Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Resurrection

SERIES: Pillars of Magic: Dark Awakening #1

AUTHOR: Lissa Kasey

PUBLISHER: Layer Kake Publishing

LENGTH: 285 pages

RELEASE DATE: July 18, 2021

BLURB:

Someone is raising the dead from their graves, including an old vampire lover.

When a golem shows up on campus, Seiran searches for a way to unravel it and find its creator. But it is animated with vampire souls and the golem may not be the only one. When he realizes a necromancer is raising the undead from their slumber, Seiran finds himself face to face with a lover he thought long gone.

Gabe went to ground over a decade ago to silence the revenant gaining foothold inside of him. When he is yanked from the earth, his memory a mess of shattered fragments, he finds himself bound to a very powerful witch he doesn’t remember. And someone is trying to use his power to summon the dead.

An army of the dead awakens, and Seiran and Gabe are the only thing standing in the way of a shift in global power. Can they rise to the change or will they become the next victims?

REVIEW:

I have wanted to read the original series to this for a LONG time and with reading this one, yeah, I can now confirm I was right and want to go back and read from the beginning. This is an amazing paranormal book. One that I cannot recommend enough. It has EVERYTHING you want. From action, to betrayals, all kinds of paranormals, a twist that just makes the book not able to put down. I was in heaven.

I love the different takes I read in paranormal books. That’s why I think I love them so much. I’ve said that before. And reading this take on how the paranormal world works was an amazing one. From the way male witches are treated to the way vampires live. There are certain things that are and aren’t done. And I thoroughly enjoyed the take in this one. I love Seiran’s will to survive anything in this book, but I also feel his pain at having a gift he doesn’t want at times, because the pains and all the crap he has to endure that come with it. From losing the love of his life to the possibilities of losing his own children. And that’s a whole other story as well, but you have to read to find out that one. But Seiran is a survivor. No matter what happens in his life, and it’s a lot, he’s determined, if nothing else, to be there for his kids, the way no one was there for him. Even the love of his life. Gabe.

Having Gabe pop back up in Seiran’s life when he did was no coincidence, but again, I feel for Seiran because it’s another notch of something that is thrown at him at the wrong time. But he handles it. Whether good or bad, he deals with. And I love it. I love Gabe too. Knowing what he went through and making the sacrifice he did, although it wasn’t known for that at the time, and then being pulled from the rest he needed before he was ready and having to navigate life with no memories of much of anything. Yet, his instincts told him what he needed to do and where he needed to be and he listened. And because of it, things may have gotten bad, but he was able to make a start in fixing things that were wrong the first time. He’s a survivor as well.

I think that’s what I love so much about these two. They’ve had so much thrown at them for so long, and yet, despite everything, they’ve survived. There may have been times when they didn’t want to, but they endured. They tried to take what was wrong and make it right. Make a stand and show that sometimes, being underestimated is not a smart thing.

I can’t wait to see what is coming next with this series. I’m definitely hooked. This was the perfect book for me and I’m so glad I got the opportunity to read it.

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