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The Fate Caller #2

Rhythm of Rime

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Cold hands, warm heart.

Life can change so suddenly, leaving you standing there with your heart in your throat—unsure of what to do. I’ve never been good at playing the damsel in distress, which means it’s time to do something about it. My life has taken a turn I never expected it to take.
I have a Triad. Three beautiful, annoying men have taken up residence in my home and in my life.
Oh, and my dad? He’s the High Priest of the Moon Clan. The evil so-and-so and now he’s decided he wants to meet his daughter. The one he abandoned to the tender mercies of a Graywalker and wants to use for some unknown, nefarious reason.
Then there's Rime, Jack Frost himself nipping at my toes. But when I need the heat turned up, I discover that inside the man of snow and ice beats the heart of a volcano.

**This is a Multiple Mayhem Novel which has Reverse Harem themes.**

214 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 15, 2019

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Zoe Parker

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First off, I didn't write Storage Diva--no idea who that is, lol.
Second please know that any and ALL books that are upcoming or released that I write are on my website.

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858 reviews17 followers
April 16, 2019
I was seriously looking forward to this book. The first one captivated me with its world and characters and had me psyched. Unfortunately this fell flat for me, short, not much character development and zero plot development. It was slow and the editing on the Kindle version was crap
I will continue with this series but I hope for more in the next one
....I really don't like being so negative in my reviews because regardless of what I think this is someone's hard work but I was super disappointed especially because I really like Zoe Parker and this felt like something slapped together
Profile Image for Rhiannon Chillingworth.
838 reviews221 followers
April 16, 2019
This is a generous 3, more like a 2.5 really.

It's partly my fault, as I could barely remember anything from the first book, but then there was no sort of recap or much of a past reference. There wasn't a whole load of plot really and the ending annoyed me. The characters also all felt a bit shallow.

I absolutely adore the author's Facets of Faeries series and really enjoyed the first in her new series as well, but maybe this series isn't for me.
Profile Image for Maraya21 (The Reading Dragon).
1,838 reviews266 followers
April 20, 2019
⚠ "I have no hopes for this" BR with the Reverse Harem Revolution Cake Cult ⚠


#1. Cadence of Ciar ★★


Before I start with whatever will come out of my brain, let me say this:

Zoe Parker, thank you.

I was told (I saw it commented somewhere) by a GR friend who is close to the author (I assume) that she was pressured into writing this when she didn't felt like writing it just because some spesual Buttercup wanted it & wanted it now. No. People should be ashamed of themselves for doing something like this to someone! Me included in the "people" even though I didn't like the first one and couldn't have cared less if it continued or not. Authors write what they want when they want, no matter if we like it or not.

With that said. Zoe, never do that again! No matter how annoying we get with "when is the next book coming out?" questions you do whatever you want whenever you want. Don't let us buttercups pressure you ever again.

I know she will never read this but I had to get it of my chest. Now onward with the roasting!


The murmur of voices that had previously filled the room was now a silence so thick a fart would sound like a bomb going off.
@94%


If you think that I am making fun of this, then you're absolutely right. I am. But, I do like it.


I went into this with absolutely no expectations. None. Zero. Nada.


As it turns out I was wrong. *This is now recorded & time stamped. Status of incident: Extremely Rare*


While still disjointed and random as fuck it was way better than the first one. The syntax & grammar was almost excellent, almost. The writing has improved as well, although it is kind of simple ridiculousness - which I loved. The content was decent. I do like how we see the nitty gritty details of everyday life.


I got annoyed by a few things Keri does and I'm talking about major events here. Remarkably I was also annoyed by the cliffhanger. Usually I'm not bothered in the least but this time due to Keri being an idiot about certain things the cliffhanger hit me semi-hard. Like a sudden punch in the arm semi-hard.


I will be awaiting Bk #3 in the corner over there.

73 reviews
April 19, 2019
First, I did not remember much about book one other than I liked it, so I speed read through it to refresh my memory. I guess it has been a while between books...

I do think this book is moderately entertaining and since I am willing to give this author a chance to fix this mess, I do recommend it to those that liked the first one.

If you haven’t read the first one, I would wait until the 3rd and see what people say about it before getting frustrated by the second one. There’s a lot of good books out there while waiting for the 3rd installment, I am sure.

This book was short, low on romance meter, and did a disservice to the male characters. I was particularly disappointed in Rime. I was thinking he might be one of those grouchy but sweet underneath, with a LOT more intense sexy. Instead he was portrayed as a “redneck” because he liked football (wth?!?! Seriously?), and an “airhead”, and sadly by his own words “not a very smart man”, JUST like Forest Gump!!! 😳 The “good person” Keri was, she struggled not to laugh at him and “start the blonde jokes”. What?! This is supposed to be a high power triad. Yes, he flexed his badass magical muscles a little later in the book, but otherwise, it was booooooring. It did NOT have to be. No! WHY? Why would the author do that to her own characters? Can she fix it?

