Audio: The Mountain crown by Karin Lowanchee

By: Karin Lowachee

Narrated by: Julienne Irons

Series: Crowns of Ishia, Book 1

Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins

Release date: 10-10-24 by Tantor Audio

Fantasy novella/to review

Something went wrong...what? I have no idea because I have no idea what I listened to. 4 hours and not a single clue. Was it the book? The narration? I should have given up but I had a little bit left, the thing is there was always a little bit left because I could not concentrate.

No idea what happened, no connection to the people in it. The story felt confusing. I could not picture anything.

Maybe reading would be better?

Méka must capture a king dragon, or die trying.

War between the island states of Kattaka and Mazemoor has left no one unscathed. Méka’s nomadic people, the Ba’Suon, were driven from their homeland by the Kattakans. Those who remained were forced to live under the Kattakan yoke, to serve their greed for gold alongside the dragons with whom the Ba’Suon share an empathic connection.

A decade later and under a fragile truce, Méka returns home from her exile for an ancient, necessary rite: gathering a king dragon of the Crown Mountains to maintain balance in the wild country. But Méka’s act of compassion toward an imprisoned dragon and Lilley, a Kattakan veteran of the war, soon draws the ire of the imperialistic authorities. They order the unwelcome addition of an enigmatic Ba’Suon traitor named Raka to accompany Méka and Lilley to the mountains.

The journey is filled with dangers both within and without. As conflict threatens to reignite, the survival of the Ba’Suon people, their dragons, and the land itself will depend on the decisions – defiant or compliant – that Méka and her companions choose to make. But not even Méka, kin to the great dragons of the North, can anticipate the depth of the consequences to her world.