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Fallen Gods #1
Goddess of War
Stripped of her empire, one goddess is forced into exile in this fast-paced young adult fantasy romance.
Astride a dragon, Raina--the Goddess of War--and her twin brother escape persecution to the world of the humans. It'll take years to reach their Enlightenment, when their power is strong enough to fight the goddess who seeks to destroy them. With the help of a demi-god, Raina and Allan disguise themselves as part of the mystical sect who uphold the laws of the gods. But, when they are stationed in the palace, the royals become their new masters.
Danger lurks in every corner, and Raina finds herself torn between duty...
...and the demands of her heart as she begins to fall for the handsome crown prince she's sent to train.
Embark on an epic coming-of-age adventure in a mythical world, where two gods must discover the depths of their magic, the desires of their hearts, and the lengths they'd go to in order to save the world.
Scroll up and grab your copy of this sword and sorcery fantasy romance today!
Astride a dragon, Raina--the Goddess of War--and her twin brother escape persecution to the world of the humans. It'll take years to reach their Enlightenment, when their power is strong enough to fight the goddess who seeks to destroy them. With the help of a demi-god, Raina and Allan disguise themselves as part of the mystical sect who uphold the laws of the gods. But, when they are stationed in the palace, the royals become their new masters.
Danger lurks in every corner, and Raina finds herself torn between duty...
...and the demands of her heart as she begins to fall for the handsome crown prince she's sent to train.
Embark on an epic coming-of-age adventure in a mythical world, where two gods must discover the depths of their magic, the desires of their hearts, and the lengths they'd go to in order to save the world.
Scroll up and grab your copy of this sword and sorcery fantasy romance today!
- GenresFantasy
183 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 2, 2015
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About the author
K.N. Lee
132 books906 followersK.N. Lee is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. When she is not writing twisted tales, fantasy novels, and dark poetry, she does a great deal of traveling and promotes other authors. Wannabe rockstar, foreign language enthusiast, and anime geek, K.N. Lee also enjoys helping others reach their writing and publishing goals. She is a winner of the Elevate Lifestyle Top 30 Under 30 "Future Leaders of Charlotte" award for her success as a writer, business owner, and for community service.
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November 12, 2017
I enjoyed reading this one - gods, different world, powers, emotions, jealousy goddess on the hunt.
What will come when the gods of Law will try to kill gods of Peace and War. This was promising the first installment.
What will come when the gods of Law will try to kill gods of Peace and War. This was promising the first installment.
January 26, 2021
In the legendary land of the gods, Preeti and Vineet were the twin children of a minor god. And every so often certain people of the land are summoned to sacrifice themselves to the gods to choose a new god. The vengeful Goddess of Law Litha summoned both Preeti and Vineet knowing that it would make her former lover, their father, suffer to lose either of them, or most likely both of them. But the other gods, saw fit to save both children, ensuring that they will be the future Goddess of War and God of Peace and will reign supreme over all of the major gods when they come into their enlightenment. Litha refuses to accept the idea that mere children will rule over her, and imprisons them both, allowing the guards to torture them. But one day, Preeti and Vineet make their escape, and fly to Earth to hide for the three years till their enlightenment when they will come into their full power, return to their rightful home, and take their place as the rulers of the gods. They disguise themselves as Seers, priests of the gods, and go to the capitol to teach the ruling family about the gods. Preeti, now known as Raina, finds herself falling for the human prince Aric, who does have a bit of god power in him. It will be a long three years till enlightenment, and Litha will kill them if she finds them.
All the big scenes are in the beginning and the end. The long stretch in between just dragged on, dawdling over from the twins’ time at the monastery to fitting in at the capitol, the friendships they make, the loves they find, etc. Considering the book was called Goddess of War, I was really expecting more fighting and battles to be going on in this story. I liked that Preeti loved sparring and learning to fight, though she really didn’t use it outside of one scene toward the end, and mainly spent the book just mooning over the prince. Speaking of the prince, the blurb says she is there to train the prince, but that’s wrong. She’s actually there to train his younger sister and only has a couple of scenes with him. I loved the beginning with the cliff scene. Such an epic beginning on a story, and definitely convinced me to keep reading. This does have a big scene at the end, so it does feel like this part of the story comes to a close, but it does leave off on enough of a cliffhanger to tease for the next book as in the main baddie hasn’t been completely disposed of yet, with plenty of still open threads, including her romance with the prince and I was really looking forward to them talking about the arena scene. For future editing, Preeti and Vineet were called by their assumed names before they chose their assumed names. Sadly Vineet was practically a cameo in this (really sad because they are supposed to be twins, so I was expecting that to be capitalized on, but he was practically never seen), as was Arela and Eryon and really needed to be fleshed out more. And there were mentions of abuse by the king, but it was rather hidden and glossed over, and I was questioning why it was even in there. Both of the worlds created here are fascinating ones. I loved their world of the gods with its red sun and I loved the palace built in a city on the coast, with its taverns and market and fighting arena. And I loved the exotic Indian flavor of the names of Preeti and Vineet. In all, this does have me hooked enough to want to continue further into the series, though I do worry the next book will have a long stretch in the middle with not much happening like this book. Still, I am looking forward to seeing the twins fully come into their power.
All the big scenes are in the beginning and the end. The long stretch in between just dragged on, dawdling over from the twins’ time at the monastery to fitting in at the capitol, the friendships they make, the loves they find, etc. Considering the book was called Goddess of War, I was really expecting more fighting and battles to be going on in this story. I liked that Preeti loved sparring and learning to fight, though she really didn’t use it outside of one scene toward the end, and mainly spent the book just mooning over the prince. Speaking of the prince, the blurb says she is there to train the prince, but that’s wrong. She’s actually there to train his younger sister and only has a couple of scenes with him. I loved the beginning with the cliff scene. Such an epic beginning on a story, and definitely convinced me to keep reading. This does have a big scene at the end, so it does feel like this part of the story comes to a close, but it does leave off on enough of a cliffhanger to tease for the next book as in the main baddie hasn’t been completely disposed of yet, with plenty of still open threads, including her romance with the prince and I was really looking forward to them talking about the arena scene. For future editing, Preeti and Vineet were called by their assumed names before they chose their assumed names. Sadly Vineet was practically a cameo in this (really sad because they are supposed to be twins, so I was expecting that to be capitalized on, but he was practically never seen), as was Arela and Eryon and really needed to be fleshed out more. And there were mentions of abuse by the king, but it was rather hidden and glossed over, and I was questioning why it was even in there. Both of the worlds created here are fascinating ones. I loved their world of the gods with its red sun and I loved the palace built in a city on the coast, with its taverns and market and fighting arena. And I loved the exotic Indian flavor of the names of Preeti and Vineet. In all, this does have me hooked enough to want to continue further into the series, though I do worry the next book will have a long stretch in the middle with not much happening like this book. Still, I am looking forward to seeing the twins fully come into their power.
