Aether Witch (Witches of Mountain Shadow Book 1) - A Paranormal Fantasy Audiobook 

I enjoyed this book and especially liked the real history at the end. I adore when fiction and reality combine. It fascinates me.

I enjoyed listening. I just started listening to audio books at night. I knew I was hooked by the story when I found myself "rewinding" to catch what I missed when falling asleep. Lol. The history at the end was a nice touch. Thank you!

This book was awesome. The voice actor is amazing at giving each character their own distinct voice. Very awesome book!!!!

I love this book! I am on the road for hours at a time and play your book! It makes the long drive so easy- i hate when i get to my destination and have to stop. 😅

Really like this one!i started audiobooks again after i realised with 2 kids&hubby there is no time 4 reading...so all around houshold fits perfect with a good audiobook

This book is great! I love how you used fantasy and real history to create this world. The narrator did great and the voices brought personality to each character.

Thank you, not my normal style of work, but enjoyed the storyline, the narrator and narration, binged listened, and am going straight into book 2 ❤❤❤❤

Wonderful may have found a new favorite author 100% worth the read, especially the true history. Thank you

What an excellent book I was skeptical at first, but the author reeled me in. I'm hooked and can't wait to listen to the next part. Oh and a huge thank you for putting these on RU-vid for free 😁until next time. Stay magical my friends.

Enjoyed very much! 💗💗💗 Some little adjustements which annoyed me, was some logic problems; Like you are a witch and other times you could use powerful spells easily and naturally, but other times could not use it even to tie your shoe laces. And it felt not so fluid when characters did understand things so late that even my lazy brain was questioning their IQ 😅 Ideally reader and the character understand things at the same time, with the same speed. Else, it was very enjoyable to listen!!! And the narrator was good too. I am so used to listen Vivienne Lehany's voice as a narrator that nobody else works for me normally, but I enjoyed! And I am so sorry if I sound ungrateful and critical...I am truly very please for this. So many good decisions in writing! Very enjoyable and I listened in 1,5 days the whole book 😅 💕💖💕💖💕💖 Thank you so much for writing an excellent book!!! 💕💖💕💖💕

Absolutely love the word choice in this book. Such good imagery!

It's hard to believe you haven't written about witched before. This was well written and a nice new take.

1:11:00 bookmark. Excellent book so far, I'm hooked! This is after going through dozens of fantasy audiobooks trying to find a good "fit" and being disappointed. Awesome work with great narration, I can't wait to hear more.

I loved this book so much and the real stories in the end made it better

A very Awesome story. A slightly encrypted spoiler alert, I knew it was him at the beginning, but the other took me by massive surprise at the end.

I'm almost done with the book. I was skeptical at first but stuck like glue. You have made my free time exciting and full of suspense thank you. Amazing writing. My list of book I love has grown.

Fantastic, draws you in, and thoroughly research. I appreciate a well write fantasy story in which Tarah Benner has provided.

La Rota oscura; very good pronunciation. Great narrating and writing, thank you very much. Mario SIrSirReal Villarreal. Thanks so much Tarah Benner.❤

Thank you for reloading this. I needed to hear the last bit. Big bonus was hearing your notes. Glad you decided to write about witches, you do it well. I found your research interesting too. Witches are a great way to take me to a different place. Thank you for all the bonuses.😊👍👍👍👍

Truly spellbinding! (A rollicking good yarn, as a friend of mine would say). I found it hard to pause so as to go to bed on time! Also, I find it interesting that a writer of supernatural fiction has to observe rules that maintain a certain fictional framework while other aspects of the work, such as topography, can remain as close to reality as it pleases them. At the same time there is an underpinning of esoteric lore that has become a fixed meme in literature, as much as it is part of new-age beliefs; a difference such as the spelling of 'aether' instead of 'ether' being but a thin disguise. I wish you the best of luck and success in your career. Same for the reader, who does a fine job all round.

Loved this book and the reading was great too!! Cant wait to read more!! Thank you!!! 🖤

I really enjoyed the book. It held my attention and even had a few surprises. The history lesson at the end was a plus!

Thank you for sharing this! I only recently started listening to audio books about a month ago and I'm so happy I found yours! I can't wait to hear or read what else you've written and look forward to discovering more! I hope you continue with this story and look forward to hearing what else you have in store for this sleepy mountain town! Best wishes and continued success in all you do!! Blessings 🌹

Delightful. Have lots of free time, you won't be able to stop listening. It's that good!!

