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The Child of the Erinyes #6-7
When the Moon Whispers, First & Second Chronicle
Book Seven, The Child of the Erinyes series. Epic fantasy inspired by the myth of Ariadne, Theseus, and the Minotaur.
Where to begin?
Betrayal.
When the second moon came, women lost their minds. They had to be quarantined for everyone's safety.
I promised to join the others in Quarantine as a sign of solidarity and my trust in the process. It was because of my reassurances that the majority of women turned themselves in.
My husband agreed. I had to go. We discussed it, how important it was.
He would send me in.
Would he let me come out?
***************************************
The saga that began in the Bronze Age returns to a dark, dystopian future.
It is written in prophecy: Seven labyrinths shalt thou wander, lost, and thou too wilt forget me.
Each incarnation has inched Athene's chosen mortals closer, ever closer, to this one.
The Seventh Labyrinth
L’ombre Moon. Trickster Moon. Shadow Moon. Sly Moon.
At the end of oblivion lies hope, and only she can find it.
A note to readers from the author: This is Book Seven of an interconnected reincarnation series. The first three books, set in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, tell the story of Aridela and the two Mycenaean brothers in three main arcs: while arc one is completed in Book One, arc two is completed in Book Two, and arc three is completed in Book Three, many secondary arcs and nuances of the overall series plot are NOT resolved, but carry on from book to book.
I liken it to the weaving of a tapestry, wherein I gradually add colors, patterns, and intricacy as the work progresses. Those who prefer a story to be completely told and resolved in one volume will probably want to pass on The Child of the Erinyes.
Where to begin?
Betrayal.
When the second moon came, women lost their minds. They had to be quarantined for everyone's safety.
I promised to join the others in Quarantine as a sign of solidarity and my trust in the process. It was because of my reassurances that the majority of women turned themselves in.
My husband agreed. I had to go. We discussed it, how important it was.
He would send me in.
Would he let me come out?
***************************************
The saga that began in the Bronze Age returns to a dark, dystopian future.
It is written in prophecy: Seven labyrinths shalt thou wander, lost, and thou too wilt forget me.
Each incarnation has inched Athene's chosen mortals closer, ever closer, to this one.
The Seventh Labyrinth
L’ombre Moon. Trickster Moon. Shadow Moon. Sly Moon.
At the end of oblivion lies hope, and only she can find it.
A note to readers from the author: This is Book Seven of an interconnected reincarnation series. The first three books, set in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, tell the story of Aridela and the two Mycenaean brothers in three main arcs: while arc one is completed in Book One, arc two is completed in Book Two, and arc three is completed in Book Three, many secondary arcs and nuances of the overall series plot are NOT resolved, but carry on from book to book.
I liken it to the weaving of a tapestry, wherein I gradually add colors, patterns, and intricacy as the work progresses. Those who prefer a story to be completely told and resolved in one volume will probably want to pass on The Child of the Erinyes.
1002 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 8, 2022
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About the author
Rebecca Lochlann
15 books61 followersThe series is complete! All nine books (and some boxed sets) are published and available, including a box set of the entire series.
The Child of the Erinyes is a nine-book journey (Goodreads calls it 8, but it's actually 9) spanning nearly 4000 years: beginning in the Mediterranean Bronze Age, it follows the lives of a woman and two men as they are reborn seven times through history.
The author envisions her epic story as a new kind of myth, one built upon the foundation of the Greek classics, and continuing through the centuries right up to now and the future.
It has become her life's work to complete the series, though she didn't exactly intend it to be that way when she began.
Lochlann categorizes The Child of the Erinyes series as mythic fantasy, inspired by the myth of Ariadne, Theseus, and the Minotaur.
The Year-god's Daughter, book one of the series, is followed by The Thinara King, which precedes book three, In the Moon of Asterion. The series doesn't end there. Book four, a novella, The Moon Casts a Spell, is next; it introduces book five, The Sixth Labyrinth. Falcon Blue jumps back in time again to the magical Arthurian age. When the Moon Whispers, told in two books, and Swimming in the Rainbow take the reader forward in time to an uneasy dystopian future.
Thank you to everyone who has read my books and left their thoughts. It is much appreciated.
