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Pawn #2
Bishop
The Altearans are convinced Yallameenara is the daughter of the High Priestess to the Goddess Yahamala. Yalla is having nothing to do with their plans to keep her in Alteara, and shows her captors just how stubborn she can be.
This is a long novel of 180,000 words and is the second in the three-part epic Pawn series.
This is a long novel of 180,000 words and is the second in the three-part epic Pawn series.
708 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 6, 2016
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Robin Roseau
114 books213 followersA writer by avocation, Robin has a renaissance interest in many areas. A bit of a gypsy, Robin has called a few places home and has traveled widely. A love of the outdoors, animals in general and experimenting with world cuisines, Robin and partner share their home with a menagerie of pets and guests, although sometimes it is difficult to discern who is whom.
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January 20, 2022
Epic series
SAPPHIC BOOK BINGO: favorite trope, out of your comfort zone, unusual job, not a romance; UNICORN: faith, 400+ pages (possibly other categories)
This is the second fantastic book of the Pawn series. It's well written, has an intricate plot, the characters are terrific, it flows well, and it's an exciting adventure. The next book in the series is already downloaded, and ready for me to read it.
SAPPHIC BOOK BINGO: favorite trope, out of your comfort zone, unusual job, not a romance; UNICORN: faith, 400+ pages (possibly other categories)
This is the second fantastic book of the Pawn series. It's well written, has an intricate plot, the characters are terrific, it flows well, and it's an exciting adventure. The next book in the series is already downloaded, and ready for me to read it.
August 15, 2023
well..
I have such mixed feelings about this installment in the series, so much so that i am contemplating if I want to complete it. i know this is the author’s work and story to be told. But there are so many things that bothered me.
1. That Yalla was taken and the. treated the way that she was. She was absolutely going to die. And it bothered me that she forgave them. That’s not really normail for the way she was treated.
2. This seems very cultish. This Goddess is quite weird in the way their relationship is. It is very sexual in nature. Perhaps all that is supposed to be freeeing from the clutches of societal and social norms and mores? But this feels quite hippy-dippy and very superficial in away.
3. i kept saying throughout that the author seemed to make Juleena front and center in Yalla’s life until halfway through the first book and I started to see Juleena continually fade into the background. Mouranna and others starting taking more center stage putting Juleena in the background or on the periphery. I didn’t like it or understand it. Then this installment and it continued. The telling Yalla she needed experience before marriage did or courtship to Juleena seemed so,odd and out of place. Then you saw Yalla and her affections for Lorien take off. Then the goddess and her priestesses saying and encouraging the taking of “joy” if and where you can find it. The stuff taking place on the alter…. Then here comes Princess Alta. I did not like her from the beginning and she comes to the forefront and Yalla and this new fickleness of her and all these “touches” and dates was so in your face. And once again Juleena was in the background most of,this book too. The author made the relationship seem so superficial to Juleena that it as hard to believe that her and Yalla even still had a connection. The courtship felt empty.
Now, I know why. And it the most sad reason of all. To introduce polyamory. There was so much that i did not like about Yalla in the book. To go from being my favorite character to just some whining, self serving, arrogant, and sort of self righteous character is rather disappointing. The goddess was disappointing. I admired Relalta right up until this point. of course she gets another Princess for a daughter and all that entails, she gets a High Priestess, and etc. But this triad marriage proposal and the. so easily and quickly consummated, is just rather anti-climatic. I guess I was expecting more or better.
I no longer have much of s vested interest in any of them. Yalla wound up weaker this. i would have ever thought. Juleena became quite fickle. Definitely, not the person that rescued Yalla. Alta was able to easily transfer affections to some triad and feel easily on equal footing with almost Yalla and Juleena being together for a decade. Relalta felt less of,the mother that I had come to know her as. Maybe she was more of a politician than i realized. The Goddess, well, at first i was excited by her, but the inappropriateness of her relationship to Yalla was just disconcerting. I think the author made her seem so much smaller than life. perhaps that was the intent. I failed to understand it.
I will have to see if I will read the rest of the series. I almost feel about this close to how I feel about the Galatzi series, except that one bored me to tears and I failed to li,e the protagonist almost from the beginning. This one I loved from the beginning, but as time went on she seemed so disingenuous. even kerr supposed kind deeds were lost on me because it all begin to feel fake. It is hard to root for those types of characters.
I have such mixed feelings about this installment in the series, so much so that i am contemplating if I want to complete it. i know this is the author’s work and story to be told. But there are so many things that bothered me.
1. That Yalla was taken and the. treated the way that she was. She was absolutely going to die. And it bothered me that she forgave them. That’s not really normail for the way she was treated.
2. This seems very cultish. This Goddess is quite weird in the way their relationship is. It is very sexual in nature. Perhaps all that is supposed to be freeeing from the clutches of societal and social norms and mores? But this feels quite hippy-dippy and very superficial in away.
3. i kept saying throughout that the author seemed to make Juleena front and center in Yalla’s life until halfway through the first book and I started to see Juleena continually fade into the background. Mouranna and others starting taking more center stage putting Juleena in the background or on the periphery. I didn’t like it or understand it. Then this installment and it continued. The telling Yalla she needed experience before marriage did or courtship to Juleena seemed so,odd and out of place. Then you saw Yalla and her affections for Lorien take off. Then the goddess and her priestesses saying and encouraging the taking of “joy” if and where you can find it. The stuff taking place on the alter…. Then here comes Princess Alta. I did not like her from the beginning and she comes to the forefront and Yalla and this new fickleness of her and all these “touches” and dates was so in your face. And once again Juleena was in the background most of,this book too. The author made the relationship seem so superficial to Juleena that it as hard to believe that her and Yalla even still had a connection. The courtship felt empty.
