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Hunter Circles #2
The Traitor
I’m Krystin Blackwood, and one week ago my father’s murderer courted me with dark magik.
I’m still dealing with the effects of Giyano’s power and no amount of demon hunting seems to get rid of it. Never mind that I’ve been tasked with training Shawn, the newest member of our team of Hunters and the other half to the Alzan prophecy.
But Boston has bigger problems. After an attack at Hunter’s Guild, a place of neutrality and peace in this war, leaves countless dead on both sides, no place in the city is safe. And the only clue to the perpetrator points directly at the Fire Circle’s most-wanted and most powerful criminal.
If my team can’t track them down, the demon might destroy the Fire Circle… and the entirety of Boston with it.
I’m still dealing with the effects of Giyano’s power and no amount of demon hunting seems to get rid of it. Never mind that I’ve been tasked with training Shawn, the newest member of our team of Hunters and the other half to the Alzan prophecy.
But Boston has bigger problems. After an attack at Hunter’s Guild, a place of neutrality and peace in this war, leaves countless dead on both sides, no place in the city is safe. And the only clue to the perpetrator points directly at the Fire Circle’s most-wanted and most powerful criminal.
If my team can’t track them down, the demon might destroy the Fire Circle… and the entirety of Boston with it.
276 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 10, 2017
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55 books129 followersJessica Gunn is a Fantasy author and avid science-fiction and fantasy fan. Her favorite stories are those that transport the reader to other, more exciting worlds. To catch up with Jessica, follow her on Twitter (@JessGunnAuthor) or on her website, www.jessicagunn.com.
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July 20, 2017
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The Traitor is the second full-length book of the Hunter Circles by Jessica Gunn, which including its the prequel it now stands at three separate titles. It comes in at 64,230 words or roughly 280 pages. It's preceded by The Hunter (the Prequel story) and The Hunted (Book 1); as per Jessica's advice the next book due to arrive in August is called The Changed. The series as outlined combines SFF and UF to create a different spin on elements typically associated with the ever more popular, demon hunting fiction. This is my third review in the series and the link to my review of The Hunted is pasted below, but as the prequel is a free book available externally to Amazon, I've not been able to paste that link herein (see Goodreads). If you haven't yet read the prequel, I'd recommend doing so. Although it isn't deemed a necessity by Jessica, I'm of the opinion that given it's a free book it should be a no-brainer. I've also included the link to Amazon's Jessica Gunn Page.
Author Page - https://www.amazon.com/Jessica-Gunn/e...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R223...
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INTRODUCTION - THE STORY:
With Riley and Sandra now ensconced on the "safe side" of the US-Canadian border, the team and namely Ben can get on with the job of making Boston a safer hub for the human population. This is a case of the illusion of safer, however, and perhaps no one more so than Ben knows this intimately. He believes himself to be the one most aware of the illusion, but for different personal reasons he's far from alone in his belief. Losing his barely one month old newborn to kidnapping whilst in his personal care, with all the feelings of inadequacy and guilt - to name but two of the medley - and the further loss several months later of his partner to the pressures the event played havoc on, have primed him to take the highest of self proclaimed responsibility for making his home and city safe for those vulnerable to the presence of demonic activities.
Having recovered the greatest lost piece of his heart for but a brief moment shorter than even the period he had it before losing it the first time, to essentially then lose it once more, has tipped and returned his dangerous attitudes and behaviour to the place they were before his promotion to team leader took place. Just as then, he secretly has returned to solo jobs involving the eradication of demons from jobs posted at Fire Circle HQ. Whilst people like the head of the circle, Jaffrin, are more than happy and willing to let this play out, his team members and especially Rachel aren't as accepting or forgiving of the position of danger this puts his ability to lead in. Being rundown and distracted in the setting of his team work is making an already dangerous situation that much worse. Not being one to favour his feelings over the voice of reason, Rachel is only to happy to point out the reality of what his personal crusade may cost to the team.