Lochlann believes that certain individuals, either blessed or tortured, voluntarily or involuntarily, are woven by fate (or the Immortals) into the labyrinth of time, and that deities sometimes speak to us through dreams and visions, gently prompting us to tell their lost stories.
Who knows? It could make a difference.
The Child of the Erinyes is a nine-book journey (Goodreads calls it 8, but it's actually 9) spanning nearly 4000 years: beginning in the Mediterranean Bronze Age, it follows the lives of a woman and two men as they are reborn seven times through history.
The author envisions her epic story as a new kind of myth, one built upon the foundation of the Greek classics, and continuing through the centuries right up to now and the future.
It has become her life's work to complete the series, though she didn't exactly intend it to be that way when she began.
Lochlann categorizes The Child of the Erinyes series as mythic fantasy, inspired by the myth of Ariadne, Theseus, and the Minotaur.
The Year-god's Daughter, book one of the series, is followed by The Thinara King, which precedes book three, In the Moon of Asterion. The series doesn't end there. Book four, a novella, The Moon Casts a Spell, is next; it introduces book five, The Sixth Labyrinth. Falcon Blue jumps back in time again to the magical Arthurian age. When the Moon Whispers, told in two books, and Swimming in the Rainbow take the reader forward in time to an uneasy dystopian future.
Thank you to everyone who has read my books and left their thoughts. It is much appreciated.
Lochlann believes that certain individuals, either blessed or tortured, voluntarily or involuntarily, are woven by fate (or the Immortals) into the labyrinth of time, and that deities sometimes speak to us through dreams and visions, gently prompting us to tell their lost stories.
Who knows? It could make a difference.
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April 10, 2022
Brilliant and Dramatic.
I was immediately drawn into this epic series, by the first book, which takes place in Bronze Age Greece. I was entranced by the unusual combination of outstanding historical research, excellent writing style, intriguing characters and exciting theme. Since then, and I have been eagerly following the progress of this saga of a battle between the forces of matriarchy and patriarchy.
I was looking forward to this latest, which clearly was going to have the definitiveclash between the protagonists. I am happy to say that it brings the underlying conflict of the earlier books to an explosive, harrowing, cathartic and satisfying conclusion.
I wrote of the ending of the third book in the Greek part of the series, ‘In the Moon of Asterion’ that the climatic ending there was ‘like a series of fireworks set off’. That if even more true in this one. I anticipate, but want to assure the reader that she or he won’t be disappointed.
Back in Bronze Age Crete, the patriarchal invader, the hubristic and swaggeringly macho Prince of Mycenae Chrysaleon, was given the choice between joining the matriarchal Queen Aridela in progressing humanity’s future towards peace and co-operation between male and female, or defying the will of the Goddess Athene and playing a key part in plunging it into suffering, conflict and the oppression of woman.
He was too obsessed with power to be able to resist the latter course. Aided by his determined toady, the magically skilled Alixaire,he schemed to overthrow female rule in Crete. The youthful and gullible Aridela allowed herself to be blinded by her infatuation with him into falling for his schemes. Though drawn by her equally strong feelings for his illegitimate half-brother Menoetius – who inherited faith in the Goddess religion from his sorceress mother – Aridela allows herself to stay oblivious to Chrysaleon’s devious schemes, fired by his underlying contempt for all women but herself. She choses him above Menoetius, as the austure warrior, terribly scarred from a savaging by a lion, could not rival Chrysaleon’s appeal for a young girl.
Certainly, the two half-brothers were strangely linked even before birth, seemingly conceived in tandem on the same night, with hints of some form of sorcery by Menoetius’ s mother, and born during a terrible thunder storm. Sometimes they seem like two falsely opposing halves of one coin:
“She used the holy mushroom, that which priestesses call cara. She dried it, ground it up, and mixed it into the barley cake Idómeneus shared with his queen every evening. Deep in the night, she slipped into their bed and woke them with kisses. Idómeneus bragged about it.He said his queen awakened him desiring love, and that Sorcha joined them; though the queen hated her and wanted her dead, that night she kissed Sorcha, and both women together pleasured him. He laughed about it, and said he wasn’t sure if it was real...’
This linked fate is a theme that will repeat itself constantly through the incarnations through which these three must pass as reincarnations of these three original personalities.Athene has willed that history, propelled on its way by the mistaken decisions of these three initiators, must now follow its course until they all embrace their true destiny.
