when I started reading this book, it felt very much like the beginning of an epic fantasy until I got to the space and time travel and it switched gears to being more scify.
I think this may have been a bit of a let down for me as I was expecting one type of story and then realized it was something completely different.
However, the narrative still very much had a feeling of fantasy which I thoroughly enjoyed, The characters were bright and fresh even with all their battle scars and unforgiving grief the book after all is subtitled Redemption.
It hooked me in well during the first part of the book, and was quite thrilling, After the beginning it lost some of the pace for me and that is why I only gave it three technically, if I had the option, I would give itand a half.
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A demon waiting to die, . .
An outcast reviled for his discolored skin and rumors of black magic, Keirlan de Corizi sees no hope for redemption.
Imprisoned beneath the palace that was once his home, the legendary 'Blue Demon of Adalucien' waits for death to finally free him of his curse.
But salvation comes in an unexpected guise,
A woman determined to save him,
Able to cross space and time with a wave of her hand, Tarquin Secker has spent eternity on a hopeless quest.
Drawn by a compulsion she can't explain, she risks her apparent immortality to save Keir, and offers him sanctuary on her homeworld, Lyagnius.
But Quin has secrets of her own,
When Keir mistakenly unleashes the dormant alien powers within him and earns exile from Lyagnius, Quin chooses to stand by him.
Can he master his newfound abilities in time to save Quin from the darkness that seeks to possess her
Book One of the Redemption series and part of the Travellers Universe.
Previously released by Lyrical Press Inc,th MayFrom the first scene I was hooked, I found myself rooting for Keir before I knew his story, The author weaves a sympathetic tale following tortured souls through a lifechanging adventure, Her light touch keeps the characters easily relatable without ever dissolving into schmaltz,
Quin is an engaging heroine whose selfassurance, ingenuity and desire to help others immediately establishes her as a heroine of epic proportions.
Keir is almost an antihero whose journey of selfdiscovery takes him to the darkest reaches of his own nature and eventually leads him to the hero within himself.
Together, they travel through time and space and save each other, This is a sweet love story woven through an epic adventure,
With shades of Doctor Who, Time Bandits, and LadyHawke, Keir is a different kind of SF romance that will leave you sighing long after you've closed the book.
This is a story of tortured souls, love and redemption, On a strange world Quin, a human traveller who moves among the on a quest for a lost friend, discovers Keir, an outcast in his society.
All Keir wants to do is die, believing himself condemned and cursed, while Quin soon wishes to save him, having seen a glimpse of who he really is.
From this starting point follows an adventure that will warm science fiction and romance readers alike, As one hops between planets with this delightful pair, Pippa Jay sketches the different worlds with her pen, bringing them vividly to life.
She does no less with each character, drawing one into their minds with ease,
I really enjoyed this book, Pippa Jay's debut novel, and as there are several unanswered questions, I hope there will be more to come from this author.
I began reading Keir with no expectations, despite having read and loved a novella from the same author, I knew that Keir was Pippa's debut work, so I went into it with an less critical approach for that reason, What I got was a manuscript that read like it was written by a seasoned author, Pippa has a knack for painting scenes with descriptions that provide good details without floundering in it, Her characters, even the supportive cast, are strong, can stand on their own and are presented within a threedimensional context, I think flatcharacters would be eaten alive in the world that Pippa has created with Keir, which I have discovered while reading is part of the same universe for her upcoming YA scifi adventure release of sitelinkGethyon.
One further comment about the world building Pippa uses a backwards or persistent worldbuilding technique that may throw some readers off.
This means that her characters think, react and converse in full knowledge of their own histories even if the reader has not yet been introduced or is aware of these histories.
These histories are explained as the story develops that shed light on a conversation that you may have read a few chapters before.
This is different from the progressive worldbuilding technique that most authors use, There is nothing at all wrong with this approach, and it can add some nice plottwist elements, you just need to trust that even if you don't fully understand the conversation two characters are having in one scene that it will be relevant and explained later on.
Pippa does make all those scenes relevant and I didn't find any loose strings by the end of the story,
I will say that the beginning of this book had me scratching my head a little bit, The first couple of chapters read like a fantasy story more than a scifi book, but as the story develops you learn why.
Pippa has created a book that mixes elements from fanatasy, science fiction and science fantasy, The fantasy elements come in to play because one of the planets in the book hasn't developed science yet, and so they treat science as witchcraft and even name the heroine, Quin, as the Red Witch, and Keir as The Blue Demon.
The planet reminded me of earth during the Spanish Inquisition, Once I figured this out, the story came to life, I would almost recommend a prologue or a first chapter to set this up to avoid confusion or losing readers in the first couple chapters who are wondering if they did buy a Science Fiction book.
There are scifi fantasy elements with TimeTravel, Psipowers, gateways and telepathy, Though this may turn off hardcore science fiction readers, I thought it was done very well and explained within a believable context.
Now, about the romance It is a sweet, but tormented, romance, Both of the leads have some heavy baggage, each with a richly developed history that is explained throughout the book, Their is a strong connection between them to start, but neither of them throws themselves at the other which is refreshing, Both have real reasons for proceeding cautiously or misinterpreting the actions or intentions of the other, The intimacy scenes, though not quite as hot as I like, were extremely well written and beautiful, I think it suited both characters,
And the ending, Oh the ending. OH THE ENDING not going to say anything else except to encourage you to see this book to the very end, You will be glad you did, .
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