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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


Warrior Rising

Warrior Rising, May 2008
by P.C. Cast

Berkley Sensation
352 pages
ISBN: 0425221377
EAN: 9780425221372
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"Greek mythology, literature and history combine to make an outrageously funny romance."

Fresh Fiction Review

Warrior Rising
P.C. Cast

Reviewed by Sue Burke
Posted April 14, 2008

Paranormal | Romance Time Travel | Romance Paranormal

Sick and tired of shouldering the blame for the Trojan War, the goddesses Hera, Venus and Athena come up with a plan to get Achilles' attention off the Trojans and onto something a little more pleasant. Something like a woman, a lover. Venus comes up with a plan to transport a modern woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma...a city Venus knows well...to the ancient world and into the path of the most virile Greek of them all. Venus chooses Katrina "Kat" Campbell as a perfect foil for Achilles, but her plans are thwarted when Kat and her best friend Jacky are killed in a car crash. The Goddess of Love is devastated as she watches their souls depart their bodies. Then she comes up with a brilliant idea -- she calls to their spirits and traps them in orbs. Athena and Hera are less than pleased when Venus shows up, not with one living mortal woman, but the spirits of two dead ones. However, when the goddesses come upon the bodies of a Trojan princess and her servant in Hera's temple, Venus convinces the others to transfer the modern souls of Kat and Jacky into the bodies of princess Polyxena and Melia, her handmaiden. "Holy s***!" is understandably the reaction when Kat and Jacky awaken in the bodies of the two murdered Trojan woman. The goddesses have a lot of explaining to do before Kat and Jacky fully accept their fates. So Venus, Hera and Athena make a deal. They'll return Kat and Jacky to their own time, complete with new bodies, if they perform one tiny service -- put an end to the Trojan War. Easy peasy. Kat's part of the assignment involves seducing Achilles and getting him to adopt a "make love not war" attitude. Jacky's is to act the part of the murdered hand maiden. Achilles is just a man, after all, and Kat and Jacky both have some experience with men to fall back on. Kat may think herself more than a match for Achilles, but the living Greek legend is a little more man than she's used to. She has no intention of becoming too attached to the warrior. After all, once the bloody war is over she's on her way back to Tulsa and her own time. So, in a nutshell...learn to curb her tongue around the ancient warriors and act as subservient as she can possibly manage. Seduce Achilles, help him tame his berserker rage. Put an end to a war that has been raging for 10 years. Don't fall in love. Easy peasy. P.C. Cast just keeps getting better and better and she was pretty good to start out with. Funny and inventive, she winds Greek mythology, literature and history into an outrageously funny romance.

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SUMMARY

The Goddesses have had it with the Trojan War. So much devastation—all because of some silly male egos. The worst of the bunch is that cocky, handsome brute Achilles. But the only way to stop a man like Achilles is to distract him with something far more pleasurable than combat… Enter Kat, a modern girl from Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Goddesses transform her into a Trojan princess, having no doubt that she’ll capture Achilles’s attention. But can her independent spirit match the unquenchable fire of his epic rage? Goddess only knows…


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