Chrysaleon and Alistaire, who in ancient Crete killed Aridela, Menoetius and Selene, Aridela’s Amazonian warrior protector, were cursed by Athene through Selene and Aridela’s late father, Damesen: ‘Betrayal cannot come from nothing...It weaves backward and forward, in and out of the thread of life and death, of faith and love, envy and desire. This future will only come to pass if the child is first deceived by those to whom she gives her trust.’
‘You and your master shall wander. Glimpses of joy shall be ripped from you. You will beg for death, but death will refuse you. You will follow...and follow without end.’
‘You have set this world upon its path, and so you will live it. You will watch it unfold, and you alone will remember everything that you have done. Until you honour your vow, you will carry the burden of your deceptions, and they will grow heavy.’
Through seven lives, the reincarnated Chrysaleon sets himself against Athene and female power. Through many lifetimes he furthers the repression against it and schemes, always opposed by the former Menoetius. Always, he is drawn to the former Aridela. She always remains, as the goddess decrees, unable to see his basic contempt for women. Neither she, nor Menoetius, are granted memories of their previous lives. While memories of their previous existence and the role of Athene in their fate seems to give Chrysaleon and Alixaire, besides mental torture and advantage, he has never, as predicted, succeeded in finding happiness, while the servile Alixaire has always followed Chrystaleon ‘like a wrinkled gnome’, furthering his aims to the point of murder.
Others join in this epic struggle. Themiste, the once oracle of Crete, must make up for her own formercowardice in not admitting her own part in Chrysaleon’s betrayal. The reincarnated bodyguard Selene has never wavered in her courage and dedication to Athene.
Another individual joins them in every life. The sadistic once Prince of Tyre, Harpalycus, uses black magic to shift from body to body and to add misery and suffering to the world in general, and Athene’s three chosen instruments in particular.
This latest – penultimate, but largely climatic – episode of the saga takes place in a dystopian society fifty years in the future. The former Chrysaleon is now Raphael Konstantinou, a close advisor of the US president. Though he only regains his memory belatedly in this lifetime, he is has obviously been driven by unconscious memories to further his goal of destroying female power. Now, heis near to succeeding.
This is not all his own doing; he has been aided in this by the now President Novikov of the all powerful coalition of Ukrus, who through the use of secret weapons, has intimidated the former western world – save for a few ‘independent territories’ into falling in with his plans for world domination, and the total subjugation of women. In fact, Novikov takes his plans for the destruction of female independence further than Raphael Konstantinou ever intended, and such is his power that he cannot be opposed.
The once Queen in her own right, Aridela is in this lifetime Rafe’s compliant wife Erin– with the help of a little mood calming from pills. Even with those, Erin finds it hard to accept the controlling ways of her mother-in-law from Hades –Cordelia (who unlike the Cordelia in ‘King Lear’ does not stand up to an overbearing patriarch). They have a daughter. A terrible form of lunacy has unaccountably started attacking all women. Erin, as Rafe’s wife, is involved in the campaign to persuade them to surrender themselves to quarantine.
But then, something happens which causes her to flee her palatial home. Wandering dazed after a car crash, she runs into Rafe’s detested younger brother, Will, now living an almost hermit like existence in a cabin in the woods about Mount Sneffles. Erin finds herself unable to go back, for all that she desperately misses her daughter, and stays away for over twenty years.
When circumstances beyond her control force her to return – by means of some hideous experiences – it is to a terrible USA ruled by a grotesquely distorted form of evangelical Christianity. Erin is staggered. Somehow, she must fight this. But how, as one woman against the world? Aided by visits to the artefacts from Ancient Greece which Rafe seems almost compelled to collect, Erin’s memories begin to return, and even as she begins to realise the extent of Rafe/Chrysaleon’s treachery through the ages, she also understands that she is not alone.
