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Nine Levels by Elana Gomel.
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Waking up on the beach in Greece after a midnight party, Cleo, a British-Greek tourist, sees a stranger sitting next to her. The stranger has a giant spider on his forearm.
So begins an incredible odyssey through the nine levels of the mysterious mountain populated by an odd assortment of monsters, demons, and avatars of dead gods. Still grieving the unsolved disappearance of her twin sister Cora, Cleo is thrust into the world whose rules she does not understand and whose inhabitants confound everything she thought she knew about Greek mythology. Confronted by Woven Women, masked huntresses, sentient graffiti, and Mother of Monsters, Cleo has to make sense of it all. And meanwhile, a mysterious Call reverberates in her brain: You have to go up. You have to find your sister.
A story of self-discovery, courage, and breathtaking adventure, Nine Levels is a highly imaginative, innovative, and engrossing retelling of familiar legends with a twist you won’t see coming.
My Review:
Nine Levels is a fantastic Greek Mythology retelling. I was enthalled by the author's storytelling. Gomel did a fantastic job setting up the story, creating and describing her world, and weaving the different levels, minor Greek gods, and characters together.
Rebels have overthrown the deities of Mount Olympus, and have taken over. Ruthlessly ruling each level. The minor gods Cleo encounters along the way are but avatars. These avatars, demons, and the like are nothing short of powerful and dangerous.
I couldn't help but bite my nails throughout Nine Levels. I was rooting so hard for Cleo to ascend her way to the Ninth Level. We learn a lot about Cleo, but she is also on journey to find out who she is, why her sister disappeared, and why they were both pulled into this labyrinth of nightmares.
I love the story, the characters, and the Greek Mythology. The retelling is captivating and interesting. Cleo's journey is not easy and is downright dangerous. She doesn't know where she is, why she's there, who to trust, or where to go inside the mysterious mountain. All she knows is that in order to find out what happened to her twin sister Cora, Cleo must ascend up the mountain through all nine levels. But who really knows what the Ninth Level will bring.
If you’re looking for a journey into a new world, introductions to deities that you may not be familiar with, and a story with twists and turns, grab a copy of Nine Levels and follow Cleo through her Fantasy Adventure.
I was provided a copy of this book.
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Born in Ukraine and currently residing in California, Elana Gomel is an academic, an award-winning writer, and a professional nomad. She is well-known for her work on speculative fiction and narrative theory, represented by her academic books, which Beyond the Golden Rule, Bloodscripts, and The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy. Twelve years ago she published her first fantasy novel and has never looked back. She is the author of more than a hundred short stories, two collections, several novellas, and seven novels. She writes dark fantasy, dark SF, fairy tales, and hard-to classify dreamlike stories, some of them connected to her roots in the former USSR. Her stories won several awards, and “Mine Seven” was featured in the Best of Horror 13 edited by Ellen Datlow. Her latest fiction publications are the dark fairy tale Nightwood (Silver Award in the Bookfest 2023 competition) and Girl of Light, an alternative history of the USSR with monsters. Many of her stories and novels have mythological and folkloric overtones, inspired by her travels and her academic research. Having lived in several countries including Israel, Italy, the UK, and Hong Kong, she now resides in the magical – and sinister – redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains with her husband.
Amazon Author Profile: https://amzn.to/3z5FHeU
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Release Date: July 17, 2024
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