Review: 4.5 Stars Review.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2013
For the past few weeks, I’ve been seeing reviews for The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith pop up all over the blogosphere, most reviews I read described the book as “EPIC”. So clearly I was intrigued but when I read the blurb and realized it was a SiFi had Rape and came with a warning (This book contains graphic violence, strong sexual content and explicit language. It is intended for mature readers only). I quickly decided this wasn’t the book for me.Then Last week I happened to see a tweet from Dear Author mentioning that The Lizard Man book was DA’s Nov book club read. Jane and I got tweeting and I mentioned how this wasn’t a book I could see myself reading. All it took were two golden words from Jane “Tremendous Romance” and I found myself clicking the buy button on Amazon.I don’t read SiFi so I don’t have anything to compare this book to and I am not sure I can do this book justice to begin with but here are my thoughts:Amber Bierce and her sister are aboard a spaceship to an earth like planet when their ship is hit by an asteroid and crashes, of the original 50,000 only a few survive. Uyane Meoraq is a Sword of Sheul, God’s own instrument of judgment. When Meoraq, sees fires of the wreckage light up the sky he believes it to be a sign from god and embarks on a pilgrimage to a temple of Gann on his way there he comes across a group of ‘aliens’.The Last Hour of Gann is long, 3 books long at nearly 1000 pages, It starts out slow, so if you decide to read this book I say hang on and hang on tight for once Amber and Meoraq meet the story begins its epic journey, one that is definitely worthy of  a read.Meoraq the hero is a lizard man and Amber the heroine is human, they speak different languages, have totally different beliefs and find the other ugly! Moeraq believes everything is God’s will and this belief totally drives amber up the wall which made for some entertaining banter throughout the book.But as I read on I totally fell in love with Meoraq, considering I have a phobia to lizards that’s saying a lot. Amber and Moeraq were perfect for each other, their romance was a slow burn and by the time they got together and fell in love I was emotionally vested. I so badly wanted things to work out for them so that they could have their HEA!The Last Hour of Gann is about survival, faith, perseverance, destiny and last but not the least true LOVE.Does EPIC best describe The Last Hour of Gann? ABSOLUTELY! It is an Epic love story, with epic characters, in an epic world. One that will stay with me for a long, long time.