Synopsis: The second book to The Illumine Series.
Essallie Hanley just wishes her life could go back to normal. But what’s normal when you carry the burden of knowing you’re a half-angel created for war, that the only person who can help you is a demon still waiting to kill you, and that your only chance for salvation lied in a boy who died in front of you?
If Essallie had turned her back on everything she’d learned, she could have made the most of her fractured life. That is, until Kayden told her that she’s a ticking time-bomb; that at any given moment her blood could betray her, her veins burning her alive from the inside out until nothing but ash remains.
Desperate to find answers, and possibly find her only chance for survival, Essallie heads back for New York City, back to the place where it all began. With every answer comes a price, and with every price the risks and rewards become greater. But when Essallie soon finds herself the target of an unknown hunter determined to kill her, she’s at wits’ end. That is, until a fellow Nephilim named Ari steps in. But is Ari a piece of the puzzle to her salvation, or the promise of her demise?
2 Stars
Well, absence does not make the heart grow fonder in this instance. I purchased the newest e-version I could find, and somehow the errors were worse in this one! I don’t understand. Is it me? Is this book suffering from emotional transfer I carried over from the first book? No, I don’t think so. For one thing, we still don’t get the major loose end tied up till the very end of this book.
The romantic aspect of this story was, ::shakes head:: just plain bad IMO. It went back and forth so fast and honestly hindered the story for me. It could have been left out and it wouldn’t have changed the plot. It was fluff in my opinion. I’m being kind of a hard-ass on this one because I just couldn’t keep my beta hat off once I started reading it.
This book needs an editor! Preferably an developmental editor. I found timeline issues and plot holes, not big ones mind you. But they kept adding up till I just couldn’t read it open minded anymore. And that’s when the beta reader came out.
Her emotions aren’t cohesive. They scatter about. The plot is good but the writing doesn’t go into enough detail, it skips around with no transitional sentences. It was a bit hard to follow. It almost seems like the author is trying for bad-ass female lead but without the follow through of depth of character. There is emotions but no reason why she is feeling them, this caused a big disconnect for me. She was very angry for no reason, and she didn’t seem to want to find out why everyone was after her. She took strangers advice and trusted them for no reason. It all just seemed very wishy washy to me.
Again, I’m going to TRY to read the next one, but truth be told I’m pretty pissed about this one.
yikes – it’s hard to keep going when reading a book like that…