Lenny is a troubled girl
but she has found salvation and a haven at Children of Light church, when
Apollyon the demon comes into her life things start to become a little more
complex for this untapped, talented shape shifter.
Not only is Apollyon a
First Knight of Hell, an expert in torture and right hand helper to Lucifer
(Lucy to her friends!), she is on a mission to a catch a djinn (very bad but
lesser demon of hell) and find out who is stealing all the souls from both
Heaven and Hell.
Drew is the final heroine
that make up the (don’t say it – Charlie’s Angels!) trio, as a succubus you
would think her life as a “working girl” would be perfect, but she is on the
wagon and going cold turkey, much to the disgust of her demon pimp the purple
fedora wearing J.D.
Hershel aka Father is a charismatic
leader, and true believer, and he is willing to sacrifice to bring about the
cleansing of the sin upon the earth. With his devout followers not being quite
what they appear is Hell about to unleash on the world?? So what is going on the basement?
This book has some
seriously powerful female characters, great ideas and interesting thoughts
regarding humanity and the whole theory of Heaven vs Hell. It turns a few myths
on their heads in some very amusing ways; I would love more of Polly and Lucy’s
beginnings and journey.
Along with the
splattering, then gushing of gore were some giggle inducing moments and some
snort out loud lines too.
Whilst I found the
beginning a little slow, the laying out of all the characters is steady and
easily followed then the story starts to gather pace, I could not find a good
place to stop as each chapter just leaves you on a knife edge of questions or
battle.
Some of the character
thoughts, sayings and ideals are a bit sugary and more YA in texture than the
others but the gore element and subject matter soon take care of that. There
was also some over repeating of the "Fall" explanation, not really done
in a differing enough PoV in my opinion to be different enough, but by the
middle of the book I was hooked and thought the overall story with the gore and
great characters made up for any doubts in the start.
These authors rock
individually with their own novels and characters but together they have blown
me away! This is the start of what promises to be a brilliant series, so don’t
let me down ladies, don’t let your characters become too perfect or too safe! !
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