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Modern Disciples: Volume 2 (Modern Disciples
The Titans have made their move...
Jane Dotter has spent the last few months in Las Vegas trailing a man that may be in league with the Titans. He is a well-known mobster who controls more than half the drug trade in the city. She is joined by Lisa Mikoto, a fellow disciple she met on her previous journey. Her suspicions are confirmed when she has an encounter with the spawn. Jane and Lisa soon learn that Ryan Hunter is gathering their group back together in Vegas. Not only does Jane receive a new mission from her mother Freya, but she must also deal with her developing feelings for Ryan. When an encounter with an old enemy brings a new sense of urgency, Ryan decides to split the group up into three teams. Jane and Ryan embark on a mission to investigate a camp in the middle of the desert. Jane will soon not only have to confront her feelings for Ryan, but an impending catastrophe that will surely mean her death.
Jane Dotter has spent the last few months in Las Vegas trailing a man that may be in league with the Titans. He is a well-known mobster who controls more than half the drug trade in the city. She is joined by Lisa Mikoto, a fellow disciple she met on her previous journey. Her suspicions are confirmed when she has an encounter with the spawn. Jane and Lisa soon learn that Ryan Hunter is gathering their group back together in Vegas. Not only does Jane receive a new mission from her mother Freya, but she must also deal with her developing feelings for Ryan. When an encounter with an old enemy brings a new sense of urgency, Ryan decides to split the group up into three teams. Jane and Ryan embark on a mission to investigate a camp in the middle of the desert. Jane will soon not only have to confront her feelings for Ryan, but an impending catastrophe that will surely mean her death.
291 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 23, 2012
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About the author
I.S. Anderson
5 books52 followersI.S. was born in New York but now lives and works in Florida. He has traveled to many different places throughout the US and has even been to Scotland once. Ian started studying Mythology at a young age when given a picture book of Greek myths. Since then he has become a student of Norse, Japanese, Egyptian, Irish, and many other types of Mythology. He has combined these different mythologies into his series entitled "Modern Disciples."
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October 15, 2012
WOW!!!! I loved this second book. This book is from Jane's POV her internal struggles, insecurities, and fears. Jane being the daughter of Freya Goddess of beauty and war, you expect her to be vane, shallow and over confident. What she is an reflects upon are the same internal struggles all women face.
They are realistic and her charator is believable. I enjoyed reading this book from her POV.
I have always enjoyed reading about God/Goddess, but these books add many different ones like Olympians, Asgardian and so many more.
You find our disiples Jane, Ryan, Lisa, Angie,Armand and Sajaad up against dark elves, fire an hill giants, demons, Titians, sea witches, along with so many more it is so interesting an imaginative the book moves with so much action your hooked.
Every time a kill is made by the disciples a trophy is left. For example they'll kill a dark elf and the eyes will remain while the rest of the body is turned to ash. They collect the eyes an save them later so Jane can see in the dark she eats an eye an it gives her power of night vision. The hill giant was defeated and the trophy left was the heart they drank the blood from it an gave them strength. These many sound gross but they aren't while your reading, you WANT our disciples to succeed you find yourself rooting for them.
I sometimes find it hard reading a book written by a man writing from a women perspective but I have to say I am amazed at what a WONDERFUL job Ian Anderson did. His writing is descriptive, imaginative, and very very well written. In the two books I've read I have found myself completely immersed an addicted to his books. My only suggestion is CHANGE THE COVERS! Today covers sell lots of books. Especially in this age of digital downloads.
These covers make me think they are for the YA futuristic Perry covers. These books are SO MUCH MORE!
The over all storyline is so ingeniously done, so beautifully an descriptively written an so imaginatively done I can't express how much I LOVED the book.
BOTH books so far. For the price of 5.99 on Amazon it's money well spent. BUY THESE BOOKS! I promise you will enjoy them.
I am sitting on pins an needles, holding my breath an anxiously waiting for the next book!!!
They are realistic and her charator is believable. I enjoyed reading this book from her POV.
I have always enjoyed reading about God/Goddess, but these books add many different ones like Olympians, Asgardian and so many more.
