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    A Choir of Lies
    A Choir of Lies
    A Choir of Lies
    Audiobook16 hours

    A Choir of Lies

    Written by Alexandra Rowland

    Narrated by John Keating and Xanthe Elbrick

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    A young storyteller must embrace his own skills-and the power of stories-to save a nation from economic ruin, in the standalone sequel to A Conspiracy of Truths. Three years ago, Ylfing watched his master-Chant tear a nation apart with nothing but the words on his tongue. Now Ylfing is all alone in a new realm, brokenhearted and grieving-but a Chant in his own right, employed as a translator to a wealthy merchant of luxury goods, Sterre de Waeyer. But Ylfing has been struggling to come to terms with what his master did, with the audiences he's been alienated from, and with the stories he can no longer trust himself to tell. That is, until Ylfing's employer finds out what he is, what he does, and what he knows. At Sterre's command, Ylfing begins telling stories once more, fanning the city into a mania for a few shipments of an exotic flower. The prices skyrocket, but when disaster looms, Ylfing must face what he has done and decide who he wants to be: a man who walks away and lets the city shatter, as his master did? Or will he embrace the power of story to save ten thousand lives? With a memorable cast of characters, starring a fan-favorite from A Conspiracy of Truths, and a timely message, Choir of Lies reminds us that the words we wield can bring destruction-or salvation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 16, 2019
    ISBN9781980054788
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    Alexandra Rowland

    Alexandra Rowland is the author of A Taste of Gold and Iron, Running Close to the Wind, A Conspiracy of Truths, A Choir of Lies, and Some by Virtue Fall, as well as a Hugo Award-nominated podcaster (all sternly supervised by their feline quality control manager). They hold a degree in world literature, mythology, and folklore from Truman State University.

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    • 4/5
      How much you enjoy the bildungsroman genre and pseudo-memoirs will have a lot to do with how much you like this novel. I ultimately came to appreciate it, but, if I were also being honest, it took me awhile to get to that point, and if I hadn't enjoyed "A Conspiracy of Truths" I probably would have set it aside.Taking place several years after the events of the first novel in the series, Master Chant, the main character of that book, is out of the picture and his apprentice Ylfing is on their own, and not in a good emotional place; the master having done a lousy job of preparing his apprentice for their vocation and basically abandoned them. This puts Ylfing in an emotionally vulnerable position, which allows them to be easily recruited to a business scam, where Ylfing puts his linguistic and public speaking to skills to work, mostly for the sense of approval he receives. It is, at this point, that Ylfing runs into another member of his order, who is sooo not impressed with either Ylfing, or his erstwhile master, and it's from there that the novel really takes off.If I sound underwhelmed, well, this is not a novel that seeks to knock your socks off, as there is not great evil afoot, just people trying to profit and place themselves in a position where they can think well of themselves; very much like real life. Like the experienced Chant who enters this chronicle, there will be numerous times where you'll want to slap Ylfing upside the head, while keeping in mind that they're very, very callow.
    • 5/5
      Okay so first off, the structure (of story by the protagonist with footnotes and other annotations by what in the structural context I can only call the antagonist - hmm or co-agonist maybe). This lets the author do all kinds of cool unreliable narrator stuff because the co-agonist can call the protagonist on it but also she's hardly unbiased either. So it's very cool and also frequently extremely funny.It makes me reflect back to two other recent reads: 1) The protagonist's at a stage of trying to get out of/not get into bad relationships that reminds me of Deeplight and 2) The focus on story as worldbuilding and plot-driver reminds me of The Ten Thousand Doors of January.Also. OMG. The Tulip Mania. I mean. How could I not love this?(Started reading in the evening, finished at 1:30am. Discovered in the author's note at the end that apparently it's the second in a series? It stands alone perfectly, I wouldn't have guessed. In retrospect it probably gives some general spoilers for the first book though.)
    • 4/5
      I actually really liked this, but I'm not sure how much of a stand-alone I consider it. While I read it without having read the previous book, it definitely spoiled the previous book. That being said, this continues the theme of "deal with trauma and denial/self-destructive behavior I've been reading this year, which is kind of unexpected as I don't really seek that out. But it's a worthwhile thing to emphasize in life, to be fair.I received a free electronic ARC of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.