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Moonbow: The Colors of Iris
A teenaged girl with an ageless power.
A rebellion that begs her to use it for vengeance.
A follower in the sky that she cannot outrun.
And a choice that will change her life.
Set in Petros, an ancient Greece-like land of mesmerizing myths and monsters, MOONBOW follows Iris, a despairing young woman who has spent three agonizing years as a slave to Acheron, the sadistic officer responsible for burning her brother alive. But when Iris's own life is threatened at the bronze tip of an outlaw's blade, she receives an astonishing, long-awaited power, and with it, the confidence and weapon she needs to fulfill her greatest desire: avenge her brother, or die trying. If only the Moonbow, that unavoidable symbol of redemption shining in the sky, would let her be...
Armed with a warrior’s dagger and an explosive new power, Iris finds herself at the headquarters of the zealots who call themselves the Soukinoi after the sacred amber scrolls they house inside their temple. Their leader is Diokles, a charismatic, godlike man who captivates Iris with his passion and vision to liberate all of Petros from its oppressors, and most importantly, train her skill and lead her to Acheron.
Overcome by her obsession, Iris now calls herself Hunter, and will stop at nothing, not even the killing of innocents, to reach her goal. But on the day she reunites with Tycho, a mysterious former Soukinoi who has been taken prisoner by Diokles and sentenced to death, Iris can't fight the urge to speak up for his life. Now, both she and Tycho are on Diokles's blacklist, and only a single misstep stands between them and a fatal encounter with the Gryphon, the gigantic, flesh-eating bird Iris thought existed only in myth.
After Tycho's escape, Iris knows her time is short. While being escorted back to Diokles, she receives alarming information about her brother's death and finds out that Diokles's plans are far more sinister than they seem. Wrestling with strong feelings of guilt and disillusionment, and unable to dispute the supernatural happenings around and within her, Iris must decide whether the Moonbow truly does hold the answers she's searching for…
A rebellion that begs her to use it for vengeance.
A follower in the sky that she cannot outrun.
And a choice that will change her life.
Set in Petros, an ancient Greece-like land of mesmerizing myths and monsters, MOONBOW follows Iris, a despairing young woman who has spent three agonizing years as a slave to Acheron, the sadistic officer responsible for burning her brother alive. But when Iris's own life is threatened at the bronze tip of an outlaw's blade, she receives an astonishing, long-awaited power, and with it, the confidence and weapon she needs to fulfill her greatest desire: avenge her brother, or die trying. If only the Moonbow, that unavoidable symbol of redemption shining in the sky, would let her be...
Armed with a warrior’s dagger and an explosive new power, Iris finds herself at the headquarters of the zealots who call themselves the Soukinoi after the sacred amber scrolls they house inside their temple. Their leader is Diokles, a charismatic, godlike man who captivates Iris with his passion and vision to liberate all of Petros from its oppressors, and most importantly, train her skill and lead her to Acheron.
Overcome by her obsession, Iris now calls herself Hunter, and will stop at nothing, not even the killing of innocents, to reach her goal. But on the day she reunites with Tycho, a mysterious former Soukinoi who has been taken prisoner by Diokles and sentenced to death, Iris can't fight the urge to speak up for his life. Now, both she and Tycho are on Diokles's blacklist, and only a single misstep stands between them and a fatal encounter with the Gryphon, the gigantic, flesh-eating bird Iris thought existed only in myth.
After Tycho's escape, Iris knows her time is short. While being escorted back to Diokles, she receives alarming information about her brother's death and finds out that Diokles's plans are far more sinister than they seem. Wrestling with strong feelings of guilt and disillusionment, and unable to dispute the supernatural happenings around and within her, Iris must decide whether the Moonbow truly does hold the answers she's searching for…
210 pages, Paperback
First published August 13, 2015
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About the author
Diana Anderson-Tyler
22 books78 followers
Also writes as Diana Tyler
Diana has been writing all her life, starting with her own versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics when she was four. She's always been fascinated with Greek mythology and comic book superheroes, all of which inspire her fantasy novels. She's also a gym rat who loves to pretend she's Wonder Woman while lifting heavy weights and swinging from rings and pull-up bars. She co-owns CrossFit 925 in San Antonio, Texas with her husband Ben.
