Friday, 15 August 2025

REVIEW - Pawning Pandora by Willow B. Dawes

The Book
Release Date: 26 August 2025

Pandora has lived her entire life among the gods and goddesses at the base of Mount Olympus, the first mortal woman to exist. For twenty years, she’s wondered what she was created for, what her purpose is, and why Zeus has always treated her as such an object of importance. She’s never fought the Olympians’ control, fearing exile outside the borders, which would surely result in her death. But as the Centennial Celebration of Man approaches, Zeus demands Pandora trade the one thing she always swore she’d never give her heart.

Epimetheus never expected to return to Olympus, but when he and his twin brother, Prometheus, are invited to a celebration held in their honor, the Titan twins have no choice but to return to the realm that was once their home. As an unknown poison plagues their people in the Realm of Man, and with whispers of a rebellion outside the walls of Olympus, the last thing Epimetheus wants is to fall for the raven-haired beauty Zeus has promised to his brother. But it seems this celebration is about to challenge everything.

In a world where friends are family and family are foe, who’s to say the rebellion has not already arrived? It’s a war of hearts and hate—who will rise and who will fall?

My Review    4 STARS
**My thanks to the The Nerd Fam and author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

Pandora has known all her life that she was created as the only mortal woman, and that she has yet to find out her purpose.

Living her life in Olympus she has lessons with those that Zeus  thinks will be useful for her with Dementer showing weaving, Athena used to show her fighting and normally history lessons.  She has many friends within the Olympians including Persephone and Hermes.

Pandora has her own little cottage in the fields of Demeter and when she finally finds out what Zeus wants from her it is with a not so veiled threat.  But after this her world changes very quickly especially with the arrival of Prometheus and his twin brother Epimetheus.

Athena eventually opens her eyes to the truth of a few things which does shatter her a little especially about the nature of one of her friendships.

She is a strong female character and the ending is left on a bit of a cliff hanger and i cannot wait to see what happens next.

Tuesday, 5 August 2025

REVIEW - Unseen Eye (Aetherian Chronicles Book 1) by Nikole Sekula

The Book
Release Date: 19 August 2025

Prophecy haunts her. Power hunts her. Fate won’t let her run. 

Eva has a storyteller’s heart, spinning her dreams into tales that weave together her boundless imagination and the legends of the Aetherian gods. However, when a captivating stranger rescues her from creatures born of hell itself, those dreams become a terrifying reality.

Drawn into a realm where five gates tether the world to different levels of the abyss, Eva soon realizes she’s being hunted. On the verge of death, a chilling prophecy sets her on a perilous path—one where every step uncovers flames of truth and shadows of darkness, twisting her journey in ways she never imagined.

Thrust into a dangerous new reality, she learns the answers to her powers may lie within long-buried secrets about her past, and the mother she never knew. To wield her newfound gift, she’ll have to explore the mysterious connection she feels with Callon, the dangerously handsome savior whose intentions she questions as much as her growing feelings for him.

With betrayal lurking in every shadow, and time running out, Eva must master the power hidden within her or risk everything she loves—including her heart.

My Review    4 STARS
**My thanks to the The Nerd Fam and author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

I really enjoyed the world building and suspense that was written into this book.  Eva is a strong female character and she copes really well when she finds out that her life is not as simple as she thought it was and that her best friend may not be who she thought he was.

Soon she finds out that her stories and dreams and actually real, but when did they happen and why does she see them and who are her parents.

Lots of questions get raised and most are answered, however the book does and with questions left unanswered leaving you something to look forward to as our FMC navigates her new world and sense of self.

I enjoyed this book and look forward to seeing what happens next.