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Kyron’s Worlde : Foretold #1
Betrayed By Desire
Foretold: Betrayed By Desire
A Paranormal Fantasy Fiction Novel For Adults)
Book 1 in the Kyron’s Worlde Foretold series.
Llayentia's outcast psychics foresee destruction at the finish of nearly all time streams. Grim with determination, The Seven plot to protect their world…at all cost.
Kyra Atar is one irresistible assassin. And she knows it. Wielding freni-kyn illusions, she slips into the persona of anyone she wants…with one exception…herself.
Recruited into a life he despises, illegal half-breed Tahrek Mitan shifts from assignment to assignment without hope of relief. His newest job is simple. Betray and execute a fellow assassin…Kyra.
While struggling for survival the two must defeat the deadliest stalker of all: forbidden desire.
This book is intended for mature readers.
A Paranormal Fantasy Fiction Novel For Adults)
Book 1 in the Kyron’s Worlde Foretold series.
Llayentia's outcast psychics foresee destruction at the finish of nearly all time streams. Grim with determination, The Seven plot to protect their world…at all cost.
Kyra Atar is one irresistible assassin. And she knows it. Wielding freni-kyn illusions, she slips into the persona of anyone she wants…with one exception…herself.
Recruited into a life he despises, illegal half-breed Tahrek Mitan shifts from assignment to assignment without hope of relief. His newest job is simple. Betray and execute a fellow assassin…Kyra.
While struggling for survival the two must defeat the deadliest stalker of all: forbidden desire.
This book is intended for mature readers.
- GenresRomanceParanormalFantasy
335 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 15, 2012
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About the author
E.S. Tilton
8 books18 followersE.S. Tilton’s love for all things fantasy started at eleven when she learned to quench boredom with books. After devouring The Hobbit, no book was safe from her perusal. Discovery of Dungeons and Dragons in the early eighties fueled her imagination, spurring the creation of her own richly populated landscapes.
Over the course of the next 47 years she has indulged in thousands of books and opened an art studio which specialized in creating fantastical home atmospheres. During that time she has nurtured her children by raising them on fairy tales and as much holistic foods as she could convince them to eat.
In late 2008, E.S. Tilton awoke one morning with a dream that haunted her, begging to be written. That dream is Kyron’s Worlde. She invites you to step into her mind, where not everything is as it seems.
Over the course of the next 47 years she has indulged in thousands of books and opened an art studio which specialized in creating fantastical home atmospheres. During that time she has nurtured her children by raising them on fairy tales and as much holistic foods as she could convince them to eat.
In late 2008, E.S. Tilton awoke one morning with a dream that haunted her, begging to be written. That dream is Kyron’s Worlde. She invites you to step into her mind, where not everything is as it seems.
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November 20, 2012
E.S. Tilton has produced a work of fiction that will thrill you, intrigue you and make you feel part of the world she has created, Llayentia, a worlde created by Kyron. In this worlde there dwell’s two, who will meet fall in love and make a powerful enemy with Ishk. Within the pages of this book you will find adventure, love, sex, action, and a wide range of emotions. Tilton will make you laugh, cry, and horny. In one encounter between Tahrek and Kyra, was so hot that if I was reading it on an iceberg, it would have been reduced to ice water.
Tilton has a master of the English language that will transport you to her worlde that she has created and drops you in the middle of it, to live it yourself. Her imagination is so artistic that she has offered the reader four glossaries of terms that will introduce the people, places, stuff, phrases and curses, as well as five prologues. I recommend reviewing these resources before you go to the main body of the book. With this familiarity you will become more engrossed into this amazing story.
This is the first book I ever read in this genre and E.S.Tilton has made me a fan.
Tilton has a master of the English language that will transport you to her worlde that she has created and drops you in the middle of it, to live it yourself. Her imagination is so artistic that she has offered the reader four glossaries of terms that will introduce the people, places, stuff, phrases and curses, as well as five prologues. I recommend reviewing these resources before you go to the main body of the book. With this familiarity you will become more engrossed into this amazing story.
This is the first book I ever read in this genre and E.S.Tilton has made me a fan.
February 2, 2013
Review to come.
