Fallen Mortal

Reap This #1

by J.A. Culican, Elizabetta Holcomb

Oria is the best reaper in Folkvangr. At least she used to be.

Until she meets a mortal, Wells. He seems like a typical American pie, mac’n cheese kind of guy. She plays the same game with him she does with everyone else. She tries to trick him into making a decision he can never recover from, marking his soul hers. Everything goes exactly as planned. She leaves, certain he’s going to fall for the same tricks. Just like everyone else.

Except he doesn’t.

Not only that, but when his ticket doesn’t come due, she looks him up again only to discover he’s protected by some holier-than-thou divine reaper she knows all too well. A reaper who used to be her betrothed.

And because this crazy party for three keeps going, she finds out Odin himself has issued a cease and desist order on the human. Just who is he? Why is he so protected? She going to find out.

But doing so might very well change the foundation of the nine worlds.

246 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 7, 2020

About the author

J.A. Culican is a USA Today Bestselling author of the middle grade fantasy series Keeper of Dragons. Her first novel in the fictional series catapulted a trajectory of titles and awards, including top selling author on the USA Today bestsellers list and Amazon, and a rightfully earned spot as an international best seller. Additional accolades include Best Fantasy Book of 2016, Runner-up in Reality Bites Book Awards, and 1st place for Best Coming of Age Book from the Indie book Awards.

J.A. Culican holds a Master's degree in Special Education from Niagara University, in which she has been teaching special education for over 13 years. She is also the president of the autism awareness non-profit Puzzle Peace United. J.A. Culican resides in Southern New Jersey with her husband and four young children.

For more information about J.A. Culican visit her website at: www.jaculican.com and follow her on Facebook: @jaculican

Reviews

[Debbie Eyre · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this Norse mythology and reapers storyline! It’s full of magic, good and evil, adventure, twists and turns, romance and some awesome characters and I cannot wait to read more!

[Lana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved this first book in the new series Reap This, as it’s full of Norse mythology and the Norse Gods who as usual are up to their crazy troubles and interfering in mortal’s lives. In this novel we get to meet the reapers for the souls into the netherworld, and apart from Hel there are two main factions who seem to fight over who gets to reap the most souls. The white faction which was ruled by Odin the great father, had the divine reapers who radiated light, whilst the black faction, ruled by Freya, Odin’s wife, had the Imperium reapers who were dark. Geirolf was a divine reaper and he reaped for Valhalla, whilst Oria was an imperium reaper and reaped for Folkvangr, and these two were a mirror image of one another except for their colour. They had also once been betrothed to one another, but when the God’s rift took place they found themselves working for a different faction and enemies so to speak. Now Oria was a rebel and when she realised that Geirolf had been assigned a mortal to guard and then reap for Valhalla she thought she would steal the soul for her side but things were not as simple as she envisaged and the story gets very complicated from thereon. She breaks the rules on so many counts as she gets involved with the mortal Maxwell which was against the rules, then sees that he is marked by Odin himself and believes he is a harbinger of Ragnarok which would wipe out all nine worlds totally so tries to stop this from happening, forming alliances which got her deeper into trouble and Freya was not happy at all. Angering the Gods is never recommended and things turned real messy. I love the plot, the anarchistic character of Oria and the romance which is still alive between Geirolf and Oria, and I am hoping that this will grow in the books to follow. I am sure Oria will keep taking us on dangerous adventures as it’s in her character to do so.

[The Mysterious Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dark fantasy and Norse mythology, rival factions led by Odin and Freya, a cast of characters totally unique is a story that’s wildly imaginative and exciting, with superb world-building and perfectly crafted characters. Such is the wild ride found in the pages of Jamie Culican and Elizabetta Holcomb’s Fallen Mortal (Reap This Book 1). Wow is this wonderful stuff. I more than highly recommend it.

[Veronica Prowant · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was amazing. Superb plot build, wonderful world building, and characters that are real enough you think you could be friends for real. The story develops with finesse and is not rushed in the least. Just an awesome read!