Daughter of Winter and Twilight by Helen Corcoran

Daughter of Winter and Twilight by Helen Corcoran 

Thank you Netgalley and Bolinda Audi for the audio book to review.

As I've already reviewed the ebook arc version, I'm going to add that after I review the audio book aspect. 

As someone who is disabled, I use audio books quite a lot alongside ebooks. Having the correct narrator can make or break a book via audio, no matter how good the print version might be. One such failing in my opinion is Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree. One of my favourite books, but I found the audio version dire. 

Thankfully I felt that Daughter of Winter and Twilight had a good narrator, and it helped push the story along well. 

Katy Sobey made it an easy listen. She has done quite a lot of audio books, and her experience shows. You could distinguish the differences between characters, she brought the right amount of tone depending on the passage. Or line even. So as audio books go, this is fantastic. It felt like no time at all passed before we reached the end. 

To aid this review, below is what I wrote about the book previously. 

This is a follow on from the book Queen of coin and Whispers. Like that book, it is set firmly in the Fantasy YA bracket, and I feel it does that category justice. Furthermore, as someone very much out of that group on age, I was still able to settle in and enjoy this.

Xania and Lia do feature, but this book is much more about their adopted daughter Emri, who navigates the visit of an estranged cousin, Melisande as well as other trials and tribulations.

Like Queen of Coin and Whispers, this is a book that not everyone will enjoy. It doesn't have the highest stakes, or necessarily the highest fantasy settings.

This book is very character driven, and I love the intricacies that it brings. Particularly watching how it unfolds as characters begin to face past trauma and mistakes. As well as how present actions impact now.

We also once again get that queer representation, that is beautifully brought in as just part of who they are. That certainly doesn't mean it is too casual. I felt the book overall was brought together by beautiful prose, with achingly beautiful atmosphere and characters.

As I say, I recognise this style of book isn't necessarily for everyone, but I felt this was a worthy successor to Queen of Coin and Whispers and I'm happy to recommend and give 5/5 stars.