Skeleton Key series, starting with Shadow Wings, by J.C. Andrijeski - starting June 2nd, 2018

[Jennifer]

Book One Description: Archangel Raguel loses his wings… right as the world is about to go to hell.

Hunting a fallen angel bent on changing human history, Archangel Raguel finds a mysterious stone bearing a symbol in the midst of his investigation. Without warning, it throws him out of the angelic realms, abruptly turning him human.

He wakes naked in Gorky Park, in 1980s Moscow, wings gone and no ability to communicate with the other side. Picked up for public drunkenness and nudity, he asks for help of KGB Agent Ilana Kopovich, who is investigating a far more gruesome crime––the murder of a half-dozen children whose bodies were left mutilated in Red Square. Little does she know, the murderer she’s hunting is the same demon Raguel wants.

Raguel asks for Ilana’s help, and she quickly realizes she needs him. Together they must stop the demon before he commits his final crime and brings the world to the brink of war.

[Jennifer]

Ch 4 - (view spoiler)[ Interesting start so far. Not sure how much help he is going to be now that he is human, but thank goodness she is trusting enough to give him a chance to explain, especially since most of what he is doing would be incredibly creepy if he wasn't an angel and had some innocent mojo. (hide spoiler)]
Ch 6 - (view spoiler)[ OK, that has got to be weird. I get that she is touch deprived and he really is innocent, but to be stroked like that from someone you thought was completely crazy an hour ago has GOT TO BE weird, right? Interested to see where this leads. (hide spoiler)]

[Jennifer]

Ch 8 - (view spoiler)[ Oh snap! How did the demon accomplish that? (hide spoiler)]
Ch 14 - (view spoiler)[ Well at least they made the best use of their last night together - that naughty angel had needs! (hide spoiler)]
Finished - (view spoiler)[ What?!? that ending was underwhelming. It had a decent build up, but fell flat for me. I know there is a sweet spot between plans that are too complicated to be real and too simple to be satisfying - this one was the later. They just walked into the place, there was a sniper's nest, and a villain monologue and then it was over? I feel like we could have had a little more intrigue there, you? Even the HEA was a little to easy for me. (hide spoiler)]



The Skeleton Key series is actually a group of books written by different authors, so I want to try the next one and see how much I like it. Problem is that they aren't numbered like a series - so which one do we want to try next? Not all of them are KU, but I noticed that and all have ratings over 4 - do you want to try one of those next? or these are the other ones on KU .