Book Review
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Only in Her Dreams
Book One of the Oneiroi Series
Christina McKnight
Release date: September 30, 2012
Blurb
:
When Lucessa Sarcona awakes from a recurring dream, she has no idea
her life is about to be turned upside down. A stranger, familiar to her dreams,
shows up in the flesh, and Lucessa knows she’s either crazy or experiencing
something not of this world.A war ensues between three demigod brothers. One, trained to rule Erebos, is violently replaced. One forced to return to his homeland and lead the dream-gods of the Oneiroi. And one is charged with the impossible task of protecting Lucessa. How is she linked to the Oneiroi? Why do two brothers seek to keep her hidden and protected? And how does another plan to use her against the two demigods who love her?
Will Lucessa’s dream man have the courage to claim her as his own or will he bow to the command of another, forsaking the one he loves?
Only in Her Dreams is a modern spin on a Greek legend--the new direction of Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance, moving from angels, demons, vampires, and witches and toward the realm of demigods.
About the
Author:
Christina McKnight
is a book lover turned writer. From a young age, her mother encouraged her to
tell her own stories. She’s been writing ever since. In college, Christina took many courses to help develop and enhance her writing skills. She completed a seventy-page dissertation on the need for community policing in American society. Now, she focuses on Historical Romance, Urban Fantasy, and Paranormal Romance. Her debut Urban Fantasy novel, Only in Her Dreams, will be released on December 15, 2012.
Christina lives in Northern California with her husband, daughter, two boxers, two cats, and a Beta fish named Marmaduke. If she’s not behind a computer screen or book, she’s busy leading her daughter’s Girl Scout troop. She is very active in several writing groups and a local book group.
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Excerpt:
Chapter One
Lucessa stared
at her bed. It was time to sleep again, but it was getting harder to succumb to
it. She started to think the day would never come when she could abandon
herself to sleep without the feeling of being watched. He was always
there--haunting her dreams. Her dreams hadn’t been her own in such a long time.
He was always
there. Never talking but always watching. Intently. As if he knew her.
Security, even in sleep, eluded her.
She’d lost her
father and her husband. Her mother was slipping away, battling a memory loss
that was progressing daily. Her dreams were the only place she could remember a
family, someone who cared. But he insisted on intruding. Every happy
memory and every nightmare included his presence. Why did he always show up?
How could she get rid of him?
Lucessa tried
for the millionth time to find a solution as she climbed under the covers. Who
am I kidding? There was nothing she could do. He was a dream! A
figment of her imagination. She sighed and resigned herself to another restless
night.
Lucessa was a
child again. The cold, pine-scented wind tangled her hair as she descended the
mountain path in front of her parents. Her family’s annual summer camping trip
to Yosemite National Park was in its third day, and that meant they’d conquered
Half Dome for the third year straight. Ever since her parents deemed her old
and skilled enough for the challenge, they hiked it together. As a family.
She looked back
at her smiling parents as they held hands and strolled down the path after her.
Her mother, Marie, looked casual in her jeans and the blue “Keep Lake Tahoe
Blue” shirt that hugged her frame. Her father wore a San Francisco Giants
baseball cap, a wisp of salt and pepper hair showing through. They looked like
a couple out of the travel magazine that Lucessa had seen in her father’s study
weeks ago.
“Dear, watch
where you’re going!”
Lucessa turned
back to the trail, nearly colliding with a man lounging against a tree just off
the path. Dressed in a thigh-hugging pair of dark pants and a billowy tunic
that had to be from at least a century ago, he pushed off the tree trunk and
tipped his hat. His blue eyes sparkled with mischief in the evening twilight,
letting off a faint glow. The man looked eerily recognizable.
She looked back
to reassure her mother that she was okay. Lucessa scanned the woods behind her.
But they
were gone. Only the familiar stranger remained.
Book Review:
Sigh!! I love this kind of re-telling of myths and
legends. By that I mean that I love
stories that take old ideas that are found in myths and legends and turn them
into good stories told in new ways. I
loved the whole tug-o-war that Maxim felt between his heart and his duty. I could have told him that his heart should
win. Duty will never replace what the
heart feels.
I
recommend this book as a great beach or curl up by the fireplace read. I give it 4 out of 5 clouds.
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