Atlantis Redeemed Review

Atlantis Redeemed Review is the fifth book (plus two novellas) in Alyssa Day’s Warriors of the Poseidon series. As in Atlantis Unmasked, I was prepared not to like this book as much as the earlier ones, since some of the heroes had smaller roles.  “Atlantis Redeemed” is Brennan’s story, and once again Day managed to surprise me…I loved Brennan and Tiernan.  In the previous books, we were introduced to Tiernan, an investigative reporter, and I thought then she would be an interesting character.  Knew from Brennan’s reaction then, that he was meant for Tiernan.  But I never suspected that I would love them together.  That being said, let’s move on to the story.

Brennan in the early days (two thousand years before), was a young warrior, who at the age of 19, loved to drink, and enjoy the women available to him.  A raging Poseidon punished Brennan for his cavalier behavior, and blamed him for the death of a young girl and her unborn child. Though it was unjust, as the girl refused to accept Brennan’s offer of marriage. Poseidon cursed Brennan with feeling no emotion.  To make matters worse, Poseidon told Brennan that one day he will meet his soul mate, and after all these years of no emotion, he will explode with those emotions that have been buried, and each time he and his soulmate separate, he will fail to recognize who she is.  This will go on over and over, every time he loses sight of her, he will forget her and it starts again.  Only until his soul mate dies, then he will remember her and all those emotions will remain with him forever.

Tiernan, as the investigative reporter, has been working with the Atlanteans, since Alexios helped save her, and brought her to Atlantis to meet with Prince Conlan.  Now Tiernan is trying to get information, to help destroy the vampires who are trying to take over the world, using scientific measures to force enthrallment on shifters and eventually humans.  Enthralling destroys their minds, resulting in their eventual deaths.  Tiernan also has another reason to want to expose this evil group, she lost a friend to this group, and she wants revenge.

When Brennan is forced to work with Tiernan, the attraction turns deadly, as his curse is shattered when he meets her and in the space of a few moments, 2000 years of emotions bombard him in an unbelievably torturous way. He knows that Tiernan is his soul mate, and he is able to fight and control the raging emotions enough to be in control.  Though Tiernan was scared at first, when Brennan came crashing into her room, she is a headstrong, courageous and tenacious young lady.  She being a woman with an eye for the truth…another lost Atlantean art….a Truth Teller.  Tiernan is a human lie detector, and knows when people are lying to her.  Having that ability, allowed her to calm down and give Brennan the chance to explain his over zealous reaction to her.  She quickly becomes attracted to the gorgeous sexy Brennan, and at the same time tries to help him realize that the curse was unjust and he needs to not blame himself.  Of course, she also offers to talk to Poseidon for him, once this mission is over.  Lol

Brennan and Tiernan are a terrific pairing, as Tiernan is able to deal with Brennan and his curse.  She is the only who is able to calm his emotions, but whenever she is in danger, Brennan goes into his berserker mode, that is almost impossible to control. They are both strong, and dedicated characters, and the sparks do fly explosively when they do allow their passion for one another finally connect.  During the soul-meld, Tiernan sees her future with Brennan, and backs away from him, thereby hurting him.  But eventually she realizes they will work on their future together, as she loves him, and he loves her.

The story is constantly filled with action and excitement.  Another great ending, and Poseidon does come forth again and Tiernan does try to talk to him. lol  There is lots of humor throughout, and that is fun to read. We get to see a lot of the other characters that have been part of our Warriors of Poseidon adventure…..Prince Conlan and Riley, Alexios and Grace, Alaric and Quinn (finally), Jack and Daniel with Diedre.

Excellent story, and I am ready to move on to Atlantis Betrayed….Christoph’s story.  However, I cannot wait to read Daniel’s story in Vampire in Atlantis.  Not to mention Quinn and Alaric’s story coming in May, 2012. I guess I am totally hooked.

Barb