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Dear Ms. Knight:
I admit to rolling my eyes a bit over the beginning book because I kept thinking of the movie 300. The prologue is the set up for the entire series. 7 books involving 7 Spartan warriors who stood at the gap at Thermopylae to stave off the demonic forces overtaking Sparta. There 300 Spartan soldiers stood with their king, Leonidas, and fought until one by one, all had died. When 6 of the best soldiers and King Leonidas arrived in the afterlife and stood in front of the River Styx, they were confronted with the god of war, Ares, and offered a bargain. Immortality and the chance to be warriors fighting and defeating the demon hoard that killed them or move on to Elysium and the afterlife. The seven took up the banner of being mankind’s protectorate.
This first story, Red Fire, is about Ajax Petrakos, a captain in King Leonidas’ army. Ajax is a man who is at the end of his tether. He is weary of battle and sore at heart. He regrets his immortality at times and has separated himself from the seven. The problem is that Jax …
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