Atlantis Unleashed Review
Atlantis Unleashed Review is from the third book in Alyssa Day’s Warriors of the Poseidon series. At the end of Atlantis Awakening, Justice, after keeping the truth of his birth a secret all his life, offered his life or his soul to Anubisa to save his brother, Ven & Erin, as well Conlan & Riley, and their unborn child. “Atlantis Unleshed” is Justice’s story.
The book picks up with the warriors trying to find Justice, who has been imprisoned in the Void by Anubis for four months. Justice, who is a fierce Atlantean warrior, has been dreaming of a beautiful woman, while in imprisonment. It is this vision, that keeps him sane throughout whatever torture Anubis has done to him, as well as his inner conflict, of having two souls…Atlantean & Nereid. Justice is constantly fighting off the Nereid soul, who wants total control. Just about when he feels he is losing his sanity, he attempts an escape from the Void.
Keely McDermott is a well known feisty archaeologist. What Keeley has kept secret to everyone, is her ability to touch objects, and be able to read and feel everything about it. By touching these objects, it triggers events related to the object, and those visions take its toll on Keeley. As a child, Keeley was treated by her own family as being different, and learned to hide her ability, so people would not think she was strange. Therefore, she never had the chance to be able to talk about her gift, or to find out just what she was, until Atlantis came looking for her. Conlan and his team knew Keeley was an object reader, and they needed her to help them. Keeley, years before during one of her expeditions, found a fish carving, which gave her a vision of a beautiful warrior, with blue black hair. She dreamed of this warrior for years.
Almost the minute Keeley arrives in Atlantis, she sees the image of Justice trying to escape the Void through a portal. Justice sees Keeley, and recognizes that she is the woman who has kept him sane. He sees no one else, as he fights his insanity to get through the Void to Keeley. Justice is a pretty scary site for Keeley, as he comes through and grabs her away.
But Keeley, though scared at times, was the perfect person for the damaged Justice. She was a strong character, has courage, compassion, and great sense of humor. Once she was able to see into Justice’s mind, as well as Justice into her mind (for her bad childhood), Keeley was the one who would mend Justice back together. Despite her own difficulties, she was able to calm him, and pull him out of his insanity. In time, Keeley was the only one, who could heal him and blend his two souls together. When Justice looked at Keeley, he could feel her light to take him out of his darkness.
Loved their romance, even early on, when they were in the cave unable to get out, and she was scared. Things lighten a bit when he magically brought her pancakes to eat. Loved his intense love for her, the way he clung to his sanity for her sake, to protect Keeley in fighting off the more dangerous Neirid.. made it more intense. Though at times, he was bit arrogant, as it seems all of the warriors are in the beginning. Amazing how they think women, upon knowing them for all of 2 minutes, should do as they say. Lol But Keeley was his savior, especially when she got to know Justice better, and knew how to handle him. She brought him out of this dark place…with her love for him.
Until the end of Atlantis Awakening, I really did not pay attention too much attention to Justice…but “Atlantis Unleashed” does him justice. J The last 1/3 of the book was very exciting, as Justice (& Neried) worked with Keeley to find the Star of Artemis, which was needed to add to the Trident. Something that is necessary for Atlantis to eventually rise. Keeley in one of her visions told Conlan and Ven, they cannot try to bring Atlantis up, unless they get all the jewels of Trident, otherwise Atlantis will be destroyed. Another part of the story I really enjoyed, was Keeley falling for the little orphaned girl, whom she met in the village in South America, where they had to help them fight off the vampires.
I really enjoyed this book, and loved Justice and Keeley together. At this point, I still like Erin the best of the heroines, though I do like Riley, Kat and Keeley. Even though we have to wait for a bit to have Quinn’s story, I think she just might be the best one yet, as Day keeps teasing us with Alaric and Quinn. But with the new girl introduced in this story…Tiernan, who based on Brennan acting badly in front her, as well as Grace, whom Alexios is constantly thinking of, are more heroines to come. I hope you enjoyed my Atlantis Unleashed Review, on to the next book, Atlantis Unmasked.
Barb
