Marion Blackwood Audiobooks

War of Fire and Fury: epic fantasy on a grand scale from the Flame and Thorns sequence

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

4 listener ratings

Who is Marion Blackwood?

Fire and fury is epic fantasy speaking its native language, and the title of War of Fire and Fury makes no attempt to disguise the scale on offer. War, not skirmish. Fury, not unease.

Our listing attaches the work to a sequence called Flame and Thorns, and at fifteen and three quarter hours the writing has the room that long-form fantasy demands: several viewpoints, a map’s worth of geography, and a plot allowed to turn more than once. Marion Blackwood also reaches our science fiction shelf here, common enough for fantasy with an inventive streak running through its world building.

We can speak to the work with confidence and to nothing else, so we stop there.

Marion Blackwood in audiobooks

Laura Horowitz narrates, a considerable responsibility across a listen of this length, where the audience has to keep a cast straight for the better part of a working week. The mark it carries is warm but rests on a handful of verdicts, so read it as early encouragement rather than a settled judgement.

If a sequence is what you are after, the sensible approach is to follow the order our listing gives and let the world assemble itself instalment by instalment. Fifteen hours is a proper commitment, which is precisely what readers of this genre tend to want from it.

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