Obtain Recreated (Reawakened, #2) Composed By Colleen Houck Mobi

took me a long time to get into, but about half way through when we finally met Amon's brother again things started to get good.
I am really excited to see what happens, I know a lot of people hate lovetriangles but I don't, They can keep you guessing and add a lot more suspense and feelings and romance to a book, The only bad thing is that in Tigers Curse I was definitely Team Kishan, and now I think I might be Team Asten.
I'll have to read a bit more to be sure, but the scene of them together in the dream had me swooning all over the place.
Also with the addition of Ashleigh things could get really interesting, I so don't even know how to live right now!!!!!
I CANT WAIT THAT LONG!

I NEED IT!!!!!!!!!


THAT ENDING!!


I NEED TO KNOW WHAT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!!


I'M HONESTLY NOT GOING TO LAST TILL THIS TIME NEXT YEAR JUST KILL ME NOW

AND PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY!

EDIT:
I JUST SAW THE COVER!!! HOW LONG HAS THE COVER BEEN UP WITHOUT ME KNOWING OMG!! IT'S SO PRETTY!! GOTTA ADMIT I LIKE THE BLUE OF REAWAKENED BETTER BUT THAT EYE IS SO GORGEOUS AND I WONDER WHAT THE TRIANGLES LEADING UP TO IT AND THE WINGS REPRESENT!!!! AHHHH I JUST CANT WAIT!!!


NEEEEEEEEED NOOOOOOOOOOW! Oh my god, I'm so glad this book is finally over!
I really enjoyed Reawakened and I was so excited for this but It was utterly disappointing.

I mean come onsouls in one body And each on them in love with one of the brothers!
I liked few things about this book but mostly I was bored and annoyed.
Updated August,:
Recreated is gripping, exciting, and amazing, Lily Young has traveled across the globe with a reawakened Egyptian prince and had an adventure like no other and now shes about to have the adventure of her life.
When she and Amon tragically departed, Amon transported himself to the Netherworld where he is tormented by the loss of Lily and suffers in agony than fulfill his ancient duty to protect humanity from Seth.
Still heartbroken, Lily seeks refuge at her grandmothers farm where she dreams of Amon and feels his pain, Before Amon left, he gave something special to Lily that connects their worlds that will help her find Amon before he is lost to her forever.
As Lily journeys through the Netherworld to find Amon she encounters danger after danger in her quest to rescue Amon, Recreated is full of emotion, magic, romance, adventure, confessions, danger, truths, and twists,

After her adventure in Egypt, Lily Young tries to return to a normal life, however she continues to dream about Amon as he fights for his life in the Netherworld.
Heartbroken, Lily goes to her grandmothers farm where she is able to communicate with Amon and feel his pain, After learning from Anubis that Amon is in mortal danger, Lily with the help of Dr, Hassan must journey to the Netherworld to find Amon and convince him to return before its too late but first must gain the power of the Sphinx.
However, during the merging, Lily and the mind of the lioness, Tia was incomplete and now must adapt to live in one body and work together and discover their abilities.
After convincing the Sun God to help Lily and Tia, they are allowed to enter the Netherworld where they are joined by Amons brothers, Asten and Ahmose to help in the search and rescue of Amon.


In the Netherworld, Lily and her friends face danger and Lily continues to dream of Amon as they search for him before the Devourer does.
To protect Lily from the Devourer finding her while she dreams, Asten uses his powers to shield her and a part of her grows closer to him.
Upon learning Amons capture by the Devourer, Lily and her friends fight the Devourers minions in order to save him and discover who she serves and more.
Lily also learns how she fits in the fight against Seth regarding an ancient prophecy, In the fight against evil, Lily must become a beacon of hope as she struggles with all the many changes happening within her.


Lily is understandably struggling with losing Amon, She is willing to enter danger and become a Sphinx in order to rescue him from death, Thats love. Amon, I have to admire him and feel that he was being a little selfish for his decision, Tia is interesting. Shes direct and fierce but is learning the ways of human life, Amons brothers are back and are as awesome as I remember them, though we get more of their backgrounds here, Asten, OMG, I wanted to hug him, We get to meet more of the gods and some were funny and cool while others were strict in the mud,

The romance in the book was very much the same with confessions of love and heated kisses between Amon and Lily.
The devotion between them is what fans like me love to read about and dream to one day have, However, Lily has found a second love interest that sent me in a raging mood, Though the romantic moments between the two were admitting hot but I was screaming at her “What are you doing!” Then theres a twist to the romance that is almost confusing.
For me, at least.

Overall, Recreated was great, It is a great sequel to a captivating series, I loved it. It was wellwritten, has a great story with amazing characters and held my attention from start to finish, I love how Colleens books draws me into her worlds and wish I was in them, Her attention to detail is incredible and I love the mythology, I want the next book now!

Updated December,:
It has a cover!!!






Updated July,:
I want it! I want it! I want it!!
First off, I was disappointed to discover that I could not purchase the audio version of this book as I had the first book.
iTunes where I usually purchase most of my ebooks as well as audio books did not have the audio version AT ALL so I was forced to purchase the ebook.
And I was too impatient to wait for a hardcopy to reach me in the mail, So I did finish this book with the ebook version,

This second installment in this series was very well written and there are a lot of character growth for all the characters in this book compared to the first book which is always a plus no matter what genre you read.

