Welcome to my stop on the Shannon McRoberts Virtual Tour Presented by First Rule PR, you can find the tour page Here
Athine Versus: The Beginning (The Daughter of Ares Chronicles)
Genre: Fantasy
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Kindle Edition, 100 pages
Kindle Edition, 100 pages
Published May 21st 2011 by Obsidian Poet Press
ASIN B0052374LI
Athine has always been told that she is to be the protector of Olympus, Ximira, and Draosia. She has trained for years to be this protector and future ruler. But Athine has no desire to be ruler of a conquered land. She wants only to have her own adventures. She gets her wish when she is tested in the A’samrad and finds out that she has the power to kill other immortals…
Athine Verses: The Narkurru (The Daughter of Ares Chronicles)
Kindle Edition, 83 pages
Published June 13th 2011 by Obsidian Poet Press
ASIN B0055Q89XO
genre: Fantasy
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Athine has accepted her appointed fate as protector of the N’Loron. She successfully protected the veil between worlds for years, but now a new threat emerges from within the veil. Follow Athine on another great adventure to protect her world and keep the veil between worlds safe!
Athine Verses: The Blood Sisters (The Daughter of Ares Chronicles)
Kindle Edition, 108 pages
Published July 7th 2012 by Obsidian Poet Press
ASIN B008IVFREW
genre: Fantasy
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Ever wondered what happened to the dragons or where vampires came from? Follow Athine on her adventure as she uncovers these and other secrets of the immortal born.
Worlds Collide: A Crossover Novella (The Daughter of Ares Chronicles)
Published November 4th 2012 by Obsidian Poet Press
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genre: Fantasy
genre: Fantasy
The N’Loron is only days away from breaking in Athine’s world. Strange beings are crossing over through the tears in the veil. Athine must choose between the stability of the N’Loron in her realm and her very life. Journey with Athine on her quest to fix the N’Loron. Will this be her last?
The Secret of Genetic Corp X
Published November 8th 2007 by Lulu Press
ISBN 1435701062 (ISBN13: 9781435701069)
genre: Science Fiction/Urban Fantasy
Genetic Corp X is one of the world’s premier tissue and organ cloning centers. Medical breakthroughs of all kinds have originated from the work done at the facility. Zarra Perez was their lead research scientist on her way to curing Alzheimer’s disease–until a nearly fatal accident left her with no personal memories or sense of self.Her father and husband want her to return to the life they say she had before her accident. However, even with no sense of personal identity, Zarra isn’t content to allow others to dictate her life while she waits on her memories to come back. In her desperate search to remember show she is, Zarra uncovers the horrible truth about Genetic Corp X. Now she is faced with a moral dilemma that could result in her own death.Join Zarra in her search for her lost memories and find out what the secret of Genetic Corp X really is!
Erosion of the Heart
Kindle Edition, 114 pages
Published November 4th 2011 by Obsidian Poet Press
ASIN B0063N9JDC
genre: Poetry
This is a collective book of poetry by Shannon McRoberts. This includes both new poetry and all of the poems found in “REMORDERE” and “Poetry for the Chronically Heart Broken and Depressed”. All of these titles were previously only available in paper back, but now they are available here for Kindle!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shannon McRoberts was born in Kentucky and currently resides there with her family. She began writing novellas late in her career after fulfilling a college dream of publishing her poetry book.When not writing or working at her day job she enjoys creating fantasy art in Poser; this helps spur on her writing about fantasy worlds. Shannon is also an avid reader enjoying many books that feature strong female leads. It comes as no surprise that when she writes that her characters are also strong female leads
Shannon’s books are not long at all as she feels that something should be left up to the reader; no you don’t really need to know that the walls were blue on the fourth floor to enjoy a story!If she has any spare time Shannon enjoys playing things like World of Warcraft, Elder Scroll games, Guild Wars, Rift, and Second Life. However, she often doesn’t have any spare time between work, family, and her art/writing hobbies.
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My Review of Athine Versus: The Beginning (The Daughter of Ares Chronicles)
I was able to read this book very quick, though I had a hard time getting into it in the beginning, a little too many characters were explained and felt more like history lessons, but I forced through it (not being able to keep track of so many strange names) and it picked up really well from there.
I can’t say much on such a short story, but it did give us a good start to the series. I am sure only this first book was like this, in the history type lessons, lol. It’s got lots of the greek mythology type stuff in it.
The story is mainly about Athine, who we do not even see until after 20% as its telling of her parents to see how we get to her.
Athine is supposed to save them all.
Harmonia is the prophetess that brought her mother to Olympus as her visions said it was how to save them. But not knowing it would not be her mother, but her, Athine instead, so she had trained her whole life for it, not knowing for what or even when.
Its interesting, and if you like books with the greek mythology, I think you would like this one, and the rest of the series.
I also do not like the cover much, just doesn't fit, and too provocative looking, reminds me of covers of some video games, most of them I am not fond of, but that's just my own opinion.
I give it 4 out of 5 stars, only because I did have a hard time in the beginning, like too much info and people to fast.
My review for this is at Amazon now too, if you like my review, I would love some support at Amazon by marking it as Helpful, Here.
I also have it at Goodreads, please go "like" it if you do, I would appreciate it. Link Here.
I will have other reviews for 2 others in this series up this week. I will update this post as I get them done and post at Goodreads and Amazon too.
My Amazon Profile Page >> Here (only if I can find them, book one I can't find at Amazon)
Goodreads Profile Page >> Here
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book for review from First Rule Publicity from the author as part of a virtual book tour. I was not compensated nor was I required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
Thank you for your review! You are correct that the first one has a lot of names. I am working on a series companion site that would help with that. However, like you have already said, only the first one is like that. I saw that you could not find the book on amazon. I have included the direct link. It may have been down for price maintenance last night. I look forward to your other reviews :)
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Here is a copy of the message from the author, I guess when she left it, this Disqus maybe didn't load, but it was hidden in the blogger messages, wanted it to show, so here it is. >> Thank you for your review! You are correct that the first one has a lot of names. I am working on a series companion site that would help with that. However, like you have already said, only the first one is like that. I saw that you could not find the book on amazon. I have included the direct link. It may have been down for price maintenance last night. I look forward to your other reviews :) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0052374LI?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw
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