Demi Winters’s The Road of Bones is available on Audible as a 21 hrs 15 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by Islay Jacobs.
Publisher’s Summary
A woman on the run. A crew of Viking mercenaries. A forbidden romance. And the secret that threatens them all.
Silla Nordvig is running for her life.
The Queen of Íseldur has sent warriors to bring Silla to Sunnavík, where death awaits her. When her father is killed, his last words set Silla on a perilous quest: travel the treacherous Road of Bones—a thousand-mile stretch haunted by warbands, creatures of darkness, and a mysterious murderer—and go to Kopa, where a shield house awaits her.
After barely surviving the first stretch of road, a desperate Silla sneaks into a supply wagon belonging to the notorious Bloodaxe Crew. To make it to Kopa, she must win over Axe Eyes, the brooding leader of the Crew, while avoiding the Wolf, his distractingly handsome right-hand man. But the queen’s ruthless assassin has other plans and hunts Silla obsessively.
Will Silla make it safely to Kopa? Or will she fall prey to the perils of the Road of Bones?
Featuring an immersive world blending fairy tales with Vikings, The Road of Bones leads you on an adrenaline-fueled chase with fun banter and a slow-building enemies-to-lovers romance. It is book one in the Ashen Series.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Islay Jacobs
- Length: 21 hrs 15 mins
- Publisher: Podium Audio
- Release year: 2024
- Audible category: Romance / Action & Adventure / Romance
Listener Ratings
The Road of Bones holds an average listener rating of 4.7/5 from 2634 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.8/5
- Story: 4.6/5
- 5-star ratings: 76% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “With my upmost sincerity – Read this book.”
*NO* spoilers in my review.
I adored this story. It was a wonderful mix of plot to romance. The romance isn’t the entire plot but it has a good amount of romance/tension to plot ratio, throughout. The story draws you in rather quickly. It begins excitingly and ends even more so. I get bored quickly but with this story I did not. It held my interest throughout with adventure, loss, drama, fighting, and slow burn romance. (There are detailed sex scenes). I find the FMC (Silla) to be strong and willful unlike a lot of helpless FMC in other fantasy/romance books. The FMC doesn’t make me roll my eyes or cringe, thank the lord. I really loved her throughout this story.Spice level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ /5 (compared to A Court of Silver Flames by SJM)
Violence: 🩸🩸🩸 /5 (Compared to The Lord of The Rings)
Adventure: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ /5 (Compared to The Hobbit/ The LOTR)•I do think the spice is 17+
•Violence/gore can get detailed.
•Adventure goes on throughout the story.If you want to read this book solely for the smut, this isn’t for you. If you want to read this because of the slow burn/enemies to lovers this book is ABSOLUTELY for you.
— Maddie, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “This story was a breath of fresh air”
With the genre of fantasy romance expanding so rapidly this book was exactly what I have been looking for, a new world to explore that was unlike any other I have read. The story line, the characters and the twists were perfect. The narrator was Perfect in her storytelling. I am counting down until the next book!!!!— K.W., Audible listener
5/5 stars — “10000000/10 Read!”
The absolute best fantasy I’ve read this year. Islay is an incredible narrator and this book is so well written I’m buying the physical copies as shelf torphies. I listened to this in two sittings. ugh. it’s so good. Can I go back in time to listen to it for the first time again?During the first dozen chapters I was reminded of the Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan. The lore is incredible and the writing is so poetic and beautiful. I’m obsessed.
Thank you Demi and I can’t wait to start on the next one!
— Lorelei, Audible listener
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