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Enslavement: Land Magic Saga Book 1
She must embrace what scares her to escape ENSLAVEMENT Sixteen-year-old Azika has been a slave in the Kongul Mining Camp for as long as she can remember. Cursed with beauty, she is forced to hide under dirt and filth to keep the guards at bay, but there is one who knows what lies beneath the grime and will stop at nothing to have her. Struggling to hold tight to her courage, Azika finds herself sentenced to the dangerous exploration tunnels. Befriending a fellow crew member, who remembers life outside this camp, Azika dares to believe they can escape and finally unravel the mysteries surrounding her life. Even with Bear’s help, the odds are stacked against them. For how does one escape a mountain and the guards surrounding it?
Clean Epic Fantasy Romance. Slow Burn Romance.
Complete Land Magic Saga consists of six full length novels.
Clean Epic Fantasy Romance. Slow Burn Romance.
Complete Land Magic Saga consists of six full length novels.
298 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 21, 2015
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About the author
Ashley Lavering
10 books125 followersA nomad at heart, I currently claim Nevada as my home. I have a wonderful husband and two young children that put up with my “writing time.” When I’m not pondering on a spell that will magically calm the ferocious winds that plague the air around me, you can find me, with notepad in hand, frantically jotting down ideas in those short moments between caring for my girls.
Art and science have always been my yin and yang. Throughout my college career, I shifted between the two, but in the end I graduated with a Bachelors of Mathematics and Science from the University of Wyoming.
Charging into adventures and discovering something new has always been a passion of mine, but as a teenager I use to run screaming from a reading or writing assignment. Looking back, the irony isn’t lost on me. Now you can’t catch me without a book in hand or without an open word document. Every time a new idea pops into my mind my heart races and my hand twitch to write it. In that moment, I have my writer's high and pray it will sustain me through thousands of hours of revision.
Art and science have always been my yin and yang. Throughout my college career, I shifted between the two, but in the end I graduated with a Bachelors of Mathematics and Science from the University of Wyoming.
Charging into adventures and discovering something new has always been a passion of mine, but as a teenager I use to run screaming from a reading or writing assignment. Looking back, the irony isn’t lost on me. Now you can’t catch me without a book in hand or without an open word document. Every time a new idea pops into my mind my heart races and my hand twitch to write it. In that moment, I have my writer's high and pray it will sustain me through thousands of hours of revision.
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August 20, 2019
Very intense
This book kept be captured from page one to the end. I’m excited to see what will happen next in the story.
This book kept be captured from page one to the end. I’m excited to see what will happen next in the story.
January 11, 2016
I’ll be honest: I picked this one up for its author, whose first work published had truly struck one of my chords: a contemporary YA retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
So, when Enslavement came out I did not hesitate and clicked it into my library.
Enslavement is a YA fantasy novel set up in third person, whose heroine Azika is sixteen years of age- yada yada the rest is in the book’s summary.
I’ll start with the negatives and finish with the good ones this book holds:
I have encountered better writing- and definitely in the author’s first books. There were quite a lot of typos, spelling mistakes; at one or two points the author even gets her tenses mixed up, and there even came a moment when we slipped from third to first pov- making me think she had written the first draft in first person and had then decided to tell it in third-person. This did irk me a little (but once again, considering the price I paid for this, and the final result of being pleased with my reading experience, I’m not going to make a fuss.)
Also, and still on the negative berm, the story is slow to pick up, and if you’re feeling bluesy I would suggest you catch this one when you feel better, because the story is excessively harsh.
We are talking about children enslaved to work in a mine monitored by madmen and perverts (although without any sexual details- I must insist the YA is truly respected here.) And most of the story takes place in that-mind my language- bloody mine from which I do believe the writer could have gotten us out a little earlier.
Unfortunately, when I finally truly got what I was looking for; the story ended, and yes- dangling from and holding onto a cliff with the tippy-tops of my fingers … Gah!
On the very positive side though; the writer knows how to weave emotions into her characters, and there is something ‘different’ about this story- proving to me what I sensed in her first work: an original mind at work in storytelling.
Also, I like it when there is more to the story than what is being told out aloud; and here there is so much more to the title than simply it being about young slaves in a mine. The theme Enslavement is woven throughout the story and its characters- because there are so many ways of being enslaved other than the physical one.
And my verdict is: an intriguing read and I’m starving for the second book.
So, when Enslavement came out I did not hesitate and clicked it into my library.
Enslavement is a YA fantasy novel set up in third person, whose heroine Azika is sixteen years of age- yada yada the rest is in the book’s summary.
I’ll start with the negatives and finish with the good ones this book holds:
I have encountered better writing- and definitely in the author’s first books. There were quite a lot of typos, spelling mistakes; at one or two points the author even gets her tenses mixed up, and there even came a moment when we slipped from third to first pov- making me think she had written the first draft in first person and had then decided to tell it in third-person. This did irk me a little (but once again, considering the price I paid for this, and the final result of being pleased with my reading experience, I’m not going to make a fuss.)
Also, and still on the negative berm, the story is slow to pick up, and if you’re feeling bluesy I would suggest you catch this one when you feel better, because the story is excessively harsh.
We are talking about children enslaved to work in a mine monitored by madmen and perverts (although without any sexual details- I must insist the YA is truly respected here.) And most of the story takes place in that-mind my language- bloody mine from which I do believe the writer could have gotten us out a little earlier.
Unfortunately, when I finally truly got what I was looking for; the story ended, and yes- dangling from and holding onto a cliff with the tippy-tops of my fingers … Gah!
On the very positive side though; the writer knows how to weave emotions into her characters, and there is something ‘different’ about this story- proving to me what I sensed in her first work: an original mind at work in storytelling.
Also, I like it when there is more to the story than what is being told out aloud; and here there is so much more to the title than simply it being about young slaves in a mine. The theme Enslavement is woven throughout the story and its characters- because there are so many ways of being enslaved other than the physical one.
And my verdict is: an intriguing read and I’m starving for the second book.
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