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Secrets of Fathara (The Azetha Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Robin Glassey (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
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A princess, a sorcerer, a secret.

While sixteen-year-old Princess Tika has all the trappings of a princess, the misfit teen who can see and talk to faeries is trapped by the stuffy life of a royal and her father’s expectations of perfection.

What would His Majesty say if she told him she can see and talk to Death?

Tika fears the worst thing looming on her horizon is a loveless marriage arranged by her father and vindictive aunt, but when tragedy strikes the castle, the first of many secrets are revealed and marriage becomes the least of Tika’s worries.

As a result, traitors insidiously infiltrate the castle, the royal guard, even Tika’s own family and she is stripped of the only home and family she’s ever known, forcing her to go on the run.

And while the pseudo princess learns more about her true heritage and unique gifts this heritage bestows on her, she’s hunted by an evil sorcerer’s assassins and his living and undead creatures of forbidden dark magic.

Now the life of stuffy gowns and boring balls Tika so desperately wanted to escape, she desperately wishes she could have back.

Epic YA fantasy author Robin Glassey transports readers to Fathara where Death walks the land with a happy grin, having a conversation with the Intelligences is a sign of madness, and where an encounter with a Sha’andari is hazardous to your health.

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    The Azetha Series
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  3. Language
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  5. Publication date
    April 6, 2015
  6. Reading age
    13 - 18 years
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AUTHOR BIO:

Robin grew up in Eastern Canada in a small town across the bay from a leaky nuclear power plant, giving her the not-so-secret power of deactivating electronic devices. She was raised on a diet of fantasy and fiction, including Star Wars, Star Trek, and Doctor Who.

While Robin’s radioactivity hasn’t made her a superhero, she loves Superman, Wonder Woman, and oh so many of the Marvel heroes.

Robin graduated with a degree in Psychology at BYU and now spends her time analyzing her four boys, advocating for more mental health resources, and writing clean YA fantasy. In Robin’s epic fantasy series, The Azetha Series, she transports readers to a world of sorcery, secrets, and strange creatures.

Although Robin writes about epic journeys, if she ever went on one, she’d most likely die within the first mile.

As a mental health expert and writer with ADHD, Robin has also written a non-fiction book specifically for writers with ADHD called Helpful Tips & Tools for the ADHD Writer.

Editorial Reviews

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"My daughter loved the book and said that it had a great storyline and was fun to read. Her friends are also reading it and said the same." Goodreads reader, John Ricker.

From the Author

As a fan of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, I wanted to create a series with a female heroine in a world with Elves and Elementals. I began with Tika's parents, writing about Toran and Sosha and how these two unlikely heroes met in The Least of Elves, and continued with Tika's story in Secrets of Fathara, The Veil of Death, and Journey to the Mercy Mines.I have loved writing The Azetha Series with the multitude of characters and creatures. Some of my favorite characters are actually the side characters like Tahle'el and Eno. Who doesn't love a cowardly talking lizard? Tika has gone through many ups and downs along the way and her journey of learning how to be a healer has helped me through one of the greatest challenges I have had to face. This is the gift of writing, not only to entertain, but to learn from it.While The Azetha Series will soon come to a close, there are more projects in the works, both for YA fiction and for Middle Grade. 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00VS1XWFU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ; 2nd edition (April 6, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 6, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2759 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 317 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

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Robin Glassey

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Robin Glassey (1970 - ) first became hooked on science fiction when she discovered Doctor Who and his time-traveling TARDIS. She soon fell in love with Star Wars, Star Trek (and, of course, Buck Rogers).

You will often hear Robin joking about growing up across from a nuclear power plant and how it has given her a strange curse of randomly shutting electronics down. If she figures out how to harness this power, she'll dress up as a superhero and fight crime alongside her favorite hero, Superman.

Robin draws on life experience as a mother of four boys, a former foster parent, and her observations of people as she writes. Robin writes clean YA fantasy, including an epic tale about a princess, a warrior, and a sorcerer in The Azetha Series.

Robin has no problem cracking open a Diet Coke right after breakfast (but usually finishes one before).

Twitter: @RobinGlassey

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AprilE
5.0 out of 5 stars A True Hero is Found
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2015
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This author has captures our imagination with her characters. Especially the character of Tika and her journey of discovering who she is and why she is. The back stories and character developments make the story jump off the page. I can't wait to read the next book in the series to see how Tika deals with what her life has dealt her.
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Eyrie Mase
4.0 out of 5 stars A New and Interesting World
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2018
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This series is really interesting and creates a new world that draws you in with its history and plot. It actually reminds of loosely of the Lord of the Rings just because the main character is basically on a quest, in a magical world filled with elves and other creatures, picking up new characters along the way who each have their own little side stories to share, etc.

