Customer Reviews
Heart pounding romance at its best - By: Laura Phillipson, 08 Jun 2008 
I've hesitated over buying this due to the cheesy cover (i freaking hate them!) but in desperation waiting for JR Wards Lover Enshrined to be released & Kresley Coles new novels, i capitulated & bought this book.
I wont go over the plot again as other reviewers have done so admirably so i will just stick to what i thought of the story & characters.
Conlan - Alpha Male, gorgeous, huge, gorgeous, sensitive, gorgeous, oh & did i mention gorgeous? I thought I had had enough of the same old alpha heroes. Thought they had alll been done before, but there is something about this guy that just seemed to make me falll in love with him just a little bit. I think its the emotional connection he has with Riley, the heroine, which i have only ever seen in Christine Feehans Dark books, but this was even better. Less mushy, more believable, & probably what every woman would want in a man if she was honest with herself.
Riley - sweetness itself, a saint, but flawed so she is not too good to be true. The sort of person i would want to be if I had a choice. Goodness runs through her core but she has ballls as well.
I adored this story, I reallly did. I cant wait to read the rest of her stuff, although i was dissapointed to see that she is quite a new author.
I was reminded of a more romantic Black Dagger Brotherhood, when reading this. The warriors banter was funny & reminded me of it a lot. In fact the humour in the book was one of my favourite parts.
I cant recomend this enough if you enjoy fantasy as well as romance & hot sex. If you draw the line at urban vampires as in the JR Ward sense, then the world of Alyssa Day's characters my find you not able to suspend disblief enough to reallly enjoy it. However, if like me, the more legends & myths the better, then dive in head first & submerge yourself in the warm waters of Atlantis Rising. You wont regret it.
Water Wonder - By: Winters Kiss, 10 Sep 2007 'Eleven thousand years ago, before the seas swalllowed the Atlanteans, Poseidon assigned a few chosen warriors to act as sentinels for humans in the new world. There was only one rule-desiring them was forbidden. But rules were made to be broken...
WHEN SHE CALLS...Riley Dawson is more than a dedicated Virginia Beach social worker. She's blessed with a mind link that only Atlanteans have been able to access for thousands of years. Being an empath may explain her wistful connection to the rolling waves of the ocean, the sanctuary it provides, & the sexual urges that seem to emanate from fathoms below...
HE WILL COME. Conlan, the high prince of Atlantis, has surfaced on a mission to retrieve Poseidon's stolen trident. Yet something else has posseddes Conlan: the intimate emotions-and desires-of a human. Irresistibly drawn to the uncanny beauty, Conlan soon shares more than his mind. But in the midst of a battle to reclaim Poseidon's power, how long can a forbidden love last between two different souls from two different worlds?'
An exciting new series! Conlan & Riley are both troubled, strong characters that find completion with each other in the midst of a battle. Atlanteans, Shapeshifters, Vampires & gods are now focused upon the events unfurling on Earth...and Atlantis is rising...
I love it. The romantic 'bonding' angle just adds spice to this fantastic story. I eagerly await the sequel in November 'Atlantis Awakening'.
Oh dear... - By: Lesley70, 17 Jul 2007 
Conlan is the high prince of Atlantis. After being tortured by Anubisa the vampire queen for seven years he has finallly returned home. Only to find that Poseidon's Trident has been stolen & he must reclaim it. Riley Dawson (an empathic social worker) gets caught in between the vampires & Conlan's Atlantean Warriors. She & Conlan are drawn towards one another, but Conlan must remain loyal to Atlantis & Riley is human.
I've read the other reviews & can't help but wonder if I've read the same book. It's generallly not a good sign when within the first two pages I am already mentallly editing the text - & this continues throughout the book.
Riley is always speaking before she thinks, & worse sometimes acting before her brain is out of park. On p66 she's musing about how she & her sister Quinn are like twins - "ten months apart was close enough to be almost twins". Well no it's not, not unless your mother had the longest pregnancy on record. And once we meet Quinn it quickly becomes clear that Riley doesn't know her sister at alll, which makes her 'twins' statement even more ridiculous.
