5 out of 5 stars
E-book. Kindle Unlimited. 304 pages. Published May 28th 2018 by SJ Himes
Blurb:
Every action has consequences.
For a decade, Angel Salvatore has been the most powerful sorcerer and only necromancer in all the Northeast. Never one to ask permission nor apologies, he has acted with near impunity for years.
Until now.
The High Council of Sorcery has come to Boston, and Angel is their target. Charged with numerous violations of practitioner laws, his freedom and family are placed in jeopardy.
If found guilty, Angel’s apprentice Daniel will be imprisoned to serve out the remaining years of his apprenticeship. Isaac, his brother, is too vulnerable to be left unguarded, and Angel fears for his sanity and health. And Simeon, Elder vampire and Angel’s mate, refuses to see Angel convicted under the laws of the Council and his actions to keep Angel free threaten to start a war that could destroy their world. And Angel faces the severest of punishments—the castration of his gifts.
The Council has never cared for the people of Boston, and Angel doubts their motives. They have come for some insidious reason, and it has nothing to do with upholding the law and everything to do with Angel.
Dealing with an impending trial, a wayward ghost, and a graverobbing ring of thieves leaves Angel on the edge. He thinks he may have a handle on things until violence erupts across the city, and a stranger comes to town…a stranger with his own dark powers of necromancy.
E-book. Kindle Unlimited. 304 pages. Published May 28th 2018 by SJ Himes
Likes:
- The way Eroch protected Daniel.
- A good way to wrap up the books with Angel as the main character.
- Set up Isaac and Daniel’s stories.
- Isaac finally got help.
- We get to meet another necromancer.
- We leaned more about Simeon’s past.
- Great non-romantic plot.
Dislikes:
- The run-on sentences were particularly noticeable.
- The Council wasn’t dealt with big picture.
- The romance between Simeon and Angel is completely settled at the beginning.
One of my biggest compliments about this book and the entire Beacon Hill Sorcerer series is how good the non-romantic plot is. This book in particular is stuffed full of things to do and problems to be overcome. I was never bored.
The downside of such a great non-romantic plot, especially in this book, is that it comes in part because the romance is on the back burner. This is the third book about Angel and Simeon, and they’re already a steady, established couple. There wasn’t much that needed to be done in terms of making them closer.
We did find out a little more about Simeon, like how and why he was turned into a vampire and whether he has turned anyone into a vampire himself. It was nice to know, even if the information wasn’t all that important.
Honestly, the book felt important to the series in two ways – the first and most important was to set things up for Isaac and Daniel to have their own happy endings in future books. The second was to show that there are consequences to Angel doing proscribed magic.
I was excited when I read the blurb, thinking that the Council might be this big, scary organization. I was definitely a little disappointed at how easily Angel dealt with them. It goes back to what I felt when reading the second book, about how Angel is so powerful now that not much can stop him. I was also disappointed that they weren’t stopped completely. Angel made sure they wouldn’t bother him or his friends, and then left the rest of the world to deal with the Council on their own. The one good thing that came out of the conflict with the Council was that another necromancer finally showed up.
I’m really looking forward to getting to Isaac’s story. Not only does he deserve it, he’s finally in a place to be open to it and make it work. I’m so happy that Isaac finally agreed to get help. I’m also glad that he has small point of view moments in the book that show how hard it is for him to stay in rehab when he learned that Angel was in danger. But that he also knew he needed to stay or he’d never come back.
Eroch gets a shout out for the second time in a row. The way he protected Daniel all throughout the book was fantastic.
I have one complaint about the writing, and it’s that the run-on sentences were particularly noticeable this time around. I’ve been able to ignore them for the past two books, but this time they bothered me. I know it’s just writing style, and it’s not enough to get me to stop reading the series.
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