Rage and Ruin [Dramatized Adaptation]

The Harbinger [Dramatized Adaptation] #2

by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Tanja Milojevic (Narrator), Robb Moreira (Narrator)

Half-angel Trinity and her bonded gargoyle protector, Zayne, have been working with demons to stop the apocalypse while avoiding falling in love. The Harbinger is coming…but who or what is it? All of humankind may fall if Trinity and Zayne can’t win the race against time as sinister forces gather.

As tensions rise, they must stay close together and patrol the DC streets at night, seeking signs of the Harbinger, an entity that is killing Wardens and demons with no seeming rhyme or reason. But as deaths pile up and they uncover a plot endangering someone dear to Zayne, Trin realizes she is being led…herded…played for some unknown end. As anger builds and feelings spiral out of control, it becomes clear that rage may be the ruin of them all.

Genres: Fantasy, Audiobook, Romantasy, Young Adult, Demons, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy

11 pages, Audiobook

Published November 22, 2023

About the author

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# 1 New York Times and # 1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Charles Town, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki. In early 2015, Jennifer was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic disorders that involve a breakdown and death of cells in the retina, eventually resulting in loss of vision, among other complications. Due to this diagnosis, educating people on the varying degrees of blindness has become of passion of hers, right alongside writing, which she plans to do as long as she can.

Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Tor, HarperCollins Avon and William Morrow, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her Wicked Series has been optioned by PassionFlix. Jennifer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Reviewers Choice Award for Wait for You, the 2015 Editor’s Pick for Fall With Me, and the 2014/2015 Moerser-Jugendbuch- Jury award for Obsidian. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA. Her adult romantic suspense novel TILL DEATH was a Amazon Editor’s Pick and iBook Book of the Month. Her young adult contemporary THE PROBLEM WITH FOREVER is a 2017 RITA Award Winner in Young Adult Fiction. She also writes Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

She is the owner of ApollyCon and The Origin Event, the successful annual events that features over hundred bestselling authors in Young Adult, New Adult, and Adult Fiction, panels, parties, and more.

Reviews

[RoXXie | The Art of Reading · Rating 5 out of 5]

Again an amazing movie in my mind by GraphicAudio.

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is amazing! (The first book in the series was so good too). I loved the development of Zayne and Trinity’s relationship and the storyline kept me riveted. Could not stop listening. The ending though. Whew. All the feels. I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book.

[Natascha Francis]

DNF @27%.

I really did try but the FMC was driving me nuts. Demanding answers to questions and then when she’s not liking the answer she cuts the other person off and it’s suddenly ‘I don’t want to talk about this’ another time Peanut trying to urgently wake her up but she just opens her big mouth and just yells over the top and won’t let him speak. She’s just frustratingly immature and gets butt hurt easily. I can’t make myself finish it (even though the base storyline was interesting)if I have to listen to her unfortunately.

[Núria Azanza · Rating 4 out of 5]

4⭐
sEgundo libro de la trilogía, y este ha sido primera lectura en todos los sentidos.
En este libro Trinity y Zayne siguen patrullando la ciudad y tratando de averiguar quien es el heraldo y como derrotarlo. Aparecen muchos personajes de la saga DArk Elements, que como se me olvidó comentar en la review de Storm and Fury, esta es un spin off de DArk Elements y por tanto van a salir muchos de los personajes de esa saga, sobre todo sus protagonistas, Layla y Roth, entre otros.

En este libro también se toca más profundamente el tema de la pérdida de visión por parte de Trinity, como se siente ella al respecto, como trata de afrontarlo, y como Zayne reacciona y se comporta sobre este tema.

Reconozco que al ser ciega me ha removido bastante el libro, he llorado mucho, me han gustado también muchas de las actitudes de los protas, me han sorprendido algunas habilidades de Trinity teniendo en cuenta que se está quedando ciega, he vuelto a llorar, y el final me ha dejado KO.

La tercera parte está en español pero dado que estoy con las dramatizaciones, voy a tratar de esperar que salga la tercera parte que lo hará el próximo 9 de febrero... ¡Espero poder aguantar y que no me dé el ansia!

[Miriam Kahn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book two moves the story of good and evil and the search for the Harbinger forward to a spine-tingling, hair-raising battle between demons and angels.

Trinity, a true-born (half-angel) 18 year-old and her bonded protector - gargoyle shifting Warden, Zayne team up with Roth, the Demon Prince, to fight demons, ghosts, witches, and other creepy things. As they battle to keep the world and humans safe, they must also fight evil and death.

In terrifying scenes, they learn the identity of the Harbinger and the destruction he promises to rain down on earth and all its creatures, humans included.

The ending is heavily laced with descriptions of the apocalypse and the darker sides of the religion.

The full cast performance by the talented voice actors at Graphic Audio http://www.graphicaudio.net makes the creepy parts more intense and the mushy love scenes between Trinity and Zayne very smooth and smoochy. And let's not forget the accompanying music and sound effects.

For more on the performance, see AudioFile Magazine http://www.audiofilemagazine.com

[Addicted 2 📖 · Rating 3 out of 5]

JLA is making me not want to read any more of her books. FMC is annoying AF. WHY does she write in immature daft cows as FMC? At this point I like Ivy from the Wicked Trilogy more than Trinity - and that says a lot!
Spoiler alert ⬇️

I’m gonna have to go with Trinity on this, I can’t even believe I’m saying those words, but her questioning Zayne is completely valid. And what I mean by that is questioning as to whether he is protecting her because of love or duty as her protector. The way she compares what happened with Layla and now her? it’s the daft cow Trinity that actually made complete sense. If you kill her off, I won’t be sad.
As a sidenote, I don’t understand what people are talking about with this big reveal and cliffhanger at the end with who the Harbinger is… Is this another series I missed because there was no oh my God it’s him gasping for me.

