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Archangel's Blade: Guild Hunter Series, Book 4

Archangel's Blade: Guild Hunter Series, Book 4

parNalini Singh
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5,0 sur 5 étoiles Ah Dmitri. ..
Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 3 septembre 2016
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Après 3 tomes sur Elena et Raphaël avec pour but de nous présenter ce monde fantastique avec archanges anges ,vampires et chasseurs de vampires avec intrigues et suspense, l'auteur s'attache à présent à mettre en valeur un des personnages secondaires Dmitri le second de Raphaël un vampire puissant très vieux et vicieux , qui pourrait avoir son propre territoire mais reste attaché à son vieil ami !
Elena et Raphaël sont à Amanat où Caliane la mère de Raphaël vient de se réveiller d'un long sommeil. Une tête de vampire flottant dans l'hudson avec un tatouage intrigant sur le crâne va permettre à l'auteur de nous amener à l'origine des liens entre Raphaël et Dmitri et de sa transformation en vampire.
Honor une chasseuse de la guilde va travailler avec lui pour résoudre ce mystère. Elle n'est pas chasseuse née donc immunisée aux parfums envoûtant qu' utilise Dmitri pour draguer. Malheureusement elle vient de subir plusieurs semaines de torture par des vampires et décoder ce puzzle va l'aider ? Ce livre nous plonge dans la société des vampires, ses règles et punitions la violence est là bien sûr mais tempérée comme chaque fois par l'héroïne. Nous retrouvons en filigrane les autres personnages de là série Illium bien sûr les autres chasseurs et Elena Raphaël. ...Rebondissements, émotion et affection avec une frontière entre les humains et immortels qui diminue on est emporté par l'histoire vraiment bien écrite avec quelques scènes chaudes mais toutes en émotions comme toujours avec cette auteure À lire ! Par contre je ne crois pas que l'on puisse tout appréhender sans lire les premiers tomes avant ,ceci dit ils sont tellement bien que vous ne le regretterez pas !
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4,0 sur 5 étoiles Surprenant 4eme tome!!
Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 18 juin 2017
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4ème tome surprenant! On découvre une autre chasseuse de la guilde: Honor, qui est a été mise sur la touche depuis son kidnapping par des vampires et son sauvetage; Honor parait brisée et térrifiée suite à son traumatisme; mais une affaire sordide va la faire sortir de cette état; cette jeune chasseuse va devoir faire équipe avec le bras droit de Raphaël: Dmitri, le vampire aux penchants SM, très charismatique, charmeur aux 1er abord mais en réalité très froid et distant. J'ai adorée plonger dans son passé d'humain, de creuser en profondeur ce personnage énigmatique. Je n'ai pas été déçue! Dmitri ne semble pas joyeux de devoir faire équipe avec une fille qu'il considère comme une victime et un handicap, mais au fur et à mesure de l'enquête, il va se rendre compte qu'Honor est plus une survivante, une chasseuse déterminée, volontaire et courageuse qu'une femme à jamais brisée.
Une attirance va naître entre ces deux personnages, attirance qui va les pousser à se dépasser et à aller de l'avant. Je pensais que je n'accrocherai pas avec ce 4eme tome, car il n'y avais pas mes chouchous (Raphaël/Elena), mais j'ai été agréablement surprise!! Je me suis attachée à Honor tout comme à Dmitri.
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5,0 sur 5 étoiles It gets even better every time !
Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 7 février 2018
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Geat story, I've been in love with this series from the beginning and I don't think I'll ever be let down with so many characters to discover and such a well constructed universe ! And I was really waiting for the story to focus on Dmitri.
Plus, I love that line of book covers, in between rigid and supple, soft and quite elegant (every time a different color). Not so small that you have to kill your eyes to read and not so big that it can't fit in a purse/handbag.
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Tracy
4,0 sur 5 étoiles Dark, Seductive, and Powerfully Emotional
Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 15 novembre 2011
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He is not a good man. At nearly a millennium in age, the vampire Dmitri is not a man at all, but a cold and conscienceless killer who lost his soul long ago and who now walks a razor's edge between being the sharpest weapon for the Archangel Raphael...and being a monster. And the sanguine seduction of the monster grows ever stronger.

