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Call of the Goddess (Stormflies Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Elizabeth N. Love (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Countless years after the destruction of Earth, the last survivors of humankind struggle for survival in the distant colony of Bona Dea.

Young psychic Axandra is the matriarch of the colony, and host to a powerful entity known only as the Goddess. Trying to protect the people she loves but reluctant to host the Goddess, Axandra struggles with her fate.

After discovering that she's being used as a pawn between factions, Axandra begins to suspect a plot against her. But behind the scenes, an even greater power is at play, and soon the future of the whole colony is at stake.

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★★★★★ - "A beautiful book that combines strong metaphysical elements with science fiction and romance."

★★★★★ - "I particularly enjoyed the setting: a new utopia created on a distant planet by the descendants of interstellar refugees from a desolated earth."

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GAA0YGY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Next Chapter (January 3, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 3, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1062 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 411 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1508789614

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Elizabeth N. Love is an almost life-long resident of Kansas, where she grew up in what could be considered a cultural desert in a small rural town. Influenced by her mother's love of books, she began writing stories at an early age.

She is not only an author, but a musician, having played French horn and piano for many years. Elizabeth holds a B.A. in English with an Emphasis in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas, and a Masters in Library Science from Emporia State University. Though she lived in Hawaii for two years, she returned to Kansas with her family, where she works, writes, and lives.

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Nicholas C. Rossis

An excellent read

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2015

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This is a beautiful book, combining strong metaphysical elements with science fiction and romance to build a unique story that draws the reader in. The premise is simple enough: a group of telepaths have fled Earth to make a fresh start on a remote planet. Three hundred years later, they have built a utopian world, overseen by a Protectress; a woman - always from the same family - whose responsibility lies in making sure that everyone's interests are served.

However, things start unraveling: the young girl who's the next Protectress escapes her tutors and disappears. Strange phenomena occur on the planet, as its sister planet's orbit brings the two planets closer. And the storm that's been raging for eons seems to have developed a mind of its own.

Beautifully written and with a plot that has plenty of twists but never loses its focus, this is an excellent read!

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Elisha Nichols

Good read

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2017

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The book was good and I enjoyed getting to know a new planet and a new system of governance. There are some twists are turns that make the story interesting, but some things are unresolved. Thankfully there's at least one more book in the series that will hopefully answer the unanswered questions.

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Thomas Miller

A mix of science fiction, romance, and mystery.

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2017

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Call of the Goddess is a mix of science fiction, romance, and mystery. The story centers on the life of a woman, Axandra, whose lineage is entrusted with a burden of carrying a Goddess within them.

I particularly enjoyed the setting, a new utopia created on the distant planet of Bona Dea, by the descendants of interstellar refugees from a desolated earth. Through the entire story, the author does a superb job revealing the alien planet, Bona Dea, from its new constellations to its strange, yet familiar, flora and fauna. The author further defines the setting through the population and its new system of governance, created by a people who do not want to repeat the mistakes of their ancestors. Bona Dea, along with its new inhabitants, and their way of life is well developed and described throughout the story. Axandra, in particular, is well fleshed out and explored.

Unfortunately, I found the pace of the story too slow for my tastes. It did pick up near the very end, but by then it was such a drastic change from the rest of the story as to be jarring and, to me, rushed.

There was romance in the story and the author handled Axandra’s feelings and introspection with care and finesse, but I was disappointed in her partners. Her first relationship with Jon ended abruptly and the reasons for his sudden change in feelings was never thoroughly explained. In the second relationship, I found Quinn to be so love stricken from the offset as to be unbelievable.

Call of the Goddess was okay. It was science fiction, mystery, and romance all brought together and even though it had all these elements mixed in, they just never truly blended into one cohesive whole for me.

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Berk Rourke

Axanda for queen--she is a true survivor and with her lover Quinn they can rule the world well indeed.

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2014

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I have read sci fi in the past only rarely and it has been many years. This is my first venture into the new world of sci fi. I found the characters fascinating and easy to follow from one scenario to another. I found the story line difficult sometimes but as it would come together and presage I really enjoyed the developments. I wished for Axanda to achieve a love that would help her balance her duties and fight the inroads of the "Goddess." And I resented the influences of Councilor Morton whose negativity was a drag on everything about the story in a sense. All in all I found it a really interesting read though I had to take my time with the relationships. I loved it overall.