Diana currently writes entertainment and media-related articles for movieguide.org and contributes regularly to charismamag.com. When she isn't writing or working out, she can be found playing Scrabble with her husband, watching Marvel and Pixar movies, and pinning recipes on Pinterest that she never gets around to cooking.
You can find Diana at facebook.com/dianafit4faith, Twitter @dandersontyler, and Instagram @authordianatyler.
Her next fantasy novel, The Petros Chronicles: Age of the Ashers, will be released in 2017. Get the full-length novel for FREE by visiting http://www.dianaandersontyler.com/sig....
Diana has been writing all her life, starting with her own versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics when she was four. She's always been fascinated with Greek mythology and comic book superheroes, all of which inspire her fantasy novels. She's also a gym rat who loves to pretend she's Wonder Woman while lifting heavy weights and swinging from rings and pull-up bars. She co-owns CrossFit 925 in San Antonio, Texas with her husband Ben.
Diana currently writes entertainment and media-related articles for movieguide.org and contributes regularly to charismamag.com. When she isn't writing or working out, she can be found playing Scrabble with her husband, watching Marvel and Pixar movies, and pinning recipes on Pinterest that she never gets around to cooking.
You can find Diana at facebook.com/dianafit4faith, Twitter @dandersontyler, and Instagram @authordianatyler.
Her next fantasy novel, The Petros Chronicles: Age of the Ashers, will be released in 2017. Get the full-length novel for FREE by visiting http://www.dianaandersontyler.com/sig....
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January 28, 2018
Last week I did a review for Age of the Ashers, Book One in the Petros Chronicles. You can read that review here. Since there are still a few weeks before Book Two of that series is released, I thought I'd take a peek at some of Anderson-Tyler's other works. And wow, am I glad I did. Though this book looks like a stand-alone work, and in some aspects it is, it is no more stand-alone than The Hobbit was to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Age of the Ashers started with a brief chapter regarding a character named Iris who had a Duma (super-power) that enables her to shoot fireballs from her hands. And though I had found it strange that Iris didn't make an appearance throughout the rest of that book, other than being referenced a few times, now I know why. This book is her story. Technically, it's not required that you read this one first, as Anderson-Tyler did a fabulous job of moving from this novel to the Petros Chronicles series.
However, if you haven't read Age of the Ashers yet, then I would highly recommend you start here. Why? Because this book is near perfect, and it will help to understand the underlying political and social paradigms that the world of Petros is embroiled in for Age of the Ashers. Many of the concepts of that book which were not entirely clear at first would have been much clearer had I started with this book.
The story in Moonbow starts with a brief Prologue that describes the backstory of the world Iris was born into. As the first chapter opens, we learn that Iris has just lost her brother, who had just been executed, though the reason for his execution isn't clear at first. Iris responds by losing her composure and leaping into the ice-cold water in which her brother's funeral boat is to be set aflame and passes out. She is awakened the next morning by Niobe, who, like Iris, is a slave of Acheron. It was by Acheron's command that her brother had been executed, and it is the desire of Iris to avenge her brother's death that places her feet on the journey she engages through the rest of the book.
Also, like Age of the Ashers, this book is filled with references to the early Greek Gods, though these Gods and mythical creatures, other than a few, are more supporting characters than they are in Age of the Ashers. Still, Anderson-Tyler seems to have done her homework when it comes to depicting the Gods and what their personalities would most likely have been like had they actually been real beings. Anderson-Tyler also does a fabulous job with the word-crafting throughout, using extremely uncommon synonyms for a good number of commonly used words, a few of which, I'll admit, I had to look up. And though I am usually not a fan of flowery language or authors who over-use the thesaurus as a writing tool, for this book, it really worked. I could imagine the characters speaking just as Anderson-Tyler wrote, and the flowery tone of the text truly matched what I would consider the environment of this fictional world to have been.
