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A review by amyiw
An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair
5.0
What if you woke up over three centuries into the future and the battle in which you sacrificed yourself has become legend and turned you into a Goddess? Your people are much more advanced but not Gods or Goddesses and at the time, the people knew this. Now... you are seeing old pictures of yourself at temples and a whole dogma follows with sayings that you, and your AI set in motion. Luckily no one recognizes you because the picture is old and the hair cut wrong. You are not supposed to alter the less advanced society's belief system. So you leave it alone. But you can help them against advanced societies like your from coming and subjugating the less advanced. That is what you did over 300 years ago, and now... you might have to do it again. But how with out destroying the beliefs of a whole society? Well you tell a lot of lies, trying to keep as close to the truth as possible. This doesn't work so well when you become close to so many people on the space port, especially the Admiral. The Admiral being a devoted to his religion but not fanatical, might understand, but can he be told anything, some, all? Especially when telling him might change the way he looks at you as a normal person?
I really liked the scifi romance. There were really good reasons for Gillie to keep her identity hidden. This is plot point in a lot of romances but in this case it was quite different. It still had the drawing out of the truth at one point that went a little further than I would have liked but the resolution, I thought was quite good. I'll definitely go to the other books of hers that are stand alones.
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Just started in it and am finding it quite fun.