Death's Dream Kingdom
Publication: 1st May 2012
Publisher: Musa Publishing
Pages: 300
Genre: Fantasy/ Paranormal
Age Appropriate: Adult
Death's Dream
Kingdom is the story of a woman who is ordinary in everyway. She's an average mother and wife and is happy living every day mired in
theins and outs of the mundane, until she is murdered. After her death, Cera
findsherself lost in a nether land somewhere between life and death where
demons,ghosts, and old gods roam the streets preying on the living. In this
strangeworld, Cera is told that she is everything but ordinary. In death, she alone
canhelp heal the rift between worlds and help bridge the gap between life
and death. Caught somewhere between her desire to live again and the desire to
findheaven, Cera fights those that would pull her into the politics of thenetherworld. But the will of the Fates is stronger than Cera's will and
Cera quickly finds herself pulled into a quest that will drag her to hell and
backand into the arms of an ancient demon lover. She will find that she is a child
a Fate and that she alone can challenge Death himself for dominion over his kingdom.
My Thoughts...
Cera is murdered one night while out running, she finds herself a spirit whom refuses to leave her family and so stays there for years until she finally accepts that it is time to move on.
She is escorted by Sin a reaper to the tree of life where she is introduced to Dismis, who resides over the tree and makes her a reaper herself, she soon discovers that Dismis and his fellow reapers are not doing their job properly and are leaving the spirits to wander around aimlessly and not giving them the peace that they want and deserve.
She also comes across a man named Arawyn who unbeknown to her is someone that she used to know very well and has been keeping track of her life, waiting for the day she will die and they can be reunited in death.
Unknown to Cera she is actually Ceradwyn a child of fate and inbetween each life on earth she and Arawyn are together.
We come across gods and goddesses, angels and demons, gargoyles and the fates, they will all come together to fight each other over the fate of the underworld and it will depend on Cera regaining her memories as well as Sin who is prophesised to defeat Dismis once and for all.
If you like mythology then there is plenty in this book, I love learning about different myths that I hadn't known about before.
I would recommend this book for adults as the language is very strong and people may find some of the words offensive.
I give this 3.5/5.
Excerpt...
Remembering your death is like remembering
your birth. What you remember of it is really pieces of what others have told
you. They are images pieced together from photographs and others’ memories.
Cera remembered her death like an old movie. She remembered the dark sky and
soft clouds. She remembered the scent of lavender and green grass.
Cera was happy. She thought she was happy.
She knew that she was loved. She had children. She had three beautiful boys who
loved her as deeply as she loved them. Long after her death she could still see
them in her mind’s eye; their cherubic faces, their little feet. She could
smell their breath as they kissed her. When she thought about it, the pain
became as tangible as any pain in life. It was as real as the pain of child
birth. It was as real as the pain of death.
Cera was running. She always went running
in the evenings, after the children went to bed. She loved to run around the
park. Cera went out running in the moonlight, listening to the sound of her own
tortured breath. She ran over soft grass and cobblestone, counting her miles.
She must have been lost in the rhythm of her own motion, because she never saw
him coming. She never saw the man that slit her throat as easily as she buttered
bread. She didn’t see the delight he took in the motion or the smile on his
face when her body fell at his feet. All these things were lost to her.
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Author Bio...
I am a therapist and writer
who lives in Alabama with my three corgis, children, husband, and other strange
creatures. My short stories have been published in numerous literary magazines
and anthologies including CSM, Summer Gothic, Bound By Blood, and Outer
Darkness. I have ghost story columns in theValley Planet and White Cat Magazine
where I share my love for ghost stories that send shivers down your spine and
keep you up at night. I also share my passion for all things ghostly and
haunted at my blog, ghost stories and haunted places.
I am currently working on my
next Haunted America Book for History Press, Haunted South Alabama.
Follow me at my blog to learn about the ghost stories I am chasing and
collecting for this fascinating addition to Haunted America. I'm also
workng on the next book in my Circe series. The demon is awake and
waiting for my new heroine in the swamps of Southern Alabama. Click Here
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You can contact me at
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Alyssa Rose Ivy is a Young Adult and New Adult author who loves to weave stories with romance and a southern setting. Although raised in the New York area, she fell in love with the South after moving to New Orleans for college. After years as a perpetual student, she turned back to her creative side and decided to write. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two young children, and she can usually be found with a cup of coffee in her hand.
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When I'm not writing, I work as a freelance instructional and graphic designer, along with my husband of ten years. My most important job of all, however, is being a mom to two little boys under the age of six and Riley, the Cockapoo Princess.
Stephanie Keyes holds an undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems as well as a Master’s in Education. A seasoned, facilitator, Mrs. Keyes worked in Training and Development for an international telecommunications corporation for twelve years; spending the first eight years of her career as a Software Trainer and Technical Writer and the last four working in Human Resources and Employee Development. 