May 3, 2015
This was an entertaining enough read. It has an interesting world, interesting species, and an interesting plot. After a disjointed and confusing start, I spent the first half of the book really enjoying myself. However, around the 65% mark the book started to drift and I started to lose interest.
The issue is that, while the book started out with assassins doing cool assassin things, it then hit a strange domestic plateau in which very little relevant to the preceding story happened—reconnecting with friends, learning about herbs, setting up trading routes, etc. Not only did this take up a lot of time in an already gangly and too long story, I was left thinking, 'What happened to the book I was reading? This doesn't seem to be the same one.' And it never got back to the first one. The book has a very abrupt ending, leaving all the threads open (that's right, nothing concludes) and the story at the end feels very different from the one that began.
You see, this book takes the long view of history, which seems to give it permission to diverge from its primary plot-line regularly. I wish it hadn't, but that's just me. To elaborate, the book has five prologues. (Don't ask me why, I don't know either, but I'd have been lost if I hadn't read them.) Between prologues four and five, 253 years passed. Then, between the end of prologue 5 and beginning of chapter one, 2,658 years passed!
Considering the length of time covered in the first 10% of the book, it probably shouldn't be surprising that the remaining story couldn't be contained within one volume. However, it seemed to me that it could have been condensed a bit. Long, LONG passages were dedicated to comparatively unimportant things, bonding ceremony preparations or dreams, for example, and most of these were contained within the not primary plot portions of the book.
My point is that in a story that already covered thousands of years and looks to take many more years to conclude, such forays into detailed mundanity need to either be curtailed or readers need to understand in advance that this is going to be a very long series, with each book containing only a fragment of the larger story but a lot of detail on the rest of the characters' lives. Expect no closure here.
As an example, the seven children being bred in prologue one never appear anywhere in the book, or at least nowhere that the reader knows that they are one of the seven. This whole prologue seems to be a set up for something that will happen in some future book. There were a number of small things like this. The bit about a man killing women who remind him of Kyra, is another example. He was never mentioned after his brief 3-4 page blip into existence. (Though reading the blurb of book two, I bet he shows up there.) But scattered through the book were random, anchorless reveals that serve no apparent purpose.
Now, I must admit that I loved Tahrek. He's broken, but extremely loyal and caring, not to mention badass. I melted a bit every-time he spoke. I liked Kyra, but I didn't love her. She seemed inconsistent to me. One minute throwing herself at Tahrek sexually, the next accusing him of taking advantage of her. For half the book, she was a standoffish sort, the last half a giggling, hugging sort.
I think something else that contributed to the different feel of the first and second half of the book was that toward the end, once the Kyra and Tahrek were comfortable with one another, they started using names a lot. This often breaks the flow of dialogue and feels unnatural. I didn't notice this pesky problem in the beginning, but I found myself gritting my teeth with it at the end.
With the exception of the too frequent names, I thought most of the actual writing was perfectly passable. The POVs jumped around a lot, but it wasn't too disruptive. There were some random mysterious messages in a rough-paper-like graphic that felt really gimmicky and out of place. Plus, whomever the communications are between is never directly addressed, leaving the reader to wonder what they're all about. (One more reveal for some future book, maybe.)
So, in the end, I imagine this will be a really interesting SERIES, but as an individual book, I was disappointed. There is just so much set up for a really long and detailed story that I feel like someone handed me the first 300 pages of a 4,000 page epic. But if you're willing to dedicate yourself to a lengthy series of reads, this one might be worth picking up.
The issue is that, while the book started out with assassins doing cool assassin things, it then hit a strange domestic plateau in which very little relevant to the preceding story happened—reconnecting with friends, learning about herbs, setting up trading routes, etc. Not only did this take up a lot of time in an already gangly and too long story, I was left thinking, 'What happened to the book I was reading? This doesn't seem to be the same one.' And it never got back to the first one. The book has a very abrupt ending, leaving all the threads open (that's right, nothing concludes) and the story at the end feels very different from the one that began.
You see, this book takes the long view of history, which seems to give it permission to diverge from its primary plot-line regularly. I wish it hadn't, but that's just me. To elaborate, the book has five prologues. (Don't ask me why, I don't know either, but I'd have been lost if I hadn't read them.) Between prologues four and five, 253 years passed. Then, between the end of prologue 5 and beginning of chapter one, 2,658 years passed!
