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Lilith
Not everyone believes in love at first sight.
I know I didn't, but when a new boy moved to my little town, everything, including me changed. It wasn't his deep blue eyes, or his perfect smile that called to me, but a connection that was older than time. Our lives were bound together, and the past has a way of circling.
After a date gone horribly wrong, then the blood and the fever. I started to hear voices no one else could hear. People died, some were tortured, my pain was her pleasure...and Lilith was at the center of it all.
Love isn't just a fairy tale, its survival. Clawing my way from death and standing up for that love no matter the price. Because in the end love is all that really matters anyway...even when its the at first sight kind.
I know I didn't, but when a new boy moved to my little town, everything, including me changed. It wasn't his deep blue eyes, or his perfect smile that called to me, but a connection that was older than time. Our lives were bound together, and the past has a way of circling.
After a date gone horribly wrong, then the blood and the fever. I started to hear voices no one else could hear. People died, some were tortured, my pain was her pleasure...and Lilith was at the center of it all.
Love isn't just a fairy tale, its survival. Clawing my way from death and standing up for that love no matter the price. Because in the end love is all that really matters anyway...even when its the at first sight kind.
317 pages, Paperback
First published February 10, 2013
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About the author
Ashley Jeffery
7 books51 followersAshley Jeffery grew up in the central valley of California. After years of devouring any books she could get her hands on, she finally got up the courage to write her own stories. The Wild Hunt is one of the many stories she started writing years ago. Ashley primarily writes Adult Fiction that leans towards urban fantasy, horror and the paranormal.
Even though her characters can be, and are often times monsters, Ashley wanted them to be believable, and flawed. As a reader and writer she wanted them to be both damaged and realistic, making sure they were layered with facets of both right and wrong. Even if the circumstances they lived with are fantastical Ashley likes to think that them as people could exist in today's world. Walking down busy streets, buying groceries, and existing without anyone ever knowing it...
Welsh mythology plays an important part in all of her stories. Ashley wanted to write about monsters no one had ever heard of. It is her hope that her readers will love them as much as she does.
http://www.amazon.com/Ashley-Jeffery/...
Even though her characters can be, and are often times monsters, Ashley wanted them to be believable, and flawed. As a reader and writer she wanted them to be both damaged and realistic, making sure they were layered with facets of both right and wrong. Even if the circumstances they lived with are fantastical Ashley likes to think that them as people could exist in today's world. Walking down busy streets, buying groceries, and existing without anyone ever knowing it...
Welsh mythology plays an important part in all of her stories. Ashley wanted to write about monsters no one had ever heard of. It is her hope that her readers will love them as much as she does.
http://www.amazon.com/Ashley-Jeffery/...
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March 3, 2013
Lilith was an extremely interesting take on demons. It starts pretty quickly and continues to be original and fast-paced the whole way through. It's a quick read, just under 200 pages, but still has substance to it.
I really enjoyed the folklore surrounding Lilith. The mythology aspect is always something I'm drawn to, and in this case it's really awesome that it is a mythological person that isn't as well known. I loved that a whole world of mythology was alluded to, including fairies and witches and the like. She is despicable and ruthless, and I had quite a lot of fun hating her.
The same goes for Lexie. I'm still not convinced that she's not a bitch anymore, but everything in the story showed that perhaps she changed her ways. Pacey was certainly willing to accept it, but I'm siding with Rhiannon. I don't think she's out of the woods yet and I'm curious to see if anything else will happen with her. I do wish that Dean was focused on a little more. Not the tongue kissing, which was pretty prominent, but him as a person. We don't really know a whole lot about him, other than he loves Pacey. I would have liked to see something that made him worthy of being so much trouble.
The one issue that I had with it is that I really hated the way Pacey and Rhiannon talked. Yes, they sounded more like actual teenagers, but it also didn't really make either of them seem worthy. Why is Pacey so special? Her and Rhiannon both were bitchy to no end. Pacey never really shows that she's a direct descendant of Eve, she doesn't really represent any characteristics that would make me believe she belongs to someone so important.
I do agree that she was more like a regular teenager, and maybe that will make her easy to relate to for other readers. But for me, I found her to be irritating a few times.
