Valiant
A Modern Tale of Faerie
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Narrated by:
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Renee Raudman
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Written by:
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Holly Black
About this listen
But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis' brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.
When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.
Best-selling author Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love.
©2005 Holly Black (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing CompanyYou may also enjoy...
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- By Ashleigh Delanghe on 2024-08-10
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Great
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White Cat
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Cassel comes from a family of curse workers people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they'e all criminals. Many become mobsters and con artists. But not Cassel. He hasn't got magic, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. You just have to ignore one small detail - he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago
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Hard to listen to.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.
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Captivating
- By Alyssa on 2023-09-09
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Tithe
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- Unabridged
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The Stolen Heir
- A Novel of Elfhame
- Written by: Holly Black
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains.
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Edit of Previous Review
- By Ashleigh Delanghe on 2024-08-10
Written by: Holly Black
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Book of Night
- Written by: Holly Black
- Narrated by: Sara Amini
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall.
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Interesting story, but annoying narrator
- By A on 2022-05-13
Written by: Holly Black
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The Darkest Part of the Forest
- Written by: Holly Black
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times best-selling fantasy by author Holly Black. In the woods is a glass coffin. It rests on the ground, and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives...Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries.
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Great
- By Anonymous User on 2019-03-03
Written by: Holly Black
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White Cat
- The Curse Workers, Book One
- Written by: Holly Black
- Narrated by: Jesse Eisenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they'e all criminals. Many become mobsters and con artists. But not Cassel. He hasn't got magic, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. You just have to ignore one small detail - he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago
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Hard to listen to.
- By David Cumberland on 2020-06-10
Written by: Holly Black
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
- Written by: Holly Black
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.
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Captivating
- By Alyssa on 2023-09-09
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What the critics say
"Beneath its darkness, readers find well-rendered characters, a gripping plot, and pure magic." (School Library Journal)
"Exotic, sexy undercurrents....deliciously overripe writing, and [an] intoxicating, urban-gothic setting." (Booklist)
What listeners say about Valiant
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- Rowan
- 2021-02-12
Fantastic story, mediocre reader.
I'm going to preface this by saying that I love this book, I read it so much when I was younger that I still have certain passages memorized, so it's possible that most of my issue with the reader is just that the way she reads isn't quite like how I always narrated it in my head.
That said, I do feel the reader made some strange choices with her character voices that were at best slightly jarring and at worst irritating enough that I actually dreaded certain characters speaking.
It's not bad enough that it detracts from the book necessarily, but it's not always pleasant to listen to either.
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- Kristen
- 2020-05-07
Might have been better
I think I might have liked this story if any of the mian characters were remotely likable. As it is it's pretty hard to finish a book when all the characters are unlikable and you secretly hope they all get hit by a train. I liked the Tithe but this book makes me question if I'll finish the series. The premise was interesting enough to get me through the book but it took me weeks to complete this one, the rather falt narrator did not help.
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