Considering the length of time covered in the first 10% of the book, it probably shouldn't be surprising that the remaining story couldn't be contained within one volume. However, it seemed to me that it could have been condensed a bit. Long, LONG passages were dedicated to comparatively unimportant things, bonding ceremony preparations or dreams, for example, and most of these were contained within the not primary plot portions of the book.
My point is that in a story that already covered thousands of years and looks to take many more years to conclude, such forays into detailed mundanity need to either be curtailed or readers need to understand in advance that this is going to be a very long series, with each book containing only a fragment of the larger story but a lot of detail on the rest of the characters' lives. Expect no closure here.
As an example, the seven children being bred in prologue one never appear anywhere in the book, or at least nowhere that the reader knows that they are one of the seven. This whole prologue seems to be a set up for something that will happen in some future book. There were a number of small things like this. The bit about a man killing women who remind him of Kyra, is another example. He was never mentioned after his brief 3-4 page blip into existence. (Though reading the blurb of book two, I bet he shows up there.) But scattered through the book were random, anchorless reveals that serve no apparent purpose.
Now, I must admit that I loved Tahrek. He's broken, but extremely loyal and caring, not to mention badass. I melted a bit every-time he spoke. I liked Kyra, but I didn't love her. She seemed inconsistent to me. One minute throwing herself at Tahrek sexually, the next accusing him of taking advantage of her. For half the book, she was a standoffish sort, the last half a giggling, hugging sort.
I think something else that contributed to the different feel of the first and second half of the book was that toward the end, once the Kyra and Tahrek were comfortable with one another, they started using names a lot. This often breaks the flow of dialogue and feels unnatural. I didn't notice this pesky problem in the beginning, but I found myself gritting my teeth with it at the end.
With the exception of the too frequent names, I thought most of the actual writing was perfectly passable. The POVs jumped around a lot, but it wasn't too disruptive. There were some random mysterious messages in a rough-paper-like graphic that felt really gimmicky and out of place. Plus, whomever the communications are between is never directly addressed, leaving the reader to wonder what they're all about. (One more reveal for some future book, maybe.)
So, in the end, I imagine this will be a really interesting SERIES, but as an individual book, I was disappointed. There is just so much set up for a really long and detailed story that I feel like someone handed me the first 300 pages of a 4,000 page epic. But if you're willing to dedicate yourself to a lengthy series of reads, this one might be worth picking up.
April 26, 2013
Seven races, a prophecy, an errant god and a dark force bent on corruption. What isn't in this book? The story begins with six prologues. The reader immediately learns about a menacing villain trying to obliterate the god Kyron's existence. The prologues hop around and give a bit of a frame work, but it's confusing. The story finally begins with Kyra the assassin. She is completing one final job before she retires from the Red Pelican assassin's guild. Her contact is Tahrek, another assassin.
This story is disjointed. The story goes off on tangents side stories and then suddenly plops the reader back into the main storyline. While these little detours provide good back history and world building, it's cobbled together in a rather clumsy manner. The story is definitely non linear nor is it a multi-thread weaving into a cohesive pattern. It resembles a puzzle where the pieces are forced together when it should not be. It leaves most readers frustrated and perhaps a bit confused. If this wasn't for a review, I would not have finished this book. I would have given up and written it as a "did not finish". If I had done that, I would have lost out.
Ms. Tilton creates an interesting war torn and dystopic world. The seven distinct races are variations of frequently used paranormal creators. There are shape shifters, faeries and angels to name a few. The attention to detail for each race before and after the catalysmic event is very thorough. It's an overwhelming information dump at once. What happened to each race is useful to know. My recommendation is to weave the pieces in bite size chunks as the story progresses. Rather than a chapter summary, a reveal of before and after as each race interacts with Kyra and Tahrek would be better. This is an example of how a good editor could have helped polish this rough diamond. Another point is the rapid changing point of views. This is jarring and takes the reader out of the story. It jerks a reader out because passages need to be re-read in order to understand who is narrating the story. Lastly, why are there so many prologues? There should be only one prologue. The rest of the prologues should have been written as chapters with a date and time stamp. Other books in this genre do the same. Or the details in the numerous prologues can be provided in flashbacks throughout the story.