Krystin has become more accepting of her role in the team environment, but like Ben she also has personal stakes she keeps separate, and which may likely endanger her colleagues for different reasons but under the same condition. Her moment of self indulgence in kissing Ben has led to mixed feelings, that are more so mixed attitudes, the feelings aren't nearly as mixed as her thoughts. Her soul cries out for that bond only heavier intimacy can provide, even if her circular attitudes debate with themselves to the point of creating other mixed feelings. Like Ben she also has a much more personal stake, namely her role as the Daughter of Alzan. The prophecy makes her more personally involved, and when combined with her upbringing and assignment to individual operation, this makes her a wild card too. Together they're two kindred spirits in desperate need of a shoulder to lean on, but also unwilling to give into what might make them better fighters if not more vulnerable should either let go long enough to find out.
The two halves of the Alzan prophecy are now present after the fifth and final member of Ben's team in assigned in his capacity as the Son of Alzan, the hunter called Shawn. Cloaked in a history unknown to his team mates, Shawn is duplicitous as well, leaving Rachel and Nate somewhat out on a limb of greater vulnerability; also meaning our team closest to the heart of personal involvement now carries the burden and weight of three team members with secrets of import. Found nearly dead after a demon attack on the dangerous Boston streets, he too was taken in by Fire Circle HQ and trained in a whirlwind made possible by preparations that took place before his identity became known to HQ. Without an apparent lick of magical ability, Krystin is tasked with training and provoking his magic to surface, but no matter what they try it remains stubbornly hidden. This understandably creates friction and varyingly sinister doubts, further diminishing cohesion in a team that could be one of the most significant powerhouses if they could just get their shit together.
Memories of channeling the lost city's and Giyano's power further haunts Krystin, even if it has only been one hectic week since said events took place. Exacerbating the haunting words Giyano spoke of in his statement cautioning assumptions about which side of the war she should or is fighting for, Krystin becomes more heavily involved in the grey areas of the fight due to her personal desires and the team's need for missing information, needs exacerbating her precarious stance at a cliffside edge tenfold; especially with the appearance of another Old One with as much power as Aloysius himself. Giyano, Lady Azar, Aloysius and his top bounty hunters, and now Kinder, means that Fire Circle is outgunned and outmanned and that Boston's presence of magical power at an all time high.
With titles like the betrayer and the traitor being spoken of in nearly every direction and circles of those involved, trust is a far removed premium, and the quagmire only needs an errant match or spark to flare a conflagration of apocalyptic proportions. Hidden agendas, need-to-knows, and all the other aspects made from a similar ilk has each side fighting their opponents and themselves, with Alzan and cianza Boston set to place the consequences in the hands of untold numbers of human casualties; not to mention supernatural ones too. Determining friend from foe has become the most difficult currency, such that when the dust settles it'll be every person for their self. On what side of the line the key figures will end up being on is up for debate. Regardless of outcomes the new lines drawn in the sand are set to be irrevocably altered.
The supernatural local haunt will be the first pawn to fall as the Hunter's Guild comes under attack with numerous casualties on both sides of the debate. This shattering of the illusion of magical protection of previously unimaginable power against any violence, efforts aimed at providing a neutral safe haven where affiliations are overlooked, comes with losses greater to some. This event is so daunting that many begin to doubt if any efforts they make are able to make a difference, given something so powerful exists with power even the Daughter and Son cannot presently fight. Any exposure to the violence there shows just how dire circumstances have become. Regardless of any prophecy those involved start to believe they'll be long dead before it comes to fruition. Doubts have never been higher, as too the number of beings with separate personal stakes in the war: it's no longer about sides. Just who sits on each side will be reshaped and redefined over agendas and knowledge kept hidden. It will become more difficult to stand on definitive black and white grounds.