More than capable of controlling Raphael's New York City territory for the Archangel in his absence, he places a call to the hunter's Guild when the decapitated head of a very new vampire is plucked from the Hudson. The vampire isn't one of Raphael's and the tattooed markings on the face look vaguely like a language of some sort. One that Dmitri doesn't recognize. Requesting assistance from the Guild is only logical given their resources.

The first scent of acrid fear and gritty determination he catches from Guild hunter Honor St. Nicholas, however, punches through his logic and rakes talons along his predatory need for blood and sex. The instant want of her is manageable, barely, and the seductive games he intends to play with her are those that he has honed over the centuries. Except Honor is damaged. Traumatized after two months of vampire-inflicted brutality that smacks hard against every single one of Dmitri's very few lines. She is unable to accept even the most casual of touches from him without an instant fear response that has him dodging her blades.

The rage that erupts in him like a volcano of furious reckoning at the knowledge that the torturing rapists still live is eclipsed only by a cold and deadly certainly that they will not be doing so for long. He is a monster unleashed and he is the thing that other monsters fear.

Honor's damaged soul stirs him in fascinating ways, disturbing ways, as they work together to solve the mystery of the too-young vampire deaths and investigate the grievous crime perpetrated against her. Memories long, long buried are like echoing footsteps along the path they follow towards not one, but two of the world's worst evildoers. They are awakening parts of Dmitri's soul he'd thought excised by the brutal selfishness of a master predator dead for centuries. Those memories may draw him back from the edge of true madness or they may just hasten his descent into blood and death. And much to Dmitri's surprise, he realizes that it is one human woman who will tip the balance either way...either by loving him...or betraying a past she couldn't possibly know.

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I have to admit, not even my love for Singh's writing was enough to make me rush to read this latest addition to my beloved Guild Hunter series. I was aware that there would be a reincarnation theme in the plot and I am not in any way a fan of that theme. I haven't read one yet that didn't, to varying degrees, seem to devalue the current life of the character who is or has a reincarnated soul. In the worst cases, the disregard of a character's present individuality has also been an issue. For that reason I try to avoid the theme.

Avoiding Singh, however, is an impossibility. I just dig her work too much. But I admit, I delayed.

And I also admit, for almost all of the book I was kicking myself for that delay, because I was both pleasantly surprised and more than a little elated at how deft and crafty Singh was in addressing and dealing with that theme. It wasn't until the very end that I felt the familiar twinges of dislike and it was only related to one scene. I can live with that...though I do wish that one scene had been different. The power of the writing and the almost effortless emotional firestorm the book generates made up for it, though. I love Singh's characters and the keenly brilliant world she's created for them.

I'm probably one of the minority who has never particularly liked Dmitri. I haven't since his unrelenting negativity about Elena became common knowledge. That being said, I don't have to like a character to love a character, and both Dmitri's complexity and the dangerous line he walks between monster and man has held me enthralled on a visceral intellectual level. In short, he's fascinating, and I have nothing but admiration for how Singh so masterfully maintained his utter lack of humanity even as she was crafting his very sympathetic history.

The chemistry between Dmitri and Honor burned at the fingers holding my Kindle as I was reading and I thoroughly admired Honor's strength in the face of abominable defilement. She was sharp, bright, and had a core of decency that soothed the sharp edges of Dmitri's almost sociopathic nature...until the story served to blunt much of that sociopathy and Dmitri's darkness started to wane just a touch. I enjoyed them together very much, even though I felt a lack of the dark humor that so charmed me in the relationship evolution between Raphael and Elena.

This may sound odd, but I don't really read either of Singh's highly popular series for the story being told so much as for the characters and the depth of emotion found in every one of her books. I do, obviously, still pay attention to those stories. Some appeal to me more than others. This one fell about middle ground for me. I found it more cohesive and less strained than the previous book in the series, 
Archangel's Consort , but not as thorough and well-developed as the second book,  Archangel's Kiss .