May 28, 2017
Goddess of War is the first novella in K.N. Lee's The Fallen Gods Trilogy. Depending on when you purchased this story, the first of three intended novellas, you might recognise it by one of two different and snazzy covers. I struggle to choose which is more likely to objectively grab reader attention. A definitive trait of K.N. Lee's covers are their eye-grabbing qualities. But from a subjective stance, being I'm a fan of body art, I suppose I'm biased in leaning toward the original artwork. The original cover from November 2015 shows the book's namesake standing with her back toward the audience, and a full back-job tattoo reveals a medieval battle scene indicative of her divine role. It may simply be no more than an image superimposed on her back, in keeping with the theme of the title. That is, only until you read the story and realise the significance of such impressions.
This ultimately leads me back to the opinion that the original cover reflects an additional quality achieved through symbolism, that I'm yet to pick-up on in the new design. The current cover works just as well in depicting the books title and grabbing your attention, although it does so in a more direct fashion devoid of a symbolic one. To my mind it has similar design features to K.N. Lee's upcoming Truth and Glory (The Warrior's Path - due August 2017), and it's a little less inclined to prompt you to find meaning in the images. This isn't intended as a slight in any way, some don't care much for the task of finding meaning or seeing it as a necessary requirement. Great artwork can still exist, irrespective of any necessary meaning. It may also be the case that the hidden meaning is missed altogether, in which case the new cover design achieves a reflection of the title more efficiently than I've recognised.
Goddess of War is an epic fantasy taking place in a world populated with humans and duelling gods. Regarding K.N. Lee's stories, I've included the following Amazon links: her Author Page, plus five of my reviews. These include: Half-Blood Dragon & Magic-Born Dragon (Dragon Born Trilogy Books 1 & 2); The Scarlett Legacy; The Last of the Djinn (Chronicles of Magic: A Paranormal Romance Boxed Set); and Magic & Mistletoe: 15 Paranormal Stories for the Holidays Anthology which includes Frost: A Fairy Tale Retold. This is the current extent of reviews I've written on her books. I do, however, intend to eventually read/review them all.
Author Page - https://www.amazon.com/K.N.-Lee/e/B00...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R29O...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R3E6...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R3AK...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R8AG...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R30N...
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SYNOPSIS:
Few things can twist your insides more than being told, by your ex-wife (Litha - Goddess of Law) no less, that you must risk the lives of your sixteen year old twins in the hope that at least one might survive. Having the past decade to have made a decision only dragged down the pleasure invoked by seeing them grow up. So they'd filed it away in the 'we'll worry about it when we have no other choice'. Being selected for the rite of becoming the next ruler of all the Gods of Aden, Latari, and Gilborn, is undoubtedly a great honor for many parents involved; worthy of any cost should they fail. Instead, for Lord Kellian and his wife Allana, it was turning out to be a test of their faith in a system they've lived their whole lives under. Neither could accept the Council's proclamation, but neither could they change or ignore it. If the deaths of their daughter, Preeti, and their son, Vineet, is what it took for a chance at being bestowed with supreme divinity, they'd rather keep them at home and forego any involvement.
Kellian couldn't even picture words that to explain why the Council's edict and the rite should be upheld, let alone actually saying them. He knew without a doubt that Litha's refusal to hear his advisor's reasoning about a way of getting around the ruling, had nothing to do with her authority over law. She cared only to see him suffer and lacks the scruples to refrain from abusing her authority over their laws. She'd never gotten past their failed history, and couldn't stomach seeing the happiness he'd since achieved. Selection amounts to a death sentence in greater than ninety-nine percent of children being offered. At best he could hope that one succeeded, but then one is ordained to fail. Only one sacrifice would be successful in claiming the single offered reprieve. His rage was almost too much to hold in. Lashing out at Litha would guarantee consequences for both twins; increasing her hatred of him and ensuring it would also shift to them, if it hadn't already taken place.
At the Cliffs of Ranoun both twins would likely perish along with the hundreds of other children sacrifices. A so-called 'holy' rite filled with a fanfare that has no conscionable right to exist. As though hundreds of parents weren't about to feel their heart and souls being ripped away. That is unless those parents also believed in the tradition and its requirements. The alleged all-knowing Cliffs of Ranoun would accept and claim a sacrifice they deemed worthy, bestowing them with the power and authority considered theirs. Thus leaving the remaining hundreds with no pathway to prevent their plummet of hundreds of feet to the sharp rocks below, where only waves could reach to cleanse their mangled bodies and provide some miniscule benefit of burial. In the world of gods only one measure has ever been deemed worthy, that of sacrificial selection. No other authority has ever had the right to bestow divine rule.
Whilst their parents do their best to contain the maelstrom of emotional turmoil within, attempting a visual projection of a calmness they do not feel, their childrens' fortitudes couldn't nearly begin to show as much restraint. As Preeti and Vineet battled the heat and the fear driving them to turn and run, many children around them, including and especially those being dragged along by officials, show only the group fear and hysteria reflected in the streams of tears. Even still, there is a noticeable group who reflect the fervor of tradition as intended. Their socialisation revealing determination, purpose, and serenity. This group reflect their parents' belief that what would be is preordained, and that the only correct path to ascension is through sacrificial offering to the Cliffs of Ranoun, and only ever for the those deemed worthy.
The twins hardest barrier to move past, is the belief that if neither wanted to rule, then why were they chosen at all. Their expectation is ruled by the knowledge that only one divinity would be chosen. Therefore, their bond would be smashed apart, along with whichever of their bodies smashed on the rocks below. For now they'd stay strong for each other. All the reasoning and holy fervor in the world could never even begin to describe what it would be like to feel one half of yourself being ripped away. At best, one would be left to grieve for an eternity, if one is accepted by the Cliffs. It begged the question of who'd live with the worse hand: the survivor, having to function without the other half of their soul; or the one(s) who gets to see what becomes of life after this one ends.
