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Wraith's Revenge (Lizzie Grace, #10)

Keri Arthur

Start date: March 1, 2023

Finish date: March 31, 2023

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Feb 28, 2023 Katyana rated it liked it

Shelves: ass-kicking-women, uf, shapeshifters

This was a bit of a "side quest" book - the trip to Canberra.

It wrapped up some side plot threads that have been running through the series thus far. To be clear, I consider them side plot because the series, for the first 9 books, has been firmly set in the reservation and the primary plot relates to the wild magic and the werewolves on the reservation. We've had mention, of course, of the dark sorcerer that killed Liz's sister, and of course her hideous father and what caused Liz and Belle to This was a bit of a "side quest" book - the trip to Canberra.

It wrapped up some side plot threads that have been running through the series thus far. To be clear, I consider them side plot because the series, for the first 9 books, has been firmly set in the reservation and the primary plot relates to the wild magic and the werewolves on the reservation. We've had mention, of course, of the dark sorcerer that killed Liz's sister, and of course her hideous father and what caused Liz and Belle to run. But the father side plot was largely resolved alongside the child-rapist ex-hubby plot (may he ever rest in pieces), so it was really the dark sorcerer that was the only major unresolved thread from Canberra. Mentions of him - and his body never being found - have been landing like a heavy-handed hint (read: anvil) from the earliest books, so it was always inevitable that we'd have to deal with him. And so here, we do, alongside putting (I hope) an end to her shitty father's continued looming over her life.

It was nice to get these things wrapped up, and to see Liz return to Canberra with strength and spine, finally getting closure from her time as a brutalized girl forced to flee Canberra. And I am satisfied where all that wrapped up ((view spoiler)).

But I can't rate this higher than 3.5 stars because the ongoing Aiden stuff annoys the crap out of me.

I don't want to beat the dead horse here - my previous reviews on this series make it clear why I honestly hate Aiden, and all the werewolves on the reservation. And why, quite frankly, I consider Aiden's mom to be the actual villain of this series (this dark sorcerer is barely a blip compared to her, imo)...and after the previous book that asshole should be in jail AT LEAST.

I was optimistic 2 books ago when Lizzie finally grew some self-respect and left him. That optimism took a beating in the last book, when she just pined over him endlessly. The optimism is gone in this book. He's still do-nothing-Aiden. He's still going to barely accept her, reluctantly, because he feels forced into it by unfortunate feelings. She's still going to be an awkward outsider in his life. And that's all goddamn inevitable because of the spoiler in this book (which honestly, most of us probably saw coming because of the heavy-handed (anvil) hints in the last book. And it is really just disappointing, because Liz deserves so much better than Aiden. She deserves someone who sees how amazing she is, who believes she hung the sun and the moon, especially because her life in Canberra was filled with people who all barely tolerated her and constantly made clear what a disappointment she is. It feels like she's just resigned herself, as if that is her truth - she's not good enough, she's not ENOUGH, but maybe someone might care at least a little about her anyway - because that's what Aiden is doing to her too. At this point, he's gone so far into shithead territory with her that I cannot imagine any way this relationship feels satisfying to me. There's nothing he can do to make me believe he loves her the way she deserves to be loved. Everything about him screams reluctance - he cares about her, but man does he wish he didn't... but he does and he's kind of becoming resigned to it now, so he guesses he can probably find some way to make this horrible situation work.

That's just gross to me. Completely and totally gross. Even more gross is that Lizzie shares his resignation. There has been no progress. No change. But in this book she says she's taken, thinks of Aiden constantly as her partner, in literally every way from her POV they feel like they're still a couple in this book.

UGH.

Lizzie deserves what Belle has found. But at the very fucking least, I wish she'd not just resign herself to whatever crumbs Aiden finally is going to drag himself to offer. Because it's clear she's going to accept whatever it is already - as I said, in this book it reads as if they are still together, when that douchebag can't even bring himself slap down his monstrous villain mother. And it says something - it really does - that Liz has been on the front lines beside Aiden for all his troubles on the reservation, but in this book, where she has to face down her shitty family, her past, the trial, and even the monster who murdered her sister ... Aiden is nowhere to be found. Yeah, yeah, Lizzie told him not to come. But Aiden has told her to sit stuff out too, and she shows up anyway, because that's what you fucking do when you care about someone: you don't let them fight their battles alone. Lizzie didn't want Belle to come to Canberra either, she wanted Belle safe on the reservation, but Belle was like fuck that, you're not leaving me behind. Because that's what people do when they love each other. Period.

So yeah, 3.5 sad stars.

One last thing to say: (view spoiler) ...more

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May 18, 2025 Moondance rated it it was amazing

Shelves: witches, demons, favorite-series, urban-fantasy, fantasy, family, favorite-author, 5-stars, revenge, familiar

I leaned back and stared at the four men sitting on the opposite side of the table.

Lizzie has returned to Canberra for her father's trail and to address her inheritance from Clayton. Of course, some big, bad, nasty has to rears its head and start killing off Lizzie's family.

I have been very upset with Aiden the last few books, so it was nice to have him just in the background. Lizzie has her hands full trying to track down the evil being killing her family members. She gets some satisfaction in ...more

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