I got this book a while back, and put a star review not, a written review cause I didn't know how to put my thought into words and now I finally figured it out. Here goes. This is one of my favorite books I have the whole series. When I found Damian's Oracle I thought I found a hidden treasure, that is how much I loved this story! Had my full attention from the beginning till the end. This book was awesome! Lizzy Ford shows that she has a passionate Imagination, Loved the mythology of the story, has Action, romance, Alpha males, Immortals, gods, an oracle, and other beings. It's good vs evil, the characters are complicated, loved the guardians. A big surprise ending. Such a good read! I read this one in a series of paranormal romances that people seemed to have recommended to me . . . which is interesting - I don't really care for that much romance in my reading. But, the fact that I seemed to read so many back to back did not help me to love ANY of them and did cause enough eye rolling that I think I can actually now see out of the back of my head. Interesting things in this one include the mythology. It isn't about shifters and vampires - though there is definite blood binding present which is too much blood for MY liking - it is about gods. It is based on Slavic mythology - it says so right in the description. But, I was never really sure what exactly *made* a god in this worldview. They were not immortal . . . they could definitely die . . . but they were long lived . . . There are also other terms . . . Guardians . . . Watchers (which certainly had bald heads and wore hats) (Sorry - too much Fringe in my past?) . . . Oracles . . . Blood Bound (which was never truely adequately differentiated from vampires for my understanding . . .) All these wonderful terms - but no real explanations. So, the wonderful *ideas* in the worldview were not sufficiently explained nor carried through.I also had issues with the story itself. The PoVs jumped around entirely too quickly and too often. I rarely was able to settle in on one aspect before we jumped to another. Also, I found the actual stupidity . . . idiocy . . . absurdity . . .fatuosness . . . asininity . . . ineptitude (no, this is not enough terms) of the godlike characters that allows for the plot twist that causes the whole rest of the book to happen to be completely unbelievable and unlikely and implausible and inconceivable (well, actually someone DID conceive of it . . . sigh.) This, as you may have determined, completely colored my ability to appreciate any further fine points of the plot or the story itself. Two little teensy weensy tiny points that I did enjoy here . . . there is definitely good versus evil . . . and there is no love triangle.I would also like to point out that the cover is wrong (and probably unintentionally deceptive) . . . it should definitely be a naked male chest,I would probably give this one 2.5 stars . . . it was free . . . it kept me reading (though I have no idea how or why?) so I will (because I am in a good mood) round it up to 3.
What do You think about Damian's Oracle (2011)?
Could NOT put this down! Moving on to Damian's Assassin. ^_^
—amandacm28
so amazing. cant wait to read the rest of the series.
—moontje1