But the path ahead is hard, ‘harder than you can imagine.’ Before Erin the ‘housefrau’ can become Erin the Erinyes, she must suffer abuse of every sort, and terrible bereavement: only then caqn she attempt to fulfil the role given to her by the Goddess Athene. Through the enslaved US of a dystopian future, through Crete, through Scotland, through struggles on the astral plane, ErinThe Erinyes, and other champions of Athene – fight against this new, dystopic world order. They fight apathy and hostility from women, assassins, killings, grief and brainwashing attempts. Just as in their former lives there were many betrayals, echoes of those of the Bronze Age, so there are in this one. Even the truth of Chrysaleon’s repeated oath, that he would love Aridela, ‘For as long as the pyramids stand in Egypt’ acquires ironic emphasis in this battle.
This epic struggle and transformative process will finally take Erin to the strangest of worlds: ‘The air moved through my hair like a sigh. The heavens above us resembled a wet watercolour. The sand was silky and lustrous, like lights were shining underneath.’
I regard ‘The Child of the Erinyes’ as a unique achievement. This book, which resolves many of the issues created by the original series of faulty decisions on the part of the protagonists and other characters, fulfils the promise of the escalating tension inthe other novels.
In this lifetime, too, the once Aridela, Chrysaleon and Menoetius most resemble their old selves physically – which emphasizes the huge chasm between what they once were, and what they have become.
Followers of the series will have noted the enjoyable humorous touches the author inserts. One of these is that in his return in this life, the wrinkled old slave Alexaire is now a woman, who desires the former Chrysaleon as much as ever...
Finally, I’d like to say that I feel smug about foreseeing the outcome of one of these age-old conflict of loyalties, but I won’t put any more, as I don’t want to write a spoiler.
I was immediately drawn into this epic series, by the first book, which takes place in Bronze Age Greece. I was entranced by the unusual combination of outstanding historical research, excellent writing style, intriguing characters and exciting theme. Since then, and I have been eagerly following the progress of this saga of a battle between the forces of matriarchy and patriarchy.
I was looking forward to this latest, which clearly was going to have the definitiveclash between the protagonists. I am happy to say that it brings the underlying conflict of the earlier books to an explosive, harrowing, cathartic and satisfying conclusion.
I wrote of the ending of the third book in the Greek part of the series, ‘In the Moon of Asterion’ that the climatic ending there was ‘like a series of fireworks set off’. That if even more true in this one. I anticipate, but want to assure the reader that she or he won’t be disappointed.
Back in Bronze Age Crete, the patriarchal invader, the hubristic and swaggeringly macho Prince of Mycenae Chrysaleon, was given the choice between joining the matriarchal Queen Aridela in progressing humanity’s future towards peace and co-operation between male and female, or defying the will of the Goddess Athene and playing a key part in plunging it into suffering, conflict and the oppression of woman.
He was too obsessed with power to be able to resist the latter course. Aided by his determined toady, the magically skilled Alixaire,he schemed to overthrow female rule in Crete. The youthful and gullible Aridela allowed herself to be blinded by her infatuation with him into falling for his schemes. Though drawn by her equally strong feelings for his illegitimate half-brother Menoetius – who inherited faith in the Goddess religion from his sorceress mother – Aridela allows herself to stay oblivious to Chrysaleon’s devious schemes, fired by his underlying contempt for all women but herself. She choses him above Menoetius, as the austure warrior, terribly scarred from a savaging by a lion, could not rival Chrysaleon’s appeal for a young girl.
Certainly, the two half-brothers were strangely linked even before birth, seemingly conceived in tandem on the same night, with hints of some form of sorcery by Menoetius’ s mother, and born during a terrible thunder storm. Sometimes they seem like two falsely opposing halves of one coin:
“She used the holy mushroom, that which priestesses call cara. She dried it, ground it up, and mixed it into the barley cake Idómeneus shared with his queen every evening. Deep in the night, she slipped into their bed and woke them with kisses. Idómeneus bragged about it.He said his queen awakened him desiring love, and that Sorcha joined them; though the queen hated her and wanted her dead, that night she kissed Sorcha, and both women together pleasured him. He laughed about it, and said he wasn’t sure if it was real...’
This linked fate is a theme that will repeat itself constantly through the incarnations through which these three must pass as reincarnations of these three original personalities.Athene has willed that history, propelled on its way by the mistaken decisions of these three initiators, must now follow its course until they all embrace their true destiny.
