Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, Book 1) – Aliette de Bodard Free Audiobook

Written by Aliette de Bodard
Read by Philip Battley
Format: M4B
Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins

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These books are a spin-off from the main Dominion of the Fallen series and can be read independently but chronologically follows The House of Sundering Flames. It’s High Gothic meets C-drama in a Vietnamese inspired world.
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Lunar New Year should be a time for familial reunions, ancestor worship, and consumption of an unhealthy amount of candied fruit.

But when dragon prince Thuan brings home his brooding and ruthless husband Asmodeus for the New Year, they find not interminable family gatherings, but a corpse outside their quarters. Asmodeus is thrilled by the murder investigation; Thuan, who gets dragged into the political plotting he’d sworn off when he left, is less enthusiastic.

It’ll take all of Asmodeus’s skill with knives, and all of Thuan’s diplomacy, to navigate this one—as well as the troubled waters of their own relationship….

A sparkling standalone book set in a world of dark intrigue.