by CM Skiera
Book: Stand Alone
Publisher: Author
Pub Date: August 22, 2024
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Format: eBook
Source: Author
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Prince Ligo endured a troubled engagement. Betrothed to a foreigner to save a
realm abandoned by their god, the prince suffers a seizure during a sacred
hunt, and awakens to see his fiancée’s family usurp the volcano-menaced realm.
Indeed, Prince Ligo has seen better days.
When the enigmatic Mystic Riggan rescues Prince Ligo from the deadly coup, she leads him on a pilgrimage to the cryptic God of Death’s secret sanctum. Fugitives in the frigid wilds, the beleaguered duo conscripts a badly wounded soldier to help them survive. Pursuing answers to what truly ails the realm, the misfit trio discovers more ancient mysteries at their journey’s end. They also find the beginnings of a home and family like none they’d ever known.
My Review: It's been a while since I read anything by CM Skiera, but reading this latest book it was like I just read his last book the other day. The details are done so well it easily brings you the image of what's going and the world building is done just right.
Moving on.. Prince Ligo is engaged. Himself, brothers and king are out on a hunt. While everyone seems excited about it, I do like that Prince Ligo would rather be anywhere else. His kindness to not see animals hurt or in fear is something to want in a good future ruler.
Sadly, it's not all that east for the Prince. There's talk about this Princess being lucky to land Prince Ligo and other talk from the King hoping they don't see they are the one getting damaged goods because the Prince suffers from seizures without cause or reason known yet.
In just the first few chapters you easily like the Prince for his kind nature and feel for the situation he is in and how those around him act. But only a few more chapters away before things pick up and next thing you know you've finished the book.
Being able to be so immersed in a book that you haven't realized the hours that passed and that you've reached the final page, is a book that you want to get your hands on. Get into that escape that readers look for in a book and this one definitely fits that role.
