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Feb 17, 2012

BamaGal rated it:

3.5 Stars. This new series is about Risa from the ‘Riley Jenson’ series all grown up. She has two roommate side-kicks, Ilianna and Tao; who are straight out of Central Casting. Ilianna is a lesbian Mare/Witch, who (in this day and time?) is afraid to come out to her family. Tao is your typical (for Arthur’s world) manslut werewolf. Risa wants everyone to know that she is not a promiscuous ho’ like Aunt Riley is. No anonymous sex in a darkened bar for her; she makes them buy her dinner befor More...

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Dec 05, 2011

Shalisha rated it:

I am disappointed in this book. I went into it expecting to read a new story - not another story about Riley. Now - do not get me wrong, love, love Riley - but I thought her story had ended. Not only did she play too big of a role in the story, i.e. moms friend, my play aunt etc, but she also played too big of a role in the story. Really - Rissa is just mini-Riley. All of her values, mores and desires imitated every one that I read in Ms. Jensens story...not what I was looking to read.
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Jan 10, 2012

Kt from A Book Obsession.. rated it:

There isn't anyone quite like Risa. Her mother, a lab created clone, is an extremely strong clairvoyant and also a very special kind of werewolf, able to shift facial structure. Her father is an Adeh, capable of becoming only mist, as well as several other perks. This mixed heritage has made Risa incredibly unique and powerful. Yet all she wants is to live a normal life. Yet, when her mother asks her to help out with a little girl whose soul has been stolen, Risa finds herself in the middle of a More...

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Sep 27, 2011

Julie rated it:

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Darkness Unbound is the first book in Keri Arthur’s newest series, Dark Angels. I have not read this author before but I am aware that her Riley Jensen series appears on many favorite lists. Therefore, when I found out that Keri was writing a new series that takes place in the same world as her Riley books, I jumped on the chance to give it a try. And after reading this book and finally experiencing this author’s writing, I can More...

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Oct 20, 2011

Pamela {Spaz} rated it:

Originally posted at WickedLilPixie Reviews
4.5 Stars
New Keri Arthur fans and old ones alike are going to love this new series.
Risa Jones is half-werewolf and half-Aedh, enabling her to enter the realm between life and death. She can also see the reapers who collect the souls of the dead. Reapers are the beings who guide souls to heaven or hell, while the Aedh are the gatekeepers guard the gates between heaven and hell and mortality. Either the gatekeepers are no longer able to More...

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Nov 18, 2011

Amber I. (AwesomeSauce Book Club) rated it:

I loved Darkness Unbound! I think I am going to be just as addicted to this series as the Riley Jenson ones.

Risa is just as kick ass as Riley is. We haven't seen her since she was a little girl but Risa is all grown up now and I LOVE her! This book was seriously so addictive, I didn't want to stop reading it. Its packed with some awesome and unique supernatural characters, a few sexy men ( I am loving the reaper) lots of action and mystery and a few heart breaking moments. I am so ex More...

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Nov 29, 2011

Jenn rated it:

Having followed Keri Arthur’s work for many years, particularly her Riley Jensen series, I was very excited when I heard she was going to be writing Risa’s story. The Riley Jensen books are fantastic paranormal romance novels with lots of action and great storylines and I was hoping that I’d be able to say the same about the Dark Angels series. Thankfully, I can!

Risa Jones was just a kid in the Riley Jensen books but she’s all grown up in this series, running a restaurant with a couple More...

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Nov 27, 2011

Jenn rated it:

I want to enjoy this book more than I did. First I'm not entirely sure how this is categorized. It's sold in the romance section but read more like an urban fantasy but it's in the future so wouldn't that make it...sci-fi?

My head...hurts.

More than that Risa confused me. For all her "I just want to run my restaurant" declarations, she wasn't doing a lot of that. At all. She was busy solving the mystery of why every paranormal creature on the planet (and not) were More...

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Nov 01, 2011

Lindsey rated it:

I was HUGELY disappointed when I learned that Keri Arthur was ending my favorite Riley Jenson Guardian series, but when I learned she was doing a spinn off featuring Risa Jones (a character who was a baby in the Jenson series) I was very excited. Months after reading the last Riley Jenson novel I had completely forgotten about this new series until I came upon it on a table in Chapters. I snached the book off the table and did a little (but loud) *squee* drawing the attention of strangers who More...