Chrysaleon and Alistaire, who in ancient Crete killed Aridela, Menoetius and Selene, Aridela’s Amazonian warrior protector, were cursed by Athene through Selene and Aridela’s late father, Damesen: ‘Betrayal cannot come from nothing...It weaves backward and forward, in and out of the thread of life and death, of faith and love, envy and desire. This future will only come to pass if the child is first deceived by those to whom she gives her trust.’
‘You and your master shall wander. Glimpses of joy shall be ripped from you. You will beg for death, but death will refuse you. You will follow...and follow without end.’
‘You have set this world upon its path, and so you will live it. You will watch it unfold, and you alone will remember everything that you have done. Until you honour your vow, you will carry the burden of your deceptions, and they will grow heavy.’
Through seven lives, the reincarnated Chrysaleon sets himself against Athene and female power. Through many lifetimes he furthers the repression against it and schemes, always opposed by the former Menoetius. Always, he is drawn to the former Aridela. She always remains, as the goddess decrees, unable to see his basic contempt for women. Neither she, nor Menoetius, are granted memories of their previous lives. While memories of their previous existence and the role of Athene in their fate seems to give Chrysaleon and Alixaire, besides mental torture and advantage, he has never, as predicted, succeeded in finding happiness, while the servile Alixaire has always followed Chrystaleon ‘like a wrinkled gnome’, furthering his aims to the point of murder.
Others join in this epic struggle. Themiste, the once oracle of Crete, must make up for her own formercowardice in not admitting her own part in Chrysaleon’s betrayal. The reincarnated bodyguard Selene has never wavered in her courage and dedication to Athene.
Another individual joins them in every life. The sadistic once Prince of Tyre, Harpalycus, uses black magic to shift from body to body and to add misery and suffering to the world in general, and Athene’s three chosen instruments in particular.
This latest – penultimate, but largely climatic – episode of the saga takes place in a dystopian society fifty years in the future. The former Chrysaleon is now Raphael Konstantinou, a close advisor of the US president. Though he only regains his memory belatedly in this lifetime, he is has obviously been driven by unconscious memories to further his goal of destroying female power. Now, heis near to succeeding.
This is not all his own doing; he has been aided in this by the now President Novikov of the all powerful coalition of Ukrus, who through the use of secret weapons, has intimidated the former western world – save for a few ‘independent territories’ into falling in with his plans for world domination, and the total subjugation of women. In fact, Novikov takes his plans for the destruction of female independence further than Raphael Konstantinou ever intended, and such is his power that he cannot be opposed.
The once Queen in her own right, Aridela is in this lifetime Rafe’s compliant wife Erin– with the help of a little mood calming from pills. Even with those, Erin finds it hard to accept the controlling ways of her mother-in-law from Hades –Cordelia (who unlike the Cordelia in ‘King Lear’ does not stand up to an overbearing patriarch). They have a daughter. A terrible form of lunacy has unaccountably started attacking all women. Erin, as Rafe’s wife, is involved in the campaign to persuade them to surrender themselves to quarantine.
But then, something happens which causes her to flee her palatial home. Wandering dazed after a car crash, she runs into Rafe’s detested younger brother, Will, now living an almost hermit like existence in a cabin in the woods about Mount Sneffles. Erin finds herself unable to go back, for all that she desperately misses her daughter, and stays away for over twenty years.
When circumstances beyond her control force her to return – by means of some hideous experiences – it is to a terrible USA ruled by a grotesquely distorted form of evangelical Christianity. Erin is staggered. Somehow, she must fight this. But how, as one woman against the world? Aided by visits to the artefacts from Ancient Greece which Rafe seems almost compelled to collect, Erin’s memories begin to return, and even as she begins to realise the extent of Rafe/Chrysaleon’s treachery through the ages, she also understands that she is not alone.
But the path ahead is hard, ‘harder than you can imagine.’ Before Erin the ‘housefrau’ can become Erin the Erinyes, she must suffer abuse of every sort, and terrible bereavement: only then caqn she attempt to fulfil the role given to her by the Goddess Athene. Through the enslaved US of a dystopian future, through Crete, through Scotland, through struggles on the astral plane, ErinThe Erinyes, and other champions of Athene – fight against this new, dystopic world order. They fight apathy and hostility from women, assassins, killings, grief and brainwashing attempts. Just as in their former lives there were many betrayals, echoes of those of the Bronze Age, so there are in this one. Even the truth of Chrysaleon’s repeated oath, that he would love Aridela, ‘For as long as the pyramids stand in Egypt’ acquires ironic emphasis in this battle.
