Heart pounding romance at its best - Rated 
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 and Kresley Coles new novels, i capitulated and 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 and characters.
Conlan - Alpha Male, gorgeous, huge, gorgeous, sensitive, gorgeous, oh and did i mention gorgeous? I thought I had had enough of the same old alpha heroes. Thought they had all been done before, but there is something about this guy that just seemed to make me fall 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, and 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 balls as well.
I adored this story, I really 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 and 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 and 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 really enjoy it. However, if like me, the more legends and myths the better, then dive in head first and submerge yourself in the warm waters of Atlantis Rising. You wont regret it.
Water Wonder - Rated
'Eleven thousand years ago, before the seas swallowed 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, and 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 and Riley are both troubled, strong characters that find completion with each other in the midst of a battle. Atlanteans, Shapeshifters, Vampires and 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... - Rated 
Conlan is the high prince of Atlantis. After being tortured by Anubisa the vampire queen for seven years he has finally returned home. Only to find that Poseidon's Trident has been stolen and he must reclaim it. Riley Dawson (an empathic social worker) gets caught in between the vampires and Conlan's Atlantean Warriors. She and Conlan are drawn towards one another, but Conlan must remain loyal to Atlantis and Riley is human.
I've read the other reviews and can't help but wonder if I've read the same book. It's generally not a good sign when within the first two pages I am already mentally editing the text - and this continues throughout the book.
Riley is always speaking before she thinks, and worse sometimes acting before her brain is out of park. On p66 she's musing about how she and 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 all, which makes her 'twins' statement even more ridiculous.
Both she and 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 wall.
To go with our two-dimensional hero and heroine we have a 2-d villain. Anubisa chews the scenery, kills her minions and is appalling. 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 and Conlan as a sub-plot.
The frustrating thing is that it isn't all 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 - especially Denal, Bastien and Brennan. The problem is that Conlan and Riley should be the most interesting thing in the story and they aren't. There is a good story here, but you have to work hard to find it.
Consider it if you're really stuck for a new paranormal series.
Atlantis Awakening is released November 2007.
atlantis rising: the warriors of poseidon - Rated 
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... - Rated
Conlan is the high prince of Atlantis. After being tortured by Anubisa the vampire queen for seven years he has finally returned home. Only to find that Poseidon's Trident has been stolen and he must reclaim it. Riley Dawson (an empathic social worker) gets caught in between the vampires and Conlan's Atlantean Warriors. She and Conlan are drawn towards one another, but Conlan must remain loyal to Atlantis and Riley is human.
I've read the other reviews and can't help but wonder if I've read the same book. It's generally not a good sign when within the first two pages I am already mentally editing the text - and this continues throughout the book.
Riley is always speaking before she thinks, and worse sometimes acting before her brain is out of park. On p66 she's musing about how she and 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 all, which makes her 'twins' statement even more ridiculous.
Both she and 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 wall.
To go with our two-dimensional hero and heroine we have a 2-d villain. Anubisa chews the scenery, kills her minions and is appalling. 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 and Conlan as a sub-plot.
The frustrating thing is that it isn't all 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 - especially Denal, Bastien and Brennan. The problem is that Conlan and Riley should be the most interesting thing in the story and they aren't. There is a good story here, but you have to work hard to find it.
Consider it if you're really stuck for a new paranormal series.
Atlantis Awakening is released November 2007.
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