Vineet needed no time to deliberate, without his sister he'd rather not live at all, to say nothing of being yanked from the family nest. Still, the twins did the only thing they could. They took one last moment to turn around in the hope they'd find their parents' faces amongst the spectators. Seeing so many people jubilant in your probable death is surreal at best. Then they held each other's hand, and turned back around, now prepared to take their walk. However, a woman cut in between them, separating and clasping each of their hands. She would be the one to inexorably walk them to their likely deaths. It seems history's proven that for most children, the only sure way to ensure compliance is to have the necessary officials to pull them to the edge and push them into their plummet.
Less than one in a hundred would be claimed, the odds stacked almost completely against any hope. It'd be a much more likely chance to hope that the death awaiting over ninety-nine percent of the children, is quick and painless. Once the magical substance of the water and waves reached their gory portrait of death, nothing would be left. For it is not water that fuels those waves, it's a copious wicked magic called Teranic. Surely no more grief would be necessary, their parents' should be sufferance enough to sate the lust of the Cliffs of Ranoun for the current bunch of blood sacrifices. As they stepped off the cliff, the cold air grabbed all three of them as they stood upon the air as though it were a solid thing. The old woman's joy was enigmatic, her parting words a mystery: “How long I have waited... To choose two gods worthy of ruling this world”
The world inhabited by humans is known as the Abyss. It's a land known to be frequented by the odd Fae and various divine authorities from time to time. Identical twins, Preeti (Goddess of War) and Vineet (God of Peace), fled there after escaping the Vault; a divine prison built to house the gods. Their father's ex-wife, Litha (Goddess of Law), had previously abused her authority in a scheme to make their father suffer for a slight she can never get past. Had their father been able to get his way, the thing she wanted most after her revenge against his divorcing, would never have happened. In poetic irony the situation she forced backfired on her beautifully; the twins obtaining a position she believed her own.
In any case she'd wanted all of them dead, seemingly it was to start with them, she now just wants it more. Before, it would've just been about crippling their father and by association their mother. Now, it's equally about making way for her to take the role she believes rightfully her own. By fleeing to the Abyss, a world filled with people and friends who intrigue them so much more than their peers, they've unintentionally painted a bullseye on it for Litha. They struggled with the possibility that they'd set in motion a revenge that would tear their new home apart. The Goddes of Law will stop at nothing and no one to take what she rightfully sees her own: even the total destruction of a world is in her purview.
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OPINION:
As intoned in the details section above, the first unavoidable conclusion about any of K.N. Lee's novels are the spectacular designs which prevent any reader from turning away without at least having first read her blurbs. The appearance of her cover pages on your electronic shelves, in my opinion allow eLibraries to shift one step closer to the tangible quality of having a bookcase filled with paperbacks. Although it should be considered that in the latter's case, it's often only the spines are seen, as any bookcase owner with a decent sized library would contest. In a market where dramatic price reductions are slowly but steadily converting readers hooked on the feel of paper in their hands, and fingers turning pages, headways will surely see an eventual permeation to author wallets.
In an informative manner, it'd be a curious discovery to find out just how many dollar differences exist between the profit on paperbacks versus the same on ebooks. Regardless of this finding, I would predict that ebook publications have at the very least increased author capacities to develop their stories into marketable commodities. Certainly for the case herein, it's much like a reversal of the old 'don't judge a book by the cover', wherein here it's being used to draw readers in. In a win-win the stories are certainly backing up the hype created by the designs. Who could look at the current cover and not walk away with a notion of anything less than a kickarse heroine who's the Goddess of War? A perfect synonym of picture and theme matching up nicely, a perfect reflection of the story title and of 'a picture says a thousand words'.
The landing of the twins on the Abyss brings to mind images of a blue spandex'd and red caped superhero in a capsule crash landing into a certain farmer's crop. Albeit his carved a horizontal path similar to plane crash landings, whilst the godlings' is a vertical hole indicative of the numerous craters seen by telescope on the geography of our moon. The immediately following hours are like that of the crew of an overturned boat washing ashore a rich and uninhabited paradise island bearing fruits and crystal clear waters never before encountered. The commentary of the two siblings is vivid and the excitement for them is like that of children unwrapping their birthday presents. How true it is that the same old acclimated items of your own environments can be magically wonderful in a new and exciting environment, of which you've learned no more of than the rumours of third-hand retellings and descriptions.
A fundamental laxity of us all is the tendency toward forgetting, or failing to see, the beauty of our environment; especially when we live or spend too much time in the urban concrete jungles of civilisation. Even then you may only see the grey drabness and miss some of the remaining components that still reflect the wonders of nature. I believe connection to the wonders will better keep us mindful of the protection it needs, and the impacts we have. Preeti and Vineet's arrival in the Abyss highlights the things we slowly shift to increasingly take for granted in our environment, the thing we should never do, to lose our appreciation of it. It inevitably leads to failing to stop the destruction and impacts we have on the planet. It is irrefutable that damage that can happen in mere seconds may take generations upon generations to correct, if it can even be corrected, that is. The planet is renewable only under certain conditions, and changes must be regulated if life is to continue indefinitely.
The world of the Abyss and those of Aden, Latari, and Gilborn are in keeping with the pantheon of divinities instead of one almighty that has only a much younger evolution than those of history and present from which it differs. Indeed, if you were to find the correct numbers to slot into the logarithms of what might loosely be able to be described as religious faith, those of years by number of followers, then you'd find a similar outcome to the equating of comparative differences between human existence versus our planet's existence. Such is the transcendence of the human mind that what we ourselves, and perhaps as far back as a few generations, knows is to be considered gospel (no pun intended). History as it's defined under theological restraints of one almighty is infantile, and the number of immeasurable and staggering lives lost in the ensuring that populations adhere to such faiths, is not all that dissimilar to the fundamentals of Litha's premise herein.
