers like a beaten dog crawling back into the shadows".
"My laughter broke free like a flock of startled seagulls".
"The words had torn from my throat like shards of glass".
Analogies are supposed to create relatable imagery or emotion. Instead, these comparisons feel bizarre.
Finally, there was so little believable romance development that when the romance finally did happen, it felt less like a payoff and more like someone smashing Barbie and Ken dolls together and declaring them in love.
How a story with such an interesting magical concept can be thoroughly unenjoyable is one of the many questions I had at the end of the book.
No Burn, Not a Slow Burn
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Enjoyed every minute
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Loved this book and the narration!
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Thraga!!
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Great listen
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