This was my first audiobook, thank you netgalley for this ARC!

I wasn't sure how I would feel about an audiobook, spending time listening as opposed to reading the book. But the narrator was so good that I felt as though I was in the realm! The characters and story were great, truly making you engaged in their trials. It did take a few chapters for me to truly understand the premise.

My only problem was the amount of world building. It was worth it but it did get to be hard to remember all of it while listening.

....I have no words. I was a huge fan of the first book so when I saw this one was available, I jumped on it immediately. I had no idea how long it was until I got well into the book. I always get worried with long books. They have been such a letdown in the past. This is not that book. Sometimes long books have too much fluff and not enough story, more like someone trying to reach a word count. Every page of this book is story greatness. I had to pay more attention than normal just because this book has so many characters and moving parts, but they all fit together seamlessly. I love the authors ability to show growth in all of his characters both the good and the bad. I also love how the author had a wide demographic of his heroes and villains. In his stores both men and women are amazing fighters and champions. Both fall prey to thinking with their emotions. It's just one of those books you can't not like. I am relatively new to Fantasy mostly because I am very analytical and fantasy doesn't stick to worldly logic, but this series has landed a spot among my top favorites. Not only are the characters great but he weaves real world type issues into the book and develops his characters into them with some awesome philosophical realizations. I wanted to finish the books so i could leave a review, but also sad to get to the last page. Oh the wait for the next book will be torture.

The narration in this book was also spot on. I loved it in the first book and haven't changed my mind. He has a wide range of voice inflections the tone is great. Not to mention he doesn't have some crazy squeaky voice for the female voices. HIs voice fit the characters so well.

Just as a not this is an ACR review.

Emotional damage! That’s all I have to say. Facciola kept me on my toes with the sequel to his debut novel and of course ended on a cliffhanger… so now I am eagerly anticipating the end to his trilogy. This book isn’t sunshine and roses but boy is it good! I can’t wait to see what trauma he will inflict on me next.

If you’re a fan of epic fantasy with insanely good fight scenes then this is the book for you.
You’re kept on your toes throughout the whole book!
The characters are amazing and so fleshed out that you either love them deeply or have a visceral hate of them.
This is definitely a must read.

Can't even lie. I got a little lost during this one. But did it stop me from reading the whole thing? Nope. It's another thrilling installment and to be honest I got a little scared towards the end that this was about to be a duology.

See, I said I got a little lost. There I went just forgetting a character and major plot point.

I can't help but to picture some of the actors of Spartacus while I read this. There are just enough similarities to keep them pictured but so many differences that I get to let my mind go further.

Now that the story has picked up even more, I can't wait for the next book. Everything g just keeps building up and I feel like a volcano is going to blow in the next one. Can't wait!

Author Tim Facciola has created an interesting world where magic, though powerful, has its limits. The main characters from Book One of this series return, including some characters I thought never to see again. They each have a story or quest that intersects occasionally, but that are always connected. Wheels within wheels.

Narrator Soelberg does such a good job that he becomes invisible, leaving the listener with just the characters and the story. What I like about this book is the character development. Facciola does a great job exploring the human condition. We get to see how one person can experience suffering and betrayal, yet is forged into a person of honor, while another through a similar experience becomes bitter and vengeful. What annoyed me - right at the end - was the singular, completely unbelievable failure of a particular character to die. This was so egregious that I reduced my rating by half a star for this alone.

Four and a half stars for “The Breaker of Chains.” It has everything I enjoy in a good fantasy: an overarching plot line, several interesting subplots, complex characters, and great character development. My thanks to First Torch Books LLC and the author via Netgalley. Opinions given here are my own and offered freely.

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I don't know what I expected for book two, but omg it literally changed the way I thought this series was going from the moment I started listening to the audiobook.

This was a book that picked up right after book one and continued on the story that we enjoyed in book one. Right from the get-go there was action and the book was moving quickly throughout book two, which had me on the edge of my seat for it. This is definitely a book that answered some of my questions, but not all of them, so I'm hopeful that by book three more things will be answered and cleared up.

The one thing that Tim did exponentially well in his book is writing amazing combat and fight scenes. I mean the craftsmanship behind them was amazing, I felt like I was there and in the moment getting to visualize these scenes was honestly one of the best parts of the book. I couldn't get enough of the combat scenes. They made the book.

Looking forward to the next book!

Thank you NetGalley and Tim Facciola for an eARC audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

WOWZERS!!! I unfortunately did not get the first installment of this book however, there is an amazingly detailed recap at the beginning. I really appreciated that, I was able to listen to the story and understand right off what was going on. Thanks to the author for thinking of the reader with this detail.

This book had no stalling parts and for me that was great, a story with this kind of action that stalls for too long kills the vibe for me, Tim Facciola did a phenomenal job at keeping the storyline moving. I felt like I was watching a movie that was a mash-up of 300 and Thor, lol. I wish the female characters could have been written with the strength of the Marvel character Lady Sif, they fell a bit flat for me though not unbearable.

The male characters however, are 10 out 0f 10!

The building of this world and its characters, the attention to detail of the terrain, the depictions of the characters facial expressions, the mood/emotion of the environment, the verbiage, also 10 out of 10. I listened to this book while at work and doing house chores and often lost track of what I SHOULD have been doing because I was caught up in the storyline, I was sneaking around the castle, I was on the battlefield, I was in every secret rendezvous. When a story grabs you like that, you are able to overlook character flaws of a few characters.

This book has kings, mages. seers, gladiators, blood, battles, alliances, betrayal, EXCITEMENT!!