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Author: Crista McHugh
Book Description: When you’re a witch named Trouble, chaos follows.
Arden Lesstymine (known to everyone as Trouble) likes attention as much as the next girl, but this is getting ridiculous. When an insane stranger is murdered at the inn where she works, Trouble becomes the next Soulbearer for the disembodied god of chaos, Loku. Yes, it comes with the ability to channel the god’s limitless power, but at the cost of her sanity — literally. Now she has a sexy but cynical knight claiming to be her protector, a prince trying to seduce her to his cause (and his bed), and a snarky chaos god who offers a play-by-play commentary on it all, whether she wants to hear it or not. To make matters worse, a necromancer wants to capture the soul of Loku for his own dark purposes, and the only way he can get it is by killing her first.
Published in: February 7th 2012 by Create Space.
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy, PNR
Book Review:
The heroine, Arden Lesstymine or Trouble, is a blonde haired, blue eyed barmaid that works for her uncle at his inn in a town that everyone is black haired and brown eyed. That and the fact that she is secretly a witch makes her receive unwanted attention from the town folks (witches are not allowed in the country and are burned when discovered).
Trouble follows the heroine everywhere, hence the nickname Trouble. She becomes the next "vessel" for the god of Chaos Loku without wanting it and meets Devarian Tel’brien, a Knight of Gravaria (short name Dev) who claims that he is her sworn protector and its his duty to take her to Gravaria to keep her safe and give her proper magical training. Becoming a "vessel" for the god of Chaos is no joke. Loku has unlimited power but it comes with a cost, her sanity.
Dev and Trouble begin their journey to Gravaria but soon they discover that a necromancer its hot on their tails and he wants Trouble. He wants to take her and use Loku to his advantage whatever that may cost.
When they see the necromancer in a city destroying everyone is his path, Trouble chooses to disobey Dev and save the people. There she meets Kell, a prince that is his duty to report witches to his father despite the fact that he is enthralled by Trouble. Kell soon realizes that he cares for Trouble and he wishes to save her. They soon set to meet his father so he can try and change his mind for this particular witch.
Dev and Kell both care for Trouble. Dev is tormented with the fact that he cares so much about her and Loku keeps playing games with him and teases him about that fact. Because its Devs duty to keep Trouble safe he pushes her away every time they come close to each other, confusing Trouble in the process.
Ms. McHugh did a wonderful job on this book! The writing is excellent and the book is fast paced and keeps the reader on edge the whole time! I found myself connecting with all the characters. Trouble is my kind of heroine despite the fact that she is so hard-headed some times. I adored Dev even though I wanted to smack him in the head when he was being so stubborn, Kell was annoyingly sweet some times and Loku, well, Loku is a fun, fun god of Chaos. Personally I can't wait for the next book of this series to come!
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