The Long and Short Reviews LASR
The granddaughter of Zeus is all grown up and ready to take on the real world. Little does she know the queen of the gods has even bigger plans to send her straight to the underworld. The Master key will need will need her Scion warriors to keep her calm or the Earth realm may not survive. I love all things mythology and gobbled up the YA books of similar title. When I read the blurb for this much more adult take on the story, I knew I had to read it. Ms. Zyon has delivered a very clever take on the gods of Olympus and their mostly human descendants. Thomas and Lincoln are the last of the original Scion warriors to bond with their fated mate and they couldn’t be happier with who the Fates picked for them. I liked the explanation that the author gave for making them wait four years from the first time they met to recognize their connection. Pepper was a sassy and fun character to read about and loved seeing her reunite with Thomas and Lincoln. Those guys have hot and protective down to an art. The thing these three have about touching gave me goose bumps. The only issue I had with the whole story was the dialogue. I liked that there was lots of it. More show than tell but it didn’t always feel natural. I think “forced” would be too strong of an adjective to describe it but at times it was like the characters were reading from a script that had just been handed to them. As if they didn’t know how to put feeling into the words for them to sound more natural as conversation between three people who had very deep emotions towards each other. I think it was too formal. Unless they’re British nobility, regular people tend speak in contractions more than theses three did. Having said that, I couldn’t stop reading it. I was vested in the outcome from the moment Lincoln first touched Pepper and that was barely a touch. Everything after that was essentially foreplay to them cementing their bond and I knew that was going to be awesome because the author built the tension with looks and more touching and some very open conversation about what they all wanted. Almost too open for people who haven’t spoken in four years but it didn’t leave room for misunderstanding for sure. If the previous five books in the series are as good as this final installment, I know I’ll have to go back to the beginning. An interesting take on a story I thought I knew. Worth the read and easy to recommend.
