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My Review:Title: Demon Dawn
Author: M.J. Haag
Series: Resurrection Chronicles #7
Published by: Indie
Release Date: April 7, 2020
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 328
Genres: Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Dystopian
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Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2020 New Release Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:Survival requires sacrifice.
The world irrevocably changed after the hellhounds and fey appeared. Most people didn’t survive that first night. Dad had said we were lucky we did. I’m not so sure about that anymore.
With her father murdered before her eyes and her faith in the remaining humans shaken, Brenna reluctantly accepts sanctuary in Tolerance, a safe zone managed by the fey. The wall keeps the infected out. But it also keeps the humans in…with the very creatures that caused the world to break.
Big, grey, and ruthlessly deadly, the fey strike fear in the hearts of men and women alike. But Brenna finds one more intimidating than all the rest. Scarred and angry, Thallirin watches Brenna with an intensity that makes her relive the events that followed her father’s murder. She knows what Thallirin wants, and she’s never going to be used like that again.
Tormented by her past, Brenna sees no possible future other than eventual infection or starvation. There is hope, though. Her community is abuzz with a newly discovered way to protect women against the disease that’s turning people into zombies. However, it doesn’t come from a needle.
It comes from sleeping with the dark fey.
4.5 stars — Well, this one helped my slump! There’s nothing like a favourite series to do that sometimes…
I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about Brenna, because she is just so forceful and angry and off-putting. But I actually really appreciated her journey. I know this will sound weird, but I really loved the kind of rape that was addressed in her story — the kind where it’s coercion, where “technically” you consented, but it’s still rape. I think people need to remember that rape comes in all forms, and traumatizes people in different ways. Brenna had a lot to work through, and even though the timeline was a bit fast, I still believed it. It doesn’t hurt that the tension, anxiety and fear that they’re living in in this new world speeds up emotions and all that stuff.
So in the end I think I really liked Brenna…especially the Brenna she became, the one who learned and grew. I appreciated that she confronted the misunderstanding stuff head on…or at least after her eyes had been opened to it. It was kind of refreshing. And she was both strong and vulnerable.
The romance was a bit slower in this one as a result. But I felt so much for Thallarin, even though we never got his POV. Someday I will go back and binge read this series again, so I can remember all the nuances, but he really went through a lot. And while he wasn’t as funny as some of the other fey, my heart went out to him with his loneliness. And in the end I really enjoyed the relationship that they developed once they actually started talking and learning.
Lots of crazy action in this one — both of the infected variety, and of the human variety. AND then there was the other romance in the background! That was adorable, and I really loved it as well.
The other thing that I strangely love is that the other friendships aren’t without missteps. That previous characters can still make mistakes with the best of intentions. Because that felt more real. So often in these series we see past characters who already have their HEA, and they’re just a bit too perfect, you know?
I was feeling…I don’t know, like the books I was reading were good, but just not sucking me in as powerfully. But as soon as I started this one I remembered how much I’ve come to love this series, and I was absorbed. Maybe I just need a lot more non-contemporary in my life at the moment.
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