You find our disiples Jane, Ryan, Lisa, Angie,Armand and Sajaad up against dark elves, fire an hill giants, demons, Titians, sea witches, along with so many more it is so interesting an imaginative the book moves with so much action your hooked.
Every time a kill is made by the disciples a trophy is left. For example they'll kill a dark elf and the eyes will remain while the rest of the body is turned to ash. They collect the eyes an save them later so Jane can see in the dark she eats an eye an it gives her power of night vision. The hill giant was defeated and the trophy left was the heart they drank the blood from it an gave them strength. These many sound gross but they aren't while your reading, you WANT our disciples to succeed you find yourself rooting for them.
I sometimes find it hard reading a book written by a man writing from a women perspective but I have to say I am amazed at what a WONDERFUL job Ian Anderson did. His writing is descriptive, imaginative, and very very well written. In the two books I've read I have found myself completely immersed an addicted to his books. My only suggestion is CHANGE THE COVERS! Today covers sell lots of books. Especially in this age of digital downloads.
These covers make me think they are for the YA futuristic Perry covers. These books are SO MUCH MORE!
The over all storyline is so ingeniously done, so beautifully an descriptively written an so imaginatively done I can't express how much I LOVED the book.
BOTH books so far. For the price of 5.99 on Amazon it's money well spent. BUY THESE BOOKS! I promise you will enjoy them.
I am sitting on pins an needles, holding my breath an anxiously waiting for the next book!!!
October 16, 2012
To be honest, I don't like Jane even at the first book. I said 'don't like' not hate. There's a big difference. She do reminds me a lot of Bella Swan. You know the 'I'm not pretty but the guys all follow me like sheep'. And that dislike got a notch higher when she got jealousy with Angie, I mean, come on~!!! She got jealous with Angie? With Diana, that I get but with Angie who I think is too cold for Ryan's taste? *shaking my head*
But even if that was the case, I like this second book more. So its actually 4.5 stars for me. Cause its more entertaining now than the first, where a lot of background info were given to each character and all that. There's a foundation now for the characters to show who they really are and how important is it for them to be in the story. I like Armand too~!!!! hahaha
Its pretty obvious if its a man writing from a female perspective or vice versa. And with this book, it was bluntly obvious. There's this part where Lisa and Jane were talking about Ryan liking Jane. Women, from what I've learned from school (psychology student :P) and what I know personally, are more into feelings and emotions. And with that scene, the way they were talking about deciding whether Jane thinks if she should act to that attraction? Clearly, 'thinking' isn't synonymous with 'feelings' with girls. I mean, let's be honest. Girls always follow their ♥.
Well, you may all hate her but I love Diana. I think its so much easier to create a lovable protagonist than do justice in making a villain. And I so hate Diana for being a bitch than I love her for being so good at it. I know. That doesn't make sense but it does to me. So I luuvvvv Diana. *twirls around* You can't really blame her, she had her reasons. But I guess, trying to rape Ryan was really low. *shrugs*
I'm so excited for the 3rd book. Got a lot of felling its about Lisa. I wonder if she do have a liking to Armand.... Can't wait. :D
But even if that was the case, I like this second book more. So its actually 4.5 stars for me. Cause its more entertaining now than the first, where a lot of background info were given to each character and all that. There's a foundation now for the characters to show who they really are and how important is it for them to be in the story. I like Armand too~!!!! hahaha
Its pretty obvious if its a man writing from a female perspective or vice versa. And with this book, it was bluntly obvious. There's this part where Lisa and Jane were talking about Ryan liking Jane. Women, from what I've learned from school (psychology student :P) and what I know personally, are more into feelings and emotions. And with that scene, the way they were talking about deciding whether Jane thinks if she should act to that attraction? Clearly, 'thinking' isn't synonymous with 'feelings' with girls. I mean, let's be honest. Girls always follow their ♥.
