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Go back in time, fifty years before the events of New York Times bestselling author P.C. Cast's Partholon books...
Something isn't right at Guardian Castle, and Aine can't figure out what. As Healer, she's supposed to be making things better, but there's a darkness that can't be brightened. And then Aine finds an injured Fomorian--winged, dark, blood-thirsty and inherently evil. Or is he? Because there's something about Tegan that Aine can't resist...and once they've shared blood, Aine realizes that everything she's always believed is going to be cast aside....
Although I found this book pretty good, I'm upset with a few things. I ordered this on the Nook (didn't know it was a short story/prequel book). The story seemed a little rushed and on the Nook, a few pages weren't even complete. If you're going to put a book in e-reader form, the least you can do is have all the pages completed. I do, however, really want to read the actual series but I would have liked Aine and Tegan's story to be longer (to actually get to know the characters and fall in love with them). Hopefully, they're in the other books. I don't think it's an unnecessary prequel, as another reviewer mentioned, but I wish I had known it was a prequel before buying it.
12 out of 12 people found this review helpful.
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Posted January 5, 2010
This book was really short. Also, the storyline contradicts at least one major aspect of the main Partholon series in terms of the origins of the vase.
***** SPOILER ALERT!!!*****
If the two protagonists in this prequel were sent by Epona to bring the vase back to Oklahoma to await her Chosen, then why the heck did Bres need to pave the way for Rhiannon by bringing this vase into Oklahoma?? In short, this prequel was pretty unnecessary and did not fill in any blanks. It doesn't say anything about what happened as a result of the female protagonist's warning to Guardian Castle either at the end of the book.
4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Posted November 20, 2010
its not as great as the other three divine books, but it does explain some things.
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.This was my first P.C. Cast book. I was unaware that it was a novella type story. The storyline captured my attention enough for me to read and finish this before I went to bed last night but I was disappointed that Tegan and Aine were not developed further. I found their relationship interesting so the end was bitter sweet. I'm not a big fan of explicit sex scenes when reading and hate it when authors turn to writing them as filler so I was relieved to find that Cast just merely touches on a scene and then moves on with the story line. Overall, it was a good read but I'm not sure I will continue reading this particular series of hers.
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Posted May 11, 2012
Anything by Cast is good, this one didn't disapoint me.
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Posted April 14, 2012
This suspiciously sounds just like stevie rae and rephaim.......
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Good book
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Posted April 4, 2012
Overall a nice prequel to the divine series, but word of warning well under 100 pages. Really wish she had expanded on the storyline a little more, there was definitely room to. Still was a good short read.
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Posted April 3, 2012
Good beach or lazy day read!
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Posted March 5, 2012
How could you not?!
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Posted March 1, 2012
How many pages is this book? I love p.c. Cast but don't really care for a 20 page story or something.
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Posted January 4, 2012
I found this series by accident... I am in love with this story! I now own 17 P.C Cast/ Kristen Cast books. The Partholon series is amazing and I fell in love with Clanfintyn immeditaly! If you love this series you should read PC's Goddess Summoning Series.... Also a fantastic series!
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Posted December 28, 2011
An excellent start to an excellent series
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Posted December 26, 2011
Explains how it all started and i enjoy the way it is written.
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Posted November 14, 2011
I would have liked it to be a bit more indepth, but all in all it was a good read. I loved the books and reading this finished them off nicely.
The text has some proof reasing isaus but i would recomend fans of the books to read it. Well woth the money
Anonymous
Posted October 14, 2011
The description sounds like something that happened in her other series house of night the same thing happened with raven mocker rephiam and red vampyre prietess stevie rae a highly recommend ed seried
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Posted August 1, 2011
I liked the book, could not put it down
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I don't mind fantasy. In fact i really liked it. Until there was an affair between a person and a centaur... That didn't work for me. It wasn't romantic to me. Besides that, the characters and especially the WORLD and plot are well developed. I almost wish i could get past the centaur thing and finish the book.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I enjoyed this read very much. Though it was a short story, it had my attention. PC cast did a great job on the characters as well. Can't wait for her next book in the series!
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Posted December 30, 2009
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Overview
"Go back in time, fifty years before the events of New York Times bestselling author P.C. Cast's Partholon books...
Something isn't right at Guardian Castle, and Aine can't figure out what. As Healer, she's supposed to be making things better, but there's a darkness that can't be brightened. And then Aine finds an injured Fomorian--winged, dark, blood-thirsty and inherently evil. Or is he? Because there's something about Tegan that Aine can't resist...and once they've shared blood, Aine realizes that everything she's always believed is going to be cast aside....