Flashbacks were handled well, and the plot thread concerning the search for the monsters responsible for Honor's torture - as well as her slow and painful recovery - was very well done, though I thought it ended on a slightly anticlimactic note. I also felt the plot thread dealing with the dead newbie vamps and all subsequent issues took on a too-ancillary role and wasn't a significant factor in the book until too close to the end to have much impact. The timing of that particular crisis, as well, at a time when Honor was perfectly situated to come into the picture in Dmitri's life, raised my eyebrow a bit. I couldn't help but feel that after nearly ten centuries to stew, Kallistos' actions were awfully convenient in stirring up Dmitri's past. That sort of convenience made that plotline feel contrived to me.

Despite the plot of the book not being completely successful for me and my dislike of the reincarnation theme, I thoroughly enjoyed 
Archangel's Blade  and consider it a solid addition to the series. And I didn't even like Dmitri all that much. I can only imagine how much fun I'm going to have with some of the characters I'm either truly fond of, like Bluebell, or utterly fascinated by, like Aodhan. I have no doubt there is going to be just as much truly spectacular reading entertainment to be had as the series progresses as there has been to date.

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Sophia Rose
5,0 sur 5 étoiles Dimitri's Story Enthralled Me
Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 22 octobre 2013
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Dimitri has been the big, bad scary through the whole series and like the rest of Raphael's Seven, he is what he is because his past made him that way. I was eager to read his story- maybe more eager- as I am with each new installment of Rafael and Elena's story. It met up to expectations and then some mostly because of the heroine the author gave him.

Honor was tortured and brutalized for two months by a group of sadistic vampires who used her body for blood and sex. She thinks she is broken. Then she receives the mission from the Tower. She is to work not just with the vampires who she was now terrified to be near even if she knew they all weren't like that, but she is working with THE vampire, Rafael's second, Dimitri.

Dimitri is not impressed with the scared little rabbit the Guild has sent over to help him with identifying the odd tattoo marks on a dead vamp's face, yet- there is something about her that stirs him to stalk this one right into his bed. She won't keep his attention for long- no female does because his heart has been as long dead as his murdered wife and family, but that doesn't keep him from wanted to have her. Then she surprises him with some unexpected backbone and a knife that nearly slit his face open.

Honor is charged to help solve the mystery of the strange tattoo on the unknown vamps' face, but now things have grown more complicated because she has some how stirred the predator in Dimitri. He is determined to have her and though it goes against all common sense and her own personal rules, she wants him too. Too bad she is broken and can't handle being touched. Then he surprises her when he seems to understand exactly her need for retribution toward those who took her and he stays right there along with her while they hunt them all down even while they draw closer to the identity of the one who is now stalking Dimitri.

Dimitri is all turned around when it comes to Honor. She has awakened something in him that he thought dead. She brings to mind his long dead wife to him through everything from her scent, to her choice of words, to her mannerisms and behaviors. Even while it is disconcerting, it is not unwelcome. And then there is the issue that just being with her and seeing the woman who was broken come together before his eyes starts to work on his hardened heart. Through working their public and personal cases together and sharing the help of restoring Holly, he feels the changes Honor is causing in his life. Is there enough humanity left in him and will his stalker allow those he loves to live?

I enjoyed tracking through the mystery that the dead vampire caused and I felt nearly as vindicated as Honor as they tracked down her torturers which gets pretty dark, fair warning, but truly the best part was seeing these two hurting people start to come together as a couple. It takes some time for these two to come together as it should since she was fighting abuse issues, but when they do, whoo boy! So worth it.

The story alternates their points of view and it dips back into the past with flashbacks. It also has several dream sequences. Trust me, both the flashbacks and dreams are important so don't get impatient.

Another good part to me was that the story wasn't told in isolation. The other Guild Hunters, Rafael and Elena and the other regular angels and vampires are all part of the story.

I little warning to those who are sensitive to these things- there is mention of rape and incest though it is not detailed out or part of a present scene.

