In Bonds of the Earth
The Book of the Watchers #2
Janine Ashbless
Erotic Paranormal Romance
Published in 2017 [ARC review]
H/h - Azazel/Egan Kansky/Milja Petak
Setting: Present time Europe and Africa.
Read in April-July, 2017.
[spoiler alert]
I
have no idea where to start, seriously! The Book of the Watchers series by
Janine Ashbless is SO complex and absolutely amazing that I’m
just....... speechless really. This series is rich in story telling with
a great research and a marvelous writing style where the author blends
many dimensions, of facts and fictions, together in such a way that the
only thing I can say for this series is WOW! I had to read In Bonds of the Earth at a snail’s pace just to savor each chapter.
I’ve never read anything by the author prior to this series. I picked up book 1 of the Watchers series, Cover Him With Darkness,
because 1. I was in search of a good angel-demon type book and 2. I
loved the title. And boy it sucked me right in from the start; from the
moment when little Milja met Azazel the Fallen, bound in a dank, dark
cave, for eternity... awaiting another eternity. Azazel is called a
demon, a fallen angel, Prince of Darkness or Satan as I found in some
sources. I’ll personally stick to the story itself because many of these
notions discussed in the book connected to the Book of Enoch is rather
vague to me. But that didn’t hinder my enjoyment at all. The whole story
behind Azazel and his many brothers’ fight with the good angels and how
they were then entombed in various places in the world is told in book
1. It was such a fascinating story, with excellent visuals, such as
Azazel’s fight with St. Michael and the destruction of his human family.
Milja,
a girl born in a small mountain-bound village of Montenegro, has known
The Prisoner since her childhood. The Prisoner was there always. Many
had been in charge of him over the uncountable years, her father the
priest, being the latest. Milja’s mother was already dead, so her father
has been the center of her world... until the day she started having
dreams of The Prisoner, whom she’d only met a few times; always with her
father by her side. Her father has forbidden her to ever communicate
with the prisoner, let alone release him, no matter how much he begs.
Yet, the sad, heart-wrenching dreams of him in pain, absolutely misery
of many, many years tore at Milja. Then one day, when she was around 20,
she does the unthinkable. She goes to the cave alone to meet him for
the first time in years since she went to school. The Prisoner was
always in her thought, in her dreams, so much so that she only had one
boyfriend but couldn’t even maintain that relationship. She knew by then
who she belonged to, and she decides instantly that she’s going to
release him.