A Sword of Shadow and Deceit

Mortal Gods, Book 1

De: Lucinda Dark

Narrado por: Allie Shae, Benjamin Sands

Desperation makes warriors of captives.

The Gods split the skies and rained down tyranny upon the mortal realm long ago. Ever since then, the only thing worse than being human is being of Divine Blood.

For someone like me—an undocumented God child, indebted to the Underworld Assassination Guild—that means only one thing: A life in the shadows.

Or so it should have been . . . until Mortal Gods Academy. Until them.

The Darkhaven Brothers are truly the worst of all the Gods' spawn. Arrogant. Wicked. Violent. To them, I'm nothing more than a human plaything meant for torment. For me . . . they're the path and the key to my freedom.

But if any of them find out who I am, what I am . . . even the shadows won't be able to save me.

Contains mature themes.

©2024 Lucy Smoke LLC (P)2024 Tantor Media

I LOVED THE FMC!!

A Sword of Shadow and Deciet
Author~ Lucinda Dark
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/🌶🌶🌶

I can not wait to dive into the second book with that ending!!

With that being said, I haven't read a lot of fantasy books, but I'm no stranger to dark romance! I love a good enemies to lovers book, and what's even better is this series is also a why choose/ Reverse Harem!!

I really want to see all of the powers that the brothers and Kiera the bada** assasian FMC have. I also can't wait to find out which brother is next... if you know what I mean 🥵😉

Fantastic

I absolutely loved this book! I loved all of the sass & banter. The action, the scheming, the plotting, the magic 🤌! It was fantastic!! I absolutely loved Kalix, he is wonderfully dark & sarcastic. I love the world & magic system, & I can’t wait to see what happens next!

Fine

Honestly, ALL the stars I gave this book are a round of applause for the author—who gave the heroine (Kiera) equality of power from the first paragraph. Knowing, as we do from the blurb, that she’s going to be interacting with mercurial, cruel gods, it was such a welcome relief to finally get a heroine that wasn’t completely helpless, or disgustingly goo goo over the heroes (Theos, Ruen, Kalix).

I was kind of annoyed when I found out this was a deception book (the heroine is lying about who she is for all of it). People can’t be emotionally intimate when there are a bunch of lies between them, and romance depends on intimacy. But on reading it, I found that the heroes deserved to be lied to. The gods were not decent or sympathetic characters. So it was all good. Of course that means there was a lot of 👀 sexual behaviour but absolutely no romance, so be prepared for that. In fact two of the heroes have active ON PAGE sex lives with people who aren't the heroine.

There’s also a lot of talk about this book being similar to Trickery (Curse of the Gods series), and it’s true there are a lot of points of similarity, but IMO Trickery was a steaming pile of trash. This book was light years better even with a 3 star rating.

The writing was fine, not great. This book is supposed to be plot driven, but it's not. Instead it's dragged down by bloated prose: boring flashbacks, a CRAP LOAD of setting, tons of internal blah blah blah, and the worst crime: repeating one idea in multiple ways for impact—instead of condensing it into one powerful sentence. The only sex scene (with the heroine) even got tiresome, because it was so fragmented and slow. That’s the only reason this book is 14 hours long.