A couple of days ago, I warned that my posts might seem to be a little surreal because I was starting Jeaniene Frost‘s Night Prince which was the fourth and final installment in the that series.  The reason that required a caveat was that Vlad is the hero int that series and he has a stepson and blood nephew named Mircea.  Given that most of my posts revolve around the Cassandra Palmer and the Dorina Basarab series in which Mircea is a hero and Vlad a villain.  I have to admit that it was difficult even within my own mind to make the switch.  Eventually, though, my brain successfully made the switch and I came to really enjoy the return to the Night Huntress world.  I have to give Jeaniene Frost some mad props.  Mencheres plays a large role in the book and they throw in a stay at Kat and Bones cabin.  What amazes me about this is that Jeaniene Frost is able to successfully end each series and then start another tangential story, one for which the foundations were laid in the process of telling this hero/heroine story.  This means that when the next series, which will revolve around Ian, starts we know that some of our old friends will play a part and, in a way, each successive series is a continuation of the one before. 

I also greatly enjoyed the Sweetest Burn, the second story in the Broken Destiny series.  This series is truly unrelated to the other world.  This series revolves around a battle between good in the form of Archons (Angel like beings) and Demons.  These Demons have realms that are just a slight bit misaligned with reality and the heroine, Ivy has long been able to see glimpses of these realms and has a long history of psychiatric treatment due to this ability.  When her sister disappears and her adoptive parents are killed while investigating the disappearance, Ivy decides she will fin and rescue her sister or die in the effort.  This leads to a discovery of the Demons, their realms, minions (