The flick of a wrist as I revealed my hand changed destiny. My destiny.
The loss at the poker table was the first step onto my ultimate path. True, my siblings warned me about gambling. Our mission must never be jeopardised, they preached.
When you lose, you gain. The spiral of fate took hold when Athena held a gun to my head. A trapped woman desperately fighting for her freedom. Was she a goddess of war? Or a thorn in my side? Rescuing her could mean the end of me.
Rachel Medhurst grew up in a small village in Surrey, England. She writes to inspire and heal. She lives in the British countryside with her dog. If she’s not writing, she can be found walking in nature and reading. For more information about current projects, including her short story dystopian series, Avoidables, please check out her website.
I did not actually like this book as much, being that it's about gambling and the mob - both subjects that I thought the author felt out of her depth in. The character of Gemini felt fairly true to form (except I'd have thought the excessive vanity would be more Libra than Gemini). There was a nice little meta touch at the end which I hadn't seen in previous books. And also the twin nature of Gemini was brought out in more ways than one (and that's all I'll say so as not to give away spoilers).
To be fair, I liked the Taurus book a lot more and I do get along better with Taurus people than Geminis. This may actually be an indication of how good the books have been since they're so true to their signs and provoke similar reactions in the reader as one would have to people of that sign.
Now this book took me awhile to finish, not because it was long...but the characters themselves. Hang in there because towards the middle it is less like a cheesy romance book and gets more interesting.