Soapbox: So much time was spent on how Keri was such a good person who loved everyone, especially fairies...and still grieving Peter. Stop it! Like some authors who write reverse harem, they try to make excuses for the woman to show that she’s really a “good person” and can’t help but have a few extra guys in her romantic life and that she’s trying to “take things slow”...because you know, women who have more than one love interest are (sluts?) in need of excuses for their behavior. Get over it. Don’t write reverse harem if you think the woman needs to have tons of time to wring her hands and excuses and guilt and lots of proof she’s just a “good person” with a lot of love to give 🙄. People who intentionally read reverse harem are not thinking “slut”. They are thinking “this is going to be FUN”! Please don’t ruin our FUN over faux morality and double standards. End soapbox.

Trick was almost nonexistent, Ciar was boring too (no sexy), and the one sexy time with Rime was rushed and glossed over. The possible “patron” turns out to be her fate. I had a feeling about him from book one. But there were SO many missed opportunities for interesting and exciting (in every way) things in this book. It was sloppy.

Overall, I do think the author has the potential/talent to pull this one out of the ditch and still win. This could go far and do well with some effort.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Profile Image for Kayla.
106 reviews9 followers
April 19, 2019
This barely made it to 3 stars...By far the most disappointing book I’ve read by Zoe. I absolutely adored her other books but this one fell extremely short. I don’t think she should’ve published this one, I would’ve had no problems waiting for this book. She wrote this one just because she felt she had to and it definitely shows. I’d rather not list everything down since I’m pretty sure this was self explanatory already. A shame really.
Profile Image for Danielle (Danniegurl).
1,960 reviews110 followers
October 28, 2020
Needs editing, and clean up.

The book is still interesting but it is written in the telling manner. Many thing are happening off page which for me is off putting. I prefer to live in the moment with the FMC or whoever I’m reading of. On top of this there are several areas that are misspelled, extra commas or quotation marks, or even capitalizing someone’s name was missed. In addition I think the plot could use some clean up. I’m still confused on what the point of the school was in the last book. If there’s a set of rules, why did they not need to continue at the school after the Awakening?

In this book we finally get to meet her new men for her Triad, but the emotional components are missing for me. We get instant attraction sure, but there’s so many times where Keri is making inferences but not explaining her observations clearly enough for the reader to understand all the nuances and things going on.

Most of this book is spent doing mundane things. Like shopping, cooking and getting to know Rime, and what he is about. But it is very shallow. I truly don’t know a lot about the men’s lives. There are many plot holes or things that aren’t connected clearly enough.

In the middle of some of the mundane things, toward the end of the book someone is kidnapping Fairies. We don’t know who, or why.

In the middle of all of that, Keri also decides she needs a job? I don’t truly understand why. Yea she wants to be useful but it seems like being a Fate Caller could be important and yet not much with it is happening. I found it odd that she wanted to get a job with all the craziness going on.

Then Keri gets summoned to court. I thought that’s what book 3 was going to be about because this came about around 85% but....we end up in court at the 90% mark and get the resolution with it pretty quick. That whole thing there is curious because how did the Duke know she needed help? It’s weird, but that’s not the point. Court is quick and easy. Then we get bamboozled and cliffhanger ending.

I know I shouldn’t go on to the next book. The writing, the lack of editing and all these things will annoy the crap out of me, but I’m somewhat invested in how this turns out and hopefully I can see where this ends or what the entire point of her calling is and how it ties things together.
Profile Image for Anita.
2,821 reviews182 followers
June 19, 2019
I gave the second book a shot, because I love another series by this author and was hoping this series would improve. It didn't. Tension was entirely absent from this book. Everything happened too easily and neatly. There was no growth of characters, plot, or relationships. Even the crises came and went much too quickly, without enough buildup. The entire thing read like an outline of a book, not a finished product. And it's allegedly a reverse harem romance, but romance is very much lacking. Even though the book ended on a major cliff hanger, I'm not interested in the next one. Sorry Zoe. Maybe reverse harem is not your thing.
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72 reviews1 follower
April 15, 2019
This overachieved the expectation I had for it. I love how Keri is slowly building her family and the addition of Bert. I’m looking forward to the development of relationship with Trick now. And also bael, but Trick first. That ending though is torture and leaves me wanting more and also with lots of questions. Will she have to rebond, is Trick now the most bonded because his was never consummated. The boys are going to go crazy looking for her. I really liked this story and how the characters are finding harmony and their places. Super excited for the next one
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Profile Image for Melissa.
14 reviews
April 28, 2019
She does it again

