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  • The Awakening

  • The Dragon Heart Legacy
  • By: Nora Roberts
  • Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
  • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (219 ratings)

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The Awakening

By: Nora Roberts
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
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Summary

The first in a trilogy from Sunday Times bestseller Nora Roberts, The Awakening is a story of adventure, magic and finding your home.

Mists, shimmering silver fingers, rose over the pale green water of the lake. They twined and twisted toward a sky quietly gray, while in the east, over the hills, a pink blush waited, like a held breath, to waken.

Breen Kelly had always been a rule follower. So, when her father left when she was twelve years old, promising to return, she waited. Now, more than a decade later, she's working at a job she hates and is tired of the life that playing by the rules has dealt her. It's time to make a change.

Breen makes a leap into the unknown with a summer trip to Ireland - her father's homeland. Little does she know how much of a leap until a walk in the woods leads her through a portal into another world - Talamh - where Breen will find magic, family and a destiny she could never have dreamed of.

©2020 Nora Roberts (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK
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Amazing

As always Nora Roberts captures your imagination in the first chapter and you just want to comfort Breen right away.
l went through the porthole with her description every time and looked forward to seeing everything on the other side.

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Ireland and magic. What's not to love?

The start of another Nora Roberts Irish trilogy.

If you like the fae, witches and evil villains, this is for you.

I can't wait for 'The Becoming'.

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Loved this book, but.....

I throughly enjoyed this books and almost raced through it. My only disappointment is that book 2 isn’t out yet and won’t be until October 2021. It’s been left in such suspense and I would have easily gone straight onto the second without a stop or break in between. I feel abit lost now it’s finished.

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excellent

narrator was very good. Nora Roberts at her best. Will definitely listen again! cant wait for book 2

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brilliant


really good book hope there are more to come, loved the story and the characters

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modern take on magic and fae

realky enjoyed this, good narration. love nora Robert's up to date ideas and her language

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Lovely Story

I loved this story and can't wait for the next on to come out. Anything Nora Roberts writes about Ireland and the other world and magic is worth reading.

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Captivating story and excellent narrator.

Imaginative story, well written and beautifully read. I am looking forward to the next in the series.

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Great story and introduction to the series

I am in love with Breen and Marco and Keegan and Maureena and everyone in this book. All characters are so well created that I am interested in all their lives.
I really appreciated the evolution of Breen from insecure to strong and resilient and a bit cheeky as well.
Unexpected bonus - some romance 😁

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Great

Sucked in to the story and characters as always with nora roberts and her amazing story telling

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