No Promises

· Iron Bound Book 1 · Z.J. Cannon
4.3
42 reviews
Ebook
443
Pages
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About this ebook

I used to be a hero. Then I grew up.


I’m Kieran Thorne, the world’s only living half-fae. The gig comes with a few perks—immortality, magic I can’t control, fae assassins constantly on my heels. And the chance to protect the good and the powerless against those who are neither.


For hundreds of years, that’s what I did. Until I got tired of the humans I saved repaying me by burning me at the stake or shooting me in the heart. I traded in my white hat for a mansion on the beach, and started living by a new creed: look out for myself, and let the humans solve their own problems.


But now Winter fae are going missing, and someone has planted a trail of evidence leading right to my door. I have two choices: let Queen Mab’s feral enforcer carve me to bits, or help her find the real culprit.


Looks like I’m back in the hero business. But this time, I’ll remember the lesson it cost me so much to learn:


There are no good people in this world, and no righteous causes. Humanity is corrupt. The fae are cruel and vicious. Me? I’m a little of both.

Ratings and reviews

4.3
42 reviews
Michael James
October 16, 2023
The story itself was pretty good, but there were so many editing errors that I had to read many passages twice just to figure it out. Hopefully the author gets someone to professionally proofread future work.
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Emily Pennington
September 17, 2021
The Hero May be Back . . . I really liked Kieran Thorne, the only living half-Fae, right from the start. He wanted to be kind and help others who couldn’t defend themselves, only to be stabbed in the back, sometimes literally. He used his immortality and magic for the benefit of the weak, but he was unappreciated and now just fights off the Fae assassins that won’t stop coming after him while he works on his tan on the beaches in Hawaii. Even now, when he chooses to withdraw from everything, to look out only for himself, and let the ungrateful humans solve their own problems, he is framed by someone for their own purposes and has to help the faerie Queen Mab find out who is kidnapping the Winter Fae. Evidence was planted to lead to him. He knows he didn’t have anything to do with it. So who did? And why? I felt bad for Kieran. His new creed it a sad testament to how he started out. Now he believes there are no good people in this world, no righteous causes, humanity is corrupt, and the Fae are cruel and vicious. Will his latest heroic efforts change his mind? Will someone like Skye be grateful for his help and encourage him to be the hero again? As they finished their celebration pizza, Kieran’s credit card was rejected, all of his accounts frozen, false pictures implicating him in evil transactions, all as a message from Arkanica that if he interferes next time, they will come after him. They could have gone into hiding, but this has now guaranteed that he had nothing left except his old life, and his old self. And there’s only one thing his old self would do -- “Hunt them to the ends of the Earth.” The battle lines are drawn.
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Fisani
October 22, 2023
An enjoyable read,though the main character keeps on being captured ,I tound that making me lose faith in him .With that being said I enjoyed this book
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About the author

Cruelty, selfishness, greed… this world is full of darkness. But light still exists, caged but undimmed, an unquenchable spark at the core of the human heart. And that spark is worth fighting for.


Some people are still willing to fight. Bloodied and broken, they rise undaunted from every defeat to fight for justice and compassion in a world that has none. But before they can drive back the world’s darkness, they’ll need to confront the darkness in their own souls.


These are the heroes at the heart of Z.J. Cannon’s work, which blends page-turning suspense with high-stakes drama to create stories about flawed and often deeply damaged people fighting against overwhelming odds to do what’s right.

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