The only thing and the reason why I gave this book a four star rating instead of a full five I found that I don't think I necessarily liked is that there was TOO much going on all at once which sort of overwhelmed me.
I don't know if the author meant for the readers to feel that way while reading this book and I get that the storyline/plot calls for it for this second book, but I just felt that it was too much and took away from the main story, which is a love story between Lily and Amon.
I hope that makes sense because I get it! Lily is on her way to save Amon and goes on this epic adventure to do so, but there were so many distractions going on that it was easy to lose that core of it all.
I don't know. I may not be making sense, but that's definitely how I felt reading through all the chaos,

While this book was a cacophony of events and distractions, the first book was a lot more focused and coherent, In the first book there was a lot going on, but there was a clear purpose and goal as to what the main characters had to accomplish.
This second installment had pretty much a set goal, just a ton of nonsense in between that didn't, in my opinion, lend any relevance to that main goal.


Does this deter me from reading the third and final book No, But I will be going into the third book with a little more wariness and hoping that the author will not let me down.


It does sound as if I didn't like this book, but trust me, there were a LOT of good things about it.
Like I mentioned earlier: Character growth was great, all characters came back from the first book, this book will take you on another epic journey despite the many distractions and there are a whole bunch of new characters that are introduced which lends for an interesting read.


All in all, great read, Sort of anticlimactic from the first book but well worth the read so yes, I do recommend it,

Happy Reading!!! Book Quality:star
Book Enjoyability:stars

Well folks, its that time again, Time to get on my tiny soapbox and yell into the void about how terrible this womans content is while thousands of people enthusiastically read her books and get warped ideas about what other countries are like.
Wheee.

If I seem a bit bitter this time around its because I didnt enjoy this book nearly as much as her previous fair.
Thats probably my own fault since I read a really good series with actual characters, world building, epic quests and consequences immediately before this.
What was I thinking Anywho, lets focus on Recreated, I can sum it up pretty simple as follows:

The Host New Moon Colleen Houck formula Recreated

The New Moon aspect is simply the fact that our main breeding pair wait can mummies breed forget I asked.
Our main couple are separated for the duration of the book and the main plot point is them being reunited and in Amons absence we are introduced to our love.
Triangle Hexagon Dodecahedron I cant even keep track to be honest,

The ridiculous love geometry comes about from The Host elements of the book, Let me start by saying I hate The Host, The book did its best to stomp all over any creative science fiction notions while spreading a message that the protagonists autonomy wasnt as important as that of an unwelcomed parasite.
But I digress sort of, Recreated introduces a similar parasitic mind timeshare plan when Anubis tells Lily she must go become a Sphinx by merging with a lion.
If that line made no sense to you, good, do not adjust your set you have a thinking mind, So this action introduces Tia, the lioness who happens to have a name and speak English and quickly grasp human ideas and basically wants to fuck every male character.
Ok so whatever, Lily is slowing losing her individual soul as she merges with a fucking lion who can take total control over her body at any time but whatever, lions are the spice of life.
Well near the end of the book we get introduced to another mind parasite in the form of an Irish fairy yes, spelled like that who decides to join the mind slumber party without invitation.


So now Lily has three separate “souls” inside her body and I want you to make a note of something, All the souls in Lily are female and there just haaaappens to be three brothers that Lilys person is bonded with, I wonder how this could play out,

So basically, Amon gets the spoiled white princess, Asten gets to fuck a lion, and Ahmose gets a fairy the size of his hand.
Between this and the epilogue story about a woman marrying a lion and unicorn I think Houck might really have a bestial fixation.


So The Host style soul merging bullshit is out of left field and seems to exist only to give everyone a perfect straight partner for the finale.
Lets move on to the Houck formula,

The Houck formula is best described as taking an “exotic” locale with deep mythology that is just familiar enough to have been heard of but alien enough that you can warp the hell out of it without most people knowing.
Requirements for this include limited to no consequences for actions, the protagonist whining a bunch about how much shes suffered while having magic items that produce food or clothes, and a general lack of understanding even the remotest things about the people who live in these countries.
I bring up the latter because something in Recreated really, really bothered me, So lets talk about race,

Egypt, as you may be aware, is in Africa, Africa is a continent by the way, not a country so when a character asks where they are and you say “Africa” it means nothing Ahem, Isis.
Being in Africa but on the edge of the continents connection to the Middle East means that many Egyptian people are not lighter skinned, though historically the population wasnt entire black either.
I bring this up because in this book that takes place almost entirely in Egypt or Egyptian mythology lands there is only one character who is actively described as having dark skin.
At first I thought Houck just wasnt going to describe skin tone at all which is a way to avoid that entirely but she went out of her way to mention that this one character Maat was dark skinned while at the same time describing a goddess next to to Maat who was described as being blonde haired, which usually doesnt come naturally with darker skin.
So we have two goddess who balance one another out and one is described racially black and the other white kay, Oh, and the black one is judgmental, mean, and an obstacle to overcome while the blonde one is kind and merciful, Nope. Stop. Time out.

Flag on the play,

Un. Fucking. Acceptable.

Houck is the epitome of cultural appropriation using another country and culture as a backdrop for her English speaking, Western acting characters to get to be heroes that save the world all while shitting on the actual culture and people that live there.
Its just not normally so in your face, aggressively racist, Fuck. That. Shit. Houck clearly hasnt done any more research about Egypt as shes still dumb enough to reference “Egyptian” as a spoken language and think that there is savannah near Egypt and at this point her ignorance is really getting old.


And so I cant even much recommend this book for the lulz, If youre super interested in the story for some reason its not even worth reading as the ending seems to put us back where we were at the end of the last book.


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Boo.
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