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The Traitor Queen
- Bridge Kingdom, Book 2
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang, James Patrick Cronin
- Series: The Bridge Kingdom Series
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Categories: Romance, Fantasy
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Publisher's Summary
Lara has only one thought when her husband is taken prisoner: I will do whatever it takes to set you free.
A queen now in exile as a traitor, Lara has watched Ithicana be conquered by her own father, helpless to do anything to stop the destruction. But when she learns her husband, Aren, has been captured in battle, Lara knows there is only one reason her father is keeping him alive: as bait for his traitorous daughter.
And it is bait she fully intends to take.
Risking her life to the Tempest Seas, Lara returns to Ithicana with a plan not only to free its king, but for liberating the Bridge Kingdom from her father’s clutches using his own weapons: the sisters whose lives she spared.
But as Lara and her companions formulate a plan to free Aren from her father’s palace, they soon discover that while it is easy to get in, it will be quite another thing to get Aren, and themselves, back out. Not only is the palace inescapable, there are more players in the game than Lara ever realized, enemies and allies switching sides in the fight for crowns, kingdoms, and bridges. But her greatest adversary of all might be the very man she’s trying to free - the husband she betrayed.
With everything she loves in jeopardy, Lara must decide who - and what - she is fighting for: her kingdom, her husband, or for herself.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-01-21
great storyline
if the storyline would have not been so enticing I would have left the book too soon due to the continuous drums after each chapter....but damm the story it's so enchanting that u can even do with the drums
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-02-20
loved it enough to take time to write about it
My favorite part of this story are all the CAPABLE, INDEPENDENT, STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS!
Thank you Danielle Jensen for adding this story to the universe. Seriously, thank you. I cannot accurately express my enthusiasm for violent female characters with weapons and wit. I just loved this story.
Wishing I could experience it all over again for the first time!
narrators were great. weird transition music was a nice change from the normal audiobook format.
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- Kimberly
- 20-03-20
Drum music between characters, so annoying
I hate when books put in music to break up chapters. This book has drums breaking up every chapter. When listen at night it’s a loud interruption while you try to relax. The story itself is good. I blew through the first and this one, but it’s hard to get past the constant drums interruptions since the chapters are short ones. Other wise good narrator and story
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- Shopaholic Husband/Frugal Wife
- 28-02-20
Definitely Not As Fulfilling As Book 1
After reading "The Bridge Kingdom", I couldn't wait for book 2. Amazon warrior like princess getting back her man sounded like a great story. What I got was not as in depth as book one. The emotions and anxiousness wasn't here as I read this book. I enjoyed the sisters and wanted more. This book spent a lot of time on the couple's struggle. Many characters from book 1 made an appearance but nothing reach developed. And the Magpie, what happened to him???
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- Helen
- 28-02-20
OMG!!!! Where do I start!!?!?😭❤️❤️❤️❤️
I have been waiting for book 2 to come out! I’m so happy it did and everyday spent waiting for it was worth it!!!!!
Characters: Lara is one Amazing Lioness Empress fighting with the biggest Will Power I have ever read! ❤️ ❤️❤️😭🥰It is amazing to me how Danielle brought character development and consistency with Lara. She made it so relatable to how Lara battles her guilt, love and sense of survival throughout this book. I cried, held my breath, screamed in cheers and felt with each of Lara’s hardships and wins and losses. Lara just made me admire her every chapter with her strength and endurance..(suddenly I started making speeches to myself about how she is a hero in the middle of listening as if letting the characters in the book know lols). The women in this series are just Incredible Warriors and it is refreshing to see how they can fight with both their bodies and their minds in fighting and strategizing as good as the men and better than the men as well.
Aren❤️❤️❤️❤️ I love Aren! Danielle really did an amazing job in not wasting time with unnecessary holding of grudges nor emotional outbursts when showing Aren’s struggles in his relationship with Lara. Aren struggles in his strong desire to hate the woman who betrayed him and facing his love for her; to put his kingdom first or his wife his Queen.
Both of them were a matchmade in heaven. Their strengths show you how two people can be so different yet be the yin and yang to each other.
Danielle did an excellent job in describing the physical struggles they went through such as in seas and dessert. By creating what it can happen in the desert or sea it made it so realistic that I was captivated and off my chair most of the time...(had to take breaks, so many intense moments). The disciption of the fighting and their skills was just breath taking! ❤️
And I have to mention the sisters! I fell in love with them and in short amount of time; Danielle wrote about them in a way that built such personalities and connection with few of them (giving us glimpses of strong women with stories of their own....hopefully more books to come for them).
