Review: A Unique, Captivating Take On Old Myths
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
This was a unique story which put a completely different spin on the old lore. It tells of a group of people whose origins date back to the Akkadian Empire, and  who have been left to live without understanding of why or how they came to be immortal. Are they cursed, like most believe? Or, have they been given a gift?The story begins with the immortal, Enzu. He is an incubus...sort of. Enzu is a tatto artist, taught by the Native Americans centuries before, and in all that time, he has been alone; that is until a young woman walks into his shop. Tristan is a typical college student who has just had her heart broken. Wanting a tattoo after her breakup, she goes to Enzu for a goddess symbol inked into her chest. Enzu immediately feels a connection to Tristan, and a relationship commences. While it is never explained exactly what Tristan's pull is, others merely accept it as "if they exist, why not something else?"Many more immortals and their back stories are introduced, like Li, who was a warrior for the Spartans (yum) and is in a relationship with Naram, the enigmatic king from their time, and Iltani, a woman Enzu had a relationship with many centuries before.While Enzu and Tristan begin their relationship, outside forces place them in the path of a maniacal immortal, whose machinations terrorize Tristan and Nina (another immortal), almost destroying one of them.This book is filled with interesting characters, mayhem, and mythology. While I found it at times abstruse, I read it as the abstract mythos it is meant to be, and became lost in the tale, thoroughly enjoying myself!