Bottom line, another 4+ star review for a wonderfully written and incredibly entertaining novel.
Age of the Ashers started with a brief chapter regarding a character named Iris who had a Duma (super-power) that enables her to shoot fireballs from her hands. And though I had found it strange that Iris didn't make an appearance throughout the rest of that book, other than being referenced a few times, now I know why. This book is her story. Technically, it's not required that you read this one first, as Anderson-Tyler did a fabulous job of moving from this novel to the Petros Chronicles series.
However, if you haven't read Age of the Ashers yet, then I would highly recommend you start here. Why? Because this book is near perfect, and it will help to understand the underlying political and social paradigms that the world of Petros is embroiled in for Age of the Ashers. Many of the concepts of that book which were not entirely clear at first would have been much clearer had I started with this book.
The story in Moonbow starts with a brief Prologue that describes the backstory of the world Iris was born into. As the first chapter opens, we learn that Iris has just lost her brother, who had just been executed, though the reason for his execution isn't clear at first. Iris responds by losing her composure and leaping into the ice-cold water in which her brother's funeral boat is to be set aflame and passes out. She is awakened the next morning by Niobe, who, like Iris, is a slave of Acheron. It was by Acheron's command that her brother had been executed, and it is the desire of Iris to avenge her brother's death that places her feet on the journey she engages through the rest of the book.
Also, like Age of the Ashers, this book is filled with references to the early Greek Gods, though these Gods and mythical creatures, other than a few, are more supporting characters than they are in Age of the Ashers. Still, Anderson-Tyler seems to have done her homework when it comes to depicting the Gods and what their personalities would most likely have been like had they actually been real beings. Anderson-Tyler also does a fabulous job with the word-crafting throughout, using extremely uncommon synonyms for a good number of commonly used words, a few of which, I'll admit, I had to look up. And though I am usually not a fan of flowery language or authors who over-use the thesaurus as a writing tool, for this book, it really worked. I could imagine the characters speaking just as Anderson-Tyler wrote, and the flowery tone of the text truly matched what I would consider the environment of this fictional world to have been.
Bottom line, another 4+ star review for a wonderfully written and incredibly entertaining novel.
March 31, 2020
I received a copy of this book for free from the Goodreads Giveaways. It was supposed to be signed, but sadly wasn't.
I have mixed feelings about this book. The writing style and editing is very good, I commend the author on that. She has created this fantasy realm that is loosely related to Greek mythology and has added her own unique twist. I had a love-hate relationship with the main character, Iris. She seemed to just do things because the prophecy told her that she would, she didn't question it at all. This bothered me because it made her seem like a shallow character. A few more characters seemed a bit shallow as well. Halfway through the book things started to pick up and I enjoyed it a lot more. Iris became more bearable as she realized who the real evil was even though she had been warned already. Overall it was an enjoyable read but I wish there had been more exploration into Iris's doma (powers). Perhaps we will see that in book 2?
I have mixed feelings about this book. The writing style and editing is very good, I commend the author on that. She has created this fantasy realm that is loosely related to Greek mythology and has added her own unique twist. I had a love-hate relationship with the main character, Iris. She seemed to just do things because the prophecy told her that she would, she didn't question it at all. This bothered me because it made her seem like a shallow character. A few more characters seemed a bit shallow as well. Halfway through the book things started to pick up and I enjoyed it a lot more. Iris became more bearable as she realized who the real evil was even though she had been warned already. Overall it was an enjoyable read but I wish there had been more exploration into Iris's doma (powers). Perhaps we will see that in book 2?