There are many controversial characters also such as K crown prince whom hopefully we can learn more about in coming books (PLEASE LET THERE BE MORE🙌🏽)
Narration: I love your voice and how you give life to the characters! The different women’s voices were portrayed each with their own connotations. I loved how the emotions were put into the narration making me feel every bit of their struggles, aches and states. Thank you!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
James also did an outstanding narrations! Aren’s deep ans yet lilting voice was amazing! And also how you can put the weight of the characters personality to showcase their intentions in their voice was just❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍🏽
THANK YOU SO MUCH DANIELLE FOR YOur AMAZING STORIES AND CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT BOOK!
RECOMMEND!!!!!!!!!😭❤️😍🥰🙌🏽🎊
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- Anonymous User
- 28-02-20
Best Read of This Year So Far!
I just love to read and I have been waiting to listen to the 2nd book in The Bridge Kingdom for what feels like a year. There is so much that I love about this storyline; warrior princesses, heroines versus just another book full of heroes, strong female characters, great narrators, a story of fighting for love and in some cases in this book fighting with love. It’s a unique blend of all that is good in the real of fairytale fantasy and I can hardly believe that it just came out and I heard it all in less than 24 hrs. cause I just didn’t want to stop reading. YES 🙌🏽! It was that good! If you haven’t read Danielle L. Jensen’s books yet, they are a must read! The only disappointment about this book is that now that it is finished I will have to wait quite awhile to read her next. Going to have to re-listen to both stories again!
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- brian
- 28-02-20
Is this really the end?
I really love the story. The romance genre is over saturated with cliché boring stories, this is not one. I finished both parts in a total of three days and for some reason I feel like this story isn't over. If this is truly the last book in the series then the end was rushed and incomplete. There's so many unanswered questions about pretty major parts of the story. Don't get me wrong I still really liked the story. I just wished that either more parts of the story were finalized by the end of this book or another planned to complete the story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-02-20
I’m so happy
This is so amazing. I can’t even wrap my brain around how good this was. I’m so in love I need to go re listen to the bridge kingdom and then this again. I need more books. I need more of these narrators!! Can’t say enough good things.
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- Stephanie
- 28-02-20
Listen Now
I loved this book. Lauren and James do a wonderful job of bringing this story to life! It was so much fun getting to know Lara's sisters and I loved exploring other regions of the world.
If you liked The Bridge Kingdom you'll love this sequel...and if you haven't read The Bridge Kingdom yet go it now and then come listen to this one. You won't regret a minute of it!
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- Christine
- 18-03-20
Cheesy ending ruins it
They had me until the end. Then they jumped the shark. Literally and figuratively. It was like if someone took the last season of Game of Thrones and ended the last episode by having writers and directors from the Hallmark channel write and direct it. Actually, that may have made the last season of GoT better, but I digress. There’s a point where you cannot willingly suspend disbelief and they crossed that line right at the end which I felt took away from the book as a whole.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-03-20
Amazing second book but...
Let’s get to the point: this is an amazing set of two books.
The writing is edge of seat exciting, and the characters are believable and real. I would categorize it as more of an adventure/mystery than an “audible escape” level romance, but it does get pretty...descriptive now and then, just not as frequently as a typical ‘erotica’.
I also really like the mixing for the narration with the male and female chapters. In the emotional lines the actors really sell it in some of the best voice work I’ve heard from and audible book period. Suffice to say, I recommend it.
If you don’t want spoilers, just go read the two books.
However...(spoilers)
This might be my own personal inner feminist coming out, but God, I’m a little mad that more people didn’t come to Laura’s defense. Or that him and his people didn’t apologize more. She literally gets dragged though the mud in this book. I understand that they’re angry, and it’s justified but to a point. True, war is horrible and what was done to his people is wrong, but she obviously didn’t mean it and hell, she’s been though the same thing, if not WORSE for 15 YEARS. Just like they’re asking for sympathy, they should give her the same. There is just no winning for her. Toward the last hour or so when he abandons her on the island, I was rooting of him and his people to be killed. There is only so much a relationship can take before I call it abusive, and man does this hurt too much. Idk, it just took a step too far with no real steps being taken afterwards to make amends to all the stuff they put her though. I again was almost rooting for her to leave and go through life at least semi-happy without him at the end when she woke up, but it just ends sourly with her expecting more verbal abuse from people not even trying to look at the situation from her side.
