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Megara

We all know the story.
How it ended.
He survived and conquered each task.
Became the hero of all heroes.
And in the end he became a legend.
What no one told you is that I was there. I was helping him . . . and when he ascended, I was left behind to rot.
Herakles never knew I sold my soul for his success—he didn’t need to. Had I been enough on my own, he would’ve chosen to stay.
Instead, he rose to full glory.
I was dragged straight to Hades.
Beaten.
Violated.
Broken.
Eventually, mutated.
I lost track of him for nearly three millennia, but I’ve found him.
I will kill him.
He chose to become a god; I was forced to become a nightmare.
Now it’s time for us to meet again.

Herakles

I abandoned my family mere moments before the Greek pantheon fell.
‘Till this day the whispers accuse me.
Had I been there, perhaps they could’ve been saved.
But I no longer gave a fuck.
Funny how vanity can blind a male to what really matters.
It took less than a year on Olympus before I began searching for her again.
I never found her.
Now, two-in-a-half-thousand years later, here I am.
Alone.
Empty.
An immortal ghost, simply getting by.
I should’ve never left her.
The only thing I had was hoping the last of her mortal days, wherever she ended up, were happy . . .
Joke’s on me.
A darkened, twisted version of my female returns, demanding my head for every one of my sins.
And she shall have it.
But first, I’m saving her from her curse.
I’ll sacrifice every ounce of my sanity left to free her . . . right before I let her end me once and for all.

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306 pages
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English
Publication date

7 November 2019
Reading age

18 years
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0816TG6TK
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2378 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B08T4883M4

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N. Isabelle Blanco is the Amazon Bestselling Author of the Allure Series, the Need Series with K.I.Lynn, and many others. At the age of three, due to an odd fascination with studying her mother’s handwriting, she began to read and write. By the time she’d reached kindergarten, she had an extensive vocabulary and her obsession with words began to bleed into every aspect of her life.

That is, until coffee came a long and took over everything else.

Nowadays, N. spends most of her days surviving the crazy New York rush and arguing with her characters every ten minutes or so, all in the hopes of one day getting them under control.

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3 and 1/2 stars

Reviewed in Australia on 14 November 2019

I usually love stories about gods but truthfully, it was hard to get into this story. There was a lot of detail and it was well written but there was something about it that didn't instantly grab my attention. The main characters, Meg and Herakles, were interesting and weren't given the best lot in life. Although one certainly had it a lot harder than the other. This puts them at odds with one hating the other to the point of wanting revenge. I think Meg figured her meeting with Herakles would be short and quick but that's not what happens. Their meeting sparks a journey that I don't think they were expecting. The idea sounds great and I love the mythological aspects but I just wasn't able to engage fully with the story. While this was my experience, I would still advise others to give it a try. Everyone enjoy stories differently and while it didn't work for me, it might be someone else's favourite story. I think I'll give it another go and see. I might change my thoughts.

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Brilliant!

Reviewed in Australia on 12 November 2019

Dark, twisted, utterly brilliant are terms that come to mind after reading Sacrifice. I adore Isabelle and her unique ability to draw you into her stories. This was a brilliant addition to this collection.

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Nice story

Reviewed in Australia on 12 November 2019

This is a fab story. I devoured it

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Jayne Gibson

What an amazing ride!

Reviewed in the United States on 4 February 2020

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Now I have to say at the forefront that this was honestly a fun read. I thoroughly enjoyed every page that of this rewriting of Greek mythology. I found it particularly entertaining because I have studied the Labors of Herakles extensively due to their correlation with the Zodiacal Signs of Astrology. Giving these stories a modern bent simply fascinated me.

Megara, lover of Herakles before his ascension into the Olympic world, is deserted by him in his quest for godhood. She finds herself cast into Hades to suffer centuries of torment. Her hatred of him runs deep, and rightly so. And the story unfolds from there and, my oh my, what a story it is.

This book is part of The Sinister Fairy Tales Collection, and it is written by N. Isabelle Blanco, one of my favorite authors. I picked up this book with certain expectations, and she filled every one of them.

To me, a good story draws me in and holds me close until the end. If I care about the characters, the author has done her job. The worlds created need to resonate with me; I have to believe they could exist in order to love the book. The plot has to be solidly constructed. Isabelle met all this criteria and more. This was such a good story. Well written, I must say. Highly recommended.

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ReaderAddict

An Ok Read.

Reviewed in the United States on 14 February 2020

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I Give this Book a 3.5/5 Star Rating, Listing as 3.

Trying to Avoid Adding Spoilers.
I Personally Wouldn’t Fit Herakles/Hercules as a Fairy Tale (but that’s just me, ironically I would’ve accepted Hades & Persephone over Hercules & Megan’s)
Herakles & Meg weren’t as interesting as I thought it would be, I was a bit bored. Meg was astonishingly a very very unlikable main female character, just always so negative. Hercules kinda felt like a submissive(?), I didn’t find that really attractive for his character.

Another thing I disagree with is that (to me) even though it IS listed as a Standalone, I wouldn’t take it as such.
I would recommend reading the attached series the ‘Ryze Universe’, even though I haven’t read the series myself.
I think it might help cause I felt like there was an underlining story going on in this book that I was completely missing out on. So I was truly confused in some sections of the book.

HEA(?): Yes?
Dark: 3-3.5ish/5 (to me), But that does not mean this isn’t DARK(!), I LOVE Extreme Dark and I Have Zero Triggers, the book just didn’t reach the height of Dark I was expecting.
This will be Darker & Triggerous for other Readers, who are not avid readers of these genres.
Heat: Surprisingly I found it a bit underwhelming, not only were terms repeated throughout the book of various things, but some of the scenes seemed a bit recycled as well. There are a lot of scenes, which I was expecting to enjoy but I think not liking Meg didn’t help the scenes for me either. 3.5/5
Romance: (How do I rate this?) Love has been mentioned a lot, but did it actually convince me that there was love between them or was just on Herc’s side mainly? For me I’m gonna list is as a honest 3-3.5/5, it’s there but I don’t truly believe it.
Drama: Lots of it. 5/5
Suspense: 3/5

Ms Cat

Twisted Immortalities

Reviewed in the United States on 4 May 2021

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Millennias of pain, loneliess, hunger, anguish, lies, cracks and fissures skin deep.

Once Hercules turned his back upon Megara they both lost everything. One turned his back on his legacy after one year while she spent eons suffering only to be made into an immortal , one of Hades' elite assassin's, and a Succubus in order to survive.

Pawns for Hades' agenda he sets them on a twisted path against The Six, updated to modern day monsters. Bargains and contracts are made with underlying secrets that neither they, nor the mortal world, may survive. Wow!

Very interesting and unique read in the Ryze series, immediately captured me between its darkened and depraved chapters. Labeled 3.5, it brings past characters into the fray and therefore ends in the middle of new turmoil (cliffhanger). Leans heavily on Greek mythology vice fairytale s.

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