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OPINION:
The dynamic in character profiles again bounce off each other, providing a medley of things to be enjoyed during this immensely entertaining addition to the series. The individual mix of four has now become five. The timely addition to the team when combined with the title adds an unknown dimension of where best to look for signs of the title in the plot. The escalation of mounting skills is narrated with ease. From hints offered by a new villain regarding a central player's role in the prequel, means I can't help feeling that other than his relationship to the newest Power, that somethings still missing from his repertoire. It's as though he is yet to come into his own, but if this is correct I do hope something in this regard evolves to its next step, rather sooner than later. Krystin's tutelage can be thanked in up-skilling characters to the levels that make Jessica's imaginative choreography of fight sequences a credit to her writing..
The aspects of grey between the often black and white mandated morality of the worlds in which we live are explored further, encompassing the question of whether something can still be either of the endpoints if they go about achieving their ends through the other's means. On face value, the dark's position is one of significantly less debate given any approach would likely be accepted if it achieves the ends suited to their goals; good or bad, the means is not a consideration, only the ends. It's often the methods used for achieving good that's much more finite and difficult to delineate, where the means do have to suit the ends. This greater astringency to core values is where the greyness sinks in to the means. For the bad, grey is a given, but not always for the good. This struggle of morality is exemplified well herein, even more so than either of its two predecessors. Whether this was purposeful or a byproduct of the story being told is less important than what it achieves; perhaps an irony yet to be pointed out.
All of this leads inextricably to an accompanying and much appreciated expansion of the theology regarding the demons within the storyline, not just their increased variety but apso their attitudes and goals. The depth by which the organisation of good, but more so in this case of evil, is impressive; not just in the variety but also in the depth of the rationales. No stone appears to remain unturned as the plot delves deeper into the hierarchy of both the events and characters; and both historically and present. The universal necessity for light and dark to exist in a balanced system that permeates the world of fantasy is itself necessary for the grey to exist, and is a seemingly universal context outside this story as well inside.
And as one might expect, within each of the two dimensions both aspects can be seen to occur. That is, within the light there's both light and dark, and symbioticallu, within the dark there's both dark and light. The permanency of borders is a mythical and ideologically naive point of view, and it seems to endlessly highlight that operating under the assumption of guidelines dictating a cohesion of either group, or that either aren't needed, is the approach acting out of folly. In a sense it's like any stereotypes, where to think their borders are fixed is an error in judgement, but one where characters and people make the same mistake nonetheless.
The pace and focus of the storyline is so intense and detailed that it gives the illusion of happening inside a vacuum at times. The plot takes the effects on the human world and population into consideration, it's not like there's no world outside of those interactions between hunters, demons, Old Ones, Powers, or essentially any others of the wide variety of denizens from every corner of the widely developed plot; but in so much as it exemplifies the human world inside the parameters of the plot, save the mentioning of innocent lives lost, you'd be forgiven for forgetting the landscape's actually a human one. Whilst mundane moguls or sleepwalkers (a particularly well suited conceptual moniker in Sorcerer's Creed by N.P. Martin) are a part of the plot, you tend to get lost in the narrative that's developed so sufficiently that interactions with humans in general is negated. This aspect is a definite benefit of Jessica's exceptionally well delivered narrative, especially if readers believe fantasy storylines should deal only in fantasy centred on the supernatural world.
The continuation of the story takes the next expected steps but does so with a well developed expansion of features in the plot, so that expectation is accompanied by individual and provocative new ideas. Anticipation reaches an all time high, making the next book imperative and pleasantly if not impatiently awaited; which is a perhaps an overly tactful way of saying a cliffhanger exists. The developments of this new book are so widely effective that it even extends to the way the title influences your experience and focus of reading the plot. With relational aspects that lead back to real life whilst being wholly in the supernatural sense, shows Jessica's ingenuity in masking the conceptual importance of the way that stories relay how we view life, in this instance through fantasy (which is arguably an applicable name in the general sense that fiction is inherently fantasy regardless of genre-based classifications).
