Title: The Perilous Prophecy of Guard and Goddess Author: Leanna Renee Hieber Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Pub Date: 05/16/2011 Category:ADULT: Romance: Fantasy Five stars to this beautiful, passionate, sophisticated and moving gothic fantasy set in Victorian England. Leanna Renee Heiber’s language is like poetry in prose form, evocative, beautiful to the ear and rich with many-layered meaning. A memorable book.  ‘The Perilous Prophecy of Guard and Goddess’ is the third in the award-winning, bestselling ‘Strangely Beautiful’ series’.  It’s a prequel to the first book, ‘The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker’ - which I awarded an M-Award to - but you can read this either before or after the first two. I recommend after, because the previous books have wetted our appetite for the details revealed in this one. The blurb says simply - The goddess Persephone begins her quest to be reincarnated with her true love, and more secrets of The Guard are revealed. In this … [Read more...]