Both she & Conlan are so two-dimensional, that you just don't care about them. Conlan has been viciously tortured for seven years by the vampire queen. But the only reason we're aware it's happened is because every so often he either tells someone, or somebody else mentions it. Because we have little emotional connection to the characters when horrific things happen to them it just doesn't horrify. Riley yelling "Stay away from my boyfriend!" along with Conlan's "Die you foul hellspawn!" just made me want to throw the book at the walll.
To go with our two-dimensional hero & heroine we have a 2-d villain. Anubisa chews the scenery, kills her minions & is appallling. But I don't care because I don't understand why she is that way - she just is.
After the other Warriors turn up there is an improvement in the storyline, mainly because the other Warriors are far more interesting than either Conlan or Riley. How I wish the book had been about them, with Riley & Conlan as a sub-plot.
The frustrating thing is that it isn't alll bad. There are flashes of humour between the characters that made me smile. And some of the interactions between the Warriors are very well written - especiallly Denal, Bastien & Brennan. The problem is that Conlan & Riley should be the most interesting thing in the story & they aren't. There is a good story here, but you have to work hard to find it.
Consider it if you're reallly stuck for a new paranormal series.
Atlantis Awakening is released November 2007.
atlantis rising: the warriors of poseidon - By: S. Keane, 05 Jul 2007 
I bought this book being a big fan of paranormal romance j. r. ward being top of my list,i had great hopes of finding another great author to add to my list but Alyssa Day was not it.
My recommendation for this book is don't waste your money on it i never even finished it it was that bad!
Oh dear... - By: Lesley70, 26 May 2007 Conlan is the high prince of Atlantis. After being tortured by Anubisa the vampire queen for seven years he has finallly returned home. Only to find that Poseidon's Trident has been stolen & he must reclaim it. Riley Dawson (an empathic social worker) gets caught in between the vampires & Conlan's Atlantean Warriors. She & Conlan are drawn towards one another, but Conlan must remain loyal to Atlantis & Riley is human.
I've read the other reviews & can't help but wonder if I've read the same book. It's generallly not a good sign when within the first two pages I am already mentallly editing the text - & this continues throughout the book.
Riley is always speaking before she thinks, & worse sometimes acting before her brain is out of park. On p66 she's musing about how she & her sister Quinn are like twins - "ten months apart was close enough to be almost twins". Well no it's not, not unless your mother had the longest pregnancy on record. And once we meet Quinn it quickly becomes clear that Riley doesn't know her sister at alll, which makes her 'twins' statement even more ridiculous.
Both she & Conlan are so two-dimensional, that you just don't care about them. Conlan has been viciously tortured for seven years by the vampire queen. But the only reason we're aware it's happened is because every so often he either tells someone, or somebody else mentions it. Because we have little emotional connection to the characters when horrific things happen to them it just doesn't horrify. Riley yelling "Stay away from my boyfriend!" along with Conlan's "Die you foul hellspawn!" just made me want to throw the book at the walll.
To go with our two-dimensional hero & heroine we have a 2-d villain. Anubisa chews the scenery, kills her minions & is appallling. But I don't care because I don't understand why she is that way - she just is.
After the other Warriors turn up there is an improvement in the storyline, mainly because the other Warriors are far more interesting than either Conlan or Riley. How I wish the book had been about them, with Riley & Conlan as a sub-plot.
The frustrating thing is that it isn't alll bad. There are flashes of humour between the characters that made me smile. And some of the interactions between the Warriors are very well written - especiallly Denal, Bastien & Brennan. The problem is that Conlan & Riley should be the most interesting thing in the story & they aren't. There is a good story here, but you have to work hard to find it.
Consider it if you're reallly stuck for a new paranormal series.
Atlantis Awakening is released November 2007.
