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Loading... Sword of the Gods: The Chosen One (Sword of the Gods Saga Book 1)by Anna Erishkigal
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 Anna Erishkigal is the pen name of a Sandwich attorney who simply loves fantasy fiction. In this new volume in the "Sword of the Gods" series (others include "Prince of Tyre", "Agents of Ki," "The Dark Lord's Vessel" and "The Fairy General"), "Mikhail awakens," as the cover says, "mortally wounded, in his crashed ship." A beautiful young woman saves his life, but that's just the beginning of his dilemma.
Two old gods play chess to decide the fate of the galaxy. A hapless pawn is cast down upon the Earth. Mikha'il awakens, mortally wounded, on his crashed ship. He's saved by a young woman with unusual abilities. With no memory of his past and his ship destroyed, he has no choice but to integrate into her village. In stone-aged Mesopotamia, everyone must work or starve, but the only skill he possesses is an uncanny ability to kill.Ninsianna's people have prophecies of a time when a winged champion, a Sword of the Gods, will defend their people against an Evil One. Mikha'il insists he's no demi-god, but the dark premonitions sent to her by She-who-is say otherwise! Unbeknownst to them, Earth is about to become ground zero in a war between two ancient adversaries. The Emperors' armies are a dying race ... and humans hold the key to their survival.As love blossoms, the mysterious kidnappings of young women forces Mikha'il to choose between Ninsianna and his duty to complete a mission he can't quite recall. As fault lines open in the heavens, Mikha'il must teach his adopted people to raise armies from the dust to fight back against an enemy who remains unseen. No library descriptions found. |
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1. This book contains erotic "scenes"
2. Christians and Muslims may find this book a little offensive
SotG is basically what happens if God is really a scientist and angels are actually part of his lab experiments. Except that there's also a higher being who created the universe, complete with a balancing force and all like the Yin and the Yang. Now throw in all that sci-fi stuff from Star Trek where people travel in spaceships, Warp Space and all. And a stone age tribe that practices monogamy and knows all about arteries and veins. You get the idea. It's a little weird that despite the advancements in space travel and all, the rest of the technology is pretty much like what we have today.
I feel almost offended for William Harvey reading this book the first time. It's a little like Erishkigal's trying to warp time and culture around to suit to her believes so that she can illustrate a semi-knowledgeable healer mother and a picture-perfect culture and female heroine when in fact, the whole "true love" thing would mean so much more if they were in a polygamous society and Mikhail was the one who introduced the concept of a soul mate. No, really. I actually got rather annoyed. And the book could also use a good editing and some condensing. There's just too much fluff in here.
But this book has promise to be a lot better, so I'm going to give this 3.5 stars and see what comes of it later. (