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Babylon Dragon
What if the only way to save every living soul was to betray the person you love most?
Karmen spent her troubled life missing something. She felt closer to death than most people, but could never figure out why. That unknown torments her most on the day her mortal life ends.
She awakens in the wasteland of Purgatory to discover that in the afterlife her name is Adrea, and she is a hunter of unredeemable souls.
But corrupt human souls aren't her only problem.
Tiamat, Babylonian goddess and queen mother of the Daemons, strives to annihilate God's order by destroying the boundaries between the living and the dead. What's worse, Adrea's mortal brother, Kyle, is somehow involved.
Adrea must strike a balance between her violent past self and who she has become before Kyle dies.
She will decide whether saving his soul is worth risking the annihilation of divine order.
Karmen spent her troubled life missing something. She felt closer to death than most people, but could never figure out why. That unknown torments her most on the day her mortal life ends.
She awakens in the wasteland of Purgatory to discover that in the afterlife her name is Adrea, and she is a hunter of unredeemable souls.
But corrupt human souls aren't her only problem.
Tiamat, Babylonian goddess and queen mother of the Daemons, strives to annihilate God's order by destroying the boundaries between the living and the dead. What's worse, Adrea's mortal brother, Kyle, is somehow involved.
Adrea must strike a balance between her violent past self and who she has become before Kyle dies.
She will decide whether saving his soul is worth risking the annihilation of divine order.
266 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 27, 2010
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Lea Ryan
33 books45 followersLea Ryan is the author of several books and stories, including the bestselling novella, What the Dead Fear. She writes about the strange and the dark, as well as the light and love, and strives to immerse readers in vivid fictional worlds. She currently lives in Indiana with a couple of kids, a couple of cats, a couple of fish, and one husband.
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January 15, 2013
Babylon Dragon, the first book by Lea Ryan I've read, is outside the genres I typically read and I honestly didn't expect it to hold my interest. I was wrong. It is an engaging story from beginning to end that showcases a truly remarkable imagination.
I found the storytelling to be a little too ethereal and jumpy in places, causing me to go back and read earlier passages to see if I had missed something. That's my one negative comment. Fortunately, this issue is offset and overcome by Ryan's beautiful mastery of language. Her imagery is so beautiful, so fresh, that it's almost melodic. I'm hard to impress but she pulled it off. I recommend this book and this author.
I found the storytelling to be a little too ethereal and jumpy in places, causing me to go back and read earlier passages to see if I had missed something. That's my one negative comment. Fortunately, this issue is offset and overcome by Ryan's beautiful mastery of language. Her imagery is so beautiful, so fresh, that it's almost melodic. I'm hard to impress but she pulled it off. I recommend this book and this author.
April 11, 2012
Well written book that I will have to one day re-read, as I felt there was some things in the book that went over my head and I just didn't get (a lot of it probably having to do with my not being able to picture what the main character's favorite painting looked like... which I would recommend taking the time to do so).
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