Title: TWIST OF FATE
Series: N/A
Author: Marlie May
Publisher: Hummingbird Press
Publish Date: 05.10.2019
Category /Genre: Time Travel Romance
Recommended for: 18+ due to sexual content
Grammar/editing: received as an
unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from: Marlie May
Goodreads link: Twist of Fate
Date completed: 05.16.2019
Description from the publisher:
"Legally Blonde meets Gladiator
in this volcanically hot time travel romp through the streets of ancient
Pompeii."
~ Laney Kaye, Author of HAWAIIAN HURRICANE
Twenty-first century Greek goddess Pandia is shaking in her Jimmy Choos. A few weeks ago, she traveled back in time to attend a party, where she accidentally suggested Julius Caesar abandon politics for gardening. Her father, Zeus, summons her to modern Olympus after he discovers her meddling eliminated the month of July. To teach her the importance of fate, he strips Pandia's goddess powers and sentences her to a stint of mortality in ancient Pompeii.
Pandia refuses to let her punishment get her down. She'll do her time, leave destinies untouched, and be home in time for her next shift at the local animal shelter. Instead, she's mistaken for a prostitute and arrested for inciting a riot. Sentenced to serve as a massage therapist in Pompeii's gladiator school, she's assigned to Caladus, a gladiator whose washboard abs test her vow to remain uninvolved.
To escape Pompeii, Pandia must prove she respects mortals' fates. But she's falling for Caladus, and her time's running out: Mt. Vesuvius is rumbling.
Twist of Fate guarantees laugh-out-loud moments, plenty of swoony gladiator romance, on-the-page heat, no cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after. This book is standalone.
~ Laney Kaye, Author of HAWAIIAN HURRICANE
Twenty-first century Greek goddess Pandia is shaking in her Jimmy Choos. A few weeks ago, she traveled back in time to attend a party, where she accidentally suggested Julius Caesar abandon politics for gardening. Her father, Zeus, summons her to modern Olympus after he discovers her meddling eliminated the month of July. To teach her the importance of fate, he strips Pandia's goddess powers and sentences her to a stint of mortality in ancient Pompeii.
Pandia refuses to let her punishment get her down. She'll do her time, leave destinies untouched, and be home in time for her next shift at the local animal shelter. Instead, she's mistaken for a prostitute and arrested for inciting a riot. Sentenced to serve as a massage therapist in Pompeii's gladiator school, she's assigned to Caladus, a gladiator whose washboard abs test her vow to remain uninvolved.
To escape Pompeii, Pandia must prove she respects mortals' fates. But she's falling for Caladus, and her time's running out: Mt. Vesuvius is rumbling.
Twist of Fate guarantees laugh-out-loud moments, plenty of swoony gladiator romance, on-the-page heat, no cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after. This book is standalone.
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Let’s start with the last four words
in that blurb. “This book is (a)
standalone.” I want to go on record as
protesting the stand-alone status of this book.
Couldn’t we have more fun with these gods and goddesses, please? Or maybe our friends in Pompeii?
It is obvious that the author put in
a lot of research, but it is not preachy.
Instead she found the stuff that I knew was out there (like the graffiti
about the Thoracian – I loved how she tied it in!) This is not an era that *everyone* has
written about, so she is not recycling the same ol’ same ol’. This was a refreshing read!
I have always had a fascination with
the destruction and the modern resurrection of Pompeii. The mystery of the bodies frozen in time, the
opulent, seductive lifestyle, and the life by the sea has been a draw to
me. That this wondrous place doesn’t
receive the attention that so many other ancient cities do puzzles me.
Now, about the romance – this was a
slow burn, build up and it scorched my fingers.
Definitely a can’t-put-it-down story that kept me reading past my
bedtime. It is fun, often funny, and
light.
Marlie May has become one of my
favorite authors in just a few releases.
I can’t wait for what may come next.
Note: While I received this book as a gifted ARC,
my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Also from Marlie May:
·
Twist of Fate
Crescent Bay series:
Viper
Force Series:
1.
Fearless
2.
Ruthless (releases Summer 2019)
3.
Dauntless
4.
Reckless
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