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A.E. Rayne (Author), Finty Williams (Narrator), Podium Audio (Publisher)

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Jael Furyck isn’t happy. Her father is dead. Her uncle has stolen the throne.

And now, her uncle wants to marry her off to the fallen son of her arch-enemy. But Jael is a battle-hardened warrior, trained to kill since she was 10-years-old. She doesn’t plan on being anyone’s wife.

Eadmund Skalleson is drunk. His father is threatening him with a wife again. And this time he’s given him an ultimatum. Marry Jael Furyck or your brother returns from exile. But if Eadmund was ever going to choose a wife, it wouldn’t be Jael Furyck. Not her. Not ever.

Winter’s Fury is the first book in The Furyck Saga, a gripping epic-fantasy series that takes you into a richly woven world of warring kingdoms, mysterious dreamers, dark magic, and an ancient prophecy that emerges from the shadows to weave a dangerous web around them all....

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24 hours and 6 minutes
Author

A.E. Rayne
Narrator

Finty Williams
Audible release date

May 11, 2021
Language

English
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Podium Audio
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B091RVHQNX
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	24 hours and 6 minutes
Author	A.E. Rayne
Narrator	Finty Williams
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	May 11, 2021
Publisher	Podium Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B091RVHQNX
Best Sellers Rank	#17,250 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #215 in Historical Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals) #595 in Action & Adventure Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals) #1,079 in Epic Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals)

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A good first beginning

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 28, 2022

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Quite heavy with characters. However, Jael's story is nicely packaged. Sword and shield sagas are some of my favorites and this one holds the line. The heroin is as butt-kicking as any swashbuckling knight in an Arthurian tale. Somewhat of a departure from most of this genre that I read but one that holds interest. Recommended....

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Thomas East

I liked this book a lot!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 28, 2022

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I liked this book a lot. I look forward to reading the series. Great plot lines in total. I found all of the characters interesting. The author did a great job finishing up the plot through a well thought out climax, and left open a ton of possibilities for Jael's future. Thank you!

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RalphAW

Excellent Story. Fast, fun, couldn't put it down. Made me late for things several times¡

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2023

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It was a very good read. Fantasy? Sure, but not so far out as to be fantasticle or
un-iminagable. I got lost in the story, missed some sleep.

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Fre2bme64

Good characters and story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2022

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I enjoyed this 1st book enough to start the next 1. The only reason I didn't give 5 stars was because of the grammatical and spelling errors, which I have been noticing more and more throughout all of Kindle Unlimited books.
The 2nd is this author has obviously never ridden a horse; you never kick or tap a horse's flanks unless you want it to buck. The flanks are what a rider avoids touching... It is a horse's most tender spot (like kicking a guy in the balls tender).

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Addicted

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2022

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A new to me author that takes you on a vivid and action packed adventure! The characters draw you in and the author leaves you wanting more. Can't wait to read the next book!

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Dragon Reader

Great storytelling

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022

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Fast paced adventure with great character growth. I will read more of this author over the winter. Just enough fun and love.

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Read it ‘cause it’s free

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 27, 2021

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I was engaged enough through the first half of the book but then it went rapidly downhill combining literally every single terrible trope that plagues fantasy fiction.

1. The utterly perfect chosen one - Jael. I started out liking her because she seemed like a well fleshed out character with real world problems. And then the book happened. Jael is the utter personification of the horse riding warrior tomboy that we are regularly plagued with. She likes swords ! She likes horses ! She hates dresses ! Ugh.
She is also pointlessly perfect at everything - she runs political circles around the scheming Ivar and bashes the gigantic Tovar (? Eh whatever) into the ground twice in a day. Not to mention she wins a multiple round melee combat competition without any trouble against an island full of Vikings. Everyone instantly falls in love with her despite the fact she is pointlessly rude and snobbish to everyone.

2. The ~~~~ Professsyyyyy ~~~~~ ultimately the laziest fallback of every two bit fantasy writer out there - why is Jael so special ? Because prophecy. Why must we care about what happens to her and Edmund ? Prophecy. Why is a continent full of people trying to help her ? Prophecy. Gag me with a spoon.
No one ever acts in their self interest or out of their own needs they only do anything because the dreamers tell them.
And of course we are never told what the prophecy is because we need to keep reading the series.

3. Evil with a capital E. No one is written in shades of grey - there are two types of characters - those who become BFFs with Jael instantly because she is so awesome - and literally the three people who don’t like her are revealed to be an evil witch in training, a child molester and a sexual sadist. Everyone else is always trying to win her approval.
And what’s the motivation of the so called bad guys ? Is it money ? Fame ? No it’s to plunge the world into darkness. Why ? Who knows.

4. Edmund vs Ivar - we are constantly told (not shown) that Edmund is the great one who will care for his people while Ivar is the evil one. And yet Edmund spends the entire time falling down drunk and leading on Evainr while Ivar (grudgingly) takes care of his island has a family and does what his dad says. But still he is the bad one.
There was a brief moment when we think Ivar might be unfairly maligned but he turns evil with a capital E instantly because Edmund is the chosen hero because you guessed it - prophecy.

5. Characters disappear - after spending endless chapters sloughing through Evainr and Lothars stories they just vanish half way through the book. Similarly Axels plot line vanishes - everyone is fretting that he will do something stupid and then he just - doesn’t.

6. The toxic romance - the less said the better about Jael and Edmund falling in love the better. As others have pointed out they never spend any time together and when they do she is just rude to him. But it’s all because they are in true love.
WHAT ? If she had hooked up with Thirgills that might have been an interesting twist but no.

