Another great book by Sherri L. King.
Raven's parents put her through a portal to earth when she was an infant ,to keep her save from genocide. After spending years in orphanages and foster homes she finally has a foster family that cares for her. No one wanted her because she is a child prodigy who at age 9 is already in college. When she is 15 years old her foster families home is burned down and the family is killed. Raven was awakend by a black Hawk telling her to get out.
Insteadt of being able to grief for her loss Raven has to flee and hide because she has enemies and they made it look like she started the fire. While on the run Raven discovers that she has special powers. She is telepatic and shoots fire and electricty through her hands.
Thirteen years later Raven is captured and taken to the planet Varood. There she comes face to face with General Karis. Reading his thoughts she knows that he killed her family. After she escapes she is guided by a black Hawk to a place where she discovers she is an Aware and that there are more people like her. Raven learns that she is the empress of this race and that she is needed to fight General Karis and his army. She is also the only one who can locate other Awares who fled through a portal to safety.
The black Hawk is Draco who is also an Aware and a shapeshifter. Raven feels attracted to him but those two don't make love until pretty much at the end of the book. The sexual tension was great. This was a very good book. It had a great plot, steamy romance, lots of mystery and magic. [close] 0
Raven's parents put her through a portal to earth when she was an infant ,to keep her save from genocide. After spending years in orphanages and foster homes she finally has a foster family that cares for her. No one wanted her because she is a child prodigy who at age 9 is already in college. When she is 15 years old her foster families home is burned down and the family is killed. Raven was awakend by a black Hawk telling her to get out.
Insteadt of being able to grief for her loss Raven has to flee and hide because she has enemies and they made it look like she started the fire. While on the run Raven discovers that she has special powers. She is telepatic and shoots fire and electricty through her hands.
Thirteen years later Raven is captured and taken to the planet Varood. There she comes face to face with General Karis. Reading his thoughts she knows that he killed her family. After she escapes she is guided by a black Hawk to a place where she discovers she is an Aware and that there are more people like her. Raven learns that she is the empress of this race and that she is needed to fight General Karis and his army. She is also the only one who can locate other Awares who fled through a portal to safety.
The black Hawk is Draco who is also an Aware and a shapeshifter. Raven feels attracted to him but those two don't make love until pretty much at the end of the book. The sexual tension was great. This was a very good book. It had a great plot, steamy romance, lots of mystery and magic. [close] 0
Helpful Score: 2
A good read once although I liked the Shikar books better. The whole " I can fix this because I am super-Empress" was a little off-putting...
Helpful Score: 1
Rayven has always been different from the people around her. She is an orphan and has always been overlooked by the couples who want to adopt a child. Her differences make the prospective parents uneasy. She is a child prodigy, a genius. She scores higher on standardized IQ tests than any other person tested before. She has eyes of an unusual gold color that seem to look right though a person. Her differences make her a loner.
He comes to her in the guise of a giant black hawk, and warns her of danger. Rayven thinks it was a dream until she realizes her foster parent's house was on fire. She is the only one to survive the fire. Rayven is surprised when, a few days later, she is arrested and charged with arson and the murder of her foster parents. She manages to escape and stays on the run for 13 long years. Rayven is captured and taken to the planet, Varood, where she is questioned by General Karis. She learns that she is the last of her race, the Aware. She was sent to Earth by her parents to escape the massacre that killed most of her kind. The Aware are a race with strange and frightening powers, and those in the Galactic are afraid of them, so they tried to exterminate them.
Rayven escapes with the help of a giant black hawk, the same one she thought she saw in her dream so many years before. She learns the hawk is really a man named Draco. He takes her though a dimensional doorway to the planet Hostes, where she meets the last remnant of her race. There she will test the extent of her powers and abilities to help save the last of her kind. As Rayven awakes to the power of passion, she has to save the people depending on her and come to terms with the feelings she has for the strange and sensuous man, Draco.
Rayven's Awakening is an exciting blend of science fiction, fantasy, and romantica. Ms. King has combined the different genres into a fast-paced, smoothly written tale. However there are a few glitches: The whole " I can do anything because I am super-Empress" was a little off-putting, especially when all the limitations her people have of the use of their powers did not apply to her, and if mentally linked to her they didn't apply to them either!???... and the end is how shall I put it... revealed by the author in the first 100 pgs. so no surprises, she had - as the seer predicted - rained death upon her enemies, and brought light to the fallen Aware. Though the writing was engaging, and I enjoyed the book main story the end was anticlimactic.
He comes to her in the guise of a giant black hawk, and warns her of danger. Rayven thinks it was a dream until she realizes her foster parent's house was on fire. She is the only one to survive the fire. Rayven is surprised when, a few days later, she is arrested and charged with arson and the murder of her foster parents. She manages to escape and stays on the run for 13 long years. Rayven is captured and taken to the planet, Varood, where she is questioned by General Karis. She learns that she is the last of her race, the Aware. She was sent to Earth by her parents to escape the massacre that killed most of her kind. The Aware are a race with strange and frightening powers, and those in the Galactic are afraid of them, so they tried to exterminate them.
Rayven escapes with the help of a giant black hawk, the same one she thought she saw in her dream so many years before. She learns the hawk is really a man named Draco. He takes her though a dimensional doorway to the planet Hostes, where she meets the last remnant of her race. There she will test the extent of her powers and abilities to help save the last of her kind. As Rayven awakes to the power of passion, she has to save the people depending on her and come to terms with the feelings she has for the strange and sensuous man, Draco.
Rayven's Awakening is an exciting blend of science fiction, fantasy, and romantica. Ms. King has combined the different genres into a fast-paced, smoothly written tale. However there are a few glitches: The whole " I can do anything because I am super-Empress" was a little off-putting, especially when all the limitations her people have of the use of their powers did not apply to her, and if mentally linked to her they didn't apply to them either!???... and the end is how shall I put it... revealed by the author in the first 100 pgs. so no surprises, she had - as the seer predicted - rained death upon her enemies, and brought light to the fallen Aware. Though the writing was engaging, and I enjoyed the book main story the end was anticlimactic.
Good book. I haven't read this author, but will be on the lookout for more of her books. Story line was nice.
OK, not great
A quick read. The juxtaposition of Rayven's street talk and the stilted other-world talk was jarring. Sex scenes were okay - could have been a little more risky. Purple feather trees...
A quick read. The juxtaposition of Rayven's street talk and the stilted other-world talk was jarring. Sex scenes were okay - could have been a little more risky. Purple feather trees...
