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Reviewed by Kayci Webster for Readers' Favorite
Thieves of Elysium: Risen from Ashes combines the Knights Templar and the Freemasons, then ramps it up times ten, and you might just have the Guild. The Guild is the name for the Thieves of Elysium, and Elysium is the hidden city where they live. Already have you hooked, don’t I? Add in a regular-Joe firefighter by the name of Phoenix, who the Guild is blackmailing to help them steal three important artifacts, his lovely wife Lauren, who is hiding her own little secret, and their daughter Autumn, who the Guild kidnapped to ensure they finish the jobs, and you have an amazing story. Michael Alexander takes us from Southern California to Hawaii and on to Venice and Nepal, only to finally land us in Iraq in this epic adventure.
Phoenix draws you in the second you meet him; he is the typical all-American rugged, good-looking firefighter struggling to protect his family, and hating what he has been dragged into. You can understand and relate to him through the whole book. Then you met his wife Lauren, and she’s perfect; then you learn her past, and how she was raised and you can actually understand her arguments, too. All through the story, you watch them struggle with the ways they were raised and what they had known and what is going on now, and yet their love for each other never wavers one bit. For that alone, I applaud Michael Alexander. It wouldn't be Thieves of Elysium without some conflict and adventure, two sides struggling against each other, with readers wondering which is really the good and which is really the evil side. That is a decision you will have to make after you read the book for yourself.
