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Length: 82,000 words approx.
Cover Design: Natasha Snow
Blurb
Gifted power over life and death, Lysandros has spent millennia in the underworld, listless and alone. The youngest child of Hades and Persephone, he’s been sheltered from the threats in the world above.
Theo Ward hasn’t been so lucky. After watching his mother wither away, he’d do almost anything to have her back. When a messenger appears at the Banneker College of Magic and offers the young professor a chance to save her, Theo can’t pass it up, even if it means going straight into the underworld and dragging her home. But Theo gets more than he bargained for when he crosses paths with the prince of Hades.
Set against the king of Olympus, they must shed their past burdens and learn to trust in each other, so they can face down a storm that threatens to wipe the nation’s capital off the map.
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4*
As far as books about Gods go, I thought this one was rather...cute.
Lysandros, son to the Greek God, Hades, wasn't quite what I expected out of an immortal of the Underworld. Which was a good thing. No, there really isn't a Lysandros from actual Greek Mythology, and I like how they incorporated that into the story, about him maybe being "too new" for the Greek Myths before they fell to the wayside.
The one thing I thought was a little stale and could have been upgraded though was Zeus's bolt getting stolen and Hermes (or his descendants) being on it. (Ex: Percy Jackson)
That being said, I loved these new characters and Lys's sisters and the relationship between Lys and Theo. I also liked the way Hades and Persephone were portrayed in this story, as loving and in love with each other. I also like how these authors didn't use New York, but rather DC, as their base for the story. Seems that it is overused as where Mt. Olympus is based in newer versions. OH! and that Poseidon was a bloody Pirate :D
I will be over here patiently waiting for Prisoner of Shadows, Book 2 :)
About The Authors
Sam Burns wrote her first fantasy epic with her best friend when she was ten. Like almost any epic fiction written by a ten year old, it was awful. She likes to think she’s improved since then, if only because she has better handwriting now.
If she’s not writing, she’s almost certainly either reading or lost down a Wikipedia rabbit hole while pretending to research for a novel.
W.M. Fawkes is an author of LGBTQ+ urban fantasy and paranormal romance. With coauthor Sam Burns, she writes feisty Greek gods, men, and monsters in the Lords of the Underworld series. She lives with her partner in a house owned by three halloween-hued felines that dabble regularly in shadow walking.
Website: https://www.fawkeswrites.com
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/FawkesWrites
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