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Goddess of the Rose (Goddess Summoning #4)
by
P.C. Cast (Goodreads Author)
When modern-day Mikki ends up in the strange Realm of the Rose, Hecate has been waiting for her. So too has her gorgeous guardian beast, who soon has Mikki swooning. But to save the realm, Mikki will have to sacrifice her life-giving blood.
Paperback, 345 pages
Published
February 7th 2006
by Berkley Sensation
(first published February 4th 2006)
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Ben beğendim serideki beklentiyi karşılıyor... Ama açıkça bundan önceki kitaplar daha iyiydi...
Özellikle su toprak ateş hava ruh kombinasyonu gördüğüm anda beni baydı. Çember oluşturmalar falan o uzun uzuun ritüel şiirleri... Asıl erkeği görmek için verilen çaba ve kızı intarı... Evet sonu iyiydi belki ama ben daha romantik bir kitap isterdim birde çok güçlü diye anlatılan adamın kızın yanında ezilmesi bence yazılı olmayan romance yasalarına aykırı ve beni rahatsız eden bir konuydu...
Evet iyi ho...more
Özellikle su toprak ateş hava ruh kombinasyonu gördüğüm anda beni baydı. Çember oluşturmalar falan o uzun uzuun ritüel şiirleri... Asıl erkeği görmek için verilen çaba ve kızı intarı... Evet sonu iyiydi belki ama ben daha romantik bir kitap isterdim birde çok güçlü diye anlatılan adamın kızın yanında ezilmesi bence yazılı olmayan romance yasalarına aykırı ve beni rahatsız eden bir konuydu...
Evet iyi ho...more
Vayyy kararımı değiştirmiş bulunuyorum bu Bahar Tanrıçasından da iyiydi :D P.C Cast tam anlamıyla döktürmüş... Okuduğumun zevkini, bitirdiğimin üzüntüsünü yaşıyorum kısaca :D
Konuya gelirsek ; Mikado (mikki) adında kendini güllere adamış, erkeklerden umduğunu bulamayan bir kadındır. Ve son günlerde gördüğü rüyalardan dolayı çok rahatsızdır... Arkadaşı Nelly onun bu rahatsızlığını erkek eksikliğine bağlayarak ona akşam yemeği için birini ayarlar. Ama adam tam bir kalın kafalı, kaba birisidir. Haya...more
Konuya gelirsek ; Mikado (mikki) adında kendini güllere adamış, erkeklerden umduğunu bulamayan bir kadındır. Ve son günlerde gördüğü rüyalardan dolayı çok rahatsızdır... Arkadaşı Nelly onun bu rahatsızlığını erkek eksikliğine bağlayarak ona akşam yemeği için birini ayarlar. Ama adam tam bir kalın kafalı, kaba birisidir. Haya...more
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I wrote this review in parts as I was reading the book. I think it turned out better than my others. it took a few chapters for me to really get into this book. I was sure I would enjoy it but it surprised me how much I liked it. I really began to enjoy it after that first dinner Mikki had with the guardian. that's when love started to brow. this book had many twists on the classics. such an interesting twists on the minotaur, I never imagined him to look anything like that. a kin, lonely soul t...more
No matter what, I will always be a fan of P.C.Cast. I find her books to just always be vivid with life, imagination, creativity and mystery. She writes always with this sense of romance within her pages, but not in a way that is cheesy or boring, but in a way that is both intriguing and refreshing. She always gives her characters this huge sense of life to them that makes them more interesting to read, because she makes them come to life in the readers mind so they are not just worded descriptio...more
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First Line: "Once upno a time, when men still believed gods and goddesses walked the earth, Hecate, Great Goddess of Night, was granted dominion over the crossroads of man."
I just keep enjoying Cast's Goddess Summoning series. They are such a different type of romance. I was particularly tickled reading this one because the hero is not a man, but a beast. This story combines the ancient mythology of the goddess Hecate and the well-known fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast. The beauty, Mikki, is a...more
I just keep enjoying Cast's Goddess Summoning series. They are such a different type of romance. I was particularly tickled reading this one because the hero is not a man, but a beast. This story combines the ancient mythology of the goddess Hecate and the well-known fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast. The beauty, Mikki, is a...more
So, I'm a complete Faery Tale freak and a big fan of Roses and Hecate and all. I asked my Roommate beforehand what she thought, if I would be offended or pleased. She gave me a noncommittal answer, and since it wasn't an outright pan, I read the book.
