As the nuns in her care are driven mad by strange visions, walking in their sleep, and showing bleeding wounds, Luca is sent to investigate and all the evidence points to Isolde's criminal guilt. Seventeen-year-old Isolde, a Lady Abbess, is trapped in a nunnery to prevent her claiming her rich inheritance. Commanded by sealed orders, Luca is sent to map the fears of Christendom, and travel to the very frontier of good and evil. Accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, handsome seventeen-year-old, Luca Vero, is recruited by a mysterious stranger to record the end of times across Europe. The year is 1453, and all signs point to it being the end of the world. A Simon Pulse hardcover.The first book in the thrilling YA sequence, Order of Darkness. However, he is most impressive when he voices the two protagonists, so thoroughly capturing the essence of angry and fragile Isolde that listeners may forget that Cox is a male performer.
Additionally, Cox is adept at creating a sense of lingering dread and dramatic urgency.
Narrator Charlie Cox does an excellent job performing Isolde and Luca, as well as all the rich supporting cast-the narrator seems to almost relish playing the book’s smarmy characters.
Luca is sent to investigate and soon romance blooms between the two young people. But after Isolde arrives, the nuns begin walking in their sleep, have visions, and suffer from open wounds. In another part of the country, 17-year-old Isolde is banished to a nunnery to prevent her from claiming her inheritance. After being accused of heresy and booted from his religious sect for questioning the authenticity of a religious artifact, 17-year-old Luca De Vere is recruited by the Order of the Dragon, a unit commissioned by Pope Nicholas V to investigate supernatural occurrences across Europe.
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