Thank you I loved it! ✨ Super excited about reading book 2!

Wonderful, I really enjoyed this tale! Eager to head straight to the next one! Thank you for uploading. It's very much appreciated.

Love it! And fantastic narration as well. Can't wait for book 2.❤❤❤

This has been a lovely read I love how you put Facts and Fiction's together keep on writing don't let anything hold you back

Really enjoyed this, thank you for uploading it! I’ve put the rest of the series on my audible wishlist ✨

Really enjoyed this one, yeah I listen to a lot of books, I'm pretty much home, bed bound so this is a lot of my entertainment and escape, and this is about the second comment I've even written, again good detailed story, great voices for so many characters, can't wait for more😊

Glad to find you, audiobooks are how I pass the time at work. Looking forward to the next book. 😀

I really enjoyed listening to this book. Thank you for writing it. :)

Excellent adventure that will keep you guessing till the very end!👏👍

I completely enjoyed this audio book I use to live in Salida Co. So that was a extra bonus Thanks for sharing you imagination

Fantastic I will be getting books 2 3 4 on audiobook now

Loved how the book is written! Never got boring

Will book 2 become an audiobook soon? Audiobooks is how I pass the time as an over the road driver. I would buy the whole series if it was available. This was the best book/audiobook I have come across

please don't stop writing, this book fantastic can't wait to read the next story. thank you so much for letting me in to this world love it.

Just came across this book. already captivated :)

I liked this story. I finally got it done. It took me a while because life got in the way.

I've never read such a tense book. You certainly know how to create a thriller.

Enjoyed this very much.

