Guardian of Chaos

Name: Guardian of Chaos
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Michelle Manus
ISBN: 9798765034002

Author: Michelle Manus

Series: Nyx Fortuna #1

Narrator: Desiree Ketchum

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/20/2022

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary

Synopsis

It's easy to feel forgettable. Nyx literally is, and the condition seems to be getting worse. Homeless and alone, she's at the end of her rope when she stumbles onto Earth Between, a nexus between worlds. The residents may be magical and alien, but they don’t have any problem remembering she exists.

Though she never intended to become the Guardian of a Waystation between worlds, the gig is pretty simple: act as glorified passport control for the ley lines that connect the planets. But when an illegal traveler slips through her Station, she's given an ultimatum: apprehend him or lose her new job—and the only place she's ever belonged.

Things start looking up when the illegal traveler turns himself in, until Nyx learns he actually came to Earth looking for her. He thinks his best friend—and Nyx's ex-boyfriend—hid the most powerful object in the universe with her: the Harvester of Worlds. Nyx is determined to sort out this intergalactic mess, even if she has to visit the most dangerous planet in the galaxy and rescue her ex-boyfriend to do it.

If she suspects she's been wearing the Harvester of Worlds as a necklace, what's the worst that could come from a power object with a name like that?

About Michelle Manus

Michelle Manus lives in a desolate land with a dark wizard, a unicorn, and a feline overlord. Despite certain stereotypes you may be familiar with, the dark wizard is not holding her captive, nor does the unicorn require virgin riders. The feline overlord, however, may well be evil.

She holds dual BAs in English and philosophy, which has gotten her about as far as you would expect it to in life. Despite all evidence to the contrary, she's still desperately holding out hope that in an alternate reality she's a sword-wielding princess.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jacob on September 09, 2022

This was an interesting read that I enjoyed, though I have no desire to continue the series. I have a great deal of empathy for Nyx. She has been denied lasting relationships for as long as she can remember because of whatever is making people forget about her. The story picks up as the strain of tha......more

Goodreads review by Gogol on September 07, 2022

I just don’t understand when people compare this book to the Innkeeper by Ilona Andrews. In my eyes it’s a travesty. Where the inn was full of magic, possibilities, freedom and wonder, the station here is a gloomy, repressive, oppressive, dead end, where the people themselves compared it to prisons......more

Goodreads review by Emms-hiatus(ish) on August 27, 2023

I should have dnf'ed it. This book is all action in the form of problem after problem after problem with no real substance to it. You don't know any more about any of the characters at the end of the book than you do at the beginning. There is zero humor. No smile, no laugh, just boring recitation of......more

Goodreads review by Setta on December 19, 2021

I think this was recommended in a Facebook group and I'm so happy I checked it out. This was awesome! An amazing read for fans of the Innkeeper series by Ilona Andrews (which I LOVE!!). The world is similar, maybe a touch darker, but I love that it's different enough to have it's very own feel. If y......more

Goodreads review by Mike on June 27, 2023

There are a lot of bad paranormal suspense books around. People take the same premise and just write it over and over, it seems, usually not very competently. This book is also open to the accusation of having a well-worn premise, or rather a couple of them: the main character gets introduced to the......more