7. Medieval/Modern schozophrenia - like so much bad fantasy fiction the characters all have names like Aedyth and Olvar and they sleep on dried reeds but they use anachronisms such as “pregnant” and eat at the local fast food stand. Just pick a lane please.

8. Redheads redheads everywhere ! I have long given up hope of reading fantasy in anything but a euro centric world but even there why is everyone a redhead ? Red hair is the result of a recessive mutation that less than a 100th of a percent of the human population but in books like this a full half are always gingers. Can someone explain this obsession ?

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Brittany Rios

interesting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2022

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Interesting story line. A lot of mystery on why Jael is so important. We don’t really have a clear vision for her yet except for she is to save Edmound. I love the relationship she has built with Thorgils and Fyn. Their friendships are so important and almost dies trying to save them. There’s a lot of misery and acceptance for what is happening that I feel for the characters. Fun, Isuara, Jael, Thorgils, and even Edmound, all at the mercy of the villain Ivvar. I’m very curious to see what happens to the rest of the characters.

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J. A. Royall

Not worth reading.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 16, 2020

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It has taken me well over 6 weeks to read this book, which doesn’t bode well for my review. Got bored by chapter 4, but I stubbornly picked it up and then put it down. I was really disappointed as I bought this book on reading others review of it. Sounded great, and I like books that carry onto other adventures. Well I won’t be getting book 2. There was some much stuff repeated that the book could have been half the size, without missing any of the characters or the storyline.
Sorry.

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Mrs. Bruce

Very dragged out - a lot left unresolved - lots of crude language

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 21, 2018

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It was annoying that this book was so dragged out and repetitive - for it to end with many things not being
resolved or explained!
It started well, but by a third through it just went on and on with very little happening. Jael, daughter of a King, is
married off to the drunken son of a previous enemy, for political reasons. Neither Jael, nor the drunkard, Eadmund, wants
the marriage. Eadmund spends over half the book falling down drunk, being sick and passing out in places his friends cannot find
him. Only his mistress is happy to see him in this state. After a while it became tedious as friends and later Jael, tried to
sober him up.

Apart from that there were lots of talk about the terrible stormy weather and the heavy snow. Then there were endless sessions
of practicing fighting, as Jael is a well known warrior, putting her "husband" to shame - but no actual fighting the enemy.

There was a lot of discussion about the dreams that 3 of the characters (dreamers) experienced and whether they would come true
or not. Jael's grandmother is one of the dreamers and knows that Jael is important somehow to the future of the world - but nothing
came of that in this book. It was frustrating that so little was explained and I kept waiting for something to happen. It is a shame as
this book could have been so much better if it had been edited and a lot of the foul language left out. However, I see this opinion is not
shared by the other reviewers at the moment.

66 people found this helpful

Kindle Customer

I'd have killed Edmund by page 500 ..

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 22, 2019

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Why the lead female character would fall for a spoiled alcoholic who seemed to spend the first 600 pages drunk and covered in his own filth was beyond me.. Far too long to develop , no humour and as such I personally didn't sympathise with the two main characters .

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cho-co-latte

Repetitive and long winded

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 14, 2021

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This tale starts well but…lacks pace. Characters are developed then traits repeated constantly (just in case the reader has forgotten) It lacks battle action, intrigue, magic and a decent villain…plot wise a former princess (with a battle lust and a massive chip on her shoulder) is forced to marry a drunken prince (he is depressed). They live in a very cold climate, it’s freezing, snow, ice…did I say it was cold? Well not to worry because the weather is mentioned on every second page. After a while she manages to pull her drunken husband out of his drunken depression, I say drunken less often than the author…anyways his entire life is about being a drunken sot (he falls over a lot, sleeps in his own bodily waste and goes walk about, much to the consternation of his friend…this is the theme of many chapters) there are three dreamers (one is the granny of the former princess…she is forever on her last legs, but fear not she drags herself through the story) …these dreamers give various versions of what might or might not happen….Granny dreamer goes off on her own adventure ….and none of them entirely agree on details of the future. Nor are they able to determine what the other has seen….totally useless. I got bored about halfway though and was skimming rather than reading …the book ends with one very small victory and the death of a minor character…and the dark book of magic has been discovered in grannies adventure… won’t be anywhere near the next instalment as it is certain to be as boring as the first

6 people found this helpful

Judith Boxer

Great story development and characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 10, 2019

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I am writing this review after not having had time to do so before now as once I started reading it I then read all the books in the series so far back to back and am eagerly awaiting the next one. I can see there are some mixed reviews but for me the characters took hold in my imagination very quickly and Jael is one of my 'kick ass heroines' from now on. What maybe exasperated some people I found realistic in that prophetic dreaming and having special gifts does not give all the answers and the power of magic and legend takes time to unfold both in the characters and in the writer's and readers minds. This book held my attention throughout and the balance between the competing worlds of Nordic history and how this is revealed in such a special and again magical way was so good. Yes Eadmund is a very frustrating character and continues to be so and look forward to him achieving his destiny with Jael by his side when she then choses to be, rather than as for so many women during this time has to fulfill the needs of her family and secure their destiny which in this case turns out to be complex and riveting. I have read many books by authors such as Bernard Cornwell, Octavia Randolph, Mathew Harfly and Theodore Brun to name but a few and this sits alongside some of my treasured books but also has a place of difference as it does blend romance, Nordic warring and magic so well. Well done Amy Rayne.

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