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Legends of Astrea: Cupid’s Arrow
Publication Date: February 2018
Genre: YA Epic Romantasy
🏹 Epic Romantasy
💖 Coming-of-Age
🏹 Vampires & Werewolves
💖 Fated Love
Can the power of love save the world?
Ailie, a gutsy girl who possesses a sharp wit and a playful, irreverent voice that pairs well with that of her best friend’s, a werewolf; embarks on a quest for revenge with the help of her psychotic, warmongering, and good-hearted legal guardian. She alone can open the gates of hell just like Pandora did when she opened the jar that contained all evils.
And evil wants those doors open.
Fallen Angels conspire to help her with Cupid’s Golden Arrow.
She finds herself in a whimsical world of myths, legends, glittering gowns, priceless jewels, life threatening enemies, and eccentric immortals that call themselves Strzyga.
However, there are side effects to the arrow. What’s not to like about a gorgeous, two-hundred-year old Strzyga prince who is totally and completely head over heels for her?
But things never go as planned, do they?
Will Ailie manage to save the world, or will she accidentally open the gates of hell?
Find out in the exciting pages of this whimsical, legend-filled fantasy romance.
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About the Author
Sophia Alessandrini is a cum laude BS graduate in Mathematical Physics and a degree in International Relations. She studied and traveled all over Europe, always fantasizing about the middle ages, dragons, ghosts, and fairies. For fun she wrote short stories to read to her sister and young cousins during Christmas family gatherings. When she returned to America and discovered cooking, she became a Chef. However, stories were always popping in her head all the time, making her realize that her first love was writing.
She resides in sunny Southern California and enjoys walks on the beach at sunrise, collecting seashells and beach glass, always wondering about mermaids. She loves anything cute with little four legs, including frogs, and iguanas (although she avoids the kissing part), that she names after green food items when they show up at her doorstep.
When she escapes into the magic of the California forests, Sophia ponders about the existence of elementals, fairies, werewolves, and Big Foot. A geek at heart with an odd fascination for Chinese Kung Fu movies, Star Wars, and Vampire TV shows, plotting a way to time travel to the middle ages, meet dragons, talk to ghosts, and perhaps become a Ninja with pink hair like a forest fairy.
Her books keep her readers on their toes with her adrenaline-fueled adventures, suspense-filled cliffhangers, and romantic whimsical scenes. You will find her sitting down with a book in hand, hiding in corner of the nearest coffee shop when she isn’t writing.
My thoughts: Ailie has had a difficult childhood, orphaned and raised by nuns, bullied by her classmates and mistreated by the Sisters, some of whom think she’s possessed.
But as her sixteenth birthday arrives, it’s finally time to learn about who she really is and why she’s so important. In a war between two races hiding among humans, she’s vital to the survival of her people, as long as she doesn’t open the gates to Hell first.
This was an interesting take on angels and demons, vampires and werewolves. Centered around a teenage girl who doesn’t know anything about this hidden world of ancient beings, cursed and at war.
I liked Ailie and felt for her, her confusion and mine matched at times, she was inundated with new information and struggled with understanding it all, and then trying to reconcile all of that with what she does know.
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