Goddess of Legend

This is the 7th book of Cast's Goddess Summoning series.

Im not sure what my mental block with P.C. Cast is, but this is my very first book of hers Ive ever read, and it was only because i found it at Salvation Army on half off day (a very good day in my world). I knew I could take it to my local 2nd hand book store and trade it in for credit (a very good reason to buy any book if you ask me).  My block is now gone.

This book tells the story of King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, & Isabel. Really, you just have to take everything you know of their original tale and throw it out the window.  Isabel is a 40 something (i LOVED that she was older!) photojournalist back from the war. The Lady of the Lake needs someone to help her rouse Merlin from an eternal sleep and Isabel becomes the chosen one. When Isabel drives her car off a mountain rode, crashes into a lake and dies, she awakes not in heaven but rather in the woods outside of Camelot. Her mission? To seduce Lancelot so that Arthur and Guinevere can have a happily ever after. The problem? Lancelot is a boy while Arthur is a man. Isabel has to fight an insane attraction to the famous king and soon realizes that he too is fighting his feelings towards her.

I like this book - it was fun. It was not a book to look at too closely and get all pissed off over "inaccuracies". Isabel has a mouth like a trucker, and has no problem swearing, at times rather drastically, at King Arthur. She also is a bit of a smart mouthed brat at times. I am a huge fan of having older heroines, and while she was described as being in her 40's her actions paint her as more of a 20 year old and they are consistent throughout the entire book.

I want to read the rest of the books in this series.

Amazon: After her car plummets off a bridge, Isabel, a world-weary photojournalist, struggles between life and death when she's saved by the Water Goddess-with one tiny caveat: Isabel must travel to another time to seduce the legendary Lancelot du Lac away from Queen Guinevere.

The handsome knight is a dream for any woman in any century. But Isabel is the one who's seduced by King Arthur. For Isabel, a deal is a deal. Now, the King watches as fate takes from him the mysterious beauty he has come to worship, knowing all too well that any interference on his part could destroy the kingdom he loves.