Saving Eve
by Dianna Hardy
Publisher: Satin Smoke Press
Published: First edition (April 28, 2015)
Blurb:
Author's Note: Saving Eve is the story of what happened to Lucifer after The Last Dragon (The Witching Pen series) - the only character who had a "loose thread" in that series. If you haven't read The Witching Pen series, stop now and read no further. Read that first. I tried really hard (too hard, actually) to make this book readable for all, but just as with The Last Dragon (for which I had the same intention), I failed. Lucifer's personality, hinted at story, and the creation myth set up in that series proved to be too complex to explain all over again, in this book's context, without losing some of the intensity of this story and making things more complicated than they needed to be. So, the end result is that Saving Eve - even though not directly part of the arc of The Witching Pen series - is truly one for Witching Pen fans, and in particular, for those who had a soft spot for Lucifer, the first angel to fall. It begins at the point we left Lucifer in The Last Dragon...
Amid long, wild grass, a snake slithers, hidden. Hidden until a man opens his eyes…
Awaking with amnesia in St Mary's Hospital, after a near-fatal freak accident, he is known only as Luc. With the help of Evie Gold, the kind, young woman who found him, he starts a new life – a second chance, a clean slate.
A bond burgeons between them.
But disturbing dreams of dark deeds become waking recountings. A blackness is uncoiling – seductive, familiar and dangerously provocative.
An ancient craving stirs; an old addiction rises.
Nothing is as it seems, and as reality crumbles, Luc finds himself asking, not just who he is, but...
Who is Evie?
From the author of the international bestselling Witching Pen series, Dianna Hardy takes a seed from The Last Dragon, and brings you an existential story of two beings in search of completion.
My Review:
I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
Dianna never stops amazing me with her writing. With each story of hers that I have read she knows just the right words to say to open my eyes and mind or at least make me think about the things that we have been taught. If your mind is already open she gives you more to think about and opens your mind even more. I love reading Dianna's books because I learned something from each and every one that I have read. You've heard the saying "My cup runneth over"? Well my cup will never be full or run over. I will always have room for more. My cup doesn't have a bottom in it.
I love how in Saving Eve that Dianna saw the good and the bad in both Eve aka Evie and Lucifer aka Lucky or Luc for short. We all have a good side and a bad side. With some of us we only show our good side but once in a while something will set us off and our bad side will sneak out until we come to our sense's and gain control of our bad side again. Then there are some of us who lets our bad side show at all times but once in a while we will let the good side of us peep out.
I also loved how she took biblical characters and told their stories and lives; the way she saw it and gave us a more in depth look into their lives and the people they were and who they became. Eve was a quiet and shy person who stayed to herself. Eve was a lonely woman who thought she was going to spend the rest of her life all alone. Then she met Luc who changed all of that and changed the way she looked at life. Luc had been looking for Eve for a very long time. He searched all four corners of the Earth from one end to the other.
Any writer who can cause you to like someone that you were taught growing up to hate is one amazing author and person in my book. You know it's not just the words that you are reading that show you the good in Lucifer it is what is in the author's heart too. It just shows me that Dianna can find good in almost anybody.
There is something about Eve and Lucifer being together that means something to me but I can't quiet put my finger on it just yet. Not knowing what it is that I feel like I am missing something is frustrating me to the point where I want pull my hair out. UGG! I know that Saving Eve is going to be on my mind for a while until I figure out what it is that I am missing. It has something to do with both Eve and Luc like everyone else as well; having good and evil in them. I don't know what it is but it is like when their together not only are they balanced but so is the world in its own way.
If you have not read Saving Eve yet then I recommend that you do right now. That is if you have read The Witching Pen Series and The Last Dragon a companion novel to The Witching Pen Series first. Otherwise you will have a difficult time understanding what is going on in Saving Eve. While you are at it why not check out her series Eye of the Storm too. Thanks Dianna for writing such amazing novels and giving me the opportunity to read them.
Author Bio:
Dianna Hardy is the international bestselling author of The Witching Pen series and the Eye Of The Storm series. She combines a titillating mix of contemporary and paranormal romance into her writing, as well as urban and dark fantasy, to bring you stories that are action-packed, fast- paced and not short of heat, with the focus on both character development and the plot. She writes full-length novels and short fiction.
She currently lives in Surrey (United Kingdom) with her partner and their daughter, where she writes full-time.
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