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Sorceress Awakening (A Gargoyle and Sorceress Tale Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Lisa Blackwood (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 3,343 ratings

Book 1 of 9: A Gargoyle and Sorceress Tale

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A sorceress and her gargoyle protector battle evil and their own forbidden love in this action-packed urban fantasy.

When Lillian finds herself facing off against demons out of mythology, help comes from an unlikely source—the stone gargoyle who has been sleeping in her garden for the last twelve years.

After the battle, Lillian learns the humans she thought were her family are actually a powerful coven of witches at war with the demonic Riven. Lillian is something more than human, a Sorceress and Avatar to the gods. The gargoyle has been her protector for many lifetimes, but when she was still a child, troubles in their homeland forced him to flee with her to the human world.

But something from her childhood has followed them to this world.

In a heartbeat, her ordinary life becomes far more complicated, and if her overprotective guardian is to be believed, there’s an evil demigoddess just waiting for the chance to enslave them both.

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SORCERESS AWAKENING is book one of the popular GARGOYLE AND SORCERESS TALES fantasy series. While each book is a complete adventure, the series does have a continuing story arc and should be read in order:

Sorceress Awakening
Sorceress Rising
Sorceress Hunting
Sorceress at War
Sorceress Enraged
Legacy of the Sorceress
Sorcery and Firedrakes

What readers are saying:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “The story is filled with daring rescues and death defying stunts, cunning, and well-formed characters. The battles tense. The magic breathtaking. Everything you can ask for in one little book.” ~ Mariah O.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “It has been a very long time since I have read something this good.” ~ A. Ellison

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Freaking loved this! Brilliant story of the paranormal world.” ~ Assassin’s Reading Group.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006EAMITG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lisa Blackwood (November 25, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 25, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2323 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 235 pages

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Lisa Blackwood is the author of the bestselling Gargoyle and Sorceress urban fantasy series. Her work has also landed on the Wall Street Journal and the USA Today Bestseller lists as part of the Dominion Rising Anthology. When she’s not reading and writing, she also enjoys gardening and spending time with her horse and her dogs.

At present, she grudgingly lives in a small town in Southern Ontario, though she would much rather live deep in a dark forest, surrounded by majestic old-growth trees. Since she cannot live her fantasy, she decided to write fantasy instead.

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diana jaycox (my friends call me DJ)

Dryers, gargoyles,a unicorn ,witches and a host of other magical creatures...delightful!

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2020

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I have avoided reading The Sorceress Awakening because frankly a fantasy that includes a romance between a living gargoyle and a Sorceress was just too much for even my magic fantasy loving mind. But, WOW! Lisa Blackwood's way of weaving a tale full of good and evil magical creatures is masterful. She has an amazing ability to create a fantasy world and bring it to life so that it seems you are one with the characters. I was not just an outside observer I was immersed in this world, running in the fields with the Clan and Coven. I fought the evil enemy along with them and cried when characters I had come to love were injured or killed. I am hooked and can hardly wait to start book 2 in this series. If like me you think a stone gargoyle and a Sorceress is just not your cup of tea, I urge to set aside your prejudice and pick up one of the most exciting, riveting fantasies In have read in awhile!

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Pamela K. Jones

Excellent series so far. Have just finished Book one, and am impressed with the quality.

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2023

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Four out of five stars! Excellent world building and characters believable and likeable. An original magic system combining different cultural themes.

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PRBC

I enjoyed it. It must have been revised since the earlier, very critical reviews. Possible spoilers.

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2016

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This is going to sound strange, but I THINK I received this book for free in exchange for an unbiased honest review. I think I did, but my computer ate my e-mails, so I can't tell. At any rate, it is worth reviewing and worth reading and is probably a 4.5, in my opinion. I really enjoyed it. It must have been heavily edited since the reviews in 2012 criticizing the grammar and punctuation. There were a few small errors, but not enough to really annoy me--and I'm very touchy about that. It's late and I've stayed up to finish it because I wanted to see how they would get to the HEA (happily ever after) that had to be coming. It did and it took a while. It is almost 4500 locations. And it's a HFN (happily for now) with the HEA still off in the future. A gargoyle and a sorceress/dryad combo--not something I've seen before. I want to know more about the grandmother and a couple of other characters and guess they may show up more in later volumes in the series. There are three visiting dryads, but only two play a part in the story and one appears to have gotten lost with only one mention of her as Auburn. I do wonder why the heroine is surprised at the size of the goddess, since she already knows her twin brother is a giant--so some things did slip through. Also she lived with her for 8 years, although is recovering from amnesia. Still, worth the read in my opinion.

