Life in the Palace The Palace Saga Book 1 eBook Catherine Green
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“We need to talk,” Tal said. Then I knew it was going to go badly. ‘We need to talk’ is the conversational equivalent of walking into your basement without turning on the light, on a dark and stormy night, when a known psychopath is on the loose. You might as well cut to the chase and slit your own throat.
Chloe Diaz assumed three things that when Tal said that she was one of The People sent from heaven to maintain the cosmic balance, it was code for ‘I’m a pamphlet distributing, incense burning, religious weirdo;’ that the gorgeous Seth Wilks would never be her soul mate and that she’d never have to choose between them. Chloe was wrong.
Now the future of the world is in her hands, but what if the price is too great to pay?
Find Chloe and Seth on facebook (they’ll respond to your posts), read deleted scenes and hear Seth’s latest song at lifeinthepalacesaga.com
To Call Your Name- Book 2 of the Palace Saga available now.
Warning- The Palace Saga is a series about people who choose to leave the secular world and dedicate themselves to a higher power (aka live a life of faith.) It is not necessarily written for religious people. If the occasional swear word, allusion to pre-marital sex or double-entendre involving mashed potatoes is outside your comfort zone, then this is not the series for you. (Although, feel free to read it anyway and then leave a one star review bemoaning the level of realism.)
In other words, this is the book you want to buy your teenager when you say no to that keg party, not the book you give your pre-teen to read between prayer meetings.
Life in the Palace The Palace Saga Book 1 eBook Catherine Green
Chloe Diaz's perfect older sister, Stacy had done the unthinkable when she hopped on the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle and rode off into the sunset. Her parents were furious, and so Chloe became the repository of all her parents' displaced hopes and dreams. It is becoming truly exhausting, so as soon as she's able, Chloe leaves for college several months early.Once she's enrolled in summer school, Chloe's life begins to change in ways she never expected. She's more than happy to leave the super heroic, save the world missions to her new study partner, Tal - who claims that as one of 'The People', she was sent from 'The Palace' to maintain the cosmic balance between good and evil. Chloe assumes that this is code for "I'm a pamphlet distributing, incense burning, religious weirdo."
Chloe was certain of three things in her life: first of all, boys who looked as gorgeously suave as Seth Wilks never even looked at her twice; second, they sure as heck never claimed she was their soul mate (as appealing as that particular thought might be); and third, there would never come a time in Chloe's life when she would have to choose between following her heart towards her own happiness, and following a much different path towards her destiny. Chloe was wrong; the time for her decision has come...
Now the future of the world is in her hands, but what if the price is too great to pay? Chloe learns that, in the Palace, destiny is not enough...
I must say that I enjoyed reading this book very much. This was a very intriguing and unusual premise; slightly darker and grittier than most readers might expect when they think of religious-themed fantasy, but I found the characters sympathetic and well-developed, the story was well-written and kept my attention engaged through to the end. I certainly want to read the next book in this series - 'To Call Your Name'. I give 'Life in the Palace' by Catherine Green an A!
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Life in the Palace The Palace Saga Book 1 eBook Catherine Green Reviews
As a religious person (Jewish), and a fantasy freak (and author), I can easily see through all the Jewish imagery, and the symbols of different parts of Jewish society - orthodox religious, semi-religious, non-religious and reform-religious, all hidden amongst the characters of this fantasy series.
The technique is old, quite ancient really, and stems from our Hasidic ancestors, the great Rabbis following the way of the Baal Shem-Tov, who used to invent fantasy tales, clothing highly spiritual messages in imaginary stories, about a palace, a king and queen, a prince and a princess. These stories were really variations on the allegoric theme of God and his relationship with the People of Israel.
This method really enables the message to come through to an audience of all ages and all levels of consciousness. Because anyone can understand a good fairytale, and even if the parable is not deciphered consciously, the message comes through subconsciously.
Thus, young or old, learned or simpleton, everyone gets his share of spirituality, guidance, and learning of faith.
In Green's "Life in the Palace", the Hasidic tale gets a modern twist, and becomes a sort of "Jewish Percy Jackson" , with less hacking and slaying, perhaps slightly too much explicit eroticism (at least to my religious preferences), but certainly very well written. I think I'm not really "target-audience" in this case, but this made reading the book for me, even more interesting - observing a work in the genre, which is very well performed.
And as Orthodox Judaism is the good-guys ("The People") trying to save the world, I find I can really recommend this book to fantasy lovers whom I think could be drawn by it closer to Faith.
Where it wasn't a bad book, it wasn't a five star book. The writing was good, and the story line was original, it was too young for me. It had too much teenage lingo for me, and was a little out there for me. The book moved slower than I am used to. I found myself skimming through the book just to finish it. I liked the heroine, but sometimes she irritated me with the " I'm not as hot as my sister." I did like the way she and Seth got together. I liked Seth, but he was a little too perfect for my tastes. Great body, great personality, great cook, great looking, bartender, pre-med and philosophy major, AND plays in a band? The only thing he did that was bad was smoke. To sum up my review, the book was definitely written for those between the ages of 15- 24. It had an original storyline, with a cute heroine, and a perfect hero. It also contains a few swear words. It wasn't a bad book, just a little too young for me. I took two stars off for the smoking, the perfect hero, the f bomb, and the pace of the book.
Too much of nothing happening for me to finish reading. As a religious person, I was very interested in the religious aspect, but at 15% I got too bored to continue. The only thing to develop by then was romance. Keep in mind that Twilight bored me almost to tears, but I persevered because everyone else was raving. This book just seems to confuse most people. But if you're more interested in romance than mystery, danger, and all the other devices that would have kept me reading, go for it.
I don't usually post reviews for books I don't finish, but I make exceptions if I think a book isn't good for teens. My main concern is for parents not to give this to a young teenager. They have enough problems without feeling they can't be saved, and that's one of two things clear from other reviews. The second is that this book won't help religious people be viewed as normal because its religion is nothing like any other I've come across. Counting by a class in world religions, that's a lot. The second isn't a negative for reading, but it conflicts with the author's stated purpose for writing. I was provided a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
Chloe Diaz's perfect older sister, Stacy had done the unthinkable when she hopped on the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle and rode off into the sunset. Her parents were furious, and so Chloe became the repository of all her parents' displaced hopes and dreams. It is becoming truly exhausting, so as soon as she's able, Chloe leaves for college several months early.
Once she's enrolled in summer school, Chloe's life begins to change in ways she never expected. She's more than happy to leave the super heroic, save the world missions to her new study partner, Tal - who claims that as one of 'The People', she was sent from 'The Palace' to maintain the cosmic balance between good and evil. Chloe assumes that this is code for "I'm a pamphlet distributing, incense burning, religious weirdo."
Chloe was certain of three things in her life first of all, boys who looked as gorgeously suave as Seth Wilks never even looked at her twice; second, they sure as heck never claimed she was their soul mate (as appealing as that particular thought might be); and third, there would never come a time in Chloe's life when she would have to choose between following her heart towards her own happiness, and following a much different path towards her destiny. Chloe was wrong; the time for her decision has come...
Now the future of the world is in her hands, but what if the price is too great to pay? Chloe learns that, in the Palace, destiny is not enough...
I must say that I enjoyed reading this book very much. This was a very intriguing and unusual premise; slightly darker and grittier than most readers might expect when they think of religious-themed fantasy, but I found the characters sympathetic and well-developed, the story was well-written and kept my attention engaged through to the end. I certainly want to read the next book in this series - 'To Call Your Name'. I give 'Life in the Palace' by Catherine Green an A!
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