Pros: I like this story because it is creative and the events keep you wondering what will happen next. Every time it starts getting too predictable, the author throws a wrench in the storyline to suck you back in. The characters are interesting and you get to "see" a lot of different places and environments. There are also a lot of side stories involving other characters, which I would love to read more about if the author is willing to put out a companion book of short stories.

Cons: There are a lot of interesting new things, animals, plants, etc. However, all these names of things are thrown around apparently just to show you that the author is good at making up strange names... Most of them are never described or given any reason to even be named in the first place.
The author needs to send the books to a copy-editor. There are many small mistakes in grammar and tense that distract from the reading.
Sometimes, the author mentions something that seems important but never comes up again, and several seemingly big events/confrontations that just left me going "....that's it? Really?"

Characters: The characters are pretty well-written, but can be a little hard to get attached to. There are a plethora of different characters with different personalities which makes the story much more realistic. However, some characters are focussed on more than others and there are even chapters written from their perspective. This is helpful because we get to see some events that we wouldn't have seen otherwise, but those characters are often the hardest to relate to as they are often the most self-absorbed characters. I found myself wanting to look through the eyes of some of the other characters and getting to know them, but it wasn't to be.

Overall: I really enjoyed this series and spent an entire weekend and several evenings after work indulging in this series. After reading the first book, I bought up all of them and as much as I could read non-stop. I got lucky in the fact that I discovered this book after the series was finished, so I didn't have to deal with waiting for the next release.

*Note: I enjoy this series, but it does need some editing. There are several mistakes in every single books with grammar and such, simple mistakes that should have been caught by an editor. However, don't let it bother you too much, it is still worth reading. ;)

***I didn't read this copy of the book, but a free version on a book sharing site, so I'm not sure if this was fixed in this edition or not, but....
There was an editing mistake when we are introduced to Spider. It starts off with him apparently in present, then thinking about the past, then back in the present? Whatever was happening, it was all written in present tense and looks like the author finished writing the scene only to put her cursor halfway into it again and write a new scene.... I had to read that chapter twice (and sections of it more than twice) to figure it all out. It really distracted me from the story and I almost gave up on the book entirely because of the editing mistakes.
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Audreynb
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2018
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Not long enough. Now I need to buy another book I don't like waiting and watching on the sidelines. Hopefully I will be luckier soon.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2014
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Awesome story line, only a little tricky to follow based on the number of characters and their names.
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Roxy G
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2014
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Love it!
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Jenny K.
5.0 out of 5 stars A writer worth reading.
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2018
Ms. Glassey is a new writer for me but her work has captivated my interest to a great degree. She avoids sex and horror scenes and yet her work is difficult to put down. She creates a world complicated enough but she sustains it and the glossary at the end of the book is more than helpful to the average reader. Her heroine, Tika, is believable and well fleshed out. The rest of the characters Spider, Dhaved, the Elves, the King's Guard, Mortan and his cohorts, even the animals are well presented and -quite an achievement for me- is her ability to keep the reader's interest in all of them. She weaves the threads in a fantastic tapestry that translates into " Where's the next book to buy?" Make sure you don't miss this series.
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Cedar
5.0 out of 5 stars I have discovered a new author and a great new series!
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2018
Wow! What a great story! I really enjoyed reading this. I am so happy to have found a new author and a new series! I admit I was a bit of a hog, reading the whole book in one evening. I have woken up now, delighted that my weekend is not yet over, and that I may pursue the next book in the series!
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Manie Kilian
4.0 out of 5 stars From Fathara to Xanti
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2017
Hidden from Mortan for sixteen years Tika grew up amongst humans as a princess. For sixteen years Mortan searched for her and for sixteen years he failed to do so and to kill her.
Treachery in the court not only caused it to be revealed that Tika is an adopted child but word got back lightning fast to Mortan that she has been found.
Once again her life is in the ballance and a poison attack in fact nearly succeded in killing her. However, having recognised that Tika is in imminent danger, the king had arranged for her secret conveyance to the elves of Xanti where her grandparents will await her. Tragically though, the king gets assassinated shortly thereafter.
The trip to Xanti is, however, destined to be a gauntlet of strange and lethal attacks on the party at large and Tika particularly.
As epic fantasy this story certainly has a charm and a variety of strange creatures and plants to have even nature lovers swoon.
The characters, except for the main characters, are not well defined probably because they seem to be merely props populating the various scenes and the demise of several of them merely serving to highlight the dangers inherent to the trip to Xanti. As for the main characters there is a lot of scope for further development but this being a series, not of major import now.
All in all an epic fantasy of interest and that will suit even the most jaded afficionados. Enjoy!
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