Loved the new story, and still loving Jessica's techniques and style that makes strategic moves less noticeable; meaning generic observations about structure are missed once you're captivated by the story. I read only fantasies that focus minimally on SFF, meaning I've not read Jessica's Atlas Link Series, but as to her UF I've covered all three books and count myself all the better for it, as well as hooked. So yeah, go ahead and add the spiffy covers and stories to your e-shelf or bookcase - you won't regret the said decision. I'm anxiously awaiting The Changed, wherein I'm particularly hoping that two crucial questions will get answered; one of which I've hinted at above. But I'll otherwise leave it up to you as to what or how many questions you'll come up with, especially if you have the first I've intonated herein. Given my prior two assessments were 5 stars it'd be wrong not to assign the same again.
The Traitor is the second full-length book of the Hunter Circles by Jessica Gunn, which including its the prequel it now stands at three separate titles. It comes in at 64,230 words or roughly 280 pages. It's preceded by The Hunter (the Prequel story) and The Hunted (Book 1); as per Jessica's advice the next book due to arrive in August is called The Changed. The series as outlined combines SFF and UF to create a different spin on elements typically associated with the ever more popular, demon hunting fiction. This is my third review in the series and the link to my review of The Hunted is pasted below, but as the prequel is a free book available externally to Amazon, I've not been able to paste that link herein (see Goodreads). If you haven't yet read the prequel, I'd recommend doing so. Although it isn't deemed a necessity by Jessica, I'm of the opinion that given it's a free book it should be a no-brainer. I've also included the link to Amazon's Jessica Gunn Page.
Author Page - https://www.amazon.com/Jessica-Gunn/e...
Review - https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R223...
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
INTRODUCTION - THE STORY:
With Riley and Sandra now ensconced on the "safe side" of the US-Canadian border, the team and namely Ben can get on with the job of making Boston a safer hub for the human population. This is a case of the illusion of safer, however, and perhaps no one more so than Ben knows this intimately. He believes himself to be the one most aware of the illusion, but for different personal reasons he's far from alone in his belief. Losing his barely one month old newborn to kidnapping whilst in his personal care, with all the feelings of inadequacy and guilt - to name but two of the medley - and the further loss several months later of his partner to the pressures the event played havoc on, have primed him to take the highest of self proclaimed responsibility for making his home and city safe for those vulnerable to the presence of demonic activities.
Having recovered the greatest lost piece of his heart for but a brief moment shorter than even the period he had it before losing it the first time, to essentially then lose it once more, has tipped and returned his dangerous attitudes and behaviour to the place they were before his promotion to team leader took place. Just as then, he secretly has returned to solo jobs involving the eradication of demons from jobs posted at Fire Circle HQ. Whilst people like the head of the circle, Jaffrin, are more than happy and willing to let this play out, his team members and especially Rachel aren't as accepting or forgiving of the position of danger this puts his ability to lead in. Being rundown and distracted in the setting of his team work is making an already dangerous situation that much worse. Not being one to favour his feelings over the voice of reason, Rachel is only to happy to point out the reality of what his personal crusade may cost to the team.
Krystin has become more accepting of her role in the team environment, but like Ben she also has personal stakes she keeps separate, and which may likely endanger her colleagues for different reasons but under the same condition. Her moment of self indulgence in kissing Ben has led to mixed feelings, that are more so mixed attitudes, the feelings aren't nearly as mixed as her thoughts. Her soul cries out for that bond only heavier intimacy can provide, even if her circular attitudes debate with themselves to the point of creating other mixed feelings. Like Ben she also has a much more personal stake, namely her role as the Daughter of Alzan. The prophecy makes her more personally involved, and when combined with her upbringing and assignment to individual operation, this makes her a wild card too. Together they're two kindred spirits in desperate need of a shoulder to lean on, but also unwilling to give into what might make them better fighters if not more vulnerable should either let go long enough to find out.
