Audiobook Review: Fly by Demelza Carlton

Author: Demelza Carlton

Narrator: Mary Sarah

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Series: Romance a Medieval Fairytale, Book 3

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Released: May 29, 2018

Genre: Fantasy; Romance

Two princesses. One prince. And the war has just begun. Once upon a time…Princess Ava was sent to a neighboring kingdom as a lady-in-waiting to her sister, their future queen. Until a runaway horse, a case of amnesia, and a cold-hearted king conspire to bring her to the prince’s attention. Now the prince believes Ava is his bride, and her sister is just a serving maid. One thing is certain: the prince must marry one of the princesses, or there will be war. But when all’s fair in love and war…who will win the battle for the prince’s heart?

Contains mature themes.

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USA Today bestselling author Demelza Carlton has always loved the ocean, but on her first snorkelling trip she found she was afraid of fish.

She has since swum with sea lions, sharks and sea cucumbers and stood on spray-drenched cliffs over a seething sea as a seven-metre cyclonic swell surged in, shattering a shipwreck below.

Sensationalist spin? No – Demelza tends to take a camera with her so she can capture and share the moment later; shipwrecks, sharks and all.

Demelza now lives in Perth, Western Australia, the shark attack capital of the world.

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Voice Arts Award Nominee, Mary Sarah has garnered attention for her powerfully evocative, multi-character work which spans time and place.

With a penchant for dialects and love of culture, Sarah has spanned the globe working with rich characters set across genres of the classics, historical fiction, medieval romance, poetry, fantasy, non-fiction and children’s literature. Relz Reviewz states in reference to Tamara Leigh’s ‘The Unveiling,“ her mellifluous tones, superb voicing of emotions in dialogue and varied and accurate accents of both male and female make her a pure joy to listen to,” while her narration of “A Lady in the Smoke,” was cited as, “masterly!”

Classically trained at The Riverside Shakespeare Academy and The Royal Shakespeare Company, Sarah loves to get to the heart of words in order to release their power and finds great comfort in the beauty of stories to transform and speak to us.! Sarah loves the power of story telling to awaken our hearts.

Says author Claudy Conn (Lady X), “Her acting is simply sublime.”

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Fly is a Goose Girl retelling, I have not read Goose Girl (I hadn’t even heard of it) so I don’t know how similar they are to one another.

When two warring kingdoms seek alliance by marriage two princesses who are half-sisters are sent to replace the King and Queen after the Queen has an accident. The younger sister is less favoured, the daughter of basically a peasant so will be the Goose Girl. On the way the older sister is thrown from her horse and hits her head leading to amnesia so once at the castle the younger girl takes the older sister’s place.

As the tale goes on it all comes out and there is, of course, a HEA.

It was fast-paced and quite a short listen. I cannot compare from the original but I did enjoy it and want to read the original now.

I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Demelza Carlton. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.