Publication Date: March 23rd 2020
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Synopsis:
Maccus Fury, a fallen angel, is trying hard to keep his sanity. Seems being an assassin might be catching up with him. Now, Heaven, or Hell, has sent a beautiful assassin to kill him. Lovely. She’s pretending to seduce him, and he’s okay with that. She’s smart and snarky––but she has no idea what she’s walked into. And he’s more than peeved that they only sent one person. They’re going to need an army if they want him dead.
Morrigan Quill is one of Hell’s bounty hunters. She sold her soul to keep her sister safe, and now she’s working off her contract by catching bad guys and dragging them back to hell. Just a hundred years to go. When Hades makes her a new offer––that’s definitely too good to be true––she can’t say no. All she has to do is kill a powerful and crazy-hot fallen angel, who will totally kick her ass in battle.
Good thing he won’t see what’s coming next.
* I would like to thank Entangled Publishing for a copy of this book in return for an honest review*
” Death wasn’t something he feared. They were old friends.”
Steamy paranormal romance of an unlikely pair that are fighting the age old battle of good verses evil, heaven verses hell.
This was my first time reading a N.J Walters book and I am glad that I did. Although there were some things that fell short for me and some missteps in my opinion, I am excited for the series to continue. This book reminded me a little ( a mean a little) of Supernatural meets the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. It just had that BDB vibe, except for instead of vampires its angels and demons!
In a urban setting, a fallen angel and a demon bounty hunter soon find themselves crossing paths for the similar reasons. With the idea of how far will you go for the ones you love, this book has an ending that I didn’t see coming. There was sexy time, fighting with some pretty bad ass weapons and or course some sassy characters!
” He found contentment in the small things- the first cup of coffee, a sunrise, a good book.”
The story was told from the perspective of multiple of the characters so you get to see their internal processing and thought stream/reasoning. The main characters fell a little flat and I wanted more from them at times, but they are my favorite combination. The big, bruiting, take no names, scarred male with a snarky, independent and strong woman! I adored Morrigan and she is definitely a fierce female. Throughout all she has faced and endured she still cares so much and it was wonderful. Then there was Maccus who is a sexy fallen angel that has been around for thousands of year and has a scary representation. What she does to him makes me so soft and I just want to hug him!
The different situations they had to go through and the decisions they had to make was well done and you could really feel for them on how they were feeling and the pull inside themselves. The whole storyline between Morrigan and her sister was intriguing. It really allowed for you to see her motivations and overall type of person she was. And how she was able to do what she did
Now lets talk about those side characters. I wanted so much more from Lucifer and Gabriel. I love what Walters did with them and the scenes that they are in! I wish we could have seen more from them and gotten a little more of their backstories and how the issues that came up came about.
” She neither belonged in Hell nor here on earth. And Heaven was out of the question.”
It took me awhile to really get into the world. I thought it took Walters some time to really paint that bigger picture and show the world building. I was wanting so much more from the world building. I know paranormal romances are usually about the romance. But this story concept has so much potential and is not something I have read before.
I did also struggle with the fact that we jumped into the steamy moments almost instantly. Be prepared for a lot of HOT scenes! (like they have sex A LOT!) Don’t get me wrong they were great, but felt a little “insta-coupley” for me.
There was some explanation to the reasonings for a lot of things, but I felt like I was told it instead of shown it. The story dragged at times and there were times I felt like the characters internal dialogue was repetitive and it stated the same thing multiple times at different points in the books.
” If I can be be the catalyst of your death, can’t I be one that might save you?”
If you read this whole review you will see I am a little all over the place. Overall this was a quick and steamy story that left me wanting more. I cannot see what the next book has in story and have hopes that it will be even better and see our couple pop up again. The book was a little predictable but that ending came out of nowhere and shocked me. It was not how I saw it ending. There were some things that I wish were done differently or better developed, but I loved where the story was going and the overall idea. How could you not want to read a book about fallen angels, angels and demons.
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