Artemis Rising
Artemis Rising
Cheri Lasota (author)
Product Description
Torn between her father’s Catholicism and her mother’s Pagan beliefs, Eva finally chooses Paganism. She accepts the name of Arethusa but learns too late that her life will mirror the Greek nymph’s tragic fate. When they sail to the Azores Islands, her mother tells her that the fulfillment of her destiny rests with Diogo, the shipowner’s son. But Eva sees a vision of another...
When the ship founders off the Azores, Tristan, a young Azorean, saves her. Destined to be with Diogo and aching for Tristan’s forbidden love, Eva must somehow choose between them, or fate will soon choose for her.
Product Details
Ebook
File Size: 1402 KB
Publisher: SpireHouse Publishing, LLC (July 24, 2011)
Language: English
ASIN: B005EGIQZG
Available at Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble and SpireHouse Books.
Review
What a spellbinding book you have written here, in prose that is poetry in motion. Everything conspires to weave an enchanting web from which the reader has no wish to escape.
You have masterful use of imagery, cadence, poetic flow, and the essences of our pagan roots all melded together with a bit of Shakespeare’s use of shipwrecks thrown in for good measure and the the sea-change you have wrought I think will be in me.
The characters too are each powerful and using the ancient contrasts of sun and moon, and the images of Greek mythology only enhances this: Arethusa, Diogo, Jacinta, Tristao, and each of them in their own way wholly engaging, believable, and hypnotic.
I can’t really think of anything more to say except I have been wholly engrossed; I have read all of your chapters more slowly than is my wont simply because I could not bear to miss a moment of savouring the beauty of your prose, the power of your story, the strength of your imagery, the scents, the sounds, the contrasts ... this is just one of those magic books where I want to banish the world and all its cares and interruptions and immerse myself in this heady passion-flower of a book which you have created.
M.M. Bennetts, author of May 1812 and Of Honest Fame