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Peaceseeker

A matter of personal preference

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2015

Axandra – née Ileanne, daughter of “The Protectress” – has had a sliver of “The Goddess” implanted in her at the age of six. She saw what burdens the office placed on her mother and was determined not to go gently into that same situation. She managed to escape the life she was born to and grew up in obscurity, unrecognised as the protectress in waiting, but always knowing that one day – the day her biological mother died -The Goddess would reclaim her in order to live on. It is how the Goddess achieves immortality: as a symbiont endowing its host with remarkable powers as part of its avowed aim, but terrible in the execution of its primary purpose: to go on living.
Once it enters her entirely, Axandra is driven to fulfil her destiny as best she can, without having had the training/conditioning for the role normally dished out by a menacingly shadowy sect called The Prophets operating from a stronghold within an impenetrable storm that only they can control.
The story is huge and promises much, though for me the telling of it in a curious way mirrors Axandra’s ‘cloud of unknowing’ about what is really going on. I formed a possible hypothesis about how the situation in which she finds herself mirrors human society today: complex and amorphous situations and constructs are more easily navigated by a largely ignorant population if they have a figure to rely on who has absolute status rather than power, and is a safe pair of hands in the service of her people: a reliable role model exhibiting what we believe are the virtues of our society while protecting us from what might otherwise be the anarchy of constant power struggles within unmanageable complexity. Was it about that, in the end? - I wasn't sure.
The story is largely well-written and convincingly detailed, though I confess I at times I felt as confused as Axandra by what was going on around her. She was very nice to everyone and clearly worthy of the office, yet seemed unable to be satisfyingly proactive in dealing with the dangers that were obviously real though never properly understood. She moves from situation to situation reassuring everyone without ever being in control. From time to time, a new character turns up because something needs saying or doing – a bit like that additional crew member of the Starship 'Enterprise' you’d never seen before, who joined the landing party in order to be shot by an alien moments after beaming down. The love interest is provided by a male protagonist who is drawn to her – and she to him – in a manner so compelling that I wondered if The Goddess had a hand in it; but by the end, that was still on the list of things I really wasn’t sure about.
To conclude: It’s an intriguing book that seems somewhat to have divided its reviewers to date. The best advice I can offer you is to read it for yourself and to form your own opinion.

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Peaceseeker

A matter of personal preference

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2015

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Axandra – née Ileanne, daughter of “The Protectress” – has had a sliver of “The Goddess” implanted in her at the age of six. She saw what burdens the office placed on her mother and was determined not to go gently into that same situation. She managed to escape the life she was born to and grew up in obscurity, unrecognised as the protectress in waiting, but always knowing that one day – the day her biological mother died -The Goddess would reclaim her in order to live on. It is how the Goddess achieves immortality: as a symbiont endowing its host with remarkable powers as part of its avowed aim, but terrible in the execution of its primary purpose: to go on living.
Once it enters her entirely, Axandra is driven to fulfil her destiny as best she can, without having had the training/conditioning for the role normally dished out by a menacingly shadowy sect called The Prophets operating from a stronghold within an impenetrable storm that only they can control.
The story is huge and promises much, though for me the telling of it in a curious way mirrors Axandra’s ‘cloud of unknowing’ about what is really going on. I formed a possible hypothesis about how the situation in which she finds herself mirrors human society today: complex and amorphous situations and constructs are more easily navigated by a largely ignorant population if they have a figure to rely on who has absolute status rather than power, and is a safe pair of hands in the service of her people: a reliable role model exhibiting what we believe are the virtues of our society while protecting us from what might otherwise be the anarchy of constant power struggles within unmanageable complexity. Was it about that, in the end? - I wasn't sure.
The story is largely well-written and convincingly detailed, though I confess I at times I felt as confused as Axandra by what was going on around her. She was very nice to everyone and clearly worthy of the office, yet seemed unable to be satisfyingly proactive in dealing with the dangers that were obviously real but never properly understood. She moves from situation to situation reassuring everyone without ever being in control. From time to time, a new character turns up because something needs saying or doing – a bit like that additional crew member of the Starship Enterprise you’d never seen before, who joined the landing party in order to be shot by an alien moments after beaming down. The love interest is provided by a male protagonist who is drawn to her – and she to him – in a manner so compelling that I wondered if The Goddess had a hand in it; but by the end, that was still on the list of things I really wasn’t sure about.
To conclude: It’s an intriguing book that seems somewhat to have divided its reviewers to date. The best advice I can offer you is to read it for yourself and to form your own opinion.

Shelley Wilson

Must Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2014

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If you love sci-fi then you'll love Pouring the Cup by Elizabeth Love. Plenty of conflict, emotion and characters you can connect with. It promises to be the first novel in a series so I look forward to book two.