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Oct 31, 2011

Kathy rated it:

First in the Dark Angels urban fantasy series that carries on from the Riley Jenson, Guardian series and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

<h2>The Story</h2>
Risa Jones is all grown up and living with a couple of roommates, Iliana, a horseshifter, and Tao, a fire-starting werewolf. Money is no object for any of them and they have outfitted their revamped warehouse to the max in security and high-tech bathrooms. They are also partners in a hot and happenin' restaurant, RY More...

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Oct 23, 2011

Cathy rated it:

If you're a fan of Arthur's Riley Jensen series, rest assured, this is a worthy successor. It isn't a clone, Risa is her own woman and the story has its own twists. Riley, Roane, Liander and Quinn appear in small but appropriate doses as supporting characters only. The book will easily stand alone for new readers, they may well be curious to check out more about those people, but it was appropriately written so that it was a nice fondly reminiscing about escapades in their pasts, not an author t More...

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Oct 12, 2011

Weirde rated it:

1. Darkness unbound

Inedito in Italiano

Trama: Essendo metà licantropo e metà Aedh, Risa Jones può entrare il reame del crepuscolo tra la vita e la morte e vedere i raccoglitori, esseri soprannaturali che raccolgono le anime dei morti. Ma presto fa una terribile scoperta. Una forza misteriosa sta rubando anime, impedento ai morti di raggiungere l'aldilà.
I raccoglitori scortano le anime a destinazione, non le rubano, e uno di loro segue le mosse di Risa per poter trova More...

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Sep 30, 2011

Roxanne rated it:

His arm came around my waist, holding me steady as his gaze met mine. “Ready?” I nodded, my eyes searching his, wondering at the slight flicker in those bright depths. It was almost as if he were fighting a reaction—although maybe that was just wishful thinking.

Even though I haven't finished the Riley Jenson series I did enjoy this book very much. I liked the whole idea of walking in the grey fields and really hope in future books we learn more about it since we only got a small glimps More...

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Sep 29, 2011

Bookmom rated it:

Fans of the author's Riley Jensen series are going to be delighted to find that even though this series belongs to Risa, Riley and the gang are on hand to help out.

Last seen using her ability to go to the gray world in between the physical and passing over when Riley was dying over twenty years ago, Risa is asked by her mother to check out a client's young daughter who is in a coma. Risa is horrified to discover the child's soul had been torn out of her body and destroyed. If tha More...

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Feb 09, 2012

Leslie rated it:

This is the first book in an urban fantasy series that is a spinoff off from another apparently long running series. I have never read that other series, and that did cause me some problems at first. I felt like I stepped into a world that was unrecognizable. I was pretty confused for much of the story. I did not find the world building particularly good, but on the other hand, she had already built this world. I found the characters interesting but shallow. I don't feel like I got to know anyon More...

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Oct 21, 2011

Kerry of Musings of a bookworm rated it:

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The synopsis
Risa Jones is as extraordinary as her heritage. Born from a lab-enhanced clone mother and an Aedh father, she can not only talk to the souls of the dying and the dead, but she can see the reapers and walk the gray fields that divide this world from the next.
They are skill she rarely uses, however, preferring to concentrate on the business she shares with her two best friends. But when her mother asks her to help More...

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Sep 28, 2011

Jenevieve rated it:

This is the first in her new Dark Angels series set in the same universe as the Riley Jensen series. It's been about 20yrs since we left Riley. She has left the Directorate and has the family life she dreamed of and every Thursday, she has lunch with Dai and her daughter Risa. Risa is now 28yrs old and as a half-Aedh/half-werewolf, she has some unusual characteristics. She has some clairvoyance but what makes her very unique is her ability to see the Reapers, the energy beings who escort dep More...

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Nov 07, 2011

Ivanna rated it:

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Nov 26, 2011

Mello rated it:

This was a pretty good start to a new series. I like all of the main characters. The story moved along nicely and the sex scenes weren't overly frequent. From the reviews that I read of the books from the original series, the main character there had sex a lot. That seems to be a side affect of being a werewolf in this world, it could easily distract from the actual story.

I like Risa. She does get manipulated a lot throughout the story. She's everyone's pawn. No one wants to give her a More...

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Nov 02, 2011

Alyssa rated it:

I enjoyed this first installment of the series, a spin off from the Riley Jensen series, but it didn't quite meet my expectations. I was a big fan of the Riley series so my expectations were high, and while this was a good read and the continued world development was interesting I wasn't as invested in the characters as I'd like to be. Risa is a somewhat psycic half werewolf half Aedh that gets dragged into a mess that could destroy the world because of her unique powers. Riley and Quinn do appe More...