It’s still a great book, but I think I have more of a problem with how things turned out because I was so engaged with Laura and her redemption all the way through, and the payoff just wasn’t quite there for me.
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I will check out the other books this author has, since I do very much like her writing in the end. And obviously she has an ear and vision for the right voicework for every book, so I’m confident I’ll enjoy and be engrossed in whatever else she produces.
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- dreilly
- 27-02-20
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G (contains spoilers)
I can't even begin to describe this book 😭😭 I loved everything about it!! The plot, the main characters, the sub characters, the narrators, EVERYTHING!! So beautifully written, you can't help but feel every emotion each of our characters feel as you listen, I was teary eyed, had goosebumps, gasped and so many other feelings that I feel emotionally drained 🤣🤣 I would, however, love to hear about how some of our sub characters got on!! Is Coralynn alive?? What happens to Zara and Herris?? Does Ana go back to Herondale to marry?? What about Lara's sisters?? 😱 I NEED TO KNOW!!! 😭
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- Poppey
- 31-12-20
A Good Listen
This review covers both books. First, the bad: I don’t think the music added anything to the books at all, rather the contrary. Second, James Cronin didn’t really work as he didn’t seem able to do female voices. When Aren was speaking to Lara it sounded as though he was having a conversation with himself. Finally, as with a lot of authors now, they seem to forget listeners do not like rushed endings, and this ending did seem rushed, which was disappointing.
The good: Lauren was far better at male/female voices. Unfortunately, I couldn’t warm to Lara at all. It seemed a one sided relationship where Aren told her all his secrets and she told him the bare minimum as lying seemed to come easily to her. I found Aren to be quite weak and indecisive and a bit of a fool. That all said, I really liked this duology. If you are looking to find a book which will keep your interest with good character building, this will not disappoint.
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- caroline
- 02-06-20
Ooh that was good !
Bloody brilliant the pace just kept going I felt every moment and I wanted more ! The narration was easy and unimposing a pleasure to listen too ! Can’t wait for the next instalment! Please x
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- Rita
- 22-03-20
Does not disappoint!
I was so excited when this was released on audible. In the first five minutes you can tell effort was put into this book. I loved every minute of it! Amazing book and performance.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-04-21
highly recommend
gutterd its just two books, would have loved more, felt the ending was a bit short but loved these books so much!
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- Cassie Fox
- 16-04-21
Great but I needed more
This can’t be it for this series. We need more books to round out the story.
Her sisters, her brother, ruling as queen. There’s so much I want to know that wasn’t covered in this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-03-21
Phenomenal.
The narrators. The story. The sound between the chapters. This book was PHENOMENAL. I loved every second of it and it’s going to take a long time for me to recover. Such a fantastic listen, I wish there was more 😩
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- Anonymous User
- 25-10-20
better than expected
story was great, lots of twists and turns kept me listening even though I was skeptical when I first started the series. i would have given it a 5 but i wanted the story to be longer, i wanted to know what happened after the war was over, how did ithicana liberate its people, what happened to laras sisters, did anna get married? so many loose ends which would have been nice to tie up. also the music effects at the beginning of each chapter start to get annoying and make me impatient.
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- Guest
- 18-07-20
Fast paced fantasy fiction
Loved every minute the pace was perfect liked the two points of view progressing chapter to chapter without repeating. Fiesty female lead without the male lead losing his masculinity/control through the story. Only wish the series kept going!
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- Amy
- 26-05-20
The Traitor Queen
Narrators were amazing in this series. such a great story couldn't stop listening! needed more books in the series
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- Retrobellabige
- 03-04-20
Spectacular
I don’t often give books five stars but I just loved these. Strong characters with ongoing struggles and growth. Edge of seat action and intrigue. The right balance of relationship and romance scattered throughout.
Excellent performances by the narrators!
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- Anonymous User
- 25-03-20
loved it !
to my surprise, i really enjoyed the story across both books. i did find the first book a little slow to start but hung in there, and glad i did.
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- Lacee
- 29-02-20
My heart, my soul.
Danielle Jensen's second book exceeded all expectation and delivers a story that stays with you longer after then end.