This epic struggle and transformative process will finally take Erin to the strangest of worlds: ‘The air moved through my hair like a sigh. The heavens above us resembled a wet watercolour. The sand was silky and lustrous, like lights were shining underneath.’
I regard ‘The Child of the Erinyes’ as a unique achievement. This book, which resolves many of the issues created by the original series of faulty decisions on the part of the protagonists and other characters, fulfils the promise of the escalating tension inthe other novels.
In this lifetime, too, the once Aridela, Chrysaleon and Menoetius most resemble their old selves physically – which emphasizes the huge chasm between what they once were, and what they have become.
Followers of the series will have noted the enjoyable humorous touches the author inserts. One of these is that in his return in this life, the wrinkled old slave Alexaire is now a woman, who desires the former Chrysaleon as much as ever...
Finally, I’d like to say that I feel smug about foreseeing the outcome of one of these age-old conflict of loyalties, but I won’t put any more, as I don’t want to write a spoiler.
April 4, 2022
Thou wilt step upon the earth seven times, far into the veiled future…
Here we are 7 lives later, far into the veiled future with all our well known characters.
Aridela, Chrysaleon, Menoetius, Selene, Themiste, Alexiare, Harpylacus and others…
Suffering and despair shall be thy nourishment. Misery shall poison thy blood; thou wilt breathe the air of slavery, for as long as thou art blinded.
Never has Athene’s prophecy been so vividly exposed as in this life. It is a bleak universe described here, in terms of world order almost a premonition of what we, free world, face today.
There are times when so much suffering seems too much for Erin/Aridela(and indeed nearly the entire feminine gender), we wonder how she can take it, how they all can, yet they do, for Rebecca Lochlann’s women are not portrayed as frail little flowers, instead they’re remarkably strong, even when they don’t know it. And faith never dies, not really…
This time Erin may start blindfolded, still the blind slips fairly early in the story (although she is protected from it for a while).
Once she sees, she no longer believes Chrysaleon/Rafe unquestionably (nor the world she lives in for that matter…), she is of her own mind, and as soon as this happens, she becomes who/what she´s supposed to be …for thou art the earth, blessed and eternal… and Thou wilt generate inexhaustible adoration and contempt; until these opposites are united, all will strangle within the void.
United they become in the end.
Oh Chrysaleon, I’ve always considered him one of my favourite characters on the series due to his complexity. To me he’s L’Enfant terrible of the story. In fact, for most of this life, I find him even worse, as he takes his controlling personality to a whole new level… and yet I pity him, I can’t help it. I just feel so much sorrow for him, though in the end he finally fulfills his destiny…
Menoetius role is almost omnipresent this time, even when he’s not there he still is Aridela’s life companion, her safe harbor, his love never wavering, ever accepting of whom she is and on her side for what she needs to became.
In my opinion, these two characters dichotomy is resolved perfectly in this book.
Harpylacus ending is also something which gave me much pleasure to read, such a fitting fate… Alexiare was another who deserved all he got…
And the triad’s fate, what a joy it gave me!
I’ve been following this series for a while, now that it’s near the end I almost feel sorry for it and yet can’t wait for the next eighth book.
Here we are 7 lives later, far into the veiled future with all our well known characters.
Aridela, Chrysaleon, Menoetius, Selene, Themiste, Alexiare, Harpylacus and others…
Suffering and despair shall be thy nourishment. Misery shall poison thy blood; thou wilt breathe the air of slavery, for as long as thou art blinded.
Never has Athene’s prophecy been so vividly exposed as in this life. It is a bleak universe described here, in terms of world order almost a premonition of what we, free world, face today.
There are times when so much suffering seems too much for Erin/Aridela(and indeed nearly the entire feminine gender), we wonder how she can take it, how they all can, yet they do, for Rebecca Lochlann’s women are not portrayed as frail little flowers, instead they’re remarkably strong, even when they don’t know it. And faith never dies, not really…
This time Erin may start blindfolded, still the blind slips fairly early in the story (although she is protected from it for a while).
