Cassandra has recovered from the grand revelations of the
first book, but the shadows still haunt her. Particularly, they haunt her
dreams –dreams about Hell and it being a home to her, calling to her demonic
blood.
But she has her own reason for going to Hell – her father
is still trapped. A demon, but one her mother loved and one she desperately
needs back to help her mother deal with the major changes in her life. A demon
who turned his back on Hell – especially since Cassie’s blood contains the power
to change a demon back to a Guardian.
But the one person who can help her get to Hell is Caleb,
the ex-demon she is not sure she can trust, is constantly trying to seduced her
and has his own ultimatum – she can rescue her father but Hunter, the man, the
demon, she loves must remain in Hell, no matter what tortures he is suffering.
This book, this world has such a gem of potential. The
battle to save souls between the tempting and devious demons and the Guardians
who, driven by prophetic dreams and visions, try to twist fate back the other
way. The grand battle between the angels and the demons to save or recruit
souls to fill their armies. It’s both epic and, because the battles are about
personal visions, also deeply personal. It’s about a war on a grand scale and
What saddens me is we don’t really see any of the wider
world, or this epic struggle or even the daily dealing with the struggle.
Instead we focus on Cassandra and her personal aims – which entirely focuses on
men. Either a man she loves, a man she’s attracted to, or her father.
I would quite like a story about her rescuing her father
for her mother’s sake – but even then I’d appreciate more backstory than we got
in the first or this book. Who is her father? Is he important in a grander scale?
Is there a reason why we can be sure that he, as a demon, is going to be trustworthy?
He is, after all, a demon. It could be more of a driving quest if we had seen
more of Cassie’s mother, of how the missing father had affected them both, if
we could get a little more of a sense of how important or resonant a mission
this is for Cassie
