★★★★★ 🌶🌶 Series: A Modern Fairytale, Book 9 Review: This review was written for Reedsy Discovery Beautifully damaging, a romantic fairy tale retelling of the beauty within, second chances, and healing Vaughn has lost the will to live after a life of abuse and cruelty. Kidnapped and sold at four years old, only to be rejected by his adopted family and subjected to torment in the foster care system, he plans his death. The kindness of Sasha, a talented ballerina, sparks hope, and soon, their cautious friendship blossoms into something more. But when Vaughn discovers the identity of his birth parents, solving a lifelong mystery and filling a gaping hole in his heart, he knows he must reconnect with the family he lost, even if it means he must leave the love of his life behind. When I started reading Swan Song , I never expected to find such a beautiful and emotional story in a retelling of The Ugly Duckling . Sasha can see beyond Vaughn’s coarse exterior t...
The Source is
hunting Talents… but Kara Jester is no distressed damsel...
Split
The Price of
Talent Book 1
by AK Nevermore
Genre: Spicy
Dystopian SciFi Romance
On an alternate earth, a cataclysm has altered a subset of
the population. Talents are persecuted for their psychic and physical
mutations, giving rise to two conflicting societies based upon maintaining
genetic purity. And the Source, a shadowy corporate entity dependent upon the
exploitation of captive Talents, is hunting them…
The city of Glynfyls is burning.
And Flynn Scot is powerless to stop it. Now that his status
is in question, the Assembly is calling for his head. The only thing keeping it
on his shoulders is the commons rioting with the demand he be made Overlord.
Fluctuating between extremes, Kara’s talent deficiency is
becoming critical.
With her body failing and Flynn at the Assembly’s mercy,
Kara Scot has no choice but to take his seat and fight for her House. But
clearing Flynn’s name and battering herself against the tide of public censure
threatens to drag her under.
So does the wave of Humanity Purists marching toward
Glynfyls.
No Talent is safe outside the city. Refugees flock to the
north fleeing extermination only to find a metropolis torn by prejudice and
fear. Unless Flynn and Kara can find a way to survive the machinations of the
Assembly, there will be nothing standing between them and annihilation. Because
even if they survive the extremists, Titus’s army is following in their wake
ready to harvest whatever is left.
AK Nevermore
enjoys operating heavy machinery, freebases coffee, and gives up sarcasm for
Lent every year. A Jane-of-all-trades, she’s a certified chef, restores
antiques, and dabbles in beekeeping when she’s not reading voraciously or
running down the dream in her beat-up camo Chucks.
Unable to ignore
the voices in her head, and unwilling to become medicated, she writes Science
Fiction and Fantasy full time.
She pays the
bills editing, wielding a wicked hot pink pen and writing a column on SFF. She
also belongs to the Authors Guild, is a chapter treasurer for the RWA, teaches
creative writing, and on the rare occasion, sleeps.
I would enjoy reading this one. Sounds good.
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