As a single 'Greater' divinity she believes her entitlements as one ruler over all other authorities, and especially that over her 'Lessers', at its core deals with fundamentals of power and control. Human history has varied enormously within this context, and until the stages of secularisation took sufficient enough hold, then many times the number of current 'holy war' campaigns battled constantly around the globe. Nothing has ever even come close to just the consequences of competing authorities and power struggles in human history in the numbers of deaths as that caused by which authorities are deferred to in the running of governance. Herein the plot is action basedvand exciting, but if you delve a little deeper into the parallels, then you'll promptly find the analogous nature of storytelling; wherher it's intended or not. As long as human psyches are the tools of trade applied to the art, you'll find the ways they're a reflection of life.
The simultaneous capacities of stories leds support to the oldest ways of teaching and socialisation, long before schoolrooms, teachers, and text books were ever even thought of. Even still, you could go one evolutionary step further back to find the anthropological documentation of the oldest written forms that exist in modalities that are no more than cave paintings. Perhaps even further again, although this is only logical conjecture, to the stories that were never made tangible at all. Which is to say, they were only ever learned spoken stories that transmitted from one generation to the next. The multifaceted poetry is of course, that regardless of whether listeners wish to learn or not, they're generally always interesting enough to warrant telling them full stop. The duality of fiction finds it's home when whilst you're being entertained you're also prompted to go away and think about the reflections present in a plot.
The strategic jumps in time are both incredibly well timed and build well on carrying over the preceding expectations, creating an immediate anticipation to see where they'll lead. There is certainly two that make you want to read on. The finale is realistically short lived, given the context of what our heroines and heroes are up against. I'm sure readers will be thinking that there was a lack of fulfilment to some degree. But I'm decided on the fact that it could never have turned out any differently for the plot to remain true. Uninvolved commentators might be overly critical. Some might arbitrarily perceive the jumps as cutting corners, and the climax premature; but either way they're undeniably climatic.
Sometimes poor treatment, reasonable vengeance, and having something to fight for that's external to oneself, is just the right recipe to see success where failure was presumed to be guaranteed. Destruction and the pursuing of ambition can be a downfall when it's the only thing the responsible party is fighting for. Of course it's far too early in the story to say whichever will be more likely. It doesn't however prevent you from thinking about it,at least for now. There's something inherently flawed in the responsibilities and free reign of the divinities from which the twins drawn, no ultimate guard dog exists to prevent the Goddess of Law from carrying out actions that ultimately go against everything by which her world and the Cliffs of Ranoun stand for. Whether she'll consolidate her reach for multiple authorities has two further books before it can be decided.
I definitely look forward to experiencing the next directions taken in The Fallen Gods Trilogy. With mascots like Litha it isn't any wonder that people should at some stage give up their faith. Opting instesd for a belief system that perhaps is the actual cause of changes in the world of divinities, traditionally reliant on fsith and sacrifice for the power they can hold. The plot is snappy and inherently fast paced to be able to include all it has within the size of the books it has to work with. The cast are all just the right number of differences to keep predictability to a minimum. K.N. Lee's epic fantasy series and novels seem to have a capacity to make it hard to place whether they're applicable to some multiple millenia past times or for the contemporary times; absent only the industrialised human worlds where applicable. This enhances a timeless quality, that makes them as enjoyable as those for which I normally restrict myself to: urban fantasies.
This ultimately leads me back to the opinion that the original cover reflects an additional quality achieved through symbolism, that I'm yet to pick-up on in the new design. The current cover works just as well in depicting the books title and grabbing your attention, although it does so in a more direct fashion devoid of a symbolic one. To my mind it has similar design features to K.N. Lee's upcoming Truth and Glory (The Warrior's Path - due August 2017), and it's a little less inclined to prompt you to find meaning in the images. This isn't intended as a slight in any way, some don't care much for the task of finding meaning or seeing it as a necessary requirement. Great artwork can still exist, irrespective of any necessary meaning. It may also be the case that the hidden meaning is missed altogether, in which case the new cover design achieves a reflection of the title more efficiently than I've recognised.
Goddess of War is an epic fantasy taking place in a world populated with humans and duelling gods. Regarding K.N. Lee's stories, I've included the following Amazon links: her Author Page, plus five of my reviews. These include: Half-Blood Dragon & Magic-Born Dragon (Dragon Born Trilogy Books 1 & 2); The Scarlett Legacy; The Last of the Djinn (Chronicles of Magic: A Paranormal Romance Boxed Set); and Magic & Mistletoe: 15 Paranormal Stories for the Holidays Anthology which includes Frost: A Fairy Tale Retold. This is the current extent of reviews I've written on her books. I do, however, intend to eventually read/review them all.
Author Page - https://www.amazon.com/K.N.-Lee/e/B00...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R29O...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R3E6...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R3AK...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R8AG...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R30N...
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SYNOPSIS:
Few things can twist your insides more than being told, by your ex-wife (Litha - Goddess of Law) no less, that you must risk the lives of your sixteen year old twins in the hope that at least one might survive. Having the past decade to have made a decision only dragged down the pleasure invoked by seeing them grow up. So they'd filed it away in the 'we'll worry about it when we have no other choice'. Being selected for the rite of becoming the next ruler of all the Gods of Aden, Latari, and Gilborn, is undoubtedly a great honor for many parents involved; worthy of any cost should they fail. Instead, for Lord Kellian and his wife Allana, it was turning out to be a test of their faith in a system they've lived their whole lives under. Neither could accept the Council's proclamation, but neither could they change or ignore it. If the deaths of their daughter, Preeti, and their son, Vineet, is what it took for a chance at being bestowed with supreme divinity, they'd rather keep them at home and forego any involvement.
Kellian couldn't even picture words that to explain why the Council's edict and the rite should be upheld, let alone actually saying them. He knew without a doubt that Litha's refusal to hear his advisor's reasoning about a way of getting around the ruling, had nothing to do with her authority over law. She cared only to see him suffer and lacks the scruples to refrain from abusing her authority over their laws. She'd never gotten past their failed history, and couldn't stomach seeing the happiness he'd since achieved. Selection amounts to a death sentence in greater than ninety-nine percent of children being offered. At best he could hope that one succeeded, but then one is ordained to fail. Only one sacrifice would be successful in claiming the single offered reprieve. His rage was almost too much to hold in. Lashing out at Litha would guarantee consequences for both twins; increasing her hatred of him and ensuring it would also shift to them, if it hadn't already taken place.
