The City of Seven Gods
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (631 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1626397759 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Chosen to bring offerings to Caliph, Kelemun captures the fascination of the young prince Praxtor who has never been denied anything his heart desires. Kelemun was bought from his peasant parents to tend the inner sanctum of the house of Aknon, where wealthy men pay mountain sapphires to behold the beautiful servants of the god. In Qabbat'lee, it's good paying work for a Stripeling, a jungle savage in the eyes of the city natives, and if he's stingy and stays out of trouble, it will buy him a plot of river land. But the splendor of Qabbat'lee is a mirage disguising a grotesquerie of corruption. Ja'bar was hired to roughhouse wayward proselytes for the high priest Aknon-Horheb. When Kelemun and Ja'bar's threads of fate entwine on a night of chilling betrayal, their only hope for redemption and survival may lie in one another.
He lives in New York City with his husband Genaro and their cat Chloë.. Peters writes fiction for readers of all ages, especially the ones who like mythological retellings with the non-incidental appearance of gay heroes. He is also the author of the young adult Banished Sons of Poseidon, Poseidon and Cleito and The City of Seven Gods. He was recently included in Loop Magazine's "Four Must-Read Auth
About the AuthorAndrew J. He has been a contributing writer at The Good Men Project, Gay YA, YA Highway, La Bloga, and All Romance e-Books (ARe) Café. Peters writes fiction for readers of all ages, especially the ones who like mythological retellings with the non-incidental appearance of gay heroes. He writes the monthly feature Dispatches from Hogwarts G.S.A. for the fan site Queer Sci Fi and Fantasy. His début young adult novel The Seventh Pleaide received a 2014 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention. He has also been an invited speaker/panelist at Bentcon, the New York City Rainbow Book Fair, and the Queens Book Festival among other conferences and community groups.While writing, Andrew works as a faculty and an administrator at Adelphi University. His Werecat series was a finalist in
"The priest basically buy young boys from poor areas and convince them and the people in the" according to It's About The Book. From the moment Kelemun is born he is a burden to his family. So he’s handed over to the priests for a fee. The priest basically buy young boys from poor areas and convince them and the people in the village that it is their duty to their god to give their bodies over for sexual gratification to anyone willing to pay the price. Of course the temple keeps the profits. All the boys are chosen for their beauty. Kelemun is chosen as the most beautiful and given a title. This angers one of the men in charge who then takes it upon himself to make Kelemun pay. Wh. Good Historical Fantasy A historical fantasy with a world that's a mix of Ancient Egypt, Africa, and Mesopotamia, the details in The City of Seven Gods were amazing, but I prefer Peters' Greek historical fantasies more. The slave trope is admittedly not one of my favorite tropes, but I even after accepting my bias I still found this plot-line a bit anticlimactic, because the protagonist's will was tragically naive.