Author: J.R. Ward
Release Date: September 2011
Publisher: Signet
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Rating: 4 Hoots
Reviewer: Rayna
Seven deadly
sins. Seven souls to save. And a man and a woman treading the lines of danger,
desire and deliverance ...As the son of a serial killer, homicide detective
Thomas DelVecchio Jr grew up in the shadow of evil. Now, on the knife-edge
between civic duty and blind retribution, he atones for the sins of his father.
Hired to monitor Veck is Internal Affairs officer Sophia Reilly, whose interest
in Veck is both professional and arousingly personal. But Veck and Sophia have a
common interest. He's Jim Herron, a mysterious stranger enlisted to save the
soul of a killer's latest victim, one precariously hovering between heaven and
hell. Before Herron's job is done, Veck and Sophia will be inexorably drawn into
a battle of good against evil, where the risk is nothing less than total
damnation. (Goodreads)
Review:
For all of you
who are hopeless fans of the BDB
series by JR Ward; should also be picking up her Fallen Angels series. I have to say not only is this new series
refreshing, but for you die hard BDB
fans there are cross over’s from that series just for you! We have quite a few mentions in this book;
you get to learn more about Veck, De La Cruz, and to start it all off was the
investigation into the death of that serial killer by none other than one of
Slash’s boys! For those references I am
grateful! Now onto the story, I’m on the
fence with this one. Covet was good, Crave was by far my favourite so far,
and Envy has me ruffled a bit; I
liked this story and even though there were some great crossovers from BDB I
felt my thoughts wandering!
Jim Heron makes
a great constant main character with all his passion and assertiveness. Mind you we do get to see him unravelled a
bit in this book which makes him all the more passionate about his cause. Veck truly is a great character and Ward
wrote him so well; with all his internal struggles between good versus
evil. This is the first book where I
would have to say that Veck would have went the right way with or without Jim’s
intervention; that is how strong and beautiful his character is despite all of
his inner turmoil! Even when things were
at its worst the man held strong. Reilly
the leading female left me with a sour taste in my mouth. I’m not so inclined to give her praise and
was disappointed with her growth in this book.
Ward has a tendency to write such strong characters and with this one I
believe she fell short! Reilly was
assertive and strong but she lacked conviction.
To turn on her man at a drop of a hat really didn’t sit well with
me. In past books we have seen the H/H
go though such internal struggles, but in this case, one little whisper of
something a miss and she was believing the truly heinous of her love. Most times the H/H may waffle on their choice
but not outright turn their backs on the other and then so easily flip the coin
again in the end. So that portion of the
book bothered me that we could have a female lacking so much
conviction!
This series is
based on a game, good versus evil and though we have four more books in this
series I hope Ward spices it up a bit with the next few. It seems that this series has fallen into a
pattern of Good fallen angel fights bad demon and at the end it works in
either’s favour! Ward has set the stage
for some very good secondary storylines to emerge and I will wait impatiently
for the 4th book in the series Rapture to come out later this
year.
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