At the Cliffs of Ranoun both twins would likely perish along with the hundreds of other children sacrifices. A so-called 'holy' rite filled with a fanfare that has no conscionable right to exist. As though hundreds of parents weren't about to feel their heart and souls being ripped away. That is unless those parents also believed in the tradition and its requirements. The alleged all-knowing Cliffs of Ranoun would accept and claim a sacrifice they deemed worthy, bestowing them with the power and authority considered theirs. Thus leaving the remaining hundreds with no pathway to prevent their plummet of hundreds of feet to the sharp rocks below, where only waves could reach to cleanse their mangled bodies and provide some miniscule benefit of burial. In the world of gods only one measure has ever been deemed worthy, that of sacrificial selection. No other authority has ever had the right to bestow divine rule.
Whilst their parents do their best to contain the maelstrom of emotional turmoil within, attempting a visual projection of a calmness they do not feel, their childrens' fortitudes couldn't nearly begin to show as much restraint. As Preeti and Vineet battled the heat and the fear driving them to turn and run, many children around them, including and especially those being dragged along by officials, show only the group fear and hysteria reflected in the streams of tears. Even still, there is a noticeable group who reflect the fervor of tradition as intended. Their socialisation revealing determination, purpose, and serenity. This group reflect their parents' belief that what would be is preordained, and that the only correct path to ascension is through sacrificial offering to the Cliffs of Ranoun, and only ever for the those deemed worthy.
The twins hardest barrier to move past, is the belief that if neither wanted to rule, then why were they chosen at all. Their expectation is ruled by the knowledge that only one divinity would be chosen. Therefore, their bond would be smashed apart, along with whichever of their bodies smashed on the rocks below. For now they'd stay strong for each other. All the reasoning and holy fervor in the world could never even begin to describe what it would be like to feel one half of yourself being ripped away. At best, one would be left to grieve for an eternity, if one is accepted by the Cliffs. It begged the question of who'd live with the worse hand: the survivor, having to function without the other half of their soul; or the one(s) who gets to see what becomes of life after this one ends.
Vineet needed no time to deliberate, without his sister he'd rather not live at all, to say nothing of being yanked from the family nest. Still, the twins did the only thing they could. They took one last moment to turn around in the hope they'd find their parents' faces amongst the spectators. Seeing so many people jubilant in your probable death is surreal at best. Then they held each other's hand, and turned back around, now prepared to take their walk. However, a woman cut in between them, separating and clasping each of their hands. She would be the one to inexorably walk them to their likely deaths. It seems history's proven that for most children, the only sure way to ensure compliance is to have the necessary officials to pull them to the edge and push them into their plummet.
Less than one in a hundred would be claimed, the odds stacked almost completely against any hope. It'd be a much more likely chance to hope that the death awaiting over ninety-nine percent of the children, is quick and painless. Once the magical substance of the water and waves reached their gory portrait of death, nothing would be left. For it is not water that fuels those waves, it's a copious wicked magic called Teranic. Surely no more grief would be necessary, their parents' should be sufferance enough to sate the lust of the Cliffs of Ranoun for the current bunch of blood sacrifices. As they stepped off the cliff, the cold air grabbed all three of them as they stood upon the air as though it were a solid thing. The old woman's joy was enigmatic, her parting words a mystery: “How long I have waited... To choose two gods worthy of ruling this world”
The world inhabited by humans is known as the Abyss. It's a land known to be frequented by the odd Fae and various divine authorities from time to time. Identical twins, Preeti (Goddess of War) and Vineet (God of Peace), fled there after escaping the Vault; a divine prison built to house the gods. Their father's ex-wife, Litha (Goddess of Law), had previously abused her authority in a scheme to make their father suffer for a slight she can never get past. Had their father been able to get his way, the thing she wanted most after her revenge against his divorcing, would never have happened. In poetic irony the situation she forced backfired on her beautifully; the twins obtaining a position she believed her own.
In any case she'd wanted all of them dead, seemingly it was to start with them, she now just wants it more. Before, it would've just been about crippling their father and by association their mother. Now, it's equally about making way for her to take the role she believes rightfully her own. By fleeing to the Abyss, a world filled with people and friends who intrigue them so much more than their peers, they've unintentionally painted a bullseye on it for Litha. They struggled with the possibility that they'd set in motion a revenge that would tear their new home apart. The Goddes of Law will stop at nothing and no one to take what she rightfully sees her own: even the total destruction of a world is in her purview.
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OPINION:
As intoned in the details section above, the first unavoidable conclusion about any of K.N. Lee's novels are the spectacular designs which prevent any reader from turning away without at least having first read her blurbs. The appearance of her cover pages on your electronic shelves, in my opinion allow eLibraries to shift one step closer to the tangible quality of having a bookcase filled with paperbacks. Although it should be considered that in the latter's case, it's often only the spines are seen, as any bookcase owner with a decent sized library would contest. In a market where dramatic price reductions are slowly but steadily converting readers hooked on the feel of paper in their hands, and fingers turning pages, headways will surely see an eventual permeation to author wallets.
In an informative manner, it'd be a curious discovery to find out just how many dollar differences exist between the profit on paperbacks versus the same on ebooks. Regardless of this finding, I would predict that ebook publications have at the very least increased author capacities to develop their stories into marketable commodities. Certainly for the case herein, it's much like a reversal of the old 'don't judge a book by the cover', wherein here it's being used to draw readers in. In a win-win the stories are certainly backing up the hype created by the designs. Who could look at the current cover and not walk away with a notion of anything less than a kickarse heroine who's the Goddess of War? A perfect synonym of picture and theme matching up nicely, a perfect reflection of the story title and of 'a picture says a thousand words'.
The landing of the twins on the Abyss brings to mind images of a blue spandex'd and red caped superhero in a capsule crash landing into a certain farmer's crop. Albeit his carved a horizontal path similar to plane crash landings, whilst the godlings' is a vertical hole indicative of the numerous craters seen by telescope on the geography of our moon. The immediately following hours are like that of the crew of an overturned boat washing ashore a rich and uninhabited paradise island bearing fruits and crystal clear waters never before encountered. The commentary of the two siblings is vivid and the excitement for them is like that of children unwrapping their birthday presents. How true it is that the same old acclimated items of your own environments can be magically wonderful in a new and exciting environment, of which you've learned no more of than the rumours of third-hand retellings and descriptions.
