Disclosure: I received this book to review. The opinions shared here are 100% mine.

Kala Hicks never imagined she’d be fighting demons, angels and gods when she joined the Navy.  But when her elite covert military team is on a mission aboard Air Force One and Kala is forced to shoot the President her life changes forever.

The moment the President is killed the Titan god, Atlas, speaks to Kala, telling her that she has to do his job by committing one act of atrocity every four days… or the world will end. Kala faces off against creatures of legend; from demons determined to make her fail and plunge the Earth into chaos, to angels who don’t trust her to do the job and are willing to kill her to claim it for themselves.

Pitted against the forces of good and evil, Kala must choose whether to save the world by doing the unthinkable, or sit back and let it burn. 

Four days later, she’ll have to do it again.

Haven’t you ever wondered how Atlas was so easily tricked by Hercules into taking the world back? You know the old saying: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice….

Well, Atlas wasn’t about to be fooled again.

As I read this book, I kept thinking of what a horrible, horrible situation poor Kala had gotten herself into.  Then I would smack myself on the head (figuratively speaking) and realize that there was no such thing as poor Kala.  That girl doesn’t allow herself to become a victim in any situation.  Unfazed by the attentions of an angel and certainly not impressed with the good looks of a demon, Kala is the kind of girl who kicks butt no matter where she goes.  Let me warn you that in Atlas, there is no rest.  There is no moment of peace.  I felt like I was being bruised from all the switching back and forth, but it was the nature of the story.

Atlas had just enough mythology in it to make the story tie together, but enough action to keep it modern.  I loved the way that author Becca Smith wove in other beliefs and legends to make the tale completely well-rounded.  Additionally, there was romance but nothing graphic.  Everything happens behind closed doors.  The book had clean language also; nothing stood out as completely inappropriate.  I’d feel confident in handing this book to my 8th grade niece to read.  I’d have to say goodbye to her first, though, because I wouldn’t see her again until she finished reading it!  Atlas is that compelling of a read.

(PS.  There has to be a sequel.  There just has to be.  Are you hearing me, Becca C. Smith?!)

Becca C. Smith received her Film degree from Full Sail University and has worked in the Film and Television industry for most of her adult life. In 2010 Becca published her first novel, Riser followed by the sequel, Reaper, in 2011, and the finale, Ripper in 2013. In 2012 Becca wrote the children’s novel Alexis Tappendorf and the Search for Beale’s Treasure. She is also the co-author of the teen graphic novel Ghost Whisperer: The Haunted. Becca currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband, Stephan and their two cats Jack and Duke.  Visit her website and blog.

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