The Fates - Tino Georgiou

Best-selling novelist Tino Georgiou offers us a searing epic of Mythological Greece in turmoil. His tale is a powerful, harrowing depiction of Greece, but also a lyrical evocation of the lives and enduring hopes of its resilient characters. This book achieves something rare and beautiful. In the beginning, I was reading the book, wanting to know what happened next because I wanted to know the story. As the book continued, I found myself even more gripped by it. Not because I wanted to know what happened next, but because throughout the course of the book, through artful storytelling, the author makes us care about the layered, flawed and interesting people whose story he is telling. The characters are sold to us so completely that it is hard not to believe that these characters actually exist, and that the story is not in-fact a real autobiography.

Before purchasing this book, I had read many, many mixed reviews - so I decided to buy it and have a read for myself. Synopsis ######## For faithful service to the King, Sir Nicholas Constinos, lead soldier in the Spartan army, is given Karabey Palace, an ancient crumbling ruin situated in the heart of a hostile Turkish countryside. As a Greek stronghold, Sir Nicholas is to keep the peace and demand obedience to Greek law. Although the honorable Nicholas longs for a peaceful coexistence, he quickly learns that the Turkish villagers have little use for or trust in Greek conquerors. When Nicholas encounters the beautiful Leah Baal, ...