I enjoyed this more than I expected. The world-building, character-development, and overall writing was better than I expected of a romantasy, and while the overall lore felt lacking in places when it came to the mythology, it didn't detract too much from the experience. Compared to other high fantasy levels of books in the same caliber, I went in with pretty low expectations and was thoroughly impressed by the story. I'm quite excited for the sequel and hope that there will be more world-building overall.

This is also the first audiobook I've experienced in which there was 2 narrators doing each the male and female voices in the book. While the book was nearly entirely in the main character's pov, the male narrator did all the male dialogue, whereas with other books with dual povs, I've had female narrators do the male voices in her chapters. This overall lead to a more immersive experience, and I hope that this is the norm moving forward. I would note that I did listen at 2x speed as I find 1x to be far too slow for my taste, but I still enjoyed both narrators performances regardless.

This is a good read for fans of From Blood and Ash, Lightlark, and ACOTAR. I think it has good potential but it is a bit confusing for a time and feels like it’s missing parts in it. The audio has really good narrators that give more life to the story. I can’t wait for the next book!

Immersion was easy with the audiobook narrators, I didn't expect the duel narrator. We'll done. They narrators added extra layers to the experience

Thank you NetGalley, Macmillan Audio and Author Chloe C. Peñaranda for the ALC of The Stars Are Dying.

Narrated by Corvin King; Jacci Prior. The narrators did any amazing job bringing the characters to life. Although beginning was slow I absolutely love the story. 100% recommend.

ok very quickly i know this book is unfortunately not for me lol… this book is going to be a lot of words to run around in a circle and tropes just for the sake of tropes and i do not do well with that.

This book was a trip of a book. I truly enjoyed the book and the journey the characters went on. I enjoyed the world building and character relationships. It was a good book and an interesting journey.

I did really want to like this book! After reading the description and high reviews I was pumped to get early access!

The book wasn’t cohesive enough for me, I get wanting to have a series or multiverse be successful and trying to make the reader ask question after question, but the writing just missed. I trudged through the beginning and don’t like DNFing books so I kept at it and finally the pace picked up where I could finish the book. I tried listening to the audio for this book but every time the male narrator came on I wanted to turn off the book. I did really like the female narrator!! I ended up just reading it through an eARC.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the early access in exchange for my unbiased opinion.