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Had a lot of potential

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2012

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From reading the description I was really eager to see where this story went. I thought it had a lot of promise and the characters and plot seemed interesting. That being said there were several things about the book that really held it back. First, as other's have mentioned, this book is chock full of typos. The very first page of the very first chapter has a preposition error which I found annoying at the time but brushed off. Unfortunately, the entire book is like that. I found the book interesting enough to keep reading despite the mistakes but as a published work I found the quantity of the errors to be on the ridiculous side. A solid proofread would have done wonders here.

The main characters were vividly described, well fleshed out, and enjoyable to read. However, very little was done to develop the other characters in the book and I thought that was a shame because it did seem that the author spent a lot of time creating a variety of interesting beings...only to not USE them. The fight scenes had disappointingly redundant and predictable outcomes. From the first fight to the last, the same thing happens. As a fan of vampire literature I am all for the sharing of blood, however anytime either main character was hurt this was done one to the other and sometimes back again. It made the fights almost pointless and got to be a ridiculous parody for me with each "new" fight scene.

By the end of the book, some plot elements had still not been addressed and that made me feel that I was left hanging. Even if the author intends to write a sequel, there are things that should have been wrapped up in this book before subsequent novels are published.

On the whole, I did enjoy the book, and I read it in one sitting so it did hold my attention, but at the end I was left feeling disappointed and thought that instead of being an ok read it could have been a great one. While I don't regret reading this book, my overall opinion is that the premise was excellent, but the promise wasn't delivered.

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Necklace

Sorceress Awakening - Gargoyle & Sorceress Tale #1

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2023

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Lillian was brought up by her grandmother and was attacked by a group of people with magical powers in her garden. A voice in her garden tells her to go towards the gargoyle statue in her garden. She is injured and the gargoyle awakens and rescues her. She learns that she is not human but a dryad and the gargoyle is her protector. There is a group of vampires the Riven who need Lillian to cast a powerful spell that would change everything that Lillian has known. Lillian finds out upon battling the vampires that she is an Avatar to the gods and must battle the Lady of Battles to prevent the world she knows from being defeated. I really enjoyed this amazing paranormal urban fantasy novel.

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S8nsangel

well written

Reviewed in Canada on February 13, 2023

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Enjoyed reading this book very much. Enough so that I will get the next book as soon as possible until the series is done haha. Excellent!

Angela Jones

Exhilarating

Reviewed in Spain on March 4, 2022

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Fantastic read. First one I have read from this author. Won't be the last

Anya

Great story about avatars, dryads, gargoyles and the never ending battle between forces of good and evil

Reviewed in the Netherlands on January 22, 2018

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A story about a girl without any memories. A girl that's an avatar and a dryad. With a gargoyle lover. Whith lots of battles, magic, fun, and love. And with witches, dire wolves, vampires, unicorns and other magical creatures. And gods. A complete and compelling story. Had fun reading!

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Nino

What an Amazing Story!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 20, 2016

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Lisa, Blackwood, your imagination is utterly brilliant!!! What an awesome book!!!

I have never really read any gargoyle romance books but this is definitely making me want to read more and I am dying to read the second book in this series (plus ALL of the authors other books) after reading this. The world that this is told in has had such thought and so many emotions poured into it when you are reading it, you fall into that world with them so much so that when it ends you want to pick the book back up and read it again to be part of the world, this is the gift tat Lisa Blackwood has given to us.