You know you're living in dystopian times when the idea that an apothecary shop in a small town can profitably stay open is an element of fantasy! Thank you for NOT writing another dystopian novel. Honestly, it seems to me most of humanity has been groomed to only see dystopian options for living. A mountain town with a strong local economy and self-sufficient governance seems like such a dreamscape to me. Thanks for that. I'm not much of a novel reader, but I enjoy putting fiction audiobooks on to listen to while I work. Can't listen to old songs anymore without grieving the loss of The World and remembering the unrecoverable mistakes that have brought us to the here and now. What I grieve the loss of most is the diversity of culture and geological niches for that diversity. For example, shops in Greek Town, China Town, Little Italy, etc. within metropolitan cities actually preserve Greek, Chinese and Italian culture from the past 100 years better than any region in Greece, China or Italy. Of course, when the shop workers go home, they are as modernized as anyone in their cities. It's been a long time that western culture has been steamrolling over eastern culture, dropping McDonalds and Apple stores on every town in the world, but even that is a just a symptom of the problem. The problem is the human monoculture being groomed by social engineers. A world in which we all speak the same language, wear the same style of clothes, eat the same foods and live in spaces designed with the same architectural style, and so on, will not only be boring, it will be the death of our species. Monoculture is killing us now and we're watching eastern nations succumb to the "diseases of the affluent countries", like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. There are only a few Blue Zone communities that haven't fallen victim to the deadly, modern monoculture. Progress that actually kills people and the planet is NOT PROGRESSIVE. And while that is likely obvious to all us common folk, the choices made for us by governments and businesses and also the common folk consumer choices all seem to be willfully dismissive of the obvious choice being made, i.e. I want this new thing, this easily accessible thing, this tasty but non-nutritious thing, even if it kills me! It's as though we all joined a Death Cult and have been brainwashed into wanting whatever will destroy us the fastest. It's as though we're all in hyper drive acceleration toward entropy and anything that isn't is just too boring and passé to interest us. Anyway, requiem for a dead species aside, how you've created the town of Mountain Shadow, with ideological diversity, tension, and cooperation between groups with strongly held ideologies, biases and suspicions illustrates not only the root of human conflict, but also the foundation of humanity's existence. Ideologically, people need the tension that causes group niches for cultural identities to coalesce and remain cohesive during difficult times. People don't cooperate without bonds of trust and they don't bond without intimate commonalities. What you've done with the Gabriel and Fiona characters shows the ideological tension that keeps them from merging and unifying, but also the intimate, secret connection, that almost forces them to cooperate against their will. Yah, this is what makes the interactions of people interesting, but we innately find these encounters interesting, because it's such a major part of human nature. I bet you never intended to go so deep on the anthropology and social psychology angles when you wrote your novel! The behaviors are so much a part of who you are as a human being that you express them without having to think about it. However, we need to think about what has made us and has been keeping us human, because in this dystopian time, the one-size techno-pill solution for all that ails everyone in the whole world is actually destroying us biologically and psychologically. Meanwhile, we all just try to adapt to increasingly dystopian systems of micro-control that reaches right into our homes with SMART devices, our DNA with gene editing and into our minds with neural networking and quantum dot biosensors. We need to question if we SHOULD adapt to this trend, but censorship prevents us from debating important questions. We need to steer our societies away from bad choices, but there really is no democratic process that would gather the votes of ordinary people and then legislate according to the will of people. We can't even stop walking down the path that we don't want to tread and we don't know what mechanism is forcing us all to go where we don't want to go. In a hundred years, what you are now able to conceive of spontaneously, future generations will not even be capable of imagining. That's not a prediction. It's an assessment of the present, based upon thorough study of the past. Time is a river. History does not repeat the novel, beautiful events that come and go, never to be witnessed again. YOU will never be alive again and all your experiences will never be experienced in the same way by anyone else ever again. While Moms and Dads are made every day, YOU will never get a replacement for YOURS. You see, the things that make life unique, human and memorable are lost in the river of time. Mankind has done a very poor job of chronicling and preserving past technologies, like moving megaliths, or finding healing herbs too. History emphasizes the recording of wars, war technology, the members of the ruling class and the blanketing empires that deliberately weed out the diversity of conquered territories and while these events smash the memories of those who die trying to defend their lives and ways of life, history doesn't keep honest records of the losses of the vanquished. Archaeology exhumes them dusty and broken at best. There is, at present, great interest in the Lost Civilizations of mankind and a deep, widespread desire to resurrect cultural histories that have not been faithfully recorded, but through archaeology, have been affirmed to have existed. There's something in the modern psyche that is reminding people that we've forgotten more than we have remembered. And, over the past couple year, there is also a trend toward examining the trajectory of human civilization and consciously choosing to look for alternatives that are less technologically-focused and more likely to resurrect ideas and priorities from the past. In fact, Aether Witch, with witches, churches and fortune telling is doing that - recollecting the ideologies of the Medieval past - and also illustrating that humans will behave like humans in all circumstances, whether we're aware of what compels us or not. I think you've proven that many of us are looking back nostalgically, and are concerned that the future is not friendly toward the very things that make life worth living for every human and even every animal. We're all here to learn from experiences and become the best we can be individually and collectively. And the best of us want to help fellow beings achieve their full potential too. We're here to thwart the effects of entropy, not accelerate them with progressive, but deadly, fun but frivolous trends that can't be opted out of. That's the really big deal. The option to go back and to reject what others want for their present and future has been robbed from most of us. We're effectively made dead and yet are forced to be automatons for others to manipulate. Yah, that's dystopian. Maybe you can create a new fiction novel from that perspective of reality. :)

Hi I just found this book without looking for it and I loved it so much. I really loved how it is written. I could imagine the entire story and loved how you described everything. The narration was awesome. Loved your note too. This book surely fulfilled my fantasy cravings☺️☺️

Thank you for sharing this book. I really enjoyed it.

I was looking for another book and author and this came up on my feed. I'm glad I listened to your book and am looking forward to hearing more of your work. Well done and entertaining.

I like the story very very much. I wish there were pictures of what is going on.So I would understand the story much much better if there were more pictures showing me what is actually happening in the story. I think I'd make the story much better if there were More pictures so we understand the story so much better. I listened to your stories on my TV.That's why i'm asking for pictures. Thank you

Thank you for sharing your book and talent with us.

Thank you for this book! I loved it so much. I can't wait for the next one. :)

you have an absolutely amazing voice!!!!

I just started listening to this and subscribed

Very addictive. Great. Thanks

I stumbled upon this while in search of another book and I’m so glad I found this one! I loved the storytelling and how you went into character. You have a very calming voice and I look forward to checking out the rest of the series!

This was an excellent story, so well written. The narration was perfect, very well done. I loved the storyine, as wel as the history and facts, I;m definitely going to read the next book in this series, as well as other books by this talented author. ❤💜🧡💛💙💚🤎

I have been looking for a book to listen to so here goes I cane here and had to come bck to it Hope its good

Thanks for sharing! Blessings of love and light to all!

Great story! Looking forward to more!

