The Beholder
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Selah has waited her whole life for a happily ever after. As the only daughter of the leader of Potomac, she knows her duty is to find the perfect match, a partner who will help secure the future of her people. Now that day has finally come.
But after an excruciatingly public rejection from her closest childhood friend, Selah’s stepmother suggests an unthinkable solution: Selah must set sail across the Atlantic, where a series of potential suitors awaits—and if she doesn’t come home engaged, she shouldn’t come home at all.
From English castle gardens to the fjords of Norge, and under the eye of the dreaded Imperiya Yotne, Selah’s quest will be the journey of a lifetime. But her stepmother’s schemes aren’t the only secrets hiding belowdecks…and the stakes of her voyage may be higher than any happy ending.
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2 primary booksThe Beholder
The Beholder is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Anna Bright.
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If your searching for a book with romance and adventure it is the book for you. The style is super fluid and the book full of references to myth and children stories.
Can't wait to read the next book !
Well, I wanted to like this more than I did. I think there were way too many references to myths/fairy tales combined with an alternate world history that was not quite creative or established enough to carry itself. And I LOVE re-tellings and mythic inspirations for novels. This book took a little piece of everything, so it could never really be its own story. Also, this is definitely not a re-telling of the Odyssey. There is a character named Homer, a journey, a literal reference to the story of the Odyssey, and that's the extent of it. While there were definitely times I admired the MC, Selah, she annoyed me just as frequently. I appreciate a flawed character as much as the next person, but the repetition of her conflict (I have to get home to Papa/can't go to Russia or I'll die/my stepmother hates me/but am I in love??) became pretty grating. I think Bright was at her best when she was writing the romantic parts as opposed to the political intrigue. There were some seriously swoony moments that I really enjoyed! I also appreciated the diverse cast of secondary characters, who are well described and I believe will develop in complexity in the next installment. While this book didn't blow me away, I'll probably be tempted to pick up the second anyway (especially if the cover is as gorgeous as this one!!)
