The Dark Healer by Alex Toxic and Nadya Lee
Book 1 in The Dark Healer series
Narrated by Christopher P. Brown
Genre: urban progression fantasy
Format: ebook & audiobook
Book 1 in The Dark Healer series
Narrated by Christopher P. Brown
Genre: urban progression fantasy
Format: ebook & audiobook
About The Dark Healer:
I had lain down in my crypt to rest for a few decades, but when I awoke, centuries had passed. My castle is in ruins, my clan is gone, and necromancers are considered just a fairytale for children.
They take me for a healer. That’s because the world is sick. And it’s time for strong medicine.
Source: Info in the "About The Dark Healer" was taken from GoodReads at on /2025.
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My Thoughts:
Introduction to the world of Max Richter. Just a start of a plot with cliffhanger ending.
I bought this book bevause I like the idea of a dark healer. Dark powers healing people. Evil doing good things? I needed to find out if the authors pulled that one off! Which they did. Sort of...
The first chapter was a hard slog. But it did get interesting eventually.
This series is marketed as "historical" progression fantasy that I almost did not buy it. I'm not a historical reader. However, in the story, they have smartphones. Internet. High-rise buildings. Sky scrapers. Flat screen tv. I wouldn't call that historical!
This is my first Christopher P. Brown audiobook and I like the way he reads!
Quantitative Evaluation:
Story telling quality = 4
Character development = 4
Story itself = 4
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 1
World building = 4.5
Cover art = 4
Pace = (8 hours and 6 minutes listening time)
Plot = 1
Narration = 4
Character development = 4
Story itself = 4
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 1
World building = 4.5
Cover art = 4
Pace = (8 hours and 6 minutes listening time)
Plot = 1
Narration = 4
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Meet The Authors
About Nadya Lee:
Ever since she was a little girl, Nadya Lee knew exactly what she wanted to be: either a President, a singer, or an author.
The first option just didn’t work out for some reason
The second option eventually became her hobby. Nadya still loves singing and does it at every opportunity, accompanying herself on a guitar.
Likewise, writing remained her hobby for quite a while. Nadya wrote poems, articles and even fanfics, keeping an occasional blog on various subjects including book reviews. Books and video games have always been an important part of her life.
Then one day she just woke up in the morning and decided she’d procrastinated enough. Time to put pen to paper.
So here she is, hoping that her audience might enjoy reading her books just as much as she enjoys writing them.
About Alex Toxic:
Alex Toxic was born in 1978. He liked reading and playing video games from childhood. These two hobbies found ideal common ground when the LitRPG genre arrived.
Alex dreamed of becoming an author but the profession seemed just too complicated to him. So he began working first as a journalist, then as a TV anchor and then as a documentary filmmaker.
There came a point when Alex had run out of books he wanted to read. The authors simply couldn’t write new ones fast enough. The only way out was to write a book of his own. That’s how he launched into the passion that would with time become his primary profession.
Alex believes that the most important thing in a book is its main character. He or she has to be strong and unrelenting in the face of whatever challenge arises in their path, and they must always triumph.
The Narrator
About Christopher P. Brown:
Christopher P. Brown is an audiobook narrator whose passion is using his scripted theater and improvisation training and experience to bring stories and characters to life. He holds graduate degrees (MA and PhD) in literature, linguistics, and leadership studies. Chris is also bilingual, with professional proficiency in both Spanish and English, and can tackle narration projects in either language, or both of them. Chris grew up in western Michigan, and has lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Washington DC area, and now resides in San Diego, California.
FTC Disclosure:
The print book/ebook and/or audiobook were purchased with private funds.
No money received for this review.
The print book/ebook and/or audiobook were purchased with private funds.
No money received for this review.