As always, I am eager for the next book in the series and have no trouble recommending this series to Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy readers.
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Sarah (Feeling Fictional)
4,0 sur 5 étoiles Guild Hunter book 4
Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 2 juin 2013
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I am a huge fan of the Guild Hunter series but I'll admit I was a little nervous about reading Archangel's Blade. This is the first story that doesn't focus on Raphael and Elena and I was a worried that I wouldn't enjoy it as much - especially since I've never been the biggest fan of Dmitri. I'll admit he had grown on me a bit since the first book but he has always come across as so cold and I wasn't sure how I'd like him as the hero. I should have know that Nalini Singh wouldn't disappoint me though and as much as I still find him quite a scary character and definitely someone you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of I had fallen head over heels for him by the end of this book.

Dmitri is the kind of guy who takes what he wants and makes no apology for it, he is all hard edges and arrogance - definitely not your typical hero. There is a reason that Raphael trusts him to lead his seven and it's because he has the ruthlessness needed to make even the older and most dangerous vampires and angels fear him. No, Dmitri isn't the kind of guy you'd want to cross but he is exactly the kind of guy you'd want on your side in a fight. What I loved most was seeing into his past and getting to know the human Dmitri used to be, he didn't choose to be turned into a vampire and the way it happened and the things he lost are what turned him into the man we know today. 1,000 years ago you would have met a totally different person, that Dmitri was sweet, romantic and head over heels in love with his wife and family. My heart absolutely broke for everything he had been through and it was no wonder he had closed off his heart so that he wouldn't have to go through that kind of pain ever again.

Although Honor doesn't magically change Dmitri back into the man he once was she does get to see a side to him that nobody else does and it was no wonder that she was unable to resist him. Honor is a guild hunter who went through a horrific experience when she was captured by a group of vampires and remained their prisoner for 2 months before the guild was able to track her down and rescue her. Her experience has left her wary of people and turned her into a shell of the hunter that she used to be. Thankfully guild director Sara is on hand to give her the kick that she needs and force her to face the world again but it is Dmitri who really helps build her confidence back up. He never treats her as if she is weak and breakable, although he understands that it would be easy to chase her away from him and he is careful in his seduction he respects her skill as a hunter and he is determined to give her her freedom by helping her track down the vampires responsible for what happened to her. The closure she gets from her revenge helps her move forward in her life. The chemistry between them was incredible from the first moment they meet but it takes time for Honor to trust both Dmitri and herself and give in to the connection she feels which made things much more believable considering everything she has been through.

I wasn't too sure what to make of events at the end of the book at first. I wasn't sure if I liked the way things played out (I know I'm being extremely vague here but I can't say too much without giving spoilers) and to begin with I felt a little disappointed. After taking some time to think about it I have to say that the ending made a lot of sense and I don't think the story would have worked as well if it had ended differently. My main reason for giving this story 4 stars rather than 5 was that for a lot of the time I felt more invested in Dmitri's past relationship with his wife Ingrede than I was in his current relationship with Honor. I know there were reasons for that and I was happy with the outcome but it was something that bothered me slightly while I was reading. Archangel's Blade is still a fabulous instalment to the Guild Hunter series though, it has everything I love about Nalini Singh's stories, a sexy dominant hero, a heroine strong enough to stand up to him when she needs to, hot sex scenes that will make you feel weak at the knees and plenty of appearances from some of our favourite Guild Hunter characters.
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5,0 sur 5 étoiles Is the next book ready yet???
Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 10 octobre 2011
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Bloody Hell! Nalini Singh's Archangel series just keeps getting better and better with each addition. Archangel's Blade is the fourth full-length novel in this series and is the first that doesn't focus almost exclusively on Elena and Raphael. Archangel's Blade is the story of Dmitri, and man is it a good one.

