Princess Holy Aura
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- € 9,99
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What Would You Give to be a Hero?
Stephen Russ never expected to have to answer that question; he went to work, he stayed in his apartment, sometimes had friends over, and the worst thing he'd had to face was looking for a new job after losing his old one.
But that was before a child's desperate scream led him into an alley filled with faceless winged things that almost killed him, before the strange white rat spoke to him, calling itself Silvertail Heartseeker and telling him that this was but the beginning, that the Stars were almost Right and the forces of Azathoth Nine-Armed would soon be unleashed against the world… before Silvertail said that his courage and willingness to risk himself made him the perfect choice to be one of the defenders of the world against this evil.
A defender named Princess Holy Aura, the first of the five Apocalypse Maidens.
Now Steve understands the choice: not whether he is willing to die, but whether he is willing to live… by giving up "Stephen Russ" to become the one chance that the world has against the monstrous forces that wait on the other side of forever.
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In Spoor's affable horror fantasy, a 35-year-old man must transform into a 14-year-old girl to save the world from a Lovecraftian menace. After Stephen Russ rescues a young boy from a pack of winged feral cats in an alley, a rat named Silvertail makes a shocking proclamation: Steve must become Princess Holy Aura and defeat the eldritch horrors threatening to end the world. Steve is transformed and takes the everyday name of Holly Owen. With Silvertail posing as her father, Holly recruits the remaining three maidens of the apocalypse, who will help with the fight. But before she can take on Azathoth of the Nine Arms, she'll have to survive what might be the most terrifying thing of all: high school. Readers will enjoy watching Steve, a gamer geek with a heart of gold, learn how to navigate the world as a teen girl, though his ability to return to his original form is sometimes too convenient. The Lovecraftian abominations are sufficiently over-the-top and the fight scenes are lively, but awkward dialogue and lots of exposition bog down the already overstuffed narrative. However, it's easy to root for Steve/Holy Aura to save the day, even if it takes a bit too long to get there.