I remember getting to a certain point and thinking, "hrmm... I think the author was a Dianic at one point" as her rituals are very close (even verbatim in some areas) to the Dianic rituals I'm used to. Then again, the Dianics didn't originate those...more
I remember getting to a certain point and thinking, "hrmm... I think the author was a Dianic at one point" as her rituals are very close (even verbatim in some areas) to the Dianic rituals I'm used to. Then again, the Dianics didn't originate those...more
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Just like with the Goddess of Light, I absolutely adore this book. However, I realy must say, I hate the goddess Hecate. I mean, don't get me wrong, I am a female alright and I definitely agree with how the author express the independance of women. But I think what Hecate said (especially when she asked Mikado to think and don't act like a man)is just way over. I mean, what does that mean? You are a man and you just naturally can't think? I know most of the men (heavy on the "most of") now rarel...more
The book was nice
I mean the whole woman being independent was my most favourite part
I like Mikki's attitude when she gave that Arnold or watever his name was a piece of her mind
The whole section with erotic dreams was also fine
I think during writing P.C. Cast got so involved in the romance parts of the book she completely forgot about the whole story altogether
I mean a little more of the evil guys would have been nice
According to the Gaurdian Hate never died and that he would've have been back s...more
I mean the whole woman being independent was my most favourite part
I like Mikki's attitude when she gave that Arnold or watever his name was a piece of her mind
The whole section with erotic dreams was also fine
I think during writing P.C. Cast got so involved in the romance parts of the book she completely forgot about the whole story altogether
I mean a little more of the evil guys would have been nice
According to the Gaurdian Hate never died and that he would've have been back s...more
Mar 04, 2010
Holly
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
P. C. Cast fans and Hecate worshipers
Recommended to Holly by:
good luck with Cast's Goddess series
It is phenomenally slow to to get into. I only continued to read as far as I did, p. 75 because of the respect I have to P. C. Cast's previous books in the series. At p. 75, I told my self that I was going to give the book 10 more pages before I stopped reading all together. The initial characters are a bit on the dull and whiny side.
p.264 whew.The New Priestess of Hecate is in mortal peril. He new lover is supposed to sacrifice her at Beltane. Hecate is going to be pissed, because the Guardian...more
p.264 whew.The New Priestess of Hecate is in mortal peril. He new lover is supposed to sacrifice her at Beltane. Hecate is going to be pissed, because the Guardian...more
this was the first goddess summoning book I ever read and when I realised how good this one was, I had to read the rest
I love very much how PC Cast made the story her own, and even though parts of the myth were still buried in the story, her fresh take made it completely different and almost like something I have never heard before, I like that Helen, the woman who is supposed to have caused the war, is hardly mentioned and that we only catch a glimpse of het before the story focuses again on Ac...more
I love very much how PC Cast made the story her own, and even though parts of the myth were still buried in the story, her fresh take made it completely different and almost like something I have never heard before, I like that Helen, the woman who is supposed to have caused the war, is hardly mentioned and that we only catch a glimpse of het before the story focuses again on Ac...more
This is a retelling of story about Beauty and the Beast. Story was alright and it was not my favourite from this series. I found that it took for ever, more than half of the book, for something to happen between the Guardian and Mikado. I did not find It as romantic as some of the other books from the series.
This book did not appeal to me, but I kept reading it because I wanted to know what happens to Mikado and the Guardian. Story of Beauty and the Beast was always one of my favourite fairy ta...more
This book did not appeal to me, but I kept reading it because I wanted to know what happens to Mikado and the Guardian. Story of Beauty and the Beast was always one of my favourite fairy ta...more
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This book was really weird but good. I guess. Sometimes it just dragged on and the middle was kinda slow but it was OK. I think the ending could have been a little better just like some of her other books but it was still satisfying. It was an easy read of about 3 hours.
O. My. Word. I enjoyed every bit of this floozy romance novel, even the last few pages that probably found their way into this book from a Bollywood movie script.
I love mythology, and being more partial to the Norse and Greek versions, this was perfect Saturday company.
What's not to love? Flowers - check. Magic - check. A perfect world - check. Fantastic creatures and foul monsters - check. Fun, yet obedient handmaidens - check. A heroine with a great body image, who eats cheese and cookies - c...more
I love mythology, and being more partial to the Norse and Greek versions, this was perfect Saturday company.
