“I’ve been alive for less than a year, but it’s been nothing but trouble. I was born to be someone I’m not, created by a lonely Goddess in the image of a random man she met at a party. No wonder it didn’t work out. What I have to decide now is how I want to spend the last few days of my life.” Beira, the Mother of Gods and Queen of Winter, has grown tired and lonely. After millennia of living on … After millennia of living on her own, she decides it’s time to create the perfect lover. But while Colan might look like the man of her dreams, he’s not falling in love with her as she’d planned. Can she change his mind or has it all been for nothing?
This tragic prequel to the bestselling novel Winter Princess tells the story of Wynter’s parents. It’s a stand-alone novella that can be enjoyed without having read the other books in the Daughter of Winter series.
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Reading Order
#0 Prequel: Mother of Gods
#1 Winter Princess
#1.5 Spin-off: Demon’s Revenge
#2 Winter Heiress
#3 Winter Queen
#4 Winter Goddess
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I started this series at the last one, Winter Goddess. I wanted a book for Samhain/Halloween and I became hooked and had to go back to the beginning.
In this prequel we meet Beira, Mother of Gods. She is Queen of Winter and in spite of everyone around her she is lonely. As the book opens Thor is whining about having to go to Lucifer’s wedding celebration, an event Beira isn’t invited to. Having great incite Thor invites her to go with him.
After berating Lucifer for not inviting her, she glimpses a human that takes her breath away. Beira doesn’t play with humans, their life span is too short, she does however get an idea. She can create a new guardian in the image of the human. Thus Colan is born, well sort of, and Beira is in for a surprise.
It seems nothing will deter Colan from his refusal to be with her, not even prison.
I love the way this story plays out and even though it is sad there are truly touching and loving moments, and a sizzling connection that is finally realized.
I’m already reading the next book in this series.
All Beira meant to create was a companion instead she created love.
The Mother of Gods and the Queen of Winter is bored. She has played with everyone in sight and out of sight. Then she spies a delectable human named Colan, unfortunately humans cannot withstand her staying power.
Beira decides to create a Guardian in Colan’s visage. She makes one tiny, tiny, tiny mishap…she gives him a mind of his own to think. Colan decides he does not want to be a sex slave and escapes!
Skye MacKinnon keeps you guessing in Mother of Gods (Peryton Press, 1973534371, 2018) her prequel to the “Daughter of Winter” series. I had no clue where she was going with Beira, Colan, Emma, or anyone else for that matter (laugh). It was wonderful.
I cannot really say more because alas this is a novella. You will find love, blood, death, sex, and Thor and Loki still up to their old antics. Mother Of Gods is a fun quickie.
I read this after Winter Princess (Daughter of Winter Book 1) and enjoyed learning about the events leading up to Wynter’s birth. It’s short but interesting.
Meet Beira, the Winter Queen, Mother of Gods, lonely for a true love. What to do? Create your perfect mate. This is the story of Beira and Colan, a bittersweet, tragic romance. It also explains much of what puzzled Wynter, the Winter Princess, as she was growing up. Although it’s a prequel, it’s actually fine to read before or after “Winter Princess”.
Mother of Gods is a prequel to the Winter Princess series. It was really interesting to find out Wyn’s mother’s story and how Wyn came about. It also explains some of Wyn’s mother’s behavior.
I loved getting to see a new side of Beira. I wasn’t a fan of her in a Winter Princess but it was great to understand where she’s coming from
This was a great start for this series, showing all the love that Wynter’s parents had for one another amidst the the denial they both had and the war they were stuck in the middle of. I thought it was the perfect was to understand the queen and what happened.
A beautiful little story that shows that even gods make mistakes.
Skye’s characters are her strength and this book does not disappoint with well developed and beautiful characters that left me caring at the end.
I first read this book in the Breaking the Myth anthology. This is the story of the parents of Wynter (from the Daughter of Wynter series). Beira is the mother of the Gods and is lonely. She creates Colan, but he has a little bit more free will than she was expecting. I like that Colan pushes Beira out of her comfort zone. This is a beautiful but bittersweet story.