Zoey's ability to build a world the swollows you whole, is my favourite thing anout her as an author and this book is no different. When you want to escape reality fpr a few moments, this book is for you.
Profile Image for Kristy.
927 reviews
April 22, 2019
3.5 stars

I’m glad Zoe wrote this, but I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as the first one. I hate injustice and so I think that’s why I didn’t love it. That plus the cliffhanger ending... I’m still looking forward to book 3 because I have to see Trick’s turn to shine.
449 reviews62 followers
December 23, 2025
!HUGE CLIFFHANGER WARNING! Look, I love this author's books and ideas, but they are all in serious need of an editor, and this one is no exception. It is full of grammar errors and typos.

I had been looking forward to this book, but I felt like it was too light on plot overall. I feel like I could summarize all the action in one or two sentences.

I still like the series and am looking forward to book 3, but I hope that we get more action and better writing in it.
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549 reviews13 followers
March 26, 2021
It's a short book. It makes you like Rime and his less than pleasant character flaws.
Keri wants to have a job when Ciar is so wealthy is unhealthy...
Her father becomes a constant threat and he shows his ugly head.
Trick seems cute but we don't get to know about him too much.
No m/m, the sex is a little bit glossed over but I can live with it.
23 reviews
January 3, 2020
Great story line but..

Wouls someone PLEASE find this writer some beta readers?! And if he/she uses them, please, please fire them!
I can love a good storyline. This has been not too bad so far, but the arbitrary grammar, typos, completely wrong word usage and really, punctuation?! Quotation marks just over here...willy nilly, commas at the beginning ofi incomplete and/or non-sentences. SBJ I can't even. Who hates rhis writer SO MUCH this allowed? Good enough that they sell. Yes. But frustrating as all get out. I've doon beta-reading (NOT volunteering) for several authord, mainly as a "final scrub". This hasn't even sniffed the bleach. I totally recommend if you're open-minded and able to get past what so nany may just find confusing. Amazing writer, though I find her series tend to...meander with each subsequent book that comes after. The Crow series? Wham! Fell in love with that first book. Different, so OUT there but different. Must read this series to the end, just well, gotta know. But I really hope someone gets some cojones enough to tell the Prom Queen she's got a big booger
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52 reviews
April 17, 2019
I want to first state that the only reason this isn't getting a better rating is to to all of the errors in the book. The only reason I finished the book is due to how much I love the story and the characters.

At the beginning the author says that the book basically wrote itself, what it feels like is that she wrote this book and then did not go through it to make sure that there were no errors. It is a rough read, I have never read a story outside of a fanfiction website that had so many errors and such simple ones at that.

There were double letters where there shouldn't be. There were woulda missing in conversations where you had to reread them several times to figure out what they were talking about. There were missed spacing and bad spelling. A simple free writing software could have picked up on a lot of these things so I'm not sure how they made it through.

I'm honestly disappointed, you can tell by how well the characters are made and how well the story is done that the author is great, but it seems like she is being held back by not checking the story after writing it.
Profile Image for Lavinnia.
1 review
May 10, 2019
This book was a bit on the shorter side, but I didn't find that a problem. It ends on a cliffhanger though, so if that's a no-go for you, better wait for the next installment. It usually bothers me, but this time around it didn't.
"Rythm of Rime", as the title suggests, focuses on Keri's and Rime's relationship developement. Rime didn't grow on me at all in this book. For me Keri's and Rime's relationship is the least interesting part of this series. Despite that, I enjoyed this book a lot. I loved to see Ciar and Trick again and Keri's reactions and thoughts didn't fail to enertain.
Overall I recommend this series to anyone who would like something different in the RH genere. The characteres, Rime aside, are all loveable. The book focuses on relationships and daily life with less main plot progression, but that is fine with me. I love the fact that the guys are able to read Keri's thoughts. Being aware of that while reading makes it a lot more interesting.
Profile Image for Alyrica.
555 reviews17 followers
October 3, 2019
Good Continuation of the Series

I enjoyed this book though maybe not as much as the first. I love the characters. This author always does an amazing job of both humanizing the monsters and showing that they should be accepted despite their monstrous nature, which I love! The plot was interesting and the story was paced well. There were a couple of grammar issues that pulled me out of the story such as "he was sitting beside of me" (beside of was used numerous times) and "I seen". Though these grammar issues were jarring, it didn't diminish my love of the author or her amazing talent.