Please write the second book. I am hooked too by the storyline! :)

Absolutely lovely can’t wait for book 2

Great writing. I would love to see a sequel. Your commentary at the end was very interesting.

Love the heart and soul you put into your writing. Thank you for sharing your gift.

I hope you’re hard at work on book 2, just can’t wait. Thanks so much for sharing your art!

LOVE THIS BOOK!!!! Can't wait to hear more!!

Thank you for this great book. You have a great gift as a writer, your skills are up there among the great authors; like Terry Goodkind, Tom Sharpe, Lindsay Buroker and Harry Harrison. Looking forward to the other books in the serries. 👍👍👍👍👍👍 Also - Major Credit to the narrator of the video too, well done Taylor Harvey

great book, keep writing like this

Hi Thank you for this, it was absolutely amazing, I loved it, I'd be a big fan of J,H, and ur right up there, I loved the explanation bit at the end, iv never heard that done before, made the ending even better, I really hope there's a 2nd book to this, all the best Thank you 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

This was truly an amazing book! I was so mesmerized that it was difficult to stop listening. It was as if I was truly pulled into this town and so felt all the characters. Thank you so much! Looking forward to the next read and always stay magical.

Loved it!❤

I really enjoy the audio and looking for the other online. Thank you

Fun story, very nice break from everyday life but with characters that are relatable. I can't wait to hear more!

Having literal chills. Love this book!

This was a good read, I thought you had some good insights- I also enjoyed you end note comments

Great and exciting story. Thank You for sharing and best ideas for next installments:)

Found this audiobook by chance, in search of another audiobook and 6hrs in, I am hooked, this isn't my usual genre but I think it's time I dabbled fully, thank you so much for sharing 😊💕

Thank you for your writings. This was a beautiful story and very well written. Love the way you used Rose with her Bible and spells to work together. Just would have liked to know which brother she would have wound up with. Lol Thanks again a faithful reader.

A world of magic with appealing characters, very easy good reading.

I Enjoyed Very Much This Story and Will Be Listing To Book 2 Now.

I really enjoyed this. Then I found out you also do dystopian. Imagine how happy I was to begin reading through a new to me authors books. Woot!

I loved this story!

I enjoyed the history that was your muse. Ty for sharing.

Awesome book 😊

Loved this book. Thank you for creating and sharing it. So nice to hear from you as author at the end too.

I never read one of your books. Now I look forward reading more of your works. The location you chose for this book was a bonus for me. I live near Woodland Park and know every turn of the pass. Good story, Good job.

I went on audible to down load all 6 books, only 4 have been done. I really pray you can do the last 2. I only listen to my books, reading gives me headaches.. love the fist book, thank you! Getting ready for book 2.

Disabled Veteran & wife with PTSD use audiobooks to combat the living nightmare. I preamble'd that so you know when we say we truly loved your book, it brought us peace & hours of enjoyment really means something. We listen to audiobooks every night, years of them under our belt. This was so enjoyable... ( shorten the length of many praises) ... Thank you for the writing, sharing, upload, for this wonderful book. Now hubby wants me to go look for your other books :) "Live long & Prosper" .

I loved this book! I can’t wait to see who she chooses; witch Hunter or cop?

Very well written....keeps one on one's toes

Really Really Enjoyable! Loved It!

Thank you for the great story.

Brilliant. Please can we have some more. Clever and pretty, brilliant combo. Thank you. More please🥂

Thank you ❤🇦🇺

Solid 10 out of 10! This was an excellent book!

Thanks for the book

Enjoyed your writing

I enjoyed listening to this book. The story had just the right amount of tension without being overwhelming. The main protagonists on the side of good are beings you can relate to even if they do possess para normal skills and abilities. The romantic interest is also there but restrained. It will be interesting to see how it evolves in future stories.

Amazing I love thank you

Can't wait for the next audiobooks thank you for releasing this☺️

Enjoyed

I was really surprised that I like this book the author has some other novels that not fond of it's just not my cup of tea. However I've seen this book on audio and because of the other books at the author has written I wasn't too big on it but since it's on RU-vid I was like let me give it a try I'm not going to use up my credits but now that I have I like it I think I might actually purchase some of her other material.

It is verry familiar story on energy levels almost seen me and my sister as prototypes. I am glad to lisan to the book have verry calming effect in me In verry difficult time on all levels. Good work. That is the first book of your work I lisan and hope to hear or read more. Wich one shel I pick next