Here Lyeth Review – On Tour With Celebrate Lit

Here Lyeth Review

About the Book

Book: Here Lyeth (A Lifeline Fantasy Series Book Three. It can be read as a stand alone)

Author: Johanna Frank

Genre: Religious Fantasy / Coming of Age Fantasy

Release date: November 1, 2024

Answers to her identity lie beneath a gravestone; her own.

Something was missing. It was easy for Lexxie to bury that niggling sense, she had all the love and protection a young woman needed. But when the man she thought to be her father spilled a fever-pitched confession, her content and isolated life ended. Angry and heartbroken, she left the people she loved on a mere hint—her true father lived in Vereiteln Dorf, two villages over. Once there, she’s drawn to an unconsecrated graveyard and patches shocking revelations and broken pieces together, and the more she does, the more her presence in this superstitious village becomes a threat. The perils of a noose amid a 1688 witch hunt lay heavy on her shoulders.

Years earlier, in the same village, young Meginhardt succumbs to a vicious attack. Ethereal beings take him on a time-traveling journey to resolve the lad’s deeply rooted struggles. When Meginhardt learns that some woman named Lexxie is the chosen one to carry forward his father’s line of descendants, fits of jealousy ensue—a dream shattered. It should have been him. He becomes frantic to ensure the demise of this undeserving woman. In apparitional form he delivers her a message, face to face.

Her future lyeth in his words.

STIRRING… EXTRAORDINARY… UPLIFTING

MY HERE LYETH REVIEW:

Such an imaginative cover, and it holds an equally imaginative story. The story begins with a great amount of action and moves quickly, and I’ll admit, it took me a few pages to fully catch up with what was happening. It left me feeling a bit like Meginhardt. I don’t know if that was the author’s intent, but it was effective in that way.  The action continues throughout both Meginhardt and Lexxie’s stories, and there are enough twists and turns to keep the reader turning pages.

While Lexxie’s story was completely new to me, I had a strange feeling of deja vu with Meginhardt’s, until I realized I’d read the first story in this series. While this is not the first in the series, it is a prequel to the other two books and covers events that were on the outskirts of The Gatekeeper’s Descendants which allows this story to remain fresh for the reader. Reading Here Lyeth left me with the urge to go back and read the first one again to see how much richer that story would become.

The story touches on knowing and accepting God’s love for us, how our choices have long-reaching results, and the need to choose between right and wrong. However, I caution readers not to approach this story as a representation of what biblically happens after death. It’s an imaginative and entertaining story that works more as an introduction to prompt the reader to consider the themes it covers. If readers can look at it in this way, they will find an interesting story that is beautiful in the telling, even in telling the darker parts.

The beauty of the descriptions in the writing are some of my favorite parts of this story. The imagination and interest generated in the cover are continued in telling of the story. The same attention grabbing beauty is woven throughout Meginhardt and Lexxie’s stories. I love the descriptions, especially those fantastical ones that take place in Meginhardt’s afterlife.

I give this book four stars.

 

 

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About the Author

Before she started writing, Johanna spent her days working with profit and non-profit organizations, while spending her evenings studying theology part-time. Now she spends her waking hours creating fantastical stories she hopes will touch the lives of her readers. Her goal—to deliver soulful, whimsical, and venturous reads.

 

 

 

 

More from Johanna

A little heavenly imagination can loosen the chains of life.

My ‘playground’ for creating Here Lyeth was far-reaching, though insulated with firm boundaries. From fictional Germanic villages in days of old in one corner, a low fantasy kingdom where the perished journey to the foot of a guarded gate, in the other.

Admittedly, I took many privileges with beloved values and symbolisms dear to my faith, daring to employ startling imagination for the purpose of enticing generosity of thought for the great …and small …mysteries in life. My favourite, where the waters of a supranatural river flows through time carrying with it various stones, each belonging to a life on Earth, often getting caught in stormy swirls or stuck in a bank of mud, representations of its owner’s personal trials and sufferings.

The story itself, though smattered with biblical senses, is not meant to be a teaching of ways, (I’m not qualified for such!) rather, to provide inklings of encouragement, to set within minds a sublime curiosity—what life might we find after this one?

My hope is you will enjoy the sparkles of divine happenstances, the pulls of faith and the eager wonder of ever-after capers to be pleasing.

Although the third instalment into A Lifeline Fantasy Series as far as publication dates go, Here Lyeth takes the position of first when it comes to the natural flow of time compared to its stand-alone novel-mates, The Gatekeeper’s Descendants and Jophiel’s Secret.

I promise you, Here Lyeth won’t leave you hanging, though it may unearth you a little

Johanna

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Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Johanna is giving away the grand prize of a $25 Amazon card and copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

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  1. Rita Wray says:

    Thank you for the review.

  2. Jcp says:

    It lsounds intriguing

  3. lily says:

    I love a good fantasy read! This book sounds right up my alley.

    • Heather Greer says:

      While you don’t need to in order to understand the book, I’d definitely grab a copy of the first in the series (though chronologically its later than this one) too.