December 16, 2016
First of all, I have to say that this is a very interesting and entertaining story. This is the story of Iris, a slave girl who escapes her master after finding out she holds a very strong power. She finds herself with a group of rebels who are led by a religious leader with high expectations for himself. He takes Iris in as an assassin but soon finds that she doesn't the heart for such a job. She saves the life of the man that saved hers and is being hunted by the tyrannical religious leader.
Like I said, I did enjoy this story but it was very hard getting through at times. The writer has a poetic pastoral type of writing that you need to pay a lot of attention to, but then you start to lose the story. She is very descriptive but in a poetic way. It's not necessarily bad writing, I think she is a wonderful writer, but it takes a little while to wrap your head around. As a lot of it didn't make that much of a difference in the story, I passed over a lot of it. Sorry, but you can only imagine and describe something so much. I got it and I moved on. LOL
Like I said, I did enjoy this story but it was very hard getting through at times. The writer has a poetic pastoral type of writing that you need to pay a lot of attention to, but then you start to lose the story. She is very descriptive but in a poetic way. It's not necessarily bad writing, I think she is a wonderful writer, but it takes a little while to wrap your head around. As a lot of it didn't make that much of a difference in the story, I passed over a lot of it. Sorry, but you can only imagine and describe something so much. I got it and I moved on. LOL
October 22, 2018
I love this & I can't wait for more.
I will be also leaving a review on Goodreads @ Amazon.
And letting everyone know about it.
So i gave it a 5 Stars.
I will be also leaving a review on Goodreads @ Amazon.
And letting everyone know about it.
So i gave it a 5 Stars.
December 19, 2016
Iris is the great hope for the return of the god Duna, who lost his son Phos to the underworld. She has been a slave to the Alpha Acheron since her brother was murdered on a floating pyre along with other followers of Duna and Phos.
She has been badly abused for years, and Tycho gives her the strength to run off to go kill her master at the annual harvest festival in her original home town.
While on her adventure she receives the moonbows gift of fire, much later than anyone in her family history. Each generation, one member of the Asher descendants receives the gift, which is a stone of one of the moonbows colors.
She must learn how to listen to the voices and Arya, the nymph who visits her and gives her clues as to what her mission is.
Along the way she is given clues by people she interacts with.
Will she learn to control her power and know which voice is the right one to listen to, or will she be lost to the madness surrounding her?
She has been badly abused for years, and Tycho gives her the strength to run off to go kill her master at the annual harvest festival in her original home town.
While on her adventure she receives the moonbows gift of fire, much later than anyone in her family history. Each generation, one member of the Asher descendants receives the gift, which is a stone of one of the moonbows colors.
She must learn how to listen to the voices and Arya, the nymph who visits her and gives her clues as to what her mission is.
Along the way she is given clues by people she interacts with.
Will she learn to control her power and know which voice is the right one to listen to, or will she be lost to the madness surrounding her?
November 6, 2015
After Iris's brother was murdered, she was captured and taken as a slave. For three years, she has been a slave to Acheron, the man who killed her brother.
After being threatened with death by an outlaw, Iris's power is unleashed and she thinks only of avenging her brother. Iris's journey will take her on a path of many challenges and hard decisions to make.
I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway. It is a fantasy set in a land that has many myths and even monsters. Iris is the main character of the book.
I enjoyed the story and the different myths. They were very interesting. I felt I couldn't really connect to Iris, though. Despite knowing her story and all that she been through, I felt I couldn't relate to her.
The story having to do with myths and different Gods was good. Overall, it was an enjoyable read. I'd give it three and a half stars.
After being threatened with death by an outlaw, Iris's power is unleashed and she thinks only of avenging her brother. Iris's journey will take her on a path of many challenges and hard decisions to make.
I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway. It is a fantasy set in a land that has many myths and even monsters. Iris is the main character of the book.
I enjoyed the story and the different myths. They were very interesting. I felt I couldn't really connect to Iris, though. Despite knowing her story and all that she been through, I felt I couldn't relate to her.
The story having to do with myths and different Gods was good. Overall, it was an enjoyable read. I'd give it three and a half stars.
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