Now, I know why. And it the most sad reason of all. To introduce polyamory. There was so much that i did not like about Yalla in the book. To go from being my favorite character to just some whining, self serving, arrogant, and sort of self righteous character is rather disappointing. The goddess was disappointing. I admired Relalta right up until this point. of course she gets another Princess for a daughter and all that entails, she gets a High Priestess, and etc. But this triad marriage proposal and the. so easily and quickly consummated, is just rather anti-climatic. I guess I was expecting more or better.
I no longer have much of s vested interest in any of them. Yalla wound up weaker this. i would have ever thought. Juleena became quite fickle. Definitely, not the person that rescued Yalla. Alta was able to easily transfer affections to some triad and feel easily on equal footing with almost Yalla and Juleena being together for a decade. Relalta felt less of,the mother that I had come to know her as. Maybe she was more of a politician than i realized. The Goddess, well, at first i was excited by her, but the inappropriateness of her relationship to Yalla was just disconcerting. I think the author made her seem so much smaller than life. perhaps that was the intent. I failed to understand it.
I will have to see if I will read the rest of the series. I almost feel about this close to how I feel about the Galatzi series, except that one bored me to tears and I failed to li,e the protagonist almost from the beginning. This one I loved from the beginning, but as time went on she seemed so disingenuous. even kerr supposed kind deeds were lost on me because it all begin to feel fake. It is hard to root for those types of characters.
January 25, 2019
😘💞ENGROSSING💞😘
I found this the second book in this "3" book series . Very engrossing that it just drew me so much that I started avoiding all the other books that I had started reading . Just so I could get too the next chapter and then the next and so on and so on ! Can't wait to start the next installment .
I found this the second book in this "3" book series . Very engrossing that it just drew me so much that I started avoiding all the other books that I had started reading . Just so I could get too the next chapter and then the next and so on and so on ! Can't wait to start the next installment .
February 27, 2017
I enjoyed the first book ‘Pawn’ but I’m afraid I got rather bored and then annoyed with this book. It wasn’t a disaster and it held enough interest for me to finish what is quite a long book, but it didn’t quite live up to my expectations after reading book one.
Some examples of the sort of thing that annoyed me were the way Yalla suddenly capitulate and fell into the bed of the person who had betrayed her and supervised her captivity, including nearly starving her to death, I really don’t want my heroines to be this shallow.
A lot of this book is about a Goddess of Joy, Love and Forgiveness, this is the same Goddess who sends her high priestess to a life of toil and abuse with no reprieve. No conflict there then!
The reason I got a bit bored was the story just sort of drifted away and we were left with a lot of convoluted ‘waffle’. Admittedly some of this was interesting but these were islands amongst a sea of tedium. Perhaps if the book had been a bit shorter I wouldn’t have noticed the ‘filler’ so much.
Some examples of the sort of thing that annoyed me were the way Yalla suddenly capitulate and fell into the bed of the person who had betrayed her and supervised her captivity, including nearly starving her to death, I really don’t want my heroines to be this shallow.
A lot of this book is about a Goddess of Joy, Love and Forgiveness, this is the same Goddess who sends her high priestess to a life of toil and abuse with no reprieve. No conflict there then!
The reason I got a bit bored was the story just sort of drifted away and we were left with a lot of convoluted ‘waffle’. Admittedly some of this was interesting but these were islands amongst a sea of tedium. Perhaps if the book had been a bit shorter I wouldn’t have noticed the ‘filler’ so much.
July 19, 2016
Well, as there are no games in this book the story is quite captivating. With a nice and - for the author's work so far - unexpected ending.
Only the goddess is inconsistent. At one point she can only act trough the high priestess but then she can work her magic independent. Also on one hand she can not move more than some meters away from her but on the other hand she can visit prospective priestesses on her own.
Only the goddess is inconsistent. At one point she can only act trough the high priestess but then she can work her magic independent. Also on one hand she can not move more than some meters away from her but on the other hand she can visit prospective priestesses on her own.
July 10, 2016
Happy with this ending
Great work. Solid characters! Happy with ending, hate cliffhangers. Can't wait for third book in series. Please finish other series, where is third Seer book.
Great work. Solid characters! Happy with ending, hate cliffhangers. Can't wait for third book in series. Please finish other series, where is third Seer book.
August 29, 2016
At the beginning of this book i really wasnt sure as to where it was going and
I couldn't wait for Yalla to be reunited with Juleena but I love the way the story went and how t endes
I couldn't wait for Yalla to be reunited with Juleena but I love the way the story went and how t endes
July 15, 2016
Great series
I really like the characters and the overall world and story. I read about a cliffhanger but I don't really think it is. I can't wait fit the next one.
I really like the characters and the overall world and story. I read about a cliffhanger but I don't really think it is. I can't wait fit the next one.
June 21, 2022
Touching
I love how this series brings faith in a whole new light. How the ones must unexpected are the more important is so many plots.
I love how this series brings faith in a whole new light. How the ones must unexpected are the more important is so many plots.
December 1, 2017
I have enjoyed both of the books in this series and cannot wait for more! My favorite was the first, in tje second, certain things left me with questions. I am really to read the next book but, other than a blurb at the end of book two, all we had to go on was 2017! It's December and I hope book 3 can be published soon!
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