Well, you may all hate her but I love Diana. I think its so much easier to create a lovable protagonist than do justice in making a villain. And I so hate Diana for being a bitch than I love her for being so good at it. I know. That doesn't make sense but it does to me. So I luuvvvv Diana. *twirls around* You can't really blame her, she had her reasons. But I guess, trying to rape Ryan was really low. *shrugs*
I'm so excited for the 3rd book. Got a lot of felling its about Lisa. I wonder if she do have a liking to Armand.... Can't wait. :D
August 24, 2013
This is part 2 of a series about a group of average humans who are actually offspring of the gods of antiquity. It is not just Greek gods, but also Norse, Japanese and Aztec gods, who are alive and well, and mating with present-day humans.
In this book, the group of six has been given three different tasks, forcing them to split up. Jane and Ryan head into the Nevada desert, looking for a drug factory that is creating a very powerful and very addictive drug. It happens to look and taste exactly like regular tap water.
After several days of hiking, they find the drug factory (by being taken prisoner). Among the other prisoners are several women who are used in all sorts of unspeakable ways, and members of a US Army unit who were ambushed while on a training exercise. They are guarded by a number of dark elves, and members of the Army unit who were induced to go over to the "dark side." It is run by Andre Wittenburg, the local crime boss, who knows exactly what Jane and Ryan really are.
To call conditions "brutal" is a huge understatement. Jane and Ryan free the other prisoners, and destroy the camp. They have to fight a mythical creature or two along the way. After a few days to recover, the six are back together and off to their next challenge. The tears of Freya (Norse goddess and Jane's mother) were encased in amber a millennia ago. It is very important that they not fall into the wrong hands. The group heads to a very restricted part of the Atlantic Ocean, just off the Florida Keys. It's the sort of place that no sane ship's captain would ever visit. There they meet another couple of mythical creatures (who really are not so mythical).
Most times, literary sequels are not as good as the previous book. That is not true in this case. If anything, this book is better than Volume 1, because the reader gets more of the back story. This is very much worth reading.
In this book, the group of six has been given three different tasks, forcing them to split up. Jane and Ryan head into the Nevada desert, looking for a drug factory that is creating a very powerful and very addictive drug. It happens to look and taste exactly like regular tap water.
After several days of hiking, they find the drug factory (by being taken prisoner). Among the other prisoners are several women who are used in all sorts of unspeakable ways, and members of a US Army unit who were ambushed while on a training exercise. They are guarded by a number of dark elves, and members of the Army unit who were induced to go over to the "dark side." It is run by Andre Wittenburg, the local crime boss, who knows exactly what Jane and Ryan really are.
To call conditions "brutal" is a huge understatement. Jane and Ryan free the other prisoners, and destroy the camp. They have to fight a mythical creature or two along the way. After a few days to recover, the six are back together and off to their next challenge. The tears of Freya (Norse goddess and Jane's mother) were encased in amber a millennia ago. It is very important that they not fall into the wrong hands. The group heads to a very restricted part of the Atlantic Ocean, just off the Florida Keys. It's the sort of place that no sane ship's captain would ever visit. There they meet another couple of mythical creatures (who really are not so mythical).
Most times, literary sequels are not as good as the previous book. That is not true in this case. If anything, this book is better than Volume 1, because the reader gets more of the back story. This is very much worth reading.
February 1, 2014
Modern Disciples Vol. 2:
By: I. S. Anderson
The story is about 6 disciples: Lisa, Jane, Ryan, Angie, Sajaad, and Armand. The story starts in Las Vegas with Jane and Lisa. Jane’s mother and patron Freya has a task for her daughter. She needs Jane and the group to find her tears. Soon Jane and Lisa are joined by the rest of the group. Ryan the leader of the group splits the group up into groups of 2. The story then follows Jane and Ryan’s part of the adventure…. From there you take a trip to Florida with the group once they are back together.
A foe from the past shows up. You also get more interaction with the Goddess Freya.
This Story is told from Jane’s POV this time instead of Ryan’s. The fact that it was told from Jane’s POV I think really made this story more enjoyable. This story brings you in and gives you a better understanding of how it feels to be the daughter of a War and Love goddess. This book is a page turn and really draws you in. This book has more adventure and shows you more mythical creatures than the first. I think anyone who likes myths will really enjoy this book. The story is well developed and I really enjoyed it!