A fundamental laxity of us all is the tendency toward forgetting, or failing to see, the beauty of our environment; especially when we live or spend too much time in the urban concrete jungles of civilisation. Even then you may only see the grey drabness and miss some of the remaining components that still reflect the wonders of nature. I believe connection to the wonders will better keep us mindful of the protection it needs, and the impacts we have. Preeti and Vineet's arrival in the Abyss highlights the things we slowly shift to increasingly take for granted in our environment, the thing we should never do, to lose our appreciation of it. It inevitably leads to failing to stop the destruction and impacts we have on the planet. It is irrefutable that damage that can happen in mere seconds may take generations upon generations to correct, if it can even be corrected, that is. The planet is renewable only under certain conditions, and changes must be regulated if life is to continue indefinitely.
The world of the Abyss and those of Aden, Latari, and Gilborn are in keeping with the pantheon of divinities instead of one almighty that has only a much younger evolution than those of history and present from which it differs. Indeed, if you were to find the correct numbers to slot into the logarithms of what might loosely be able to be described as religious faith, those of years by number of followers, then you'd find a similar outcome to the equating of comparative differences between human existence versus our planet's existence. Such is the transcendence of the human mind that what we ourselves, and perhaps as far back as a few generations, knows is to be considered gospel (no pun intended). History as it's defined under theological restraints of one almighty is infantile, and the number of immeasurable and staggering lives lost in the ensuring that populations adhere to such faiths, is not all that dissimilar to the fundamentals of Litha's premise herein.
As a single 'Greater' divinity she believes her entitlements as one ruler over all other authorities, and especially that over her 'Lessers', at its core deals with fundamentals of power and control. Human history has varied enormously within this context, and until the stages of secularisation took sufficient enough hold, then many times the number of current 'holy war' campaigns battled constantly around the globe. Nothing has ever even come close to just the consequences of competing authorities and power struggles in human history in the numbers of deaths as that caused by which authorities are deferred to in the running of governance. Herein the plot is action basedvand exciting, but if you delve a little deeper into the parallels, then you'll promptly find the analogous nature of storytelling; wherher it's intended or not. As long as human psyches are the tools of trade applied to the art, you'll find the ways they're a reflection of life.
The simultaneous capacities of stories leds support to the oldest ways of teaching and socialisation, long before schoolrooms, teachers, and text books were ever even thought of. Even still, you could go one evolutionary step further back to find the anthropological documentation of the oldest written forms that exist in modalities that are no more than cave paintings. Perhaps even further again, although this is only logical conjecture, to the stories that were never made tangible at all. Which is to say, they were only ever learned spoken stories that transmitted from one generation to the next. The multifaceted poetry is of course, that regardless of whether listeners wish to learn or not, they're generally always interesting enough to warrant telling them full stop. The duality of fiction finds it's home when whilst you're being entertained you're also prompted to go away and think about the reflections present in a plot.
The strategic jumps in time are both incredibly well timed and build well on carrying over the preceding expectations, creating an immediate anticipation to see where they'll lead. There is certainly two that make you want to read on. The finale is realistically short lived, given the context of what our heroines and heroes are up against. I'm sure readers will be thinking that there was a lack of fulfilment to some degree. But I'm decided on the fact that it could never have turned out any differently for the plot to remain true. Uninvolved commentators might be overly critical. Some might arbitrarily perceive the jumps as cutting corners, and the climax premature; but either way they're undeniably climatic.
Sometimes poor treatment, reasonable vengeance, and having something to fight for that's external to oneself, is just the right recipe to see success where failure was presumed to be guaranteed. Destruction and the pursuing of ambition can be a downfall when it's the only thing the responsible party is fighting for. Of course it's far too early in the story to say whichever will be more likely. It doesn't however prevent you from thinking about it,at least for now. There's something inherently flawed in the responsibilities and free reign of the divinities from which the twins drawn, no ultimate guard dog exists to prevent the Goddess of Law from carrying out actions that ultimately go against everything by which her world and the Cliffs of Ranoun stand for. Whether she'll consolidate her reach for multiple authorities has two further books before it can be decided.
I definitely look forward to experiencing the next directions taken in The Fallen Gods Trilogy. With mascots like Litha it isn't any wonder that people should at some stage give up their faith. Opting instesd for a belief system that perhaps is the actual cause of changes in the world of divinities, traditionally reliant on fsith and sacrifice for the power they can hold. The plot is snappy and inherently fast paced to be able to include all it has within the size of the books it has to work with. The cast are all just the right number of differences to keep predictability to a minimum. K.N. Lee's epic fantasy series and novels seem to have a capacity to make it hard to place whether they're applicable to some multiple millenia past times or for the contemporary times; absent only the industrialised human worlds where applicable. This enhances a timeless quality, that makes them as enjoyable as those for which I normally restrict myself to: urban fantasies.
December 3, 2015
I received an advance readers copy for an honest review.
I read a slightly shorter version of this initially; one of the things I like about this is the people are people, generally reasonable, feels like could happen in our world (except for magic/etc of course). However, gods are NOT reasonable, And some of them prove it. This does end with major event(s). And I have no idea what's going to happen to Preeti/Raina and Vineet/Allan.
I read a slightly shorter version of this initially; one of the things I like about this is the people are people, generally reasonable, feels like could happen in our world (except for magic/etc of course). However, gods are NOT reasonable, And some of them prove it. This does end with major event(s). And I have no idea what's going to happen to Preeti/Raina and Vineet/Allan.
May 30, 2017
Preeti and Vineet are twins are the Goddess of War and the God of Peace, and are currently imprisoned in the Vault, where the Goddess of Law has put them in order for her to rule the world. They manage to escape and find themselves jumping to another world called the Abyss (the human world). It's not the cold barren place they imagined it to be and in the three years they have to hide there the realise how much they like it and the people there who they have become friends with. However the Goddess of Law is determined to do anything and everything (including tearing the human world apart) to either imprison or kill them so she can replace them as the rulers of the gods.
Wow - what a roller-coaster of a ride with these two young adults with the weight of the world on their shoulders. It had everything - love, romance, action (both from gods and men fighting) and plot twists and turns as the events were happening and situations were changing. The writing of this story was great and the events, thoughts, hopes and emotions of the characters were well told and completely understandable. Now I just need to know what happens next and will the characters meet again (I really hope so).
