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5.0 out of 5 starsSIMPLY AMAZING!!!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 11, 2014
This book, as the other’s starts off with a bang.. or a boom as it would be called here..
Ivy asked Rachel and Jenks to go with her to do a simple snatch and grab with a client, who is a living vampire. Her lover is also a living vampire. They are from two different ‘families’ and were told separate or die. Yeah Master vampires are dicks and not the good kind either. As they move about the apartment things happen too fast for Rachel to grasp at first. The lady they were helping has a dog but the way it’s acting when it sees her is off. At the last possible second Rachel throws up a protective circle to keep the dog, who is actually the male vampire (since he was made to change to all fours with a spell) and is a ticking time bomb. Literally. He is coated with a spell that will kill the three vampires. It was not meant for Rachel since she wasn't supposed to be there.
Rachel manages to salt the spell down and break it, saving their lives. After leaving the vampires, Rachel and Jenks set off to head back home before she has to get ready to go meet Trent. But as usual, things go wrong very fast. Ivy is hit by a car,laying in the street dying. There are vampires, all living of course, it is still daylight after all but they are there to make sure Ivy dies. Well that s*** just isn’t happening. Rachel is determined to get across the park to the leyline and get the hell out of danger’s way… she fights off vampires with her magic and manages to move Al’s line to her. She and Ivy escape to the everafter, only after telling Jinks to get Bis and meet them at the line for the church.
Again, as things never go the way they are supposed to, as Rachel waits with a failing Ivy she panics. Ivy would ask her to kill her a second time and she just can’t do it. When Al shows up to see what happened to his line he attacks Rachel. (laughs) It was fitting and so expected. He is jealous of her, in my opinion. He failed where she has strived. Yes she picked Trent over him but he needs to man up and suck it up. I mean, jeez. Anyways, Al finally storms off after making Rachel a nervous wreck, then the surface demons make an appearance. They are brave to approach but all Rachel can do is set a circle to escape them until help comes.
Bis, Trent, Nina and Jinks show up in the ever after and with a little effort, as they have to fight off surface demons something ‘odd’ happens. Nina, felix’s little scion of a sort, and Ivy’s lover is attacked by a surface demon… then the same demon protects her from others. The demon becomes… what’s the right word here…clingy, yeah that works. He keeps trying to get to Nina. At first they get the hell out and to Trent’s surgical ward. Ivy is rushed into surgery and they all wait. It takes rachel a little thinking as she talks with Trent to figure out why the surface demon went from angry, ripping at her throat to cowering and clingy. Surface demons are the souls the undead have lost. That explains a lot for me.. I mean I’d be pissed too if I was stuck in that hell all the time. So the surface demon had been Felix’s soul. He was in Nina and his soul recognised him.
This one event set off a chain reaction that has them all scrambling to hold onto their knickers. Trent and Rachel have to find a way (a spell) to catch the soul and attach it to Felix. As it is now Cormel wants his soul. Or he thinks he does so they are going to keep coming after Ivy and Rachel until it’s done. Rachel was able to get Felix’s soul and after a very hard, strained time she was able to get Felix his soul… now things get edgy. Cormel starts to put more pressure on her to find a way to get them all their soul, even Felix committing sunicide (walking into the sun because he couldn’t handle the 2000 years of guilt and darkness his soul reminded him of) didn’t stop this.
As with any of their ‘conquests’ they are forced into action when things are turned upside down and tossed at them like hot water on. They will have to work as a team. Trent, Rach, Jinks, Bis, hell even the demons get in on the action. Landon, an elf, who has had it out for Trent and Rachel for so long decides to tell the demons he can get their souls and rid them of the demons once and for all. Needlesstosay he manages to get the elves (the dewar) and the Clave alongside the witches council on his side, even though he is full of S***; they meet and decide to ‘break’ the lines. They will be cutting off all magic, sending the demons back to the ever-after to basically die. Landon thinks he knows what he is doing here but alas the little s*** doesn't have a clue.
Rachel manages to rescue the demons from being pulled back to the ever-after to be killed. She hasn’t stopped Landon but in the end it is for the best. The Goddess and her mystics, who Rachel can't see or feel anymore but that have been in her this whole time come to a head. Things get bad, fast. Thanks to Newt Rachel is able to create a new ever-after, the demons help to make new ley lines. Rachel is upset and scared that they exchanged one hell for another but… they didn’t. The demons are able to come and go, day or night as they wish. People are broken and bruised but they all made it. The fight was over.
The end of the book skips some in time. We go 27 years to the future, our little Ray (Quen & Ceri’s baby girl) is getting married to a Rosewood baby. A demon in plain words. Elf to Demon, least she followed after her dad (Trent) and Rachel. It’s a beautiful day, one to show love, support and how a family can grow together despite the odds against them. It’s Ray’s special day but it’s Trent who gives Rachel a gift that no one will ever be able to surpass… you’ll have to read to see what it is. I assure you you won’t see it coming, I didn’t.
