Goddess in the Machine
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When Andra wakes up, she's drowning.
Not only that, but she's in a hot, dirty cave, it's the year 3102, and everyone keeps calling her Goddess. When Andra went into a cryonic sleep for a trip across the galaxy, she expected to wake up in a hundred years, not a thousand. Worst of all, the rest of the colonists—including her family and friends—are dead. They died centuries ago, and for some reason, their descendants think Andra's a deity. She knows she's nothing special, but she'll play along if it means she can figure out why she was left in stasis and how to get back to Earth.
Zhade, the exiled bastard prince of Eerensed, has other plans. Four years ago, the sleeping Goddess's glass coffin disappeared from the palace, and Zhade devoted himself to finding it. Now he's hoping the Goddess will be the key to taking his rightful place on the throne—if he can get her to play her part, that is. Because if his people realize she doesn't actually have the power to save their dying planet, they'll kill her.
With a vicious monarch on the throne and a city tearing apart at the seams, Zhade and Andra might never be able to unlock the mystery of her fate, let alone find a way to unseat the king, especially since Zhade hasn't exactly been forthcoming with Andra. And a thousand years from home, is there any way of knowing that Earth is better than the planet she's woken to?
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2 primary books#1 in Goddess in the Machine
Goddess in the Machine is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2020 with contributions by Lora Beth Johnson.
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This was an interesting book. I loved how when Andra woke up the language was different for her and we got to see that as well. I found it harder to understand at first (especially because I did audio and couldn't see the words), but like Andra, by the end of the book, I could easily understand.
In terms of the plot, it was an interesting premise and by about two-thirds into the book, I was annoyed with some of the cliche aspects that came into what I had thought to be a unique plot. But then I got to the end and I was not at all expecting that so overall I enjoyed this book. I did not connect with the characters and would have liked more world-building but overall it was a solid read.
CAWPILE Breakdown:
Characters: 6
Atmosphere: 6
Writing: 9
Plot: 7
Intrigue: 8
Logic: 6
Enjoyment: 8
I couldn't get into this book because the language was so atrocious that it distracted me from the story. Concept of the story is sound, it just wasn't executed correctly.
