Confesso che la mia serie guilty pleasure del cuore questa volta mi ha un po’ tradito: nella prima parte mi ha piuttosto infastidito, prima con un instant love piuttosto inutile (la storia sarebbe filata liscia anche se l’interesse fosse scattato più tardi), poi con due protagonistu, Nyx e The Jackal, con lu quali non ho legato subito.

Per fortuna la magia è tornata con il passare delle pagine e ho apprezzato molto lo sforzo di cambiare i ruoli di genere all’interno di un romanzo rosa, sia con Nyx e The Jackal, ma anche con Posie, che nei primi capitoli avrei strozzato volentieri, ma alla fine si rivela essere un personaggio interessante.

Sicuramente ho legato un sacco con i personaggi secondari facenti parte della combriccola di The Jackal, che spero di vedere nei prossimi romanzi di questo spin-off (soprattutto Mayhem perché sembra tanto un tenero cupcake al quale si può solo volere bene).

Infine, è sempre un piacere ritrovare Rhage, orsacchiottone dall’immenso bisogno di coccole e affetto. Ho adorato i flashback che ce l’hanno mostrato interagire con Darius, il Fratello che abbiamo conosciuto di meno, ma del quale sentiamo comunque la mancanza. ( )

I love the story. However I do find myself hoping and praying that certain prisoners escaped. I mean there was really only one confirmation of death. and I am 100% sure that no one could have survived that little escapade. but the other three who I'm thinking of, and if you've read the book you know which three I'm talking about, part of me is hoping that they survived. and like I said there was really no confirmation of death. One was on the ground moaning as he was coming back consciousness, and the other one was tied to a post that upturned but nobody said anything about what happened to him afterwards, and the other one just wasn't mentioned at all toward the end of the book. So, I think there's actually a book about one of them, coming out soon, so that answers that question, but still, I'm hoping the big mean nasty one actually survived. Because I think he deserves a book.


And talk about dodging a major bullet. That daughter oh my god. Could you have imagined what she would have done to the brother if they had hooked up lol. ( )

Well it's official I've gotten past the 1st 9 books and I am addicted. I cannot wait for the rest of the series. And I cannot wait for me to start the new fallen series as well as looking forward to the wolverin series coming up soon. I fully intend to read all of them. And hopefully I'm going to read more of JR's series. All of them. Now to open my book of Tohr's.
And let's face it who is not waiting for Baylock and Qhuinn? ( )

Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of good to say here. I'd looked forward to trying Ward's writing, but lots of little annoyances I had with this book led me to feeling less than satisfied with it in the end. There's no one big issue, and it's a fast read, but I can't actually say I enjoyed it.

The largest issue is Nyx, the heroine. She's painted in an unsympathetic light from the beginning, at least to my way of thinking, and it took a long time for me to have any attachment at all to her. If the whole book had focused on her vs. switching over to the male lead, as well, I never would have managed to finish the book. Beyond her, though, it was just a case of many little annoyances adding up to me growing less and less engaged. Lots of little style issues (including awkward world-building-related terminology and endless rhetorical questions that ended in periods rather than question marks, which drove me bonkers), repetitive scenes and writing, and a wandering plot that somehow still managed to be predictable. Part of the problem is undoubtedly that the book tried to balance between suspense and paranormal romance, and when push came to shove, it didn't lean quite far enough in either direction when it came to plotting, so that a reader didn't get enough of either feel to be truly satisfied. Rather, the book didn't itself seem to know what it wanted or needed to be, beyond wanting to be longer than necessary.

This was a bit of a rant, but to be honest, I just don't have much that's good to say about the book. The plot, on a story level, sounds interesting even as I think about it, but the whole thing was just dragged out and presented in such a way that the promise it held via concept kind of got lost along the way for me.

I'd heard this series wasn't as good as Ward's others, but the concept appealed to me so much that I thought I'd give it a try anyway. I've got more of her books now because I was overconfident I'd enjoy them when I visited a used bookstore, so I'll likely at least try the next to see if the series gets better and/or the characters are at least likeable vs. so awkward, or in Nyx's case, flat-out unsympathetic. Or maybe I'll just jump to a different series...

Obviously, this book just wasn't for me, and it didn't satisfy either my taste for paranormal suspense or paranormal romance, so I can't recommend it. ( )

Good start to a new series

Nice to learn Rhage has a brother. It will be interesting to learn if Apex, Lucan and Mayhem survived. I’d like to read their stories. ( )