What's not to love? Flowers - check. Magic - check. A perfect world - check. Fantastic creatures and foul monsters - check. Fun, yet obedient handmaidens - check. A heroine with a great body image, who eats cheese and cookies - c...more
The things I loved about this novel.
1. Mikki and The Guardian (dont wanna spoil anything n____n
OH EM GEE. I LOVED THIS BEAUTY AND THE BEAST RELATIONSHIP. It was so wonderful and heartwarming although sometimes it seriously frightened eveme. It was truly breathtaking to see both of them overcome their wounds and difficulties.
2. SETTING.
Thought'd it be another Greek or Roman setting. It was a pleasant surprise :>
And um. This book really satisfied me, although not as much as the first few.....more
1. Mikki and The Guardian (dont wanna spoil anything n____n
OH EM GEE. I LOVED THIS BEAUTY AND THE BEAST RELATIONSHIP. It was so wonderful and heartwarming although sometimes it seriously frightened eveme. It was truly breathtaking to see both of them overcome their wounds and difficulties.
2. SETTING.
Thought'd it be another Greek or Roman setting. It was a pleasant surprise :>
And um. This book really satisfied me, although not as much as the first few.....more
Yaa bu P.C cast'ın bu serisi güzelde artık aynı tarz olması sıktı açıkçası.. Bi ritüel yapıp farklı boyuta geçmeler.. Orda aşık olmalar.. Sonra bir şekilde dünyaya dönüp biraz zaman geçirdikten sonra tekrar biraraya gelmeler... Bu da aynısıydı :P
Ama Gül diyarı hoşuma gitti.. Kahramaınız Mikado (Mikki)'yi de sevdim.. Herşey güzel de boynuzlu, toynaklı yarı minatour gibi olan Koruyucu'ya nasıl öyle aşık oldu anlamadım :S Tamam dış görünüş çok önemli değil o mesajı vermeye çalışmış yazar da bayağı...more
Ama Gül diyarı hoşuma gitti.. Kahramaınız Mikado (Mikki)'yi de sevdim.. Herşey güzel de boynuzlu, toynaklı yarı minatour gibi olan Koruyucu'ya nasıl öyle aşık oldu anlamadım :S Tamam dış görünüş çok önemli değil o mesajı vermeye çalışmış yazar da bayağı...more
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How could you not love a book about a woman who loves roses who finds herself as the high priestess to Hecate and in charge of bring the Realm of the Roses back to life. Mikado Empousai is named after a rose, the Mikado rose, but everyone calls her Mikki. She has no idea that her last name is the official title of the priestess of the Realm of the Roses. Nor does she know that the blood she adds to the water with which she uses to nurture her roses stems from a tradition in the Realm. Erotic dre...more
'This book is for everyone who fell in love with the Beast and then was truly disappinted when he turned into a handsome prince'. the dedication at the front says it all.
this book is pure beauty. However anyone who has read a P C Cast book may find a lot of repetition; her heros are all about women empowerment, her rituals have already been described in many of her other books in a hundred different words, the same ideas seep into all of her books, but it is written as pure magic. totally un-put...more
this book is pure beauty. However anyone who has read a P C Cast book may find a lot of repetition; her heros are all about women empowerment, her rituals have already been described in many of her other books in a hundred different words, the same ideas seep into all of her books, but it is written as pure magic. totally un-put...more
I love that P.C. Cast makes a reference to Wilbur Smith's books. It made me smile this morning and it was a good way to begin my day. I enjoyed the book, but it wasn't as interesting to me as the previous ones. Apollo and Hades appeal to me more than the Minotaur. While I am intrigued by the Minotaur, I think it's the fact that throughout the previous books the reader has been able to connect more with the male character since she provides you with scenes from their perspective. While it happens...more
Oh my goodness gracious! This novel was quite excellent. I loved every aspect of it. It was a refresher for my mythology that's for sure. What I really loved about Mikki was that some of us could easily relate to her. To herself and many she seemed average, but truly place her in a setting where the inner beauty needs to be thrown out then you have the true Mikki! It's magical! Kudos to P.C Cast and her marvelous writing. The Goddess Hectate was described so well. I could just imagine her coy an...more
I adore this book! It has become my all time favourite retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
Basically Mikado other wise known as Mikki is unlucky in love and lives a normal life expect one thing... her blood has the power to make rose's live and blossom beautifully. Mikki's gift has been passed down from the women in her family.
One day Mikki unknowingly casts a spell to summon the goddess Hecate and her guardian Beast.
