Still reeling from the destruction of the Luna Cult, and
beleaguered on all sides with demands for her attention, Kat didn’t expect
Sienna to appear on her doorstep
The imprisoned child of the angel Levi in his
life-sucking prison town of Delai. Kat has been meaning to take down Delai for
a long time – and even promised Sienna she would rescue her. Sienna provides
not only someone to protect, but finally a key to get Kat back into Delai
But she cannot go back as a vampire – the only way to get back into Levi’s world is as a human.
I think that the author is recognising that there are too
many ongoing threads in Kat’s life. There are two master vampires both with an
interest in Kat, one of which is using her as a personal assassin. There’s
Adrian and his odd pack of wolves. There’s the Luna Cult. And there’s the
ongoing issue of the angel Levi in Delai who Kat still has to deal with. It’s a
lot and it’s starting to pull the books apart – so threads are being snipped. Last
book we saw the Luna Cult be reduced a lot and this book built on it turning it
more into a personal relationship between Kat and than making it another major plot thread; which I quite liked
(not least of which because the tension between them has long since needed
resolving).
This book Kat deals with Delai, setting another plot thread firmly to bed, as well as making it clear the other major plots are going to be stepping to the fore in the next book. I like it – there’s a sense of everything being handled rather than perpetuating the constant feeling of being overwhelmed
The story in Delai isn’t as action packed as the past
books – and that’s ok. It lets us see another side of Kat (through her
transformation) and see a different way of resolving problems beyond Kat being
so super dangerous that it doesn’t matter. Again, this is something that was
touched on in the last book and has been expanded upon so much here; yes Kat is
dangerous – very very dangerous indeed – but being dangerous isn’t a surefire
way to solve every problem. The pacing was decent, perhaps a little world
building absorbed in places, but it moved pretty well. And yes, there was a
much quicker way to resolve things but I like the development that came with
the long way round.