The two halves of the Alzan prophecy are now present after the fifth and final member of Ben's team in assigned in his capacity as the Son of Alzan, the hunter called Shawn. Cloaked in a history unknown to his team mates, Shawn is duplicitous as well, leaving Rachel and Nate somewhat out on a limb of greater vulnerability; also meaning our team closest to the heart of personal involvement now carries the burden and weight of three team members with secrets of import. Found nearly dead after a demon attack on the dangerous Boston streets, he too was taken in by Fire Circle HQ and trained in a whirlwind made possible by preparations that took place before his identity became known to HQ. Without an apparent lick of magical ability, Krystin is tasked with training and provoking his magic to surface, but no matter what they try it remains stubbornly hidden. This understandably creates friction and varyingly sinister doubts, further diminishing cohesion in a team that could be one of the most significant powerhouses if they could just get their shit together.
Memories of channeling the lost city's and Giyano's power further haunts Krystin, even if it has only been one hectic week since said events took place. Exacerbating the haunting words Giyano spoke of in his statement cautioning assumptions about which side of the war she should or is fighting for, Krystin becomes more heavily involved in the grey areas of the fight due to her personal desires and the team's need for missing information, needs exacerbating her precarious stance at a cliffside edge tenfold; especially with the appearance of another Old One with as much power as Aloysius himself. Giyano, Lady Azar, Aloysius and his top bounty hunters, and now Kinder, means that Fire Circle is outgunned and outmanned and that Boston's presence of magical power at an all time high.
With titles like the betrayer and the traitor being spoken of in nearly every direction and circles of those involved, trust is a far removed premium, and the quagmire only needs an errant match or spark to flare a conflagration of apocalyptic proportions. Hidden agendas, need-to-knows, and all the other aspects made from a similar ilk has each side fighting their opponents and themselves, with Alzan and cianza Boston set to place the consequences in the hands of untold numbers of human casualties; not to mention supernatural ones too. Determining friend from foe has become the most difficult currency, such that when the dust settles it'll be every person for their self. On what side of the line the key figures will end up being on is up for debate. Regardless of outcomes the new lines drawn in the sand are set to be irrevocably altered.
The supernatural local haunt will be the first pawn to fall as the Hunter's Guild comes under attack with numerous casualties on both sides of the debate. This shattering of the illusion of magical protection of previously unimaginable power against any violence, efforts aimed at providing a neutral safe haven where affiliations are overlooked, comes with losses greater to some. This event is so daunting that many begin to doubt if any efforts they make are able to make a difference, given something so powerful exists with power even the Daughter and Son cannot presently fight. Any exposure to the violence there shows just how dire circumstances have become. Regardless of any prophecy those involved start to believe they'll be long dead before it comes to fruition. Doubts have never been higher, as too the number of beings with separate personal stakes in the war: it's no longer about sides. Just who sits on each side will be reshaped and redefined over agendas and knowledge kept hidden. It will become more difficult to stand on definitive black and white grounds.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
OPINION:
The dynamic in character profiles again bounce off each other, providing a medley of things to be enjoyed during this immensely entertaining addition to the series. The individual mix of four has now become five. The timely addition to the team when combined with the title adds an unknown dimension of where best to look for signs of the title in the plot. The escalation of mounting skills is narrated with ease. From hints offered by a new villain regarding a central player's role in the prequel, means I can't help feeling that other than his relationship to the newest Power, that somethings still missing from his repertoire. It's as though he is yet to come into his own, but if this is correct I do hope something in this regard evolves to its next step, rather sooner than later. Krystin's tutelage can be thanked in up-skilling characters to the levels that make Jessica's imaginative choreography of fight sequences a credit to her writing..
The aspects of grey between the often black and white mandated morality of the worlds in which we live are explored further, encompassing the question of whether something can still be either of the endpoints if they go about achieving their ends through the other's means. On face value, the dark's position is one of significantly less debate given any approach would likely be accepted if it achieves the ends suited to their goals; good or bad, the means is not a consideration, only the ends. It's often the methods used for achieving good that's much more finite and difficult to delineate, where the means do have to suit the ends. This greater astringency to core values is where the greyness sinks in to the means. For the bad, grey is a given, but not always for the good. This struggle of morality is exemplified well herein, even more so than either of its two predecessors. Whether this was purposeful or a byproduct of the story being told is less important than what it achieves; perhaps an irony yet to be pointed out.