Hecate brings Mikki to The Realm of the Rose. This other world is full of magi...more
Basically Mikado other wise known as Mikki is unlucky in love and lives a normal life expect one thing... her blood has the power to make rose's live and blossom beautifully. Mikki's gift has been passed down from the women in her family.
One day Mikki unknowingly casts a spell to summon the goddess Hecate and her guardian Beast.
Hecate brings Mikki to The Realm of the Rose. This other world is full of magi...more
it was kool id give it 3 because when i read books i love the twists. the more complicated the better. and this book had twists but not big enough to really be called amazng. but i do love the main guy. hehe i guess ill always be into those guys that are seriously hot powerful but quiver under their loves touches. omigosh i like rough love. whenever u have to go through much pain to get what you want. didnt really like it when he cried. made him look too childish when he definetly wasnt. oh and...more
As usual, i adored this book from PC Cast! I'm not a fan of the House of Night series, but Goddess Summonings are definitely one of my favourites!
This story is a beautiful retelling of Beauty and the Beast, one of my favourite childhood stories, mixed with Greek Mythology; absolute love and win!
I have to say, this story went along swimmingly, and to be all honest, I didn't expect the twists and turns at all! Goddess of the Rose and Goddess of Spring definitely rival out of my favourite romance n...more
This story is a beautiful retelling of Beauty and the Beast, one of my favourite childhood stories, mixed with Greek Mythology; absolute love and win!
I have to say, this story went along swimmingly, and to be all honest, I didn't expect the twists and turns at all! Goddess of the Rose and Goddess of Spring definitely rival out of my favourite romance n...more
I loved this book. I loved Mikki as a character and as a woman. I liked the choices she made, for example, her choosing the beast in his beast form to him being mortal and in her mundane realm, but as something lesser than the form he was when she fell in love with him. I loved the way she explained the value of women's writing to the jerk she goes on a date with. I loved the way she flirted with her gay friend. I just liked her humour and wit and the way she tries to do what she thinks is right...more
In P. C. Casts 4th installment of Goddess of Summoning, she tells the tale Beauty and the Beast with the goddess of choice: Hecate. Mikki (aka Beauty) gets sucked into the “Relam of the Rose” by accidentally summoning Hecate. It’s then told that Mikki’s family line gives drops of blood in order to fuel a garden full of the finest roses.
The first thing I’m going to say is: Bestiality. Yes lady and gents, the book has bestiality in it. He’s described as a minotaur (part man part bull), mostly cove...more
The first thing I’m going to say is: Bestiality. Yes lady and gents, the book has bestiality in it. He’s described as a minotaur (part man part bull), mostly cove...more
This author writes of the strength and independence of women. Unlike other authors, she never portrays them as weak and inferior creatures. I love that about her books and it's a refreshing balm to my female psyche. This year (2012) women are being disrespected in the media because of the strong influences of political pundits and extremist religious groups. Politicians flow with whatever group is likely to get them elected. The extremist religious groups, however, would have women return to the...more
Beauty and the Beast was one of my favourite Disney movies as a kid (it has epic music – Angela Lansbury and the little Teacup singing ‘Beauty and the Beast’ – oh I love that song!) though the beast at the beginning always scared me (and since re-watching as an adult – well Gaston was akin to a stalker now wasn’t he?). I actually hadn’t realized the age of the story of the beautiful girl and the rose and the beast and the witch and all that, and it was only in picking up this book that I learnt...more
My First P.C. Cast book and I was not disappointed.
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I admit I was a little intimidated by reading anything by P.C. Cast solely because of the huge amount of books she has (and I own). Equals part fear of disappointment, and equal parts fear that I would love her writing.
It was great!
Mikado aka Mikki, named after a rose, has grown a passion for roses, this is fueled by a family tradition where she has developed a special gift for tending her Rose...more
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I admit I was a little intimidated by reading anything by P.C. Cast solely because of the huge amount of books she has (and I own). Equals part fear of disappointment, and equal parts fear that I would love her writing.
It was great!
Mikado aka Mikki, named after a rose, has grown a passion for roses, this is fueled by a family tradition where she has developed a special gift for tending her Rose...more
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P.C. Cast was born in the Midwestern United States, and grew up being shuttled back-and-forth between Illinois and Oklahoma, which is where she fell in love with Quarter Horses and mythology (at about the same time). After high school she joined the United States Air Force and began public speaking and writing. With her tour in the USAF completed, she taught high school for 15 years before retirin...more
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