The slave of demented Gods, Sacha knew only a life of anguish and suffering until she was reborn as a Guardian of the Realms. Gifted with immense strength and rare abilities, she has spent thousands of years battling to protect the four Realms with her Guardian family. Time has allowed her to construct the perfect mask of calm and control so none can see the past shame and immense pain buried in … in the darkest recesses of her mind. Now, an encounter with a new and powerful enemy has left Sacha the victim of a poison induced coma that all are unable to heal. The last thing anyone imagines waking her is a God with the strength and potential to unravel her entire world.
As the most powerful of the Gods, Hades was awakened from the Creators’ enforced sleep to help the Guardians in their quest to find his heinous brother, Apollo. After a brutal battle with an unknown Goddess leaves him in need of healing he finds himself powerfully drawn into the room of a sleeping seductress. Her soul calls to him relentlessly, but if he surrenders himself to that connection and gives her the strength to heal, life as he knows it will end.
With their worlds unraveling and new threats at every turn will Sacha’s past destroy them? Or will she bring a God to his knees and lead them both into Divine Ecstasy.
Warning: Sexually explicit content, dirty language and Gods behaving badly.
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Okay, so first off… Hades was insanely HOT!! I mean… I realize he’s a God and that he’s sex personified, but I thought I was prepared for how sexy he was going to be in his own book. I wasn’t!! What I enjoyed the most about this male was that beyond his utterly delicious sex appeal was his other similarly attractive traits that made him even more edible. He was honorable and considerate and kind and arrogant and stubborn and magnificent! I could not get enough of him and only wish there was more of him to read.
He rasped, “I need to taste you.” How was it possible for words alone to be filled with enough heat to burn her up? She heard him growl, “Sacha.”
Her name on his lips drugged her nearly as much as the sensation of his hand tunnelling in her hair, or the other rough hand clenched at her hip, pulling her into him as his lips descended. That first touch was electric; lightning speared through her body as his kiss destroyed the nerves.
Yeah, Hades was most definitely magnetic. A figure I couldn’t look away from and found myself quite fascinated with.
Sacha was born a slave to Gods. Apollo treated her horribly, she lost her sister, and was left to raise her nephew in an environment that wasn’t conducive to child rearing. Fast forward a millenia and she’s a powerful Immortal Guardian, steadfast and true. She’s a remarkable character and I fell in love with her so freaking easily. I loved her inner strength and her fondness for her family of Guardians and their mates. She never thought of having a mate for herself and the fact that Hades was the one who grabbed her soul, another God, scared her when she wasn’t ever scared of anything. And yet, it was impossible for her not to notice how different he was from his siblings. How concerned and considerate and understanding he was towards her. How devoted and passionate he felt for her. And he did. No one had ever touched him as deeply as Sacha and Hades was willing to do whatever it took, even tone down his godliness, if it meant that he would have every part of his treasure and her love.
Even the side plot of this story was chillingly good. Pothos finds out a bit of his history and that he is a demigod born of two worlds. I’m pretty sure this information will come in handy in the stories to come. First there was the evil Gods who fed off blood and death and all sorts of negative energy. Then there was Apollo’s evil son, Cyril, who was kidnapping and experimenting and pretty much needed to die. Then there was Kane, carrying Cyril’s torch, in order to cheat his way to get a mate. Then there was Elizabeth, an evil all her own. Now Apollo’s loose (yet not) and the evil tria are amping up for some sort of mayhem. Oh, and there’s a completely different world full of Immortal Gods! I. Can’t. Wait!!
I’m telling you, if you love paranormal romance with an edge, romance that includes insanely hot sex and intricate and intriguing plots, you HAVE to read this series. I promise you won’t regret it!!
Holy Hades that was a sexy read!
I know I shouldn’t be surprised that Setta’s books are sexy, they all are and I love them but this one seemed more intense!!
Hades has been awoken and met his mate Sacha, now Hades isn’t a guardian like the others finding mates in this series – he is a GOD, he is powerful and he knows it! That shouldn’t be a problem in seducing the woman you are destined to be with but Sacha was held by gods years ago. Pothos his son features lots in this book and his advice to his dad is:
“I’d minimise some of your godly shit”
That really made me chuckle.
Divine Ecstasy flows differently to the other books, in some ways it is more of a romance book, obviously a hell of a lot sexier but there is less fighting in this book.
“Damn it, Sacha,” he growled, “I’m going to come hard. And I want you to take it all. Grip my cock when I come, hold it deep so not a drop spills free.”
Most of the other guardians make an appearance through Hades and Sacha’s journey and I loved hearing from Uri, he is still one of favourites.
In some ways this could be thought of as a crossover book, like when NCIS traveled to LA to introduce a new group of agents. In this book we learn of another realm and it is very interesting. It could all just be part of the Guardians Realm or I could see a spin-off from them, that’s just me speculating though.
I found Hades really endearing and his woman matched him perfectly, the heat from the pages when they were ‘getting to know one another’ was scorching and addictive.
When you start Setta’s books make sure you have time to read them as you will be craving to get back to it.
Another great installment in the Guardians of the Realms series, bring on book 9 and P’s book.
5 divine sexy stars
I really enjoyed this series and after having read all the books, out of order because I enjoyed certain characters more. Hades is my favorite, maybe its because his character didn’t have the emotion baggage the other characters had nor did Sacha so it felt like a lighter read, and had some humor. I also enjoyed how he recognized the other characters arrogance, and attitudes and called them on it. I really wish he would have put them in their place, because I was growing frustrated with majority of the characters level of arrogance. This is a great series and if you can start from the beginning, if you can’t each book does an excellent job of catching you up.