SM Reine

Elise Kavanagh was once known as the Godslayer - a woman born to kill Adam, a man become God. But she defeated him and stepped into his role, taking her lifelong partner into the pantheon with her. Now she must navigate her mortal goals with her divine life, beginning with substantiating into an avatar to have James Faulkner's baby, and ending with vengeance. Book 8 of the Ascension Series.

A Mythpunk Urban Fantasy Novel

The Second Coming

Sarah Escorsa

Actual rating: 2.5 stars. 

My dear Elise Kavanagh, it is a truth universally acknowledged that you are and forever shall be one of my top 3 UF heroines ever. I 💕lurves💕 you loads and stuff (as I may or may not have previously stated somewhere ↓↓) but you should have retired at the end book 7. All this OTT nonsense about being a spoiler spoiler spoiler is, err, um, well, a bit too OTT for my taste (as I may or may not have previously stated somewhere ↓↓). I mean, I know this is fantasy and stuff, but there's suspending disbelief and then there's plain silliness SUSPENDING DISBELIEF. Also, I liked you better when you were just a plain spoiler spoiler spoiler turned spoiler spoiler spoiler. You know, back in the days when you were skewering evil things for a living. And even after, when spoiler spoiler spoiler happened and you ended up spoilering spoilering spoilering over spoilers spoiler spoilers? Bloody shrimping hell of the stinking fish, now those were the days! But gone gone gone your scrumptious Descent and Ascension years definitely seem to be, ergo slightly crushed I am. 



And that’s putting it mildly.

➽ Nefarious Last Words (NLW™): if you 💕lurve💕 Elise, 
  set her free
 don't read this book. The end and stuff.

• Book 1: Sacrificed in Shadow ★★★★
• Book 2: Oaths of Blood ★★★★
• Book 3: Ruled by Steel ★★★★
• Book 4: Caged in Bone ★★★
• Book 5: Lost in Prophecy ★★★★★
• Book 6: Torn by Fury ★★★★★
• Book 7: Sins of Eden ★★★★★



[May 2020]

Putting this one on the Back Burner of Doom (BBoD™) for ever now. Because as much as I 💕 lurves 💕 Elise, there's only so much OTT, subpar fanfic-like writing I can take. Besides, this series was supposed to be finished, concluded, completed, wrapped up and generally over and done with, and I'm not sure I want to know what happened after Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not the character's real name) spoilered spoilered spoilered after spoilering spoilering spoilering with Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler (not the character's real name, either). Especially NOT when the premise of this instalment makes no bloody shrimping sense and is not bloody fishing coherent at all with the way the series supposedly ended and stuff.

So.

Trying enough times these are, and disappointed by my beloved Elise too much to take for me would be, so bail most un-nefariously preemptively I must. 



👋 To be continued. Or not.

P.S. The book covers in this series...

The Second Coming A Mythpunk Urban Fantasy Novel

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