Review For The Beast and The Sibyl by AJ
Adams
The Beast and The Sibyl
A Prydain novel
By AJ Adams
75,000 words
Price $3.99
The Beast and The Sibyl is part of the
Prydain series and it follows Beast, a very dark romance. However, this novel
can be read as a standalone, and unlike the first novel it’s a paranormal
romance.
Excerpt
“We caught a
Beast! A real live poxy Beast!”
Bastards. Calling us beasts while they cheat, steal, and lie. I got
kicked in
the ribs, a whip laid about my shoulders, and all the time they were
screaming.
“Hang him!”
“Beat him!”
“Kill the
Beast!”
Then I saw her.
She was standing there, staring right into my eyes. For a moment, I
thought I
was looking at a Valkyrie, one of Valhalla’s shield maidens. She had
hair the
colour of ice, and eyes as blue as the sky. Tall, willowy, and silent, she
looked unworldly. There was a wolf at her side, too.
I blinked,
expecting her to vanish, but it wasn’t a vision. She was real. The knowledge
hit me with a punch that sucked the breath out of me. She was one of us, a
Skraeling of Thule.
She leaned on
the wolf, controlling it with a touch of her hand. “Lady Freyja always
advises
counsel before action.”
A Skraeling
woman who invoked our goddess yet who was a traitor. I was filled with
sudden
hate, poisoned by the thought of one of our own people contaminated by foul
betrayal.
If the will were
a weapon, she would have fallen on the spot. Instead, the world blurred
again.
I think I passed out for a few moments because when I opened my eyes, he was
there. The Patriarch. A cheat, a liar and all-round scum
bucket.
He certainly hates us Skraeling. “Glorious
Ullr will bring us wise counsel. And tomorrow we will flog the Beast to
cleanse
him of his sins, and then we will burn him alive!”
Blurb
He’s a vicious Beast, violent and
dangerous. Bliss
knows she ought to walk away. After all, she has a dark and dangerous
secret to
preserve. When she can’t leave him to burn, her rescue tumbles them both
into
danger, adventure and romance.
About the
author
AJ Adams is a Scottish-Dutch author
currently living in Malaysia. In her regular life she is a columnist and
feature writer. She works from home, where she is closely snoopervised
by cats,
Target, Guido and Swooner.
Stalker links
and Dangerous Romance Blog
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This series isn’t for me. This is a continuation of book 1 but can be read as a standalone. The setup of the book like book one will not be for everyone.
This is all fiction and there is a lot of crossovers from various different times but here it was just too much for me. By contradicting myself here now it is well written and the author keeps a good pace of the characters and their development. But I didn’t like the characters. I am in the minority here so take my review with a pinch of salt.