Once she sees, she no longer believes Chrysaleon/Rafe unquestionably (nor the world she lives in for that matter…), she is of her own mind, and as soon as this happens, she becomes who/what she´s supposed to be …for thou art the earth, blessed and eternal… and Thou wilt generate inexhaustible adoration and contempt; until these opposites are united, all will strangle within the void.
United they become in the end.
Oh Chrysaleon, I’ve always considered him one of my favourite characters on the series due to his complexity. To me he’s L’Enfant terrible of the story. In fact, for most of this life, I find him even worse, as he takes his controlling personality to a whole new level… and yet I pity him, I can’t help it. I just feel so much sorrow for him, though in the end he finally fulfills his destiny…
Menoetius role is almost omnipresent this time, even when he’s not there he still is Aridela’s life companion, her safe harbor, his love never wavering, ever accepting of whom she is and on her side for what she needs to became.
In my opinion, these two characters dichotomy is resolved perfectly in this book.
Harpylacus ending is also something which gave me much pleasure to read, such a fitting fate… Alexiare was another who deserved all he got…
And the triad’s fate, what a joy it gave me!
I’ve been following this series for a while, now that it’s near the end I almost feel sorry for it and yet can’t wait for the next eighth book.
April 2, 2022
Author Rebecca Lochlann’s highly-anticipated new release, When the Moon Whispers, brings the addictive, magical Erinyes saga (almost!) full circle. Her protagonist triad - mirror opposite brothers and the woman they love - having endured repeated resurrection by the Goddess Athene in an epic journey through time, has reached its pinnacle.
This, the seventh and final labyrinth the triad must traverse, is a shocking glimpse into a dystopian future where women are stripped of their autonomy and brutally subjugated. Cruelty, a uniquely human trait that can be taught through example as easily as selflessness, is fast becoming societal norm in a stark reflection of humanity’s grim past, as well as a projection of what could conceivably come to pass yet again if the world’s largely male oligarchs succeed in manipulating society through selective elimination of current fact and falsely sentimental rewriting of history.
Through joy tempered by suffering and trust undermined by betrayal, Athene’s objective, the purpose behind the triad’s odyssey, is ultimately revealed. The mystical, enigmatic threads of prophecy interspersed throughout the previous books are woven together seamlessly, revealing their nuanced significance as they come to fruition in an earth-shattering finale.
Fans will be thrilled to know they can soon look forward to Swimming in the Rainbow, the eighth and final book of the series.
This, the seventh and final labyrinth the triad must traverse, is a shocking glimpse into a dystopian future where women are stripped of their autonomy and brutally subjugated. Cruelty, a uniquely human trait that can be taught through example as easily as selflessness, is fast becoming societal norm in a stark reflection of humanity’s grim past, as well as a projection of what could conceivably come to pass yet again if the world’s largely male oligarchs succeed in manipulating society through selective elimination of current fact and falsely sentimental rewriting of history.
Through joy tempered by suffering and trust undermined by betrayal, Athene’s objective, the purpose behind the triad’s odyssey, is ultimately revealed. The mystical, enigmatic threads of prophecy interspersed throughout the previous books are woven together seamlessly, revealing their nuanced significance as they come to fruition in an earth-shattering finale.
Fans will be thrilled to know they can soon look forward to Swimming in the Rainbow, the eighth and final book of the series.
March 27, 2022
The seventh installation of this series was spectacular! I could not put this story down. I’ve fallen in love with these characters over the course of this series, but this installment really brought them all home for me. Set in a dystopian future where the rights of women have been severely compromised, we see out heroine finally come to terms with what her path truly is. Without giving anything away, there are some very tough themes in this book(s). At times, i had to put it down and cry a little for these characters, but isn’t that what makes a novel wonderful? The passion generated for these people is something lacking in many works today, and I appreciated every time they made me feel something.
Don’t sleep on this. Open it up and get reading as soon as possible!
Don’t sleep on this. Open it up and get reading as soon as possible!
June 13, 2022
These books, while historical fiction/mythic fantasy/dystopian future, seem to encompass so much of the pain and fear experienced by women in our society. This has been a stunning series that I’ve enjoyed unfolding over the last 8 years. The current edition pulls together the prophecies to a satisfying conclusion for the main character, and leaves you wondering about how to galvanize our society in the here and now.
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