Anzulla, According to ISH
A New Beginnings Crossover
by Kashel Char
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Pub Date 27 Jun 2024 | Archive Date 29 Jul 2024
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Description
"Hmmm, an alien, an angel, and a dead prophet. Welcome. We’ve been expecting you. Please come in."
Ishtar, born in Babylon, joined the humans in an insurrection against their oppressor, his father, King Apsu, Patriarch of the Anunnaki.
Following the uprising, the Fates charge him with overseeing a human settlement on the moon, assuring him that more of his kind will come. Time passes and Ishtar grows increasingly lonely and frustrated with the desperate, self-destructive humans. He begins to self-medicate with tainted human blood as an escape. In his drug induced state, he is haunted by a mysterious face. In an effort to break his addiction and determine if the face in his visions is real, he uses his time machine, controlled by the onboard computer and his only friend, Lasitor, to travel through time searching for the man with the angelic face.
His time travels take him to a world where the air is clean and filled with the scent of blooming flowers, the forests blush with vibrant colors and the people greet him with friendly faces. This jungle world intensifies his visions of what he progressively comes to believe is his fated mate and he obsessively hunts for him in the past and future of this world.
In between visiting the jungle, he returns to the moon, and as the Fates predicted, his Anunnaki kin arrive there. Now, Ish must make a choice—continue searching for his mate or focus on working with Cian, Ivan, and Eryn in their quest to help the humans escape their grim life on the moon. He decides on one last visit to the jungle, one last search for the other half of his soul.
On this visit, miraculously, he finds him, only to lose him hours later.
Anzulla, According to ISH, is a crossover from the New Beginnings Trilogy and can be read as a standalone before or after it.
The story focuses on one couple, Ishtar and his soulmate, written in first person POV. It is a time travel, speculative fiction fantasy. Warning: This story contains alternate history and explicit, graphic depictions unsuitable for young, sensitive readers or anyone offended by gay sex. Copyright © 2024 Anzulla, According to ISH. A New Beginnings Crossover by Kashel Char. All rights reserved.
Advance Praise
I had received an ARC review request for Anzulla, According to ISH and sat down to read it. I finished it three days later. I loved it! It was so well written, a wonderful story about being human, taking care our earth before it's too late, and about life itself, especially living in harmony with all our differences. I laughed out loud, cried, cheered and my heart melted. This story of Ish and Peter took me from one emotion to the other and I loved every second of the ride! I can't wait for my own copy of Anzulla, According to ISH, to add it to the New Beginnings series. Thank you, Kashel Char, for another mesmerizing story!
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 1260078
Firstly, thank you for the review copy. I loved everything about this book and its conclusion. I'm a big fan of this author and jumped immediately to read the conclusion of the NB Trilogy, and oh boy, it was a ride I never wanted to stop. Those final few chapters were mind-blowing, bringing me back to the start. The king's games, the battle, the whole Phoenix city, arriving, and, and, and, not only to this book but the whole back story.
I loved all the characters, and I was shocked when some of them were wiped from existence, (I am not going to spoil this for anyone who is as crazed about these books as I am.
I was hooked from the start and each chapter was a discovery each time, making this a page turner to the very end. The tremendous brain power behind these writings is unique and the gay romance is not overpowering. It flows with the story and is so HOT. Best sci-fi PNR because of its originality.
The humor injected, made this a book where I laughed one second, cried the other, and chewed my nails down to the bone at the end.
I'm invested in this plot and love each character, and can't wait to read what Kashel comes up with next. It's a joy to read and listen to their work and I predict tons of more original works from this author in the MM genre, as this was their fourth book and it keeps getting better as the author grows. Can't wait to hear the audiobook!