Wow - what a roller-coaster of a ride with these two young adults with the weight of the world on their shoulders. It had everything - love, romance, action (both from gods and men fighting) and plot twists and turns as the events were happening and situations were changing. The writing of this story was great and the events, thoughts, hopes and emotions of the characters were well told and completely understandable. Now I just need to know what happens next and will the characters meet again (I really hope so).
June 3, 2017
*voluntarily and honestly reviewed the ARC I received from the author*
LOOOVED this. It's a crazy new series about the gods, and how two chosen children become victims on the run from someone who wants them dead. It was exciting, adorably sweet with them experiencing the new-found emotions in the human world. I loved the writing style and how it was a fast-paced read that still made it feel like so much had happened. I liked the characters, the things that happened. It was fantastic, and this is a fantastic author you should check out. Seriously need the second book!
LOOOVED this. It's a crazy new series about the gods, and how two chosen children become victims on the run from someone who wants them dead. It was exciting, adorably sweet with them experiencing the new-found emotions in the human world. I loved the writing style and how it was a fast-paced read that still made it feel like so much had happened. I liked the characters, the things that happened. It was fantastic, and this is a fantastic author you should check out. Seriously need the second book!
June 8, 2017
This author always provides an action packed read with plenty of excitement and intrigue and she has not disappointed with the first book of the trilogy. The twin have escaped and are in hiding when things go sideways. They thought they could have a life and would have a chance to prepare. So much hinges on them being successful.
The world this author takes us to is filled with beauty and magic, great characters and broken hearts. Love the story can't wait to read the next book in the series.
The world this author takes us to is filled with beauty and magic, great characters and broken hearts. Love the story can't wait to read the next book in the series.
July 19, 2017
Short and sweet
This book grabs you from the start and you just can't seem to put it down but its over before you even realise it. Please realise that this book is only a novella and not a novel it is short and sweet.
After escaping from the Gods twins Preeti and Vineet make a desperate journey to The Abyss the human world. As time passes they form friendships with the humans but before long they are thrust into a war and they are fighting for more than their lives.
Even though this is short and sweet it's still another great read from KN Lee.
Would I recommend this book YES
This book grabs you from the start and you just can't seem to put it down but its over before you even realise it. Please realise that this book is only a novella and not a novel it is short and sweet.
After escaping from the Gods twins Preeti and Vineet make a desperate journey to The Abyss the human world. As time passes they form friendships with the humans but before long they are thrust into a war and they are fighting for more than their lives.
Even though this is short and sweet it's still another great read from KN Lee.
Would I recommend this book YES
July 14, 2018
This was a really enjoyable book with interesting characters, a unique plot, and lots of action. Preeti and Vineet make great persecuted heroes. On a couple of occasions, I thought to myself that this would make a great YA series, but…..sex. I don't know what to expect in subsequent installments, but if it doesn't get more explicit, this could be okay for a mature YA audience, since the characters are older teens. I recommend this book and I'm looking forward to following the adventures of Preeti and Vineet.
November 25, 2017
Good exciting reading! Identical twins,1 male, 1 female, future Gods, but the Goddess of Law wants them dead. Jumping off a cliff, they are saved by an old woman and meant to rule. The Goddess of Law killed their mother and sent them to the dungeon to die. They used what magic they had and escaped prison and was sent to Earth for three years until the age of Gods. Couldn't put the book down. I received a complimentary copy of this book.
December 10, 2017
This was a really good read. Too bad it is so short. It feels more like the first part of a book than a first volume.
I loved this introduction to new worlds and realm, the characters were depicted with bright words and their interactions was never boring. Just one downside: the names. Even if the characters call themselves differently it was not smooth to change it in the description.
What I can say is war and peace were chosen, but now it is their turn to choose.
I loved this introduction to new worlds and realm, the characters were depicted with bright words and their interactions was never boring. Just one downside: the names. Even if the characters call themselves differently it was not smooth to change it in the description.
What I can say is war and peace were chosen, but now it is their turn to choose.
May 28, 2017
You have twins and they have to sacrifice themselves to see who will rule but the goddess of law will do anything so they don't rule but they escape to earth until they reach the age of enlightenment to go home then three years later they are found by the goddess she tries to kill them. Can't wait until the next book.
June 7, 2017
The first book in a new series from author K.N. Lee was, as expected, well-written with well-developed characters in a well-developed setting. Enough said, no spoilers from me, be sure to read the book.
November 17, 2017
Oh WOW
I’m blown away, again K N Lee has written an amazing story. Full of good v evil, gods and goddesses and woven together with other characters as only she can. I love her books and highly recommend them. Be warned though they are highly addictive.
I’m blown away, again K N Lee has written an amazing story. Full of good v evil, gods and goddesses and woven together with other characters as only she can. I love her books and highly recommend them. Be warned though they are highly addictive.
June 10, 2018
Definitely a good read
The story line is great and it's actually pretty well written. The only real downside was the lack of editing. Made parts of the story hard to understand without rereading and editing it yourself.
The story line is great and it's actually pretty well written. The only real downside was the lack of editing. Made parts of the story hard to understand without rereading and editing it yourself.
May 30, 2017
couldn't put the book down!! Can't wait to read the next book.
I received an ARC but am giving an un-bias opinion.
I received an ARC but am giving an un-bias opinion.
May 30, 2017
An exciting adventure with gods and goddesses battling for power. I enjoyed the premise and the characters.
I can't wait to read more about them.
I can't wait to read more about them.
November 26, 2017
Amazing read
Awesome first book in this series, had me going from the first to last page. Can't wait to read the next book in this series.
Awesome first book in this series, had me going from the first to last page. Can't wait to read the next book in this series.
December 17, 2017
Goddesses and Gods
The fact that K. N. Lee has me waiting anxiously for the next book in this series speaks to the level of interest she has elicited from me. Bring it!!!
The fact that K. N. Lee has me waiting anxiously for the next book in this series speaks to the level of interest she has elicited from me. Bring it!!!
April 23, 2016
Intensely written. Our poor heroes, children of minor gods, start as sixteen when they have been ordered by the council of gods to sacrifice themselves by jumping over a cliff along with other children of the gods to see who will be saved and become the next major god to sit on the council. As they are twins, they are both saved to become the Goddess of War and the God of Peace once they reach the age of enlightenment. However, they are captured and imprisoned, never to reach the power they do not want but clearly deserve.
