Shades of the Gods (The Elysium Legacies Book 1)

Shades of the Gods

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It was nice to have some of the other gods brought into the story and the name of her pet goldfish was inspired! Well written as always from Erin and very easy to feel and empathise with the thoughts and emotions of the characters. Ruin of the Gods is an enjoyable, all around fun paranormal novel that is over way too soon. I love Tisiphone in this book as she is funny, sassy, and fierce. A fury taking a vacation topside, Tessa Forney, aka Tisiphone, is using her crime fighting abilities as criminal detective.

When minor gods and goddesses began disappearing, Tessa is drawn in a battle to save the world again. A new hot partner that is crush worthy and a few old friends are all Tessa needs to take on the scariest of enemies. Action packed and good for a few giggles, I stayed up way too late to finish this gem of a story. I love that the author always adds pop culture references but hate the "Let It Go" earworm I was stuck with at midnight. My voluntary review is based upon a review copy from the author. Really good continuation of Elysium Legacies series.

This time its focused on Tessa Tisiphone. She still is so badass girl. This time she's on Earth has broken heart and she just got a New partner at the police. They are opposites and can't get along. Add to it missing gods and Titan thirst for vengeance and want to get his wife back. This book gave me laugh and cry Time in really good proportions. I have loved this series since book 1, and this one did not disappoint! Tessa is wickedly good at her job and a real fury when it comes to hurting those she cares about.

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Shades of the Gods (Elysium Legacies, book 1) by Erin Hayes

Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. She knows it is not about angels and demons but something else. So when she dies after being hit by a bus she expects something but she is not sure what it is but what she gets is something out of the ordinary. What she gets is Hades Lord of the underworld giving her a way out of death. See Hades wants to know who is trying to kill his son. He is ready to do whatever it takes to hunt down the person or persons or Gods or goddesses that are trying to take out his son.

So he makes a deal with Callie. All she has to do is find out who is trying to hurt his son. Sounds easy really right but it isn't because something is out there and they want what they want and they want Hades son dead end of story. See the price for winning is life but the price for losing is way to steep because if she loses she loses her soul and the world will be destroyed!

Holy Hades what will happen? I was drawn to Death is but a Dream for two reasons. And, second, the overall concept is brilliant. I wasn't always thrilled with the execution, but I fell in love with the story idea and sometimes, that's enough to suck you in. Callie is a good cop who dies saving someone's life. In the underworld, she's approached by Hades with a job. He tasks her with protecting his son, Plutus from a would-be assassin. In return, he will restore her to life. The job is a dangerous one t I was drawn to Death is but a Dream for two reasons.

The job is a dangerous one that puts Callie's life and afterlife at risk on a daily basis. That makes her job protecting Plutus extra hard, and when her feelings for him start to get in the way, it becomes damn near impossible. I love Greek mythology. Any book that features mythological characters is a must-read in my book.

I always love seeing how different authors put their own modern spin on the myths. In this case, the underworld is run like a business. There is a large office building, in which, Hades, as CEO has an office. The underworld has everything you could need - shops, restaurants and even an indoor firing range.

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The concept was awesome. The world building was great. I truly loved the underworld and what Hayes did to modernize it. And, I loved the mystery to be solved. Mysteries are always fun, especially when the answer isn't always immediately obvious or available. Callie never quite did it for me. She was almost there, but some of the things she did didn't fit what we knew of her.

Callie was a workaholic. Someone who believed her job was the most important thing in her life. She was in a two-year relationship that she ended with little remorse. I don't believe that she would fall in love with Plutus in mere weeks. It just didn't make sense. The pacing of the story was a little choppy. It stalled for awhile in the middle when the story shifted from the Underworld to the mortal world.

Plutus and Callie take a cross-country road trip, and there was so much potential for action and mayhem.

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Yet, almost nothing happened. Callie was constantly getting stabbed with one thing or another, and by the end, it was almost a little funny. Poor girl just could stop getting impaled with things. The mystery, although it started out as one of my favorite parts, fell flat too. It was solved pretty quickly. Halfway through the book, we knew who was trying to kill Plutus, who the peons were and what the motive was. Although the final battle was pretty cool, I would've liked to have been surprised by who the bad guy was.

The happily-ever-after in Death is but a Dream isn't a traditional one. There is one, of sorts, but being a reader who likes my HEAs tied up in a nice bow, I felt a little unsettled at the end. I wish things had happened a little differently. But, all-in-all, it wasn't bad. If you like Greek mythology and crime dramas, you should definitely give Death is but a Dream a go. Death is but a dream or how a song see in an other book can keep pursuying you!