All of this leads inextricably to an accompanying and much appreciated expansion of the theology regarding the demons within the storyline, not just their increased variety but apso their attitudes and goals. The depth by which the organisation of good, but more so in this case of evil, is impressive; not just in the variety but also in the depth of the rationales. No stone appears to remain unturned as the plot delves deeper into the hierarchy of both the events and characters; and both historically and present. The universal necessity for light and dark to exist in a balanced system that permeates the world of fantasy is itself necessary for the grey to exist, and is a seemingly universal context outside this story as well inside.
And as one might expect, within each of the two dimensions both aspects can be seen to occur. That is, within the light there's both light and dark, and symbioticallu, within the dark there's both dark and light. The permanency of borders is a mythical and ideologically naive point of view, and it seems to endlessly highlight that operating under the assumption of guidelines dictating a cohesion of either group, or that either aren't needed, is the approach acting out of folly. In a sense it's like any stereotypes, where to think their borders are fixed is an error in judgement, but one where characters and people make the same mistake nonetheless.
The pace and focus of the storyline is so intense and detailed that it gives the illusion of happening inside a vacuum at times. The plot takes the effects on the human world and population into consideration, it's not like there's no world outside of those interactions between hunters, demons, Old Ones, Powers, or essentially any others of the wide variety of denizens from every corner of the widely developed plot; but in so much as it exemplifies the human world inside the parameters of the plot, save the mentioning of innocent lives lost, you'd be forgiven for forgetting the landscape's actually a human one. Whilst mundane moguls or sleepwalkers (a particularly well suited conceptual moniker in Sorcerer's Creed by N.P. Martin) are a part of the plot, you tend to get lost in the narrative that's developed so sufficiently that interactions with humans in general is negated. This aspect is a definite benefit of Jessica's exceptionally well delivered narrative, especially if readers believe fantasy storylines should deal only in fantasy centred on the supernatural world.
The continuation of the story takes the next expected steps but does so with a well developed expansion of features in the plot, so that expectation is accompanied by individual and provocative new ideas. Anticipation reaches an all time high, making the next book imperative and pleasantly if not impatiently awaited; which is a perhaps an overly tactful way of saying a cliffhanger exists. The developments of this new book are so widely effective that it even extends to the way the title influences your experience and focus of reading the plot. With relational aspects that lead back to real life whilst being wholly in the supernatural sense, shows Jessica's ingenuity in masking the conceptual importance of the way that stories relay how we view life, in this instance through fantasy (which is arguably an applicable name in the general sense that fiction is inherently fantasy regardless of genre-based classifications).
Loved the new story, and still loving Jessica's techniques and style that makes strategic moves less noticeable; meaning generic observations about structure are missed once you're captivated by the story. I read only fantasies that focus minimally on SFF, meaning I've not read Jessica's Atlas Link Series, but as to her UF I've covered all three books and count myself all the better for it, as well as hooked. So yeah, go ahead and add the spiffy covers and stories to your e-shelf or bookcase - you won't regret the said decision. I'm anxiously awaiting The Changed, wherein I'm particularly hoping that two crucial questions will get answered; one of which I've hinted at above. But I'll otherwise leave it up to you as to what or how many questions you'll come up with, especially if you have the first I've intonated herein. Given my prior two assessments were 5 stars it'd be wrong not to assign the same again.
August 1, 2017
See my full review for this title on my book blog, So Few Books, at: https://sofewbooks.blogspot.com/2017/...!
This book picks up right where the last one in the series left off, and proceeds pretty much immediately to jump into demon fighting and other such pursuits. Once again, the Hunter Team made up of Ben, Krystin, Nate, Rachel, and now Shawn, find themselves in the midst of situations way above their pay grade...
