ILLBORN

Absolutely phenomenal. I love character driven stories and this is top tier for me and probably the best self published book I've read and by far the best Prologue ever written of any book ever. I promise!

Another thing I like is animal supporting characters. John Gwynne and Robin Hobb do a great job of this and now I can include Daniel Jackson in that category. Blackpaw is basically a Werewolf, I refuse to accept any other word for this bad ass creature companion of my favorite character in the story, Corin.

Every character has a power that mostly revolve around mind control. Corin has the ability to effect your motor skills and he can also see what you see. He's a 5'3” dweeb, but as most fantasy stories go, he is much more important than you think

Arion has the ability to make your movements slow which makes him a warrior to be reckoned with. He also seems to be in love at first sight with both the female main cast so this might get juicy in the sequel.

Leanna is a highly devoted religious fanatic and also has the ability to heal mortal wounds. Although she has to do it secretly because unexplained phenomena is considered a heretic act and she will be burned alive.

Alana is a very decisive for the most annoying of reasons. She is very beautiful and is the daughter of a prostitute. She vows to live a better life, yet starting in chapter 2 of her story she finds she has the ability to get people to do what she wants by messing with their head to get them to have sex with her. It's a bit ridiculous and uncomfortable because the entire story is her basically raping men to fall under their protection. But people are being very dramatic and saying this is sexist because you wouldn't write a male character this way. I agree that it would definitely be more weird to have a man raping women, but to call it sexist is ridiculous. By that standard it would be sexist to have men on the cover of romance books with their shirt off because “you wouldn't have a naked female on the cover”. Everyone needs to quit being lame and just enjoy the book and ignore the minor parts you don't like, or just don't read it and quit being an ass to the people who enjoyed it.

I've also found out that the author supposedly is blocking people who give 1 star reviews. That is next level petty and definitely serious narcissism but this is a review of the book not the author. Although I don't see how anyone in the world could give this 1 star anyway.

If you can overlook the 2 negative qualities of the book/author then give this amazing book a shot!