{"id":26144,"date":"2020-11-25T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=26144"},"modified":"2020-11-06T07:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T13:34:54","slug":"review-seriesstarter-blood-of-zeus-blood-of-zeus-1-by-meredith-wild-and-angel-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=26144","title":{"rendered":"#review #seriesstarter Blood of Zeus (Blood of Zeus 1) by Meredith Wild and Angel Payne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/0BA1F589-AF25-4BE3-8B71-EAF4AFBA0D16.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26145\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/0BA1F589-AF25-4BE3-8B71-EAF4AFBA0D16-200x300.jpeg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/0BA1F589-AF25-4BE3-8B71-EAF4AFBA0D16.jpeg?resize=200%2C300 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/0BA1F589-AF25-4BE3-8B71-EAF4AFBA0D16.jpeg?w=317 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/synopsis.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25369 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/synopsis.jpg?resize=300%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/synopsis.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/synopsis.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/synopsis.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An ancient grudge. A forbidden love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The only thing worse than being a demon is being a Valari. As an undergraduate at Los Angeles\u2019s Alameda University, Kara Valari can sometimes succeed at forgetting she\u2019s both. Lost between the pages of the classics and tucked into the shadows of lecture halls, she can dodge the paparazzi\u2019s lenses as well as her family\u2019s publicized dramas\u2014not to mention their private expectations. She has one more year to feed her true passions. Then she\u2019ll be expected to fulfill a much darker destiny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cursed with inexplicable strength and god-like stature, literature professor Maximus Kane knows all about darkness. Every day he\u2019s reminded of the missteps of his childhood and the devastating consequences they\u2019ve had on those dearest to him. To atone, Maximus spends his nights alone and his days submerged in the quiet life of academia. His existence has become a study in control, and he\u2019s become a master at it\u2014until Kara Valari walks into his toughest course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Viscerally, Kara\u2019s everything he craves. Logically, she\u2019s everything he rejects. She\u2019s a starlet of privilege. She\u2019s also a student. And after one touch, he can\u2019t deny that she\u2019s awakened something in him that may never go dormant. Nothing about her makes sense, but everything about her feels right. Especially in the deepest strands of his DNA, which are still shadows of mystery to him\u2014a mystery Kara seems determined to uncover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She\u2019s Hollywood royalty. She\u2019s forbidden fruit. And he\u2019s pretty sure she could be the answer to everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/goodreads.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25373 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/goodreads.jpg?resize=300%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/goodreads.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/goodreads.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/goodreads.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Goodreads\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/52757327-blood-of-zeus?ac=1&amp;from_search=true&amp;qid=Tr5PhiyTGr&amp;rank=1\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/52757327-blood-of-zeus?ac=1&amp;from_search=true&amp;qid=Tr5PhiyTGr&amp;rank=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/buylinks.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25375 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/buylinks.jpg?resize=300%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/buylinks.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/buylinks.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/buylinks.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2IdYxWK\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2IdYxWK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dee.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25380 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dee.jpg?resize=300%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dee.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dee.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dee.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Review by Twinsie Dee<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I bought this book and this my honest opinion <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So Kara has a dark family secret that she doesn\u2019t want to get out she also a see herself as the black sheep of her family. She goes to class and hides in the shadows away from the paparazzi the best she could away from the cameras but with her last name it\u2019s easier said then done. Maximus Kane the sexy college professor who catches the eye of every female student he has walk into his classroom.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But the moment his eyes landed on Kara there was a spark neither one of them could explain but they did know that they didn\u2019t want to stay away from each other. They both had secrets hiding from one another the only difference is that Kara knew about hers and Maximus didn\u2019t. Will these secrets rip them apart before they have even begun or will they protect each other at no cost. This was a pretty good story overall a very slow burn building up everything to topple over and leave you hanging ready for the next book. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/abouttheauthor.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25376 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/abouttheauthor.jpg?resize=300%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/abouttheauthor.jpg?resize=300%2C100 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/abouttheauthor.jpg?resize=768%2C256 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/abouttheauthor.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Meredith Wild is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author. After publishing her debut novel Hardwired in September 2013, Wild used her ten years of experience as a tech entrepreneur to push the boundaries of her \u201cself-published\u201d status, becoming stocked in brick-and-mortar bookstore chains nationwide and forging relationships with the major retailers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2014, Wild founded her own imprint, Waterhouse Press, under which she hit No. 1 on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers lists. She has been featured on CBS This Morning, The Today Show, the New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Publishers Weekly, and The Examiner. Her foreign rights have been sold in over 23 languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">USA Today bestselling romance author Angel Payne has been reading and writing her entire life. She has written for four publishing houses, and is also independently published. She most enjoys focusing on high heat and adventurous plots starring memorable alpha men and their headstrong heroines. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Angel&#8217;s bestselling book series include the Bolt Saga, the Honor Bound series, the Suited for Sin series, the Cimarron Saga, the Temptation Court series, the Secrets of Stone series (with Victoria Blue), and the Shark&#8217;s Edge Saga (Also with Victoria Blue). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Angel lives in Southern California with her soul mate husband and beautiful daughter. They enjoy traveling and cosplaying together. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ancient grudge. A forbidden love. The only thing worse than being a demon is being a Valari. As an undergraduate at Los Angeles\u2019s Alameda University, Kara Valari can sometimes succeed at forgetting she\u2019s both. Lost between the pages of the classics and tucked into the shadows of lecture halls, she can dodge the paparazzi\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=26144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#review #seriesstarter Blood of Zeus (Blood of Zeus 1) by Meredith Wild and Angel Payne<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[999,16,838],"tags":[89,1217],"class_list":["post-26144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mythology","category-part-of-a-series","category-review","tag-angel-payne","tag-meredith-wild"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-6NG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26146,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26144\/revisions\/26146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}