Preeti and Vineet escape to hide on Earth, known to the gods as the abyss. There they meet and fall in love with humans but their very presence endangers all humans as the Goddess of Law is hunting for them and will stop at nothing to destroy them. Preeti and Vineet are not yet strong enough to fight her as they have not yet reached the age of enlightenment.
This author does an incredible job of world building without losing the reader. It is a difficult job to do to build an entire world giving enough information to satisfy the reader but not in a rote way that can slow the writing. Little details are revealed through the story telling such as the twins are fed only once a week for months while in confinement and are shocked when they come to earth and find they have to eat several times a day. Again, costume, language, details of the landscape, and even tattoos are used to create a setting and a feel that immerses you in the world. Her writing is seamless flows perfectly making the book hard to put down. I am definitely hooked. I will be back for the next installment.
Preeti and Vineet escape to hide on Earth, known to the gods as the abyss. There they meet and fall in love with humans but their very presence endangers all humans as the Goddess of Law is hunting for them and will stop at nothing to destroy them. Preeti and Vineet are not yet strong enough to fight her as they have not yet reached the age of enlightenment.
This author does an incredible job of world building without losing the reader. It is a difficult job to do to build an entire world giving enough information to satisfy the reader but not in a rote way that can slow the writing. Little details are revealed through the story telling such as the twins are fed only once a week for months while in confinement and are shocked when they come to earth and find they have to eat several times a day. Again, costume, language, details of the landscape, and even tattoos are used to create a setting and a feel that immerses you in the world. Her writing is seamless flows perfectly making the book hard to put down. I am definitely hooked. I will be back for the next installment.
January 1, 2016
One thing to know about me is that I like mythology and this book was tempting me, so thank you Kenya for sending it to me.
The story is about twins who escaped the vault and goes in the human world until their Enlightenment.
Preeti and Vineet will have to escape the Goddess of Law and hide in the human world for three years. They will be helped by Errison and Olia. They will work with the Royal Family, King Lavi, Queen Nevah, Prince Aric, Prince Eryon and Princess Arela.
The book is mostly about Preeti because she the goddess of war. She’s nice and in the human world she must work as seer for the royal family. She is the tutor of Arela, the young princess. With no surprise she’s attracted by Prince Aric, he doesn’t know who she is or what she is. Preeti will do everything to protect the people she loves.
I like Vineet too even if we don’t see him a lot, he’s a very interesting character and I can’t wait to see what will happen in the next book.
The story is great but too short, this was a very fast reading and I would have wanted that the characters are more developed and that the story does not take place so fast.
That is the only point I disliked because the book is good and the author did a good job, because I liked all the characters and the goddess of law is a great villain.
I also must say that the cover is really gorgeous and I can’t wait to buy it in paperback.
It’s a very nice story to read but I advise you to wait the second book because in the end, you will want the next book right now.
The story is about twins who escaped the vault and goes in the human world until their Enlightenment.
Preeti and Vineet will have to escape the Goddess of Law and hide in the human world for three years. They will be helped by Errison and Olia. They will work with the Royal Family, King Lavi, Queen Nevah, Prince Aric, Prince Eryon and Princess Arela.
The book is mostly about Preeti because she the goddess of war. She’s nice and in the human world she must work as seer for the royal family. She is the tutor of Arela, the young princess. With no surprise she’s attracted by Prince Aric, he doesn’t know who she is or what she is. Preeti will do everything to protect the people she loves.
I like Vineet too even if we don’t see him a lot, he’s a very interesting character and I can’t wait to see what will happen in the next book.
The story is great but too short, this was a very fast reading and I would have wanted that the characters are more developed and that the story does not take place so fast.
That is the only point I disliked because the book is good and the author did a good job, because I liked all the characters and the goddess of law is a great villain.
I also must say that the cover is really gorgeous and I can’t wait to buy it in paperback.
It’s a very nice story to read but I advise you to wait the second book because in the end, you will want the next book right now.
August 12, 2017
Goddess of War is the first book in the Fallen Gods series.This is a not a standalone and has a cliffhanger ending for the next book in the series. There is violence.
The book blurb adequately describes the storyline so I'm not going to repeat that all of that info her. There are clues in the storyline that keep you guessing what will be revealed next. It definitely kept me reading. Overall it is an interesting storyline and worth taking the time to read. I look forward to reading more of KN Lee's books.
The book blurb adequately describes the storyline so I'm not going to repeat that all of that info her. There are clues in the storyline that keep you guessing what will be revealed next. It definitely kept me reading. Overall it is an interesting storyline and worth taking the time to read. I look forward to reading more of KN Lee's books.
June 23, 2016
First off I have to say love the cover. As for the book it's more of a 3 1/2 Star rating. It had pages missing. Which was annoying. Thankfully I don't believe I missed much. The story was interesting as were the characters. I love stories about Gods and us mere mortals mixing. I do feel it could have used with a little more depth to the story but over all it was good. I will look for more to read more from this author.
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February 9, 2020
I just absolutely loved the start of this new series. The story pulled me in, kept me interested throughout, and turning the pages. The storyline is captivating, riveting, and action packed. Raina and Allan are sixteen year old twins and are strong, well developed characters. Looking forward to the next book in the series.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
June 1, 2016
I was provided a copy for an honest review. An interesting and easy read - 3.5 Stars. There were some spelling and grammar errors near the end, but overall a good start to the series. It could have been made longer with some additional descriptions and rather than jumping forward in time, some mid-storytelling might have been nice.
Regardless, it was an enjoyable story.
Regardless, it was an enjoyable story.
August 5, 2016
4.5 stars
Can't wait to read the next one....this is my kinda reading!! Awsome job!!
Can't wait to read the next one....this is my kinda reading!! Awsome job!!
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June 7, 2017The word epic doesn't even begin to describe the enormity of this tale! Twins with a destiny forced into hiding being hunted by a full fledged Goddess. This storyline kept me at the edge of my seat! This fast paced emotionally charged tale is a definite must read for all fantasy lovers! The characters are flawless, the writing is brilliant and my desire to read more by this author has increased exponentially. I need to read more of this storyline like yesterday and it's killing me! Well done K N Lee! This voluntary review is based against an advance copy.
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