Once more, although the promo blurb makes you believe the voice of the story comes just from Krystin, it is actually a dual-perspective novel, shifting focus between her and Ben. I don't especially like this style as a writing tactic, but it works pretty good here. At least each switch is noted; you don't have to guess who is talking. And the plot continues to advance proprely, not rehashing the same scene over again from a different angle.
The characters are really developing themselves as individuals, as well as working to increase their individual talents throughout the narrative. There's not much down time for them to grow personally, because they are so busy fighting demons all the time, fending off one attack after another from various dark outside forces...
The author has done a fine job of drawing me into the story and making me want to continue on with it. Her writing style somehow remains true to the original atmosphere of the prequel, and yet has definitely improved with each volume. I can hardly wait to read the next installment...
I received a free eBook copy of this novel from the author, and have willingly provided an honest review.
This book picks up right where the last one in the series left off, and proceeds pretty much immediately to jump into demon fighting and other such pursuits. Once again, the Hunter Team made up of Ben, Krystin, Nate, Rachel, and now Shawn, find themselves in the midst of situations way above their pay grade...
Once more, although the promo blurb makes you believe the voice of the story comes just from Krystin, it is actually a dual-perspective novel, shifting focus between her and Ben. I don't especially like this style as a writing tactic, but it works pretty good here. At least each switch is noted; you don't have to guess who is talking. And the plot continues to advance proprely, not rehashing the same scene over again from a different angle.
The characters are really developing themselves as individuals, as well as working to increase their individual talents throughout the narrative. There's not much down time for them to grow personally, because they are so busy fighting demons all the time, fending off one attack after another from various dark outside forces...
The author has done a fine job of drawing me into the story and making me want to continue on with it. Her writing style somehow remains true to the original atmosphere of the prequel, and yet has definitely improved with each volume. I can hardly wait to read the next installment...
I received a free eBook copy of this novel from the author, and have willingly provided an honest review.
August 7, 2017
How do I love the let me count the ways:
1. Has a subtle romance but it does not take over the whole book.
2. Easily has become a favorite of mine, how we are able to really dive into their world of magik in a way it has never been done before.
3. Action packed til the end-which keeps you guessing as to what will happen, whose side is really the right one.
4. Friendship, teamwork and loyalties are tested
5. We see the good and bad sides of the characters and they are never just one sided
6. A great read for men or women
7. Usually I do not like when in every other chapter we switch off point of views, but it works amazing between Kristen and Ben
1. Has a subtle romance but it does not take over the whole book.
2. Easily has become a favorite of mine, how we are able to really dive into their world of magik in a way it has never been done before.
3. Action packed til the end-which keeps you guessing as to what will happen, whose side is really the right one.
4. Friendship, teamwork and loyalties are tested
5. We see the good and bad sides of the characters and they are never just one sided
6. A great read for men or women
7. Usually I do not like when in every other chapter we switch off point of views, but it works amazing between Kristen and Ben
October 5, 2019
Audiobook review: I liked this story! Dual-perspective continues. Love the supernatural element! Complex interpersonal relationships. Fast paced with plenty of action with political intrigue. The narrator did a good job. I received a free copy of this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
July 6, 2017
This series just keeps getting better and better! I love everything about it...the paranormal aspect, the action and the interpersonal relationships. This is a fast paced read that's hard to put down. Can't wait for the next one.
For those who want to know: The Traitor has language and violence.
For those who want to know: The Traitor has language and violence.
July 31, 2017
This was another great read that was just as entertaining as the first. I'm thankful that the next book releases tomorrow bc that was a hell of an ending. This is a unique world of magic users and demons. I look forward to future releases in this series.
November 25, 2019
My review is based on the audiobook. This is such an exciting series that grabs you from the start. It's filled with magic and adventure and keeps your interest throughout. The narration has great pacing. I look forward to more in the series.
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