Despite the jumping around and random history lectures, the essence of this tale is really quite good. There is conflict, two flawed main characters and a quest. It contains elements required for a great fantasy novel. Kyra is a strong female lead who is mysterious. Her abilities are perfect for her chosen profession. Yet she's not without issues. Tahrek is a wonderful male lead. His tortured past is moving even though it's still shrouded with mystery. Their interaction together is fabulous. The character building in this story is well done. The emotions the two characters feel for each other works very well. Even the secondary characters are a pleasure to read about. The problem is there are so many characters all trying to fight for a bit of airtime. It's almost too many characters which takes the focus away from the main characters and the main plot.
This book is rated for mature audiences. I'm not quite sure why. The sex in this story is quite mild. Even the rough sex part is glossed over within a few pages. While the sex is fine, this book would work great without it too. In fact a couple of times when sex does occur, it feels forced rather than a natural progression in the storyline. This forced feeling is not in reference to the requiring bonding between Kyra and Tahrek. The bonding actually made good sense and fit in quite well. Overall this story is barely kinky which is why it is a 1 Sting rating. The story still rates a 3 paddle overall because the concept and characters are really quite good. There are still questions left unanswered which entices a reader to read the next book. This fantasy tale is recommended to readers who enjoy intrigue, strong characters and angst.
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This story is disjointed. The story goes off on tangents side stories and then suddenly plops the reader back into the main storyline. While these little detours provide good back history and world building, it's cobbled together in a rather clumsy manner. The story is definitely non linear nor is it a multi-thread weaving into a cohesive pattern. It resembles a puzzle where the pieces are forced together when it should not be. It leaves most readers frustrated and perhaps a bit confused. If this wasn't for a review, I would not have finished this book. I would have given up and written it as a "did not finish". If I had done that, I would have lost out.
Ms. Tilton creates an interesting war torn and dystopic world. The seven distinct races are variations of frequently used paranormal creators. There are shape shifters, faeries and angels to name a few. The attention to detail for each race before and after the catalysmic event is very thorough. It's an overwhelming information dump at once. What happened to each race is useful to know. My recommendation is to weave the pieces in bite size chunks as the story progresses. Rather than a chapter summary, a reveal of before and after as each race interacts with Kyra and Tahrek would be better. This is an example of how a good editor could have helped polish this rough diamond. Another point is the rapid changing point of views. This is jarring and takes the reader out of the story. It jerks a reader out because passages need to be re-read in order to understand who is narrating the story. Lastly, why are there so many prologues? There should be only one prologue. The rest of the prologues should have been written as chapters with a date and time stamp. Other books in this genre do the same. Or the details in the numerous prologues can be provided in flashbacks throughout the story.
Despite the jumping around and random history lectures, the essence of this tale is really quite good. There is conflict, two flawed main characters and a quest. It contains elements required for a great fantasy novel. Kyra is a strong female lead who is mysterious. Her abilities are perfect for her chosen profession. Yet she's not without issues. Tahrek is a wonderful male lead. His tortured past is moving even though it's still shrouded with mystery. Their interaction together is fabulous. The character building in this story is well done. The emotions the two characters feel for each other works very well. Even the secondary characters are a pleasure to read about. The problem is there are so many characters all trying to fight for a bit of airtime. It's almost too many characters which takes the focus away from the main characters and the main plot.
This book is rated for mature audiences. I'm not quite sure why. The sex in this story is quite mild. Even the rough sex part is glossed over within a few pages. While the sex is fine, this book would work great without it too. In fact a couple of times when sex does occur, it feels forced rather than a natural progression in the storyline. This forced feeling is not in reference to the requiring bonding between Kyra and Tahrek. The bonding actually made good sense and fit in quite well. Overall this story is barely kinky which is why it is a 1 Sting rating. The story still rates a 3 paddle overall because the concept and characters are really quite good. There are still questions left unanswered which entices a reader to read the next book. This fantasy tale is recommended to readers who enjoy intrigue, strong characters and angst.
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