Side note to the author - I am so glad you haven't let the haters stop you from writing. You are one of my favorites and I would be extremely sad if you stopped creating these wonderful stories!
Profile Image for Angie.
308 reviews1 follower
July 17, 2020
3.5 stars rounded up

So this series feels like anice lengthy novel the someone decided to break into smaller short stories. This book was only 190 pages so you just feel like it's barely skimming the surface. I find the relationship hesitancy to be silly and redundant. I did enjoy a few laugh out loud moments though. I have to say though, as much as I love fantasy and make believe, the creatures Keri meets in the ocean were almost a little too out there for a serious atoryline.
287 reviews1 follower
May 6, 2021
Zoe Parker, where is your editor?

You need them. Desperately. This is such an enchanting story yet the complete lack of editing really takes a toll on the reader. And for you to put out something as messy as this book and the first is just strange. Please, don't ever be in too much of a publishing rush to skip the editing process. This book was a tough, choppy read with too many glaring construction and grammatical errors to count. Totally unnecessary. Turned a 5 star read into a 2.5 star torture exercise. What happened???
328 reviews3 followers
April 19, 2019
So Good! So short!

I absolutely love this series!
I started book 1 last night,and then spent most of today "Sneak Reading" at work!! Not something I ordinarily do. But this It's not your ordinary story!!
Started,and finished book2 tonight. It's about half the length of book 1.
But so good.
Great characters, fantastic world building, and tons of humor, but also a lot
of heart!!
Read this now! You won't be disappointed!

Profile Image for Rubi.
221 reviews16 followers
May 31, 2019
I know Zoe was feeling a bit pressure to write this and forced the story and maybe that’s why i felt that it didn’t live up to my expectations. I still absolutely adore Zoe’s work and she one of my favorite authors but I would rather wait to read a book till the author is happy with the results and didn’t let the pressure from other people affect their work.

I still like the story and will definitely continue the series!


156 reviews1 follower
June 15, 2019
What a cliff hanger but so good!

Loving the relationship between Keri and her triad and the unexpected Duke. Keri is such a snarky heartfelt pain in the ass and I cannot get enough of her ongoing commentary. Looking forward to see how things go forward with the Moon Clan and Keri's father. The ending is cruel and unusual punishment and makes me anxious for the next book. Excited to see how Trick and keri's union goes!!!
Profile Image for Amber.
2,218 reviews60 followers
April 16, 2019
Love it!

I will always read anything Zoe Parker writes because it is always amazing. She makes Fay fun again. This book was no exception. Keri is one of my favorite characters and her guys are awesome. Even when the story gets serious, there is always time to laugh. It ends on a killer cliffhanger but it doesn't take away from the awesomeness of this book.
Profile Image for JadeShea.
3,235 reviews60 followers
April 17, 2019
The second book in the series is about the heroine learning about the other members of her triad. She is going through a lot, and doesn't seem to know how to deal with it all.
Then it ends on a major cliffhanger, so that kind of sucked.

Other than that I liked this one, but it wasn't as good as the previous book. I was annoyed with how it didn't explain a lot, but I still enjoyed it.
Profile Image for Amanda Cash.
332 reviews2 followers
April 17, 2019
Love his series!

The long awaited follow up to the Cadence of Ciar did not disappoint! After reading this, I can totally see how Rime caused so many problems for Ms. Parker as she has stated in the beginning of the book. He's a right pain in the butt!

Loved all the new creatures we met and the surprise man. Totally hat her dad right now though. Can't wait for Trick's book!!
Profile Image for Anastasia (Stasia) Green.
96 reviews9 followers
April 27, 2019
Must Read

As always the amazing Zoe Parker knocked it out of the park with Rhythm of Rime. The character development is outstanding. Rime at the start was shy, by the end he came into himself a lot. I loved the interactions with the side characters as well. The fairies are a favorite of mine. I am looking forward to the next book and learning more about Trick.
266 reviews13 followers
May 13, 2019
A bit rushed

I really like zoe parker, but this book didn't quite live up to her standards. It felt very rushed and a lot of what was going on was surface level and the major plot point wasn't very suspenseful. I appreciate her pushing through to finish it though, sounds like there were some struggles.
Profile Image for Karina Timpy.
3 reviews
July 30, 2019
Great cliffhanger

I love Zoe’s books and I can’t wait for the next book in this series! It might have been a bit short this time but I still love it as much as the last! With a badass leading lady and her awesome men and her familiars there is no stopping them and their adventures. Please upload next book as soon as you can! I can’t wait!!
Profile Image for Natasha Maltman.
665 reviews8 followers
September 27, 2019
5

1 Star = DNF.
2 Star = Finished. Didn’t really enjoy.
3 Star = Finished. Story was neither good nor bad.
3.5 Star = Finished. Story was neither good nor bad. Will probably pick up next in series if there is one.
4 Star = Finished. Enjoyed story & would reread.
5 Star = Stole my heart! ❤️
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