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Nov 17, 2011

Lynda rated it:

Darkness Unbound by Keri Arthur is a spin-off series from her Riley Jensen Guardian series, and it's about 20 some odd years after that series had finished. Our new heroine Risa Jones is the daughter of psychic Dia Jones, whom is a good friend of Riley. Her mom is not only a psychic, she's also a special shape shifting werewolf who had been created in a clone lab. Risa's dad was a one night stand, but he also was an Aedh, powerful beings who have 2 forms, one being an energy spirit, an abili More...

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Oct 12, 2011

Jessica rated it:

Keri Arthur's new series is off with a bang! Having enjoyed her series with Riley I was more than eager to read her Dark Angels series starting young Risa, only Risa is all grown up now! In Darkness Unbound, we get to see Risa in her everyday life before things get out of control.

It all starts when a sick little girl dies and her soul is missing, it's just gone. That's when higher powers get involved and how Azriel, an Aedh, starts to follow her around in hopes to catch the bad guy. More...

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Oct 11, 2011

Jess rated it:

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Being a huge fan of Keri Arthur’s Riley Jenson series, I was more than a little curious to see how Risa would hold up as the lead in her new spin off series, Dark Angels. My last mental image of Risa was of a little girl pulling Riley back from death’s door and while it maybe wasn’t explained in great detail during Riley’s story about how she did it, we find out exactly what Risa’s capable of now, how she managed to help Riley come back from b More...

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Oct 03, 2011

Mirjam rated it:

Darkness Unbound is a delightful rollercoaster ride full of suspense, action, mystery and familiar characters. This book ought to come with a warning as it is nearly impossible to put away! I remember Risa from the Riley Jensen series, but the little girl who is half Aedh-half werewolf has grown up and is a kick-ass heroine much like Aunt Riley. I loved reading more about much-loved characters like Riley, Quinn, Rhoan and Liander, but the new characters are as enjoyable as the old, familiar ones More...

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Sep 27, 2011

Carmel (Rabid Reads) rated it:

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I hadn't realized how much I'd missed Keri Arthur's writing until I read Darkness Unbound. I absolutely adored her Riley Jensen Guardian series. In fact, I was one of those crazed fans lining up at the bookstore every time a new installment was published. Yeah, they're that good. It came as no surprise to me when I gobbled up the first Dark Angels book in one day. What an unbelievable story, packed with enamoring characters and unparalleled story telling! Thank More...

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Feb 11, 2012

Yvonne rated it:

The heroine's aunt, Riley Jensen, is the protagonist of another series of books by Keri Arthur. Perhaps if I'd read those first I would have appreciated this one more. Did I like this book? Yes, had there been more of the book then I would have happily kept reading, but I'm not running out to buy book two.

The story is set in Melbourne, which is nice as I recognize some of the street names and places. I'm not sure however if it is set in the future or an alternative reality, whicheve More...

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Nov 24, 2011

Sue rated it:

Not quite as good as the Reily Jenson series, but running a close second. This one involves Risa who is now all grown up from the Reily stories. The story is on-going and doesn't really come to any conclusion here which is a little frustrating. The "relationship" with Azriel is on such a slow burn you can't tell if it's going anywhere at all, but hope that it is!

It's nicely done, pulling in characters from the Reily series who will be familiar to fans of the original set More...

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Oct 25, 2011

Donna rated it:

This is the first book in the spin off from Ms. Arthur’s Riley Jensen Guardian novels. The worst thing about the first book in a series is the world building. You have to be introduced to the characters and their environment. Because this is a spin off that work has been pretty much done. This series takes place 20 or so years in the future from the Riley Jensen series. This series stars Risa (the little girl who saved Riley) all grown up and dealing with some of the same issues Riley had t More...

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Dec 04, 2011

Patricia rated it:

My biggest complaints about this book had to do with Lucian: (1) such an overused, cliche name in fantasy novels, (2) the scenes with him could have been omitted without an impact to any part of the story - he had no role in either moving the plot forward or developing Risa's character, (3) though he has many of Quinn's traits (money, power, mysterious background), he's boring!

The novel itself is alright. It's interesting because it's a spin-off to the Riley Jenson series, but it feels More...

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Dec 05, 2011

Michelle rated it:

I'm really glad that I picked this book. After getting tired of reading UF novels where the heroines are either too dumb or too cocky (or both), it was a breath of fresh air to find Risa, someone who has incredible powers, but has chosen to live a somewhat normal life, until chaos comes knocking on her door. But instead of moaning and crying about how she hates her lot in life, or, jumping into the problem without a plan, she reacts like any sensible person would if they were in her shoes. I cou More...

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