THE WILD ROSE AND THE SEA RAVEN
by Jennifer Ivy Walker
GENRE: Paranormal Medievel Romance
BLURB:
In this dark fairy tale adaptation of a medieval French legend, Issylte must flee the wicked queen, finding shelter with a fairy witch who teaches her the verdant magic of the forest. Fate leads her to the otherworldly realm of the Lady of the Lake and the Elves of Avalon, where she must choose between her life as a healer or fight to save her ravaged kingdom.
Tristan of Lyonesse is a Knight of the Round Table who must overcome the horrors of his past and defend his king or lose everything. When he becomes a warrior of the Tribe of Dana, a gift of Druidic magic might hold the key he seeks.
Haunted and hunted. Entwined by fate. Can their passion and power prevail?
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Excerpt:
Healing the Wounded Warrior
With all her verdant magic as a forest fairy, the Emerald Princess poured her spirit as a guérisseuse celtique into healing the wounded warrior from Cornwall.
Finally, on the fourth day, when the morning sun glistened in the sparkling waters of the fountain, Tristan’s eyelids fluttered. Issylte leaned over him, his brow cool now that the fever had broken. He opened the brilliant blue eyes that she’d seen in the vision.
As she gazed into them, the earth tilted. Her heart raced; her bearings were lost. In the depths of his eyes, she glimpsed a fountain in a forest. The turquoise waters of the ocean. An underground well encased by sacred stones. She, the forest fairy, was immersed in the blue waters of the warrior’s eyes, the waves emanating from him flowing through her, cleansing her. Beckoning her.
In Tristan’s eyes, Issylte glimpsed a black bird—a sea raven—soaring over an open sea, hovering now before her. A small dove fluttered in her breast, called forth from her soul. White wings unfurled as she took flight, rising into the azure sky alongside the black seabird—-floating together through the diaphanous clouds scattered over the vast ocean.
In the breadth of an instant, Issylte was bound to this warrior, the Blue Knight of Cornwall, as if fate had indeed entwined them. Through the windows of his eyes, she peered into his soul, her own blending with his, as if they were the forest and the ocean, encircled now within the three layers of protective stones, the holy trinity of sacred elements of the Goddess.
My Review:
When I started reading The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven and didn’t know what to expect but I have to say what I found between the pages was not it. When I first started reading The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven I actually didn’t think I was going to like it very well but then something happened and I fell in love with the main characters Issylte and Tristan.
From that point on I was hooked and couldn’t get enough. I was racing to the end to see how their story was going to turn out. I was on their team from the moment I met them. I was drawn in by Issylte and her evil stepmother. It reminded me a little bit of Cinderella and her evil stepmother.
The evil stepmother wants to control the kingdom. The first thing she does is put a spell on Issylte’s father the king. Then she sends Issylte out into the woods to be killed but her assassins couldn’t go through with it and sent her away to live with a witch in the woods. A witch who takes her in and teaches her all she knows about surviving in the woods with magic and healing.
The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven is told from both Issylte’s and Tristan’s points of view. I like reading stories that are told from more than one point of view. I feel as if I get more of the story that way. I also like knowing what others in the story are doing or thinking.
I can’t wait to see what lies ahead for Issylte and Tristan in book two The Lady of the Mirrored Lake.
I would recommend The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven to all fantasy romance fans! Grab your copy of The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven today!
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Enthralled with legends of medieval knights and ladies, dark fairy tales and fantasies about Druids, wizards and magic, Jennifer Ivy Walker always dreamed of becoming a writer. She fell in love with French in junior high school, continuing her study of the language throughout college, eventually becoming a high school teacher and college professor of French.
As a high school teacher, she took her students every year to the annual French competition, where they performed a play she had written, "Yseult la Belle et Tristan la Bête"--an imaginative blend of the medieval French legend of "Tristan et Yseult" and the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast", enhanced with fantasy elements of a Celtic fairy and a wicked witch.
Her debut novel, "The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven"--the first of a trilogy-- is a blend of her love for medieval legends, the romantic French language, and paranormal fantasy. It is a retelling of the medieval French romance of "Tristan et Yseult", interwoven with Arthurian myth, dark fairy tales from the enchanted Forest of Brocéliande, and otherworldly elements such as Avalonian Elves, Druids, forest fairies and magic.
Explore her realm of Medieval French Fantasy. She hopes her novels will enchant you.
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7 comments:
Thanks for hosting!
I like the cover. Looks great. This story sounds really good.
Thank you very much for hosting me and for featuring my debut novel!
I liked the excerpt, sounds good.
Great excerpt and cover.
This sounds really good. Thanks for sharing the excerpt and your thoughts on the book.
I love this book cover so much
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