In Brief
- Narrator: Laura Carrero del Tío carries fourteen hours solo, on a book the written responses describe finishing in one sitting on the page.
- Subjects: Enemies to lovers after a real betrayal, witch hunters and witches, a Republic worth burning, an impossible choice
- Tone: Scheming, anguished, and closer to a political thriller than to a battlefield
- Bottom line: A closing volume that genuinely closes, in Spanish, for listeners who read Spanish and finished book one.
Spanish is the first fact about this audiobook and the record does its best to bury it. The title on the page reads Rebel Witch. The series field reads CRIMSON MOTH. Everything else, the entire description included, is in Spanish, and one English line at the very bottom confirms that the recording is too. Kristen Ciccarelli wrote the novel in English; what is being sold here is the Spanish edition of it, read by Laura Carrero del Tío. If you do not read Spanish, nothing else about this listing will matter to you.
No Translator Credited for Fourteen Spanish Hours
Everything about the placement of that information works against a browser. The disclaimer sits below roughly three hundred words of Spanish plot summary, in a position most people never reach, and the two English strings above it are the title and the series name. Somebody scanning for a familiar title will find one. Somebody sampling the first paragraph will hit Spanish and may reasonably conclude the description was pasted in from the wrong catalog rather than that the product itself is Spanish.
Translation credit is missing entirely, and that omission is the more serious one. A Spanish edition of an English novel is somebody's work: the register of Rune's fury, the archness of Cressida Roseblood, the whole texture of a romantasy voice rebuilt in a second language. The author field names Kristen Ciccarelli alone. No translator appears anywhere on the record, which means the person whose sentences a listener will actually hear for fourteen hours is invisible on the page selling them.
Packaging turns up where a reading should be. The four-star posted in June 2025 reports that the parcel arrived quickly, that one corner came damaged, and that the cover is beautiful. Not one word of it concerns the story, and the object being graded has corners, which an audio file does not. A response about a bruised physical copy sits in the pool for a recording and carries exactly the same weight as the responses that discuss the book.
Rune and Gideon Fight Before They Trust
Because this is the second half of a duology, the premise arrives already loaded. Rune Winters is running from a world that wants her dead after the boy she loved exposed her. Gideon Sharpe hunts witches and has every reason to want her gone. The engine of the book is that each of them needs something only the other can supply, and Ciccarelli forces them into cooperation before either has forgiven anything. Enemies to lovers at maximum tension, and it works because the betrayal already happened where you could see it.
Intrigue carries far more of this than combat does, and the pool says so plainly. The five-star from February 24, 2026 warns that anyone wanting wars, battles and fights should probably look elsewhere, and describes a book built on scheming instead. That same response calls the suffering it caused the good kind, the sort that stops you putting a book down, and reports laughing, crying and falling in love inside a single paragraph. Set expectations for a political romance rather than a war novel.
Register is what a listener is really buying. Cressida Roseblood is written as cruel and dangerous, Gideon as a hunter arguing himself out of his own convictions, and Rune as somebody negotiating from the losing side of every conversation she enters. All three of those voices reach a Spanish-speaking listener through a translator's choices first and a reader's choices second, which is one more layer than any original-language recording carries. Laura Carrero del Tío is credited alone with holding the result across fourteen hours.
297 Ratings, Several Books, One Score
Duology status is the thing a buyer needs settled, and the answers on the page do not quite line up. The description calls this the epic conclusion. The series field numbers it two. The five-star from February 19, 2026 describes the second book of the saga reaching its end, then warns that you might finish the whole thing in one sitting if you are not careful. Read that as confirmation: this closes the story rather than opening another, and the first book is not optional.
Editions are almost certainly stacked underneath the 297 ratings this record counts. The written column mixes languages, formats and physical objects, which is not the profile of a population that bought the same product. Nothing on the page separates the Spanish recording from the printed Spanish edition, from the English original, or from any other version, and the average that results describes a story rather than a performance of one. Take the 4.5 as a verdict on Ciccarelli's plotting and nothing further.
Portuguese turns up in the pool as well. A five-star filed from Brazil praises the worldbuilding, the characters, the magic system and an ending it calls breathless and tear-inducing, and it went up three weeks before the release date printed on this very record. That combination, a different language and a dateline ahead of publication, means the response concerns a copy of the book that is not the product on this page. Enthusiastic, entirely genuine, and evidence about something else.
Fine in Spanish, Misleading in English
Buy it if you read Spanish comfortably and finished the first book. That is the entire audience, and for that audience this is a well-made object: Penguin Random House Audio behind it, a full-length recording of a duology's closing volume, and a translation of a novel that sold well enough in English to earn one. The romance pays off, the betrayal gets addressed rather than waved away, and the political plot reaches an actual resolution.
Anyone shopping in English should stop at the title. This is not a bilingual edition, not a dual-language release and not an English recording with a Spanish name attached to it; it is the Spanish version, all fourteen hours of it. The five-star from April 2025 loves Rune as a character, praises the setting and its development, and closes by wishing for one more book, which is somebody fully inside the story. Reaching that state requires the language first.
Ciccarelli wrote a duology that ends properly, which is rarer than it ought to be, and Penguin Random House Audio gave the Spanish edition a real production. The failure here belongs entirely to the listing: an English title over a Spanish recording, no translator credited anywhere, and a rating pooled across formats nobody has bothered to separate. Know what you are buying and the book itself will not let you down.
Before You Listen
Is the first book required before starting this audiobook?
Yes. This is the closing half of a duology, and the description opens on the aftermath of a betrayal from the previous volume: Rune exposed, hunted, and forced to bargain with the woman who wants the old order restored. None of that gets recapped. The first book is load-bearing rather than optional.
How much violence should a listener expect from this audiobook?
Less than the premise implies. The written responses agree that scheming outweighs open conflict, and the copy frames the climax as a choice rather than a fight. Romantic content is central and emotionally intense. The record carries no content note at all, so anyone buying for a younger teenager is working without guidance.
