Held captive in her dreams by an evil god,Celine Barrow’s life has become the stuff of nightmares.Her only chance at salvation is a stranger who makes no promises, and leads her on a journey into the very darkness she thought she had escaped. As their forbidden romance grows, Celine discovers that it takes a monster to defeat a monster.Fenrir has endured a lifetime of servitude, bound to a … servitude, bound to a destiny ordained by the gods. Until he meets Celine, and the delicate human steals his heart. When the world shatters around them, and war looms on the horizon, Fen is forced to make the ultimate choice between love and fate.
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This series just keeps getting better.
This book centres around Fen and Celine. I liked that their chemistry started from a dream and just grew from there.
Loki and morgane make a comeback in this book aswell.
Highly recommend this series
I adored Queen of Swords, the first book in L.A. McGinnis’ The Banished Gods series (separately reviewed) soooo much that I ran to get The Moon (Book Two) and The Priestess (Book Three) as soon as I could. It was worth doing, and I don’t even regret the massive all-in-one-sleepless-sitting of binge reading that followed as these two books were also (equally) incredibly good. Celine and Fenrir, Mir and Sydney, I can’t decide which leads had the better book but I’m happy to say they were both truly wonderful, with great writing, plots, world-building and characters. Read the publisher’s blurbs on these ad they do an good job summarizing without spoiling (and I’m trying to keep this review from getting too ling as I’m literally dictating it to my husband from my hospital bed). All that I really want to add is to simply note that each of these books is most definitely “one to read”, and each is easy to highly recommend.
The Moon by L.A. McGinnis is the perfect follow up to the first book of her The Banished Gods Series. I was excited to discover this book follows right where the first book stops, but this time focusing on Fenrir…as well as the mortal he falls for, Celine. This book is action-packed and full of surprises. Just like in Queen of Swords, McGinnis creates beautiful imagery and makes the reader feel as though they are running through the Otherworld right along side the Wolf.
But what really drew me into this story was the relationship between Fenrir and Celine. I’m a sucker for a broken soul who finds the who the one who truly loves them for who they are. And this book creates such strong emotion and a hero and heroine who have both been dealt hard blows in their lives—blows that could have easily kept them down. I rooted for these two from the beginning, even when it seemed impossible for them to find their way to one another.
I strongly encourage anyone who loves a good fantasy to pick up this series. I love it when a novel not only hooks me, but has me reaching for the history books (aka google) to learn more about Norse mythology. The way McGinnis weaves this mythology with a modern-day story is spell bounding. I can’t wait to pick up the next book!
The second installment in The Banished Gods series brings us Fenrir & Celine’s story. The overall main arc that runs through the series is still ongoing, and I would caution anyone to read this series in order – as the story builds upon each book and you may get a bit lost, or at least not get the full background on this story if you go rogue and read out of order. The characters that we met in book one are all present, and there are a few new arrivals. Celine is an abnormally gifted student with a very dark and ugly past. When she sleeps, she is yanked into the Otherworld by a dark being whom overloads her mind with codes and symbols that she must write down as soon as she awakens. During one of these excursions – she meets Fen, a place he goes to try to keep his sanity – but when he finds a girl in this place, everything changes.
I loved this couple, maybe even more thank Loki and Morgane in book one – although they are here also. Celine is stronger than even she knows, and she holds a major key to this crisis, as long as Odin doesn’t kill her first. This is a group of warriors, and think along the lines of The Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian or the Black Dagger Brotherhood, as all the warriors live in the same compound and go out and fight the evil in the streets. There were a few grammar issues but they did not detract from the story. Easily recommended
4.5 Stars
This is the second book in the Banished Gods Series and a really good one. We have Fen finding a human named Celine in the Underworld. He saves her but has to find her because her memory has been wiped. Celine plays a big part in the monster wanting to destroy earth. Both Fen and Celine have suffered from other people’s actions and form a bond. She accepts him and his wolf. I loved the way Celine stood up to Odin too.
The 2nd book in the series that I found myself even more engrossed than I was with the 1st book. A mythological tale with betrayal, secrets, lies and romance all rolled up into an awesome story. Continues with the theme good vs evil. If you love mythology and good vs evil theme, you definitely don’t want to miss reading this one.
I wanted to read this book because I like stories featuring Norse mythology. In addition to that it has a strong resilient woman and a good plot. The romance is there but it doesn’t interrupt the flow of the story. This is the second book of an ongoing story so I’d recommend reading the books in order. The story doesn’t wrap up in this book but continues in book three.
I enjoyed this one more than book one which is saying a lot when I loved book 1 but The Moon was so much more. I loved the characters the storyline was amazing I seriously love stories with a lot of mythology and history and magic in them and The Moon just ticked so many boxes for me.
This is good but I think you needed to read the first book. It’s much using some key background and understanding. The story flows, the characters are good and it’s a lovely book.