I really enjoyed the folklore surrounding Lilith. The mythology aspect is always something I'm drawn to, and in this case it's really awesome that it is a mythological person that isn't as well known. I loved that a whole world of mythology was alluded to, including fairies and witches and the like. She is despicable and ruthless, and I had quite a lot of fun hating her.
The same goes for Lexie. I'm still not convinced that she's not a bitch anymore, but everything in the story showed that perhaps she changed her ways. Pacey was certainly willing to accept it, but I'm siding with Rhiannon. I don't think she's out of the woods yet and I'm curious to see if anything else will happen with her. I do wish that Dean was focused on a little more. Not the tongue kissing, which was pretty prominent, but him as a person. We don't really know a whole lot about him, other than he loves Pacey. I would have liked to see something that made him worthy of being so much trouble.
The one issue that I had with it is that I really hated the way Pacey and Rhiannon talked. Yes, they sounded more like actual teenagers, but it also didn't really make either of them seem worthy. Why is Pacey so special? Her and Rhiannon both were bitchy to no end. Pacey never really shows that she's a direct descendant of Eve, she doesn't really represent any characteristics that would make me believe she belongs to someone so important.
I do agree that she was more like a regular teenager, and maybe that will make her easy to relate to for other readers. But for me, I found her to be irritating a few times.
August 19, 2014
To me Lilith is a journey for the young and innocent, and how both those things youth and purity can be lost along the way. Parts of it are ripe with romance, and teen angst. But primarily to me, Lilith is about well....Lilith. She is one of my favorite research topics. There is so much out there about her both historical, and fictitious. She can be found both in the deep sea scrolls, the Talmud, and Jewish Folklore. Often times Lilith is described as the mother of all monsters.
In my world Lilith is both evil, and misunderstood. Every bad guy has a reason for being bad, Lilith has hers. It doesn't make her good though, like any origin story about evil, it just makes you understand them a little. Lilith is full of only her desire to consume Dean. She wants him and will stop at nothing to have him. I think deep down it might be her own warped sense of love. But like anything you obsess over it twists and becomes something else, something ugly.
Pacey is one of those characters that grows through-out the book. Her innocence lost by the time the story is over. Although this does end on a bit of a cliff hanger the next book while picking up where this one lets off, isn't really the same story. Sometimes there can be no happily ever after's. Sometimes life and love happens to the best and worst of us.
This review was harder to write than the one I wrote about The Wild Hunt. Probably because the story isn't finished. I will say one thing though....the next book will make you hate Lilith more and scream because of the injustice. We writers are a little morbid, for some reason we have the uncanny need to torture our poor protagonists. Pacey will not escape this though it hurts me to do so to her. Released: Lilith Part 2, will be quite the journey.
In my world Lilith is both evil, and misunderstood. Every bad guy has a reason for being bad, Lilith has hers. It doesn't make her good though, like any origin story about evil, it just makes you understand them a little. Lilith is full of only her desire to consume Dean. She wants him and will stop at nothing to have him. I think deep down it might be her own warped sense of love. But like anything you obsess over it twists and becomes something else, something ugly.
Pacey is one of those characters that grows through-out the book. Her innocence lost by the time the story is over. Although this does end on a bit of a cliff hanger the next book while picking up where this one lets off, isn't really the same story. Sometimes there can be no happily ever after's. Sometimes life and love happens to the best and worst of us.
This review was harder to write than the one I wrote about The Wild Hunt. Probably because the story isn't finished. I will say one thing though....the next book will make you hate Lilith more and scream because of the injustice. We writers are a little morbid, for some reason we have the uncanny need to torture our poor protagonists. Pacey will not escape this though it hurts me to do so to her. Released: Lilith Part 2, will be quite the journey.
December 16, 2015
I really enjoyed the storyline of this novel. However, there were countless errors throughout the book that really took away from the story. I also had an issue with how quickly things occurred. For example, no one falls in genuine love that quickly. Also, the way Rhiannon acted severely annoyed me. She was bitchy, rude, obsessed with a bully, and just plain mean. I think this book would have been a lot better if Rhiannon's character would have been more appealing and if the author had slowed things down a little and had reviewed her novel more.
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