Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: Rescue
AUTHOR: Pelaam
PUBLISHER: Evernight Publishing
LENGTH: 149 Pages
RELEASE DATE: February 22, 2016
BLURB:
When prince Adrianus accepts a quest to find the Jewel of Darkness to break a curse on king Thanos’s daughter, he takes along Fedor, a young man recently rescued from Thanos’s stables.
Fedor has experienced much hardship in a short space of time. A slave in the stables of king Thanos, he’s ill-treated by a sadistic captain of the guard until rescued by a royal visitor from another kingdom.
From a mix of gratitude and attraction he insists on joining Adrianus, despite the dangers involved. When he’s captured as a sacrifice, he hopes his prince will come to his rescue once again.
When Adrianus finds Fedor, they realize their love, but this is only the start of their quest. Danger dogs their every step. But their deadliest danger is much closer to home than they know.
REVIEW:
I know I’m always going to enjoy a book from this author because all of them that I’ve read have been fun to read. So I wasn’t surprised that I really enjoyed this current one!
Prince Adrianus is a man with a problem. His father the King is getting a little antsy about Adrianus finding a nice Princess and settling down. Only problem? Adrianus is more in the market for a Prince Charming than any Princess….
Now his father has set him up with a quest. He is to travel to a neighboring kingdom and find a mysterious two part jewel that will free the Princess of that land from an evil curse. In return, the Princess will be given to Adrianus in marriage. As you can imagine…not being into Princesses (or any woman for that matter), Adrianus is not entirely on board!
Things will really get complicated when Adrianus and his two friends arrive in that other kingdom just in time for Adrianus to rescue a stunning male slave from a sadistic guard. One look and Adrianus is sunk!
What follows is a tale of the adventures the cast goes through on their way to find this mysterious two part jewel. I liked it. It was well written and the world building gave me a good view of the world, without overdoing it. I liked the characters and enjoyed the read.
The only thing that might be a slight negative to some readers, that I could mention, would be that all the love interests in this book are insta-love. If you can’t get by that, then move along to another book. I found them fine, and in keeping with the overall story. Speaking of the overall story, pretty much all of the resolutions were a little more easy that I would have liked as well. While there was a lot of action, with an evil mage, monsters, attempted human sacrifice…amongst other things…everything wrapped up almost too conveniently. But it was what it was… a fairly light-hearted, fun, easy to read fantasy romp, which you knew going into it would end with at least one HEA.
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a short, fast moving fantasy novel. I believe you’ll enjoy it!
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