So what can I say about this story other than it's fantastic? Well, just that it's fantastic!!! Do you know the serie Death like me? Well, you have miss something in your live or a part of your live. It's begin like this: It's not all the story. She died while making some kind act of bravery and hope to go to Paradise She awake in Hel Death is but a dream or how a song see in an other book can keep pursuying you! She awake in Hell, because she make a mistake after all, Paradise is living Earth and she have a talent that is need by Hell. Now, you know the movie Bodyguard, with the sexy Kevin Costner who protect Whitney Houston from her fans?

Well, this is the same, only she is the one who have to protect the Hell's superstar. Let's have some switch in the roles hahaha! That's here that Erin Hayes just kill me! But you don't know the best part yet and she talk about it in the postface , you already have heard about Hercules and Xena, right? Of course you do, this is just too cult. Okay, it's more the Greck's Gods. The way she describe Hades, in her modern vision, I just love him, I want the same Dad!

Let's came back talking about the book, we follow the story of a young police officer: Callista, alias Callie don't forget it, she want you to named her like this , who awake in Hell after an accident who wasn't mean to happened to her. Hades, the God of Hells, propose her a deal: We already are loughing like never. Even if the detective is the one with the good sense of observation, Plutus, the dear son of Hades and Persephone or Pluto, you know, Mickey's dog like call him Callie , an attractive guy and in alpha mode, always take her by surprise.

This couple is really lovely and funny, especially in their meeting! Still, I'm keeping doesn't believing that the ancients Gods are this well adapt to our modern world and have all this class!!! Erin know how to take us with her in this mythologic univers. It's the same that we learn about in class, but more cool and interesting. And this song "Row row row your boat", sang in the worst place possible, it's just the best part!

The writter really make this story addictive and I recommand it to all the lovers of that type of stories. I really, really, really wanted to enjoy this book. I love retellings of the old Greek mythology tales. But as hard as I tried to get into this one, I just couldn't. The synopsis sounded amazing and action-packed but the book was rather slow moving. In a few words From the beginning I had a hard time focusing on the plot-line. I think this story had the I really, really, really wanted to enjoy this book. I think this story had the potential to be amazing, but for me personally it just fell short of what I was expecting.

Where do I start? Callista, who lets us know far too many times she wants to be called Callie, comes up as rather whiney in most of the dialogue yet throughout the story she continues to tell us she is an incredibly tough detective. I mean she's even been shot and has taken down men the size of trolls. I find this hard to believe when she cries so much.

Then there's poor Plutus, the God of Wealth. I didn't mind his character as much. I would have like to have seen a little bit more with him but this leads me to my next issue. Typically, I can do without the romance but I wanted to see the relationship between Callie and Plutus develop. Instead we were fast-forwarded. I felt like their growing feeling were quickly skimmed over and summarized when their unlikely relationship would have been nice to follow from beginning to end.

The who done it aspect of this book also confused me a little. I am not sure we had enough background on the bad guy before we realized he's who done it! Maybe I missed something All in all, I didn't mind reading this book one bit. I found the end to be refreshing and I enjoyed the author's version of a happy ending. I received a copy from Netgalley. The idea behind this book sounded fantastic. Unfortunately, the book itself turned out to be rather a blah one for my tastes.

The world building was awesome in the start of the book, I loved the unique way that the Greek Underworld had been modernised, yet managed to combine all the familiar gods of Greek myth and some original characters as well. I didn't gel with the main character, Callie.

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I found her irritating almost immediately. However, I did enjoy the plot I received a copy from Netgalley. However, I did enjoy the plot. The plot made it interesting, which was what kept me reading. Callie finds herself in the underworld after a bad accident, and Hades hires her to find out who's been trying to murder his son Plutus.

Its rather amusing reading about Callie trying to work her way around the Underworld, even though I didn't like her character much. I found her annoying and very attitudy. Callie, short for Callista her preferred choice to be called was a recurring theme throughout the book. If they don't want to call a character by a nickname, they don't have to. Personal observation, just something that bugged me. Up until about half way through, the plot was pretty good. At some point Plutus and Callie find themselves in the Mortal World headed to New York city and from then on it really went down hill and my interest dwindled.

I found the New York scenes cliched, and after that I was really skimming through to see what happened in the end. I was less than impressed with the end and everything wrapped up nice and neat.

The world building in the start was brilliant, and while this particular novel just wasn't for me, I would definitely read something else by this author. I wanted badly to like this book.

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The author did take some liberties in the story, and that is fine. What I did not like, was how the author went back and forth. Why is it different for him? I found Callista to be very annoying. How many times can you tell someone to call you Callie? They heard you the first time.

Caught between life and death, all Callie wants is to live again. So when Hades offers her a deal, she accepts. But if she fails, both her soul and the world will be destroyed. But the rules are constantly changing. And someone wants her to stay dead. This book was formerly titled Death is but a Dream. The covers and titles have changed for The Elysium Legacies, but the content is still the same.

Sci-fi junkie, video game nerd, and wannabe manga artist Erin Hayes writes a lot of things.

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