Gold: Heart of a Warrior by Eden Robins

source: review copy via Poetic Book tours
title:Gold: Heart of a Warrior
author: Eden Robins
genre: romance
published: July 3, 2023
pages: 198 Kindle
first line: Dora couldn’t breathe.


Book Synopsis:
It’s just gonna be one of those days…Empathic healer and business owner, Dora Alexander decided to celebrate her 25th birthday by exploring the stalagmites and stalactites in Kartchner Caverns. Kinda nerdy? Maybe, but you do you, right? Things take a nasty turn when an earthquake rocks the cave, leaving her alone in complete darkness. Searching for a way out, she accidently awakens an immortal warrior who’s kind of cranky after his 100-year nap. Wouldn’t you be?
Philoctetes, one of Demeter’s immortal Gold warriors wakes up to the disturbing sound of a female sobbing. Thinking she’s one of the Silver demons he’s sworn to hunt down and destroy, he almost kills her before realizing she’s human. Correction. Turns out she’s not just human. She’s also the woman responsible for sending his kind to hell and causing woe and misery for the entire human race. Dora never asked to be Pandora reborn. And she certainly didn’t ask to be paired up with an insanely hot immortal demon hunter on a mission to save the world and redeem them both. But The Fates seem to have their own quirky ideas. One of them being if she and said hot demon hunter consummate the inferno like attraction blazing between them, they’ll simply cease to exist, with any memory of their time on earth erased forever.
Oh goody, the day just got worse.

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my thoughts:
I breezed through Gold: Heart of a Warrior: by Eden Robins. This is one of those fun, highly readable romances that sweeps you right in.

As the story starts, Pandora A.K.A. Dora meets Philoctetes A.K.A. Phil while inside a cavern she’s touring. Phil is an immortal warrior who has been sent to hunt her down. The two are instantly drawn to each other and as the story unfolds they realize they are connected. Each of them has a reason why they can’t fall in love, which makes a relationship between the two seem impossible. I’ll leave it at that but I did enjoy the way the author adds this to the storyline.

As I mentioned, these two also have background that tie them together and much of the storyline revolves around Greek Mythology and the different gods and goddesses from myths. I found that author Eden Robins ties in Greek myths seamlessly. The storyline gets very steamy between Dora and Phil and I wanted these two to find a way to be together. I will mention that some of the scenes with Greek Gods such as Sisyphus take a bit of a dark turn.
I liked how the author places Phil into modern day society because he’s been asleep in the cavern for 100 years so current technology is new to him. Speaking of Phil, I love a scarred hero, that is one of my favorite tropes in romance.

“Unable to resist, she let her gaze once again skim over him. While his body was covered in scars, his face wasn’t. The marks stopped at his neck. The stunning contrast made it difficult to bring her focus back to his face.”-page 12, Heart of a Warrior by Eden Robins

I recommend if you enjoy well written, steamy romance laced with Greek mythology. This is book 1 in a series. Click here for a guest post by the author.


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