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Tales of the Citadel #22
Rain of Tears
After centuries of waiting, Rain has an opportunity to retrieve a creation that she designed and it means far more than a simple machine should. Her memories are wound around the weather machine and it has been used to destroy the natural order of Jarko.When she completes her introduction to the local mayor, he ends up leaving office suddenly and his replacement is first a member of the Citadel before he is acting mayor. He is more than willing to help her with the weather machine. Of course, being from the Citadel, there will be a price, but Rain has learned that there always is when it is for something she really wants.
90 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 1, 2013
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February 13, 2015
Oh! This one is so good. The hereon is utterly self assured. Her superpowers kickass and she is hella smart. The hero is a beta and I love their dynamic as they become a couple. Wonderful romance and world building topped off by a great epilogue.
This ends the mini-series of the three clone goddesses within the Citadel. Good stuff.
This ends the mini-series of the three clone goddesses within the Citadel. Good stuff.
March 19, 2017
3 stars.
The last of the clone goddess - Rain. She's a lot more down-to-earth than the previous two and knows how to relate to people. A pity she has no concept of time though and left her weather-machine child and lover for so long. Glad she got her HEA.
The last of the clone goddess - Rain. She's a lot more down-to-earth than the previous two and knows how to relate to people. A pity she has no concept of time though and left her weather-machine child and lover for so long. Glad she got her HEA.
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June 19, 2013
Long ago, the heroine “Rain” (alternatively known as Reyan) was created by an alien race to be their goddess of, well, rain. Later on, she built a machine which could create weather systems, and someone got their hands on it, turning in to selfish purposes and creating hardship across the world of Jarko. She’s finally come to try to take control of the city that’s misusing her machine and get it back into proper hands. While there, she meets Unrik who becomes the temporary mayor after Reyan handles the mayor situation. After some tweaking to the city’s structure, they move on to the Citadel, which is (I believe) a planet-sized city that rules the galactic empire, or some such. It was kind of murky how the Citadel rules anything or anyone.
I wanted to like this book, I really did. But I just never connected with anything. There never seemed to be any true challenge for Reyan and Unrik to rise up against. Pretty much she thinks she needs something done…and poof. It’s done. There’s absolutely no tension in this book. None. Neither is there much sense of growth in either character. So very disappointing.
Nor was there really any sense of a growing relationship, or at least feelings, between Unrik. Like the world itself, there was nothing standing between the two of them getting together. For Ms. Grace to have written so many books, clearly she touches a chord with readers out there. It is apparently not a chord I appreciate, given my lackluster interest in this (and a prior) book.
I think this sort of book will appeal to anyone who wants some good world building. Ms. Grace excels at it, really gives you the feel of alternate worlds and different forms of life. No matter what else I might think about her writing, I will not sell her short on world-building.
I wanted to like this book, I really did. But I just never connected with anything. There never seemed to be any true challenge for Reyan and Unrik to rise up against. Pretty much she thinks she needs something done…and poof. It’s done. There’s absolutely no tension in this book. None. Neither is there much sense of growth in either character. So very disappointing.
Nor was there really any sense of a growing relationship, or at least feelings, between Unrik. Like the world itself, there was nothing standing between the two of them getting together. For Ms. Grace to have written so many books, clearly she touches a chord with readers out there. It is apparently not a chord I appreciate, given my lackluster interest in this (and a prior) book.
I think this sort of book will appeal to anyone who wants some good world building. Ms. Grace excels at it, really gives you the feel of alternate worlds and different forms of life. No matter what else I might think about her writing, I will not sell her short on world-building.
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