Evie must deal with the repercussions of the events from her past lives, as well as make choices about how she wants to survive in this one. Only one of them can survive, and the ultimate winner then lives an immortal life until the games start again, not aging, and the only one to remember the previous game. (Some of the other precipitating events have been the Black Death and Pompeii.) When one card kills another, a tattoo of the defeated card's symbol appears on the victor's body. Come to find out, every couple of centuries or so, something life threatening and epic happens and the twenty-two cards come together to fight, basically to the death, each with powers relating to their card. She has power over plant life, and in fact can grow plants with nothing but her blood. We find out that Evie is the personification of the Empress, one of the twenty-two Major Arcana in tarot cards. We meet her about a year after 'the Flash,' as those who survived have taken to calling it, and then goes back to relate all that has happened, starting a week before the Flash. The first book, Poison Princess, introduces us to the heroine, Evie.

Or rather, in the span of three days, because I was riveted.Ĭollectively known as the Arcana Chronicles, they take place after a cataclysmic event when most of the world's population is vaporized, along with most of the large bodies of water. VF had actually read the first two of these towards the beginning of its existence, but at that point, I was only watching the videos and not reading the books, so I read all three of them this month. ( My review of the main, Driven.) The theme for the month was post-apocalypse. The most recent in this series, Dead of Winter, was the alternate for Vaginal Fantasy for the month of April. Were you being literal?' (Endless Knight, 221) 'And what about me? You said I was more Aphrodite than Demeter. The gods might have salvaged things, but they've gone.' 'So we're champions of various gods, right? Like you were tapped by a death deity?' A curt nod. 'I believe something about this damaged world-the planet, not the card-couldn't take the sunlight.

Why was this one?' With raised brows, he glanced at my untouched glass. Fair's fair.

'But those other tragedies weren't apocalyptic. One doesn't look up to the sky to see a flying boy if bodies are writhing all around one's feet.' 'The field of battle.' Just as Matthew had told me. 'These events have a way of pulling Arcana together and keeping us from the notice of humans. 'Let me guess-now it's the Sun's turn?' He nodded.

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