I feel pretty safe in saying that most readers have, to this point, likely found Dmitri to be totally creepy, seriously lethal, absolutely intriguing, and disturbingly sexy. None of these qualities change in this novel but we are given a glimpse into Dmitri's world and particularly his past that helps the reader better understand his personality. Dmitri's past spans a bit more than a thousand years and to say that that past is bloody is putting it mildly. We learn that Dmitri honed his skills as a warrior as a result of his abuse at the hands of Isis; he carries a torch for his long-dead wife, Ingrede; and his loyalty to Raphael runs deeper than anyone ever suspected.

And then there is Honor St. Nicholas, the totally damaged Guild Hunter whose first mission following her abduction and abuse at the hands of a gang of demented vampires is with Dmitri. Man, did she draw the short straw, or what? The problem however is much more complicated than simply dealing with Dmitri's vampirism. The larger issues are: 1) Honor is still flashing back to her time in captivity which makes her a bit twitchy and somewhat lethal; 2) she and Dmitri are trying to track down a sadistic killer who is taunting Dmitri with memories from his past and; 3) that both Dmitri and Honor are ridiculously attracted to one another.

Here's what I liked about this book: freakin' everything!! Once again, the plot not only unfolds but deepens leaving the reader with a ton of questions about what's going to come next. And we know there is going to be a next. The characters, all of them not just Dmitri and Honor, evolve as the story goes on but remain true to their basic natures - an absolute strength for this series. As for the secondary characters, well, Singh once again manages to dangle just enough information to make the reader crave more. For example, there's Venom who is still remarkably creepy but evidently has a soft spot for Sorrow (nee Holly), Illium is still dangerously far too interested in humans, and Ashwini has become a more prominent player. With all this being said, Singh doesn't ignore the older more established characters like Elena and Raphael; they are still very much a part of this series even when they are not center stage. Singh's willingness to move established and beloved characters like Elena and Raphael to a secondary position is a risk but one that she makes work each and every time. As a dedicated reader of this series I find the risk to be worth it as it allows more time and pages for the development of other characters.

Bottom line: Singh changed my mind about Dmitri; I always thought he was a dangerously sexy but didn't really care for his attitude. After this book, I'm good with Dmitri and looking forward to seeing how his character will further evolve in future novels. As for Honor, she has nowhere to go but up and with Dmitri at her side, they may be damn near unstoppable as a team. The long-term plot line has far-reaching possibilities and has yet to become even remotely close to stale. I have yet to feel frustrated or cranky over an Archangel novel's ending because I know, without doubt, that Singh is going to trot out something equally as good within the next year.
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Robin Snyder
5,0 sur 5 étoiles Best in the Series so far. Dmitri has a dark and twisted story.
Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 19 octobre 2016
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Dmitri’s book….I thought that his character had the most growth potential so far and I was not wrong. Were/Are you scared to read Dmitri’s book because in the first three he seemed like an unapologetic arrogant ass? I mean his actions thus far towards Elena have made him questionable in my eyes but then there is that fierce devotion to Raphael he has so I always felt that he couldn’t be all bad.

Well well well I was not disappointed. Dmitri is a complex character with a pretty heart wrenching backstory that explains

❶ - Why Raphael and he are so tight and have complete trust in each other.

❷ - Why he has been throwing his scent around toward Elena and altering between trying to seduce her or kill her.

❸ - What happened to the family and children he once had.

I was captivated by this story that is so much darker than the prior ones. When Dmitri meets Honor the Hunter assigned to help him capture a foe thought long dead he feels a spark that he hasn’t felt for a women in over a millennia. Honor has her own dark story and abuse to overcome. She was held hostage by a group of vampires for their ‘enjoyment’ and is still dealing with the PTSD she is suffering from that.

I liked Honor and how hard she started to work to put her life back together after hiding out for almost a year after her tragic attack. She was a strong woman who went through a horrible tragedy so it was easy to see why she and Dmitri would connect on some fundamental level as details from his past surfaced too. You could tell that even as he was being hard on Honor he was actually helping her deal with the residual issues she was having.

“Those who say vengeance eats you up are wrong—it doesn’t, not if you do it right.”