July 8, 2013
Another great book in the Modern Disciples series, twisting exciting lore and myths into a contemporary setting conveyed by a well-written and entertaining plot. I love this book just as such as the first volume which I recently finished, I was so impressed with the previous book that I went right away and bought this one as soon as I had time. I thought that it would be hard to surpass how good the first volume was and maybe not even come close to outdoing it, but I yet again I found myself loving every page of it and it really is just as good as the first Which, might I add, is already no doubt one of the best books I have read this year. I'm blown away by how much detail and thought have gone into creating these books, the author is very knowledgeable in many areas relating to myths and pantheons and does an excellent job of integrating them into a very original plot with incredibly unique characters. I am definitely going to read the next one in the series and I can't wait to get started
June 30, 2013
Anderson will wow readers once again in this second volume of Modern Disciples. It's a fantastic follow up to the debut in the series, and the story is guaranteed to shed some light on our unanswered questions where we were previously left hanging. Jane and Ryan, our beloved hero and heroine, are spotlighted in this wondrous addition and many will find their tale will hold their attention until we reach the very end. The author has a special gift in creating a character and letting them develop on their own, and in their own time. The plot unravels with ease and nothing feels forced. For example, the characters' dialogue is easy to follow, not repetitive and quite entertaining at times. There isn't any disconnection throughout the storyline, and in turn, book lovers have no choice but to read it in full in one sitting. We can only imagine in our wildest dreams what book three, the final chapter of this amazing trilogy may hold.
June 24, 2013
Rating: 8.0/10.0
Review: I really like this book as well, however I found that it was slightly less than the first. I can’t explain how, exactly, but it seemed a little more on the emotional side of things. Granted, this book is focused on Jane, but it seemed that the focus was too much on what Jane and Ryan was going through in a relationship stand point. Were they just friends, were they more than that, etc. All in all, I already purchased the third book in hopes that it’ll wow me like the first! On a side note: I do wish the books had a subtitle as well as the volume 1, 2, 3…but that’s personal preference!
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Review: I really like this book as well, however I found that it was slightly less than the first. I can’t explain how, exactly, but it seemed a little more on the emotional side of things. Granted, this book is focused on Jane, but it seemed that the focus was too much on what Jane and Ryan was going through in a relationship stand point. Were they just friends, were they more than that, etc. All in all, I already purchased the third book in hopes that it’ll wow me like the first! On a side note: I do wish the books had a subtitle as well as the volume 1, 2, 3…but that’s personal preference!
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October 17, 2013
I enjoyed Modern Disciples Vol 2 just as much as I enjoyed Vol 1, what made me want to turn the page was that this one revolved more around Norse Mythology. The modern interpretations of the beings of the Norse pantheon, were enjoyable to read and learn more about as you traveled with the disciples on their adventures to help their godly parents. Overall I enjoyed every turn of the page and I can't wait to see what Mr Anderson has in store for me to read in Vol 3, Which I'll find out shortly.
The Adventure Continues!
The Adventure Continues!
August 19, 2014
Disclaimer: I was given this book by the author in exchange for an honest review
I really enjoyed this book, it was better than the first and I really enjoyed the insight into Jane's history. I also liked Ryan this time, he seemed less immature, perhaps because he played a slightly less central part to this story.
I'm really looking forward to reading the third in the series as everything appears to be coming to a head now.
I really enjoyed this book, it was better than the first and I really enjoyed the insight into Jane's history. I also liked Ryan this time, he seemed less immature, perhaps because he played a slightly less central part to this story.
I'm really looking forward to reading the third in the series as everything appears to be coming to a head now.
May 12, 2012
I want to read this book volume 2 of Modern Diciples it looks very good by the way nice cover!
May 30, 2012
I like all of the parts in the book,the way how its set and everything.
Gotta say though I parfer the group together. (Sorry if someone does'nt like this part.)
Gotta say though I parfer the group together. (Sorry if someone does'nt like this part.)
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