And because I can’t not complete a series I’m slightly invested in here I go into the third and final book. 🥴

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basic Plot: Trinity and Zayne hunt for the Harbinger, trying to prevent his plot.

Hrm. Well. Lots of angst, and it got me. By the end, though, I had been over-angsted and saw the "twist" coming. I did not see the very last twist coming, but I feel like I should have. The book still has a very YA feel to it, but just enough spice that I don't feel entirely comfortable adding the YA label to it.

I dunno. The pacing felt off, and the miscommunication trope made me crazy. But it did get me emotionally a few times. I'm still annoyed by angels and demons in general. I'm going to finish the trilogy, but honestly I'm kind of cranky about that.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just finished listening to all three books on graphic audio. I really enjoyed the story not sure if it would be different physically reading it but the graphic audio was really fun.
This is an upper YA book or a young adult book, does have a good amount of spice in it but it’s not descriptive.
I think my biggest complaint is the language form the FMC is a little immature for my liking but the banter between the FMC and MMC is spot on.
This is a body guard trope with forced proximity.

[Nikki Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one definitely shifted the romance to be the main plot and it made a lot of this feel kind of one note. The romantic tension felt very immature, which makes sense for the characters, but it made it boring. The world is so interesting and I feel like having it take a backseat to the romance just made this not a memorable story.

[Pink Babe · Rating 3 out of 5]

This version is better than the orginal.
thats firstly because it wasn't split into more than 1 parts.
but it doesn't sync with ebooks

and now Trinity starts getting whiny...

and they start having sex too much or talking about sex too much...

each character has its own narrator

now they just need to make it a reasonable price.

[Paola · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing audiobook that ended in a big cliffhanger.

[WhippedStitchReads (J.A.Y) · Rating 3 out of 5]

..Yup still hated the scenes that were rightfully hated to be (characters being character) the ice cream parlor scene still made my stomach sick from it.

[lily lala · Rating 3 out of 5]

Such a beautiful movie audio ✨

[Joanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

What in the cliffhanger!! Ready for the next one🤓

[Christy Kainos · Rating 3 out of 5]

This story is progressively getting more and more cheesy. The battle with the harbinger actually made me cringe. The storyline is good, but some of the writing, not so much.

[Emelie · Rating 3 out of 5]

You don't even know what instagram is, and you think you're gonna end the world?!

I don't think I would've enjoyed it nearly as much if I hadn't listened to is as Graphic Audio. Though, that ending did perk my interest to finish the trilogy, despite earlier decision that I wasn't intrigued enough to continue. While I do enjoy pop-cultural references it occasionally gets a little bit cringey and overused in this one. The voice-actors do a phenomenal job, I especially felt for Tirinity at parts where she was struggling with her failing vision. Roth is a total delight, I almost wish he was in every scene. Overall, it's an alright story but I definitely recommend the GA over other versions.

[Erica · Rating 3 out of 5]

the graphic audio production was good, but the book itself is fairly cheesy.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Idk. I read this because I enjoyed the majority of the first one. This one kind of made me... annoyed? I'm getting a little tired of the author's writing - only in the form of Trin's dialogue/inner dialogue. I was on board with this book for the most part with like a 3.5-3.75 rating until the last 20 ish percent. I hated the scene with you know who at the end. I hated Trinity's cringy quips when she fought or set herself up to be a bada** - she sounded like a 13 year old trying to fight with her imaginary friend.

I HATE winter freaking mint.

But... it was okay. It was a solid 3 stars. It wasn't bad per say. It just wasn't my favorite. I'm still picking up the third book and I'm still liking the side cast, setting and magic system. I just don't think I'm a huge fan of Trinity.

[Stephanie Beverly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Listened on audible. I love dramatized audio. And this story? Perfect for it!

[Christine Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

stunning adaptation as per

[Erin · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5/5

[Lannette Story · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rage and Ruin took everything I loved about Storm and Fury and cranked it up. Zayne continues to be absolutely perfect—broody, loyal, and just so swoon-worthy. The romance between him and Trinity deepens in such a natural, satisfying way, and the slow burn is still on point. The spicy scenes? Chef’s kiss. They hit all the right notes while staying true to the emotional beats of the story.

Trinity’s strength and sass shine even brighter here, and her dynamic with Zayne is perfection. Their connection feels so real, and the emotional stakes are high. I laughed, I swooned, and I might’ve cried a little.

The action and suspense kept me on the edge of my seat, and the twists were intense. Seriously, I was yelling at the audiobook in my car at the end! I’m obsessed with how seamlessly she blends romance and plot. This series just keeps getting better.

[Natasha Skinner · Rating 5 out of 5]

ahh and the story continues! In true JLA fashion the plot twist continue!

At this point we love Zane and Trin right? But of course she is insecure and gets into her head! There was a lot of this creating angst between the two. Lots of jealousy as Trinity comes to terms with the fact she is falling for Zane. These two are also getting used to being truly bonded and what that feels like.

As the whole crew gets closer to figuring out who the harbinger is, what the plan is, and all the layers that keep getting peeled back keep us drawn in to figure out what happens.

the ending of this book had me actually crying! It had an action packed last quarter of the book that did not disappoint.

can’t wait to get into the next book and how they will bring down the harbinger and deal with the brand new set of challenges.