And the storyline... Filled with magic and adventure, action around every corner and a forbidden love....could it get any better? The answer is yes ... The descriptions of all the different creatures is amazing, you are reading about fictional, mythological creatures but the way they are described, down to the smallest details is like they are real and alive in our world. The creativity in this book flows through this storyline, there are twists an turns around the corner and so many surprises in it so I wont say too much more about the storyline as you wont want me to give anything away, trust me...

Lillian is an extremely complex character that you find out more and more about as the book goes on, she changes a lot from the beginning if the book to the end, she is given so many changes and life altering secrets but she till stays true to who she really is.. the person and the soul deep down inside. Even in her weakest moments she is such a strong woman, her personality is filled with love and care for those around her and when she loves, she loves fully and without any limitations. And Gregory... what an awesome character, I am sure many people have fallen in love with his character, what with his deep love and deep protective instincts, he is extremely honour bound and will always do what he believe is right and always relies on his instincts, he is also a deeply complex character and there is so much to him. I really enjoyed reading all the characters in this book and would love to find out more about them all, especially the pooka for some reason :-)

This is a serious page turner and a must read for all and definitely deserving of more than 5 stars

Damian Southam

Gargoyle Action, Drama and Thrills aplenty; must read 5 ☆☆☆☆☆ reading!!!

Reviewed in Australia on September 1, 2016

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A life defined by half-truths and denial leads to unsatisfied perceptions of a life that never truly was; only through acceptance can life be fully experienced - anything less is make-believe. The lies disguised as half-truths throughout Lillian's current lifetime, whether intended for foul or good, are just that - lies. What these deceptions lead to are most likely amongst the greatest harms done in her short life; and inevitably leave her ill-equipped to deal with the damage done to her, for which the lies saught to counteract.

The depth of machinations wrought by The Lady of Battles in all their nefarious beauty are never more apparent than when the true nature of her foresight, which allowed her to manipulate two eternal partners' love to be that which undermines and weakens them to point of failure, are never more apparent than when hidden meanings are finally revealed in the closing climax of the novel.

By foreseeing that which eternal love predicts will be, a being incapable of love for having become devoid of its embraces through her inconsolable grief, can manipulate two warriors of light to be the servants of dark by doing that which comes most natural. Choices whilst being 'natural' in said dilemmas thus are completely deleterious to their purposes. At such times, an effective mechanism highlighted throughout the novel which is able to stall these mechanations is duty.

Perhaps through such instances it is understandable that in many fables and lore, duty in and of itself, is depicted to be a true antagonist to love. The absorbing and detailed way in which these revelations are precipitated in the reader's mind by Lisa Blackwood's writing, are amongst the most intuitive ways in which said realisations are experienced. The subtle nuances used in this author's storytelling work so well that reader's are forced to accept that despite the otherwise antagonistic nature of duty to love, there are possible real world applications where the instalment of duty is paramount to any other dynamic involved in interpersonal relations.

Amongst the ultimate purposes of storytelling is the making of moral rights and wrongs in ways which make them palatable to society: and the measure of success by respective storytellers is never evidenced better than when an author not only makes palatable concepts acceptable, but more so make unpalatable ones just as acceptable - as is evidenced in the plot herein. Romantic plots and sub-plots are in this instance made to be utilitarian and pragmatic, so that the story doesn't feel upon completion to be a romance saga, but more so a life saga.

As always it is never more fulfilling to read books from a preferred genre than when they deal with lesser experienced species, such as the ways Lillian's Gargoyle - Gregory Livingstone (pun intended) - plays a central role throughout. Gargoyles have figured lightly throughout Paranormal/Urban Fantasy series; a shame really given the diverse range of featured ways Gregory's character is built and brought to life on the pages of Sorceress Awakening, both literally and metaphorically.

Outstanding entertainment and an unstoppable read form an author with a natural writing style that's both economical with word numbers whilst still dripping richly with meaning. Great topic with ground breaking content that draws you in until you've blinked only several times yet read from cover to cover with barely a break. A rich plot that's sure to see Gargoyles starring more frequently within the genres; a necessary example of what makes Paranormal/Urban Fantasy the successful growing interest amongst a broad and diverse range of readers spanning age, ethnicity and gender.