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Ravenous by Kresley Cole Narrator: Robert Petkoff
Series: Immortals Untold #1
Published by Sourcebooks Casablanca on July 28, 2026
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Length: 13 hours, 12 minutes
Format: Audiobook
Source: NetGalley
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Beyond the mortal world lies the Skein, a realm of mythic beauty and savage desire ruled by creatures of legend. Here, vampires, witches, demons, and wolves wage warāand hunt their pleasures just as fiercely.
Now, the Accession has begun, an ancient cycle of chaos and destiny that reignites old hostilities and forges fated bonds too hot to resist. A witch queen on the rise defies the brutal wolf king who stands in her way. But when fate twists their battlefield into a bed of temptation, sworn enemies become something far more perilous. Lovers. A vampire princess trades her crown for freedom, only to be bound to a scarred Berserker, a man whose possessive touch both terrifies and tempts her. An incubus spy and a cunning vampiress strike a dangerous bargain for survival, and profit, but lust becomes the one gamble neither expected.
And when a wolf and an enchantress from opposing clans dare to make peace, their forbidden attraction could doom the Skeinā¦or spark a love that defies the gods. Brimming with intrigue, bloody mayhem, and scorching heat,āÆRavenousāÆplunges readers into the world ofāÆImmortals Untoldāwhere magic kills, surrender triumphs, and immortal hungers can never be satedā¦
I have read and enjoyed almost every book from the Immortals After Dark series, which is set in an alternate world from this one.Ā What I thought we were going to get was another formulaic story that you know will end in happily ever after for the couple involved.Ā What I got was a much darker version of the stories I usually expect from Kresley Cole. Ravenous is the first book in the new Immortals Untold series.Ā You don’t have to have read the Immortals After Dark series to enjoy this but the basic character and some lore structures are similar, so it would help your foundational knowledge if you have.
Ravenous is different from its parent series in that instead of focusing on one couple, the author has given us four potential couples.Ā A few of those couples get a little more page time than the others and are more clearly in a romantic type paring, but all are unusual pairings that are slightly chaotic because the Ascension is coming. One thing I noted is that some of the couples might not work out…gasp.Ā I can’t say for sure but there are some pretty big obstacles in the way for them and some trickery too if what we read isn’t true.Ā I’m going to give Kresley Cole some props for stepping outside her normal formula as it enabled her to hit me with some pretty large surprises.Ā This is a darker side of her writing.
Out of all the potential couples, I enjoyed the play between Thane, King of the werewolves and the new leader of the Witches a half demon named Ditch.Ā To me, Ditch was hilarious.Ā She doesn’t play by anyone else’s rules, when everyone else is panicking, she is having the best time and most people’s nightmares are her comfort zone.Ā Thane on the other hand has been alive for over fifteen hundred years and was completely jaded until he met Ditch.Ā Now he is trying to figure out how they can be together when their factions are ready to go to war.
The other couple stories were also a lot of fun though not as intense in the romance department.Ā A Berserker whose parents were killed by a Vampire hunting party is wedded to a vampire by his leader.Ā The enemies to potential love story there was great and wow did that plot line have some of the bigger twists.Ā Thane’s brother Lowell, was also playing with the enemy and courting a a reluctant witch and Ditch’s right hand woman, Meera.Ā I can’t wait to see how that one plays out because where it left off was insane.Ā And last but not least, was an incubusĀ spy and the vampire who scammed him.Ā An unusual partnership was started there that I’m pretty sure will lead to more if they can both stay alive.Ā There are other species from the Lore running around like Valkyries and some other shifters but we didn’t get a lot of page time with them yet.
This seems like it is going to read more like a duology or trilogy than the single book single couple stories I had gotten used to from this author.Ā At the end of the book, I wasn’t sure how to feel as so many of the characters are in really precarious places and everything is still a bit open right now.Ā I was thinking it would all be wrapped up in the end but Kresley is going to make us wait to see if fate, that fickle bitch, is going to be friend or foe to any and all of these couples and I’m ready to play along to see what happens.Ā With the Ascension ramping up and no Nix (I missed her) to direct things, I think anything is possible.
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Robert Petkoff is a pro narrator and it shows.Ā I have loved his voice throughout the Immortals After Dark series so I was excited to see he would also be the voice for the new Immortals Untold series.Ā He has so many great deeper voice selections for the various alpha males that run rampant through Cole’s writing and he covers the female voices well too which I think is a hard ask sometimes.Ā The cast is rather large and I found it easy to tell who was talking when.Ā I was able to listen at my usual 1.5x speed.
Listen to a clip: HEREĀ
About Robert Petkoff
Robert Petkoff is an award-winning American stage actor known for his work in Shakespearean productions and more recently on the New York City musical theater stage. Petkoff has performed on Broadway, the West End, regional theatre, and done work in film and television. Petkoff was featured as āPerchikā in the Tony award-nominated 1994 revival cast of Fiddler on the Roof but is perhaps best known for his role as āTatehā in the 2009 revival of āRagtimeā on Broadway. Petkoff has also provided the voices for over two dozen audiobooks, winning awards for his reading of Michael Korytaās So Cold the River. Married to actress Susan Wands, Petkoff has lived in New York City for the last twenty years, and often performs in benefit concerts for theater-district-related charities.
About Kresley Cole
Kresley Cole is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the electrifying Immortals After Dark paranormal series, the young adult Arcana Chronicles series, the erotic Gamemakers series, and five award-winning historical romances.
A masterās grad and former athlete, she has traveled over much of the world and draws from those experiences to create her memorable characters and settings.
Her IAD books have been translated into twenty foreign languages, garnered three RITA awards, a Hall of Fame induction, and consistently appear on the bestseller lists, in the U.S. and abroad.
Cole lives in Florida with her family and āfar too many animals.ā .
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