The weakness he fears could be his lover’s only hope.

Mother Earth, Book 2

Bear has never regretted leaving his old life behind for his exotically beautiful lover, Dragon. Following his heart, though, has left them in need of a home. There’s only one place he can think of where they can be together and be happy. Shenandoah. A place of myth—until he encounters signs that it’s a real place that lies somewhere to the north.

Dragon doesn’t share his lover’s faith that it even exists, much less that it will live up to Bear’s high expectations. Yet they are Brothers now, bound by love and so much more. No hardship will keep Dragon from Bear’s side. Even if it means nothing but disappointment waits at the end of their journey.

Danger lurks in the wilderness, the ruined cities of the lost Old World, and especially within themselves. As Bear’s quest for a new home becomes a spirit journey of mystical power, Dragon doubts his own strength—an unbearable shame he tries to hide deep within. But when a chance encounter turns into a fight for survival, Bear’s life depends on Dragon’s ability to put his doubts aside…and dare to hope.

This 2nd book in the series really upped the WOW factor. The author really lets you get into the characters of BEAR and DRAGON, the love they feel for each other is inspiring. And she creates an interesting, peaceful landscape once they enter Shenandoah.
This is a wonderful, entertaining adventure.
Makes me yearn to live in the land of SHENANDOAH. ( )

The first story in this series, Dragon’s Kiss, was only a novella and so we didn’t have much time to know these characters. Actually when Shenandoah starts, Bear and Dragon are together only for three days, and they have already started the quest of their life.

The Mother Earth series is set in a post-apocalyptic world, where people went back to live as in medieval time, or even before. There is no electricity, no machine, no current water or bathroom. Big forests reappropriated the world, and indeed the Mother Earth is the real government, her sons have to live according to her rules. As in preistoric time, people gathered in pack more than in villages, and the pack is the family, if you don’t have a pack you are bond to be killed or living a very miserable life.

Bear and Dragon alone can’t be a pack and Bear believes in Shenandoah, a mytical city where they can be finally happy together; the biggest issue, and the reason why Bear left his own pack, is that Bear has thirst for knowledge, to understand where they come from and where they can go. The past for Bear is not something to forget, on the contrary, from the past they can learn. Sincerely I cannot be totally against the preconceptions of Bear’s former pack, after all if they are living in a post-apocalyptic world, and the previous civilization is dead, probably there is a reason. But Bear and Dragon are living in a virgin world, their knowledge and mind were totally wiped out and so for them everything new discovery is something of good.

Even if in the middle of fights and killings, Bear and Dragon always find the time to enjoy themselves; I don’t think to remember if we are given an age for them, I don’t even know if there is still a concept of age in this world, but I think both Bear than Dragon are really young. Not only young, Bear is also still full of hope, is still believing in a better future. Dragon I think is trying to please him, he has not really the same fate as Bear in a better future, Dragon more or less thinks his future is Bear himself, and where Bear wants to go, Dragon will follow; after all Bear renounced to everything for the love of Dragon.

It’s a pretty heavy fantasy setting, and it’s not really a “gay” romance; true, Bear and Dragon are both men, and there is their love story, but being gay is not more an issue, at least in this post-apocalyptic world they learned something from the past.

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