Being in Dmitri’s head also helped understand his motivations better and now I actually like the strange way he is working to help Elena to become a stronger consort and mate for Raphael. Please don’t think for a second that he is all sunshine and rainbows and kittens. He definitely isn’t, he is still brutal, hard and not mortal. But I know get the places that everything about him comes from and I really liked his dark and twisted story.

“Ever had a woman say no to you, Dmitri?”
“Once.” He turned the corner with a smile that made her want to cup his face, trace those beautiful lips with her own. “I married her.”

Add to that a little more development for a few other side characters and this is my favorite story from this world so far. I’m pretty sure I know who Venom will be matched up with later and since she threatened to chop his head off I will really enjoy that courtship when it happens. There was also a little more on the guild hunter Ashwini and the Vampire that is currently pursuing her. It does appear that Vampire courtships are aggressive and maybe a bit violent but definitely never boring.

I don’t want to say that I didn’t like Raphael and Elena’s story so far because I did but it was really nice to get a broader few of the world from a few other character PoVs in the story. I look forward to discovering Jason’s story next.
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5,0 sur 5 étoiles Excellent
Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 20 novembre 2022
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This is another great book in the continuing series. This story is just as good as the ones before it. All of the characters and the adventures that they have are awesome. I am happy to go alone for the ride.
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Mithrendiel
4,0 sur 5 étoiles Best Archangel book yet
Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 27 septembre 2011
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I highly recommend this book. While I appreciated the first three books of the series, this one really stood out as the best of them.

It could probably be read as a standalone book. While there are plenty of references to events in previous books, and all of the original characters make appearances, the story itself is focused on a completely new protagonist, and the plot is truly separate from the archangel wars we've seen in previous stories.

This is the story about a guild hunter named Honor and the ever sexy vampire, Dimitri (ok, so you have to like him just based on the name alone, right?). Honor is an ancient language expert on the payroll of the guild hunters. She went through a horrible traumatic incident that left her with huge emotional scars, so she's truly damaged and broken at the start of the story. She gets called into the field for the first time since her incident to investigate a series of murders where the victims are ritualistically dismembered, tattooed in some ancient language, and left in significant areas as a message. Of course the lead investigator from the supernatural side is Dimitri. The story centers around this mystery and also on what happened to Honor. It ends up being an amazing story of vengeance and redemption.

At the start of the story, I wasn't sure if the author would be able to make me see Dimitri as a sympathetic character. I truely enjoyed his character in the previous books - he was highly intelligent, interesting, with a ton of complex motivations, but he was just SO sexual, I wasn't sure if I could see him as a serious romance option for Honor. The quintessential Dimitri scene that comes to mind from the previous book involves him playing mind games with Elena (the protagonist from the first three books), just to test her mettle. He pushes her to the limit, to the point where she breaks. In a rage, she pulls out a knife and cuts his throat. His response? He just laughs, seeming more turned on by the action than put out.

But somehow this author made me love Dimitri in a way I never loved Raphael. My complaint with the first few books was that the characters felt a bit wooden (especially Rapael). More like general archetypes of ideals then real people with real emotions. While I still wouldn't say characterization is this author's strong suite, in this series, Ms Singh digs deeply into both Dimitri and Honor's pasts, making them real, and sympathetic characters. I came to deeply care for both of them. Dimitri's past especially is just heartbreaking and epic. It made me completely rethink my conceptions about him. At the start of the book, Honor is VERY broken and terrified to the point where you initially may not like her (if you dislike week protagonists), but this is a story about growth and redemption. By the end I really liked Honor, and I LOVED Dimitri. Like he'll probably make my hottest vamps list.

Which brings me to the romance of the book - it's beautiful. It reeks of destiny, builds slowly, takes a long time to be fully realized, but makes you swoon hugely by the end. There are some elements that may be a little bit cheesy and too ideal, but honestly I loved every moment of it - the love between Honor and Dimitri just appealed to me on so many levels.

So yes, I definitely recommend this book. While I enjoyed the first books of the series, I don't see me reading them again any time soon, but this is going on my list of "comfort books" - ones I'll happily go back and read again many times
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