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When archaeologist Annja Creed is hired to find the lost city of Promise in Brazil, she is more than intrigued. Legends abound of a magical place where slaves were rumored to have discovered the secret to eternal youth and life. But strangers are not welcome in Promise. Annja soon learns that the residents have gone to extreme lengths to guard their precious secret. Making her way from the steamy port of Belém to the brutal slums of Northeast Brazil, Annja faces unexpected peril, from show more poisoned arrows to Amazonian anacondas. As she navigates through a land where spirituality collides with the material world, Annja must distinguish between what is real and what is imagined for fear of making a wrong move. Because anyone or anything could be her enemy. And she's getting too close.... show lessTags
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at Bookstooge.booklikes.blogspot.wordpress.leafmarks.tumblr.com by express permission of this reviewer. Title: Secret of the Slaves Series: Rogue Angel Author: Alex Archer Rating: 3 of 5 Stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Pages: 253 Synopsis: Annja Creed is approached by a Bono/U2 based Billionaire Activist who is after some super tech created by a hidden society in South America. At first this hidden society seems bad, as they kill everyone around Annja but then we see the light about how good they are because they show more "shared" in the past. And Mr Activist is shown for the horrible, horrible person he really is and in the end everyone gets what they really deserve.
My Thoughts: I still don't understand how a group of escaped slaves somehow turns into a super advanced society that can hide itself from satellites, etc? Sharing culture with those they escaped to doesn't suddenly make them into supermen.
I go into these stories with my believe-o-meter turned all the way to zero, or so I think and yet I still get shocked each time. I guess when the author writes so heavy handedly it can't be helped.
Other than that, this was typical Rogue Angel with guns and punching and swords and exotic locales. And plenty of new side characters to kill off. I have to admit, I love that part, I really do. " show less
at Bookstooge.booklikes.blogspot.wordpress.leafmarks.tumblr.com by express permission of this reviewer. Title: Secret of the Slaves Series: Rogue Angel Author: Alex Archer Rating: 3 of 5 Stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Pages: 253 Synopsis: Annja Creed is approached by a Bono/U2 based Billionaire Activist who is after some super tech created by a hidden society in South America. At first this hidden society seems bad, as they kill everyone around Annja but then we see the light about how good they are because they show more "shared" in the past. And Mr Activist is shown for the horrible, horrible person he really is and in the end everyone gets what they really deserve.
My Thoughts: I still don't understand how a group of escaped slaves somehow turns into a super advanced society that can hide itself from satellites, etc? Sharing culture with those they escaped to doesn't suddenly make them into supermen.
I go into these stories with my believe-o-meter turned all the way to zero, or so I think and yet I still get shocked each time. I guess when the author writes so heavy handedly it can't be helped.
Other than that, this was typical Rogue Angel with guns and punching and swords and exotic locales. And plenty of new side characters to kill off. I have to admit, I love that part, I really do. " show less
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- Canonical title
- Secret of the Slaves
- Original publication date
- 2007
- People/Characters
- Annja Creed; Sir Iain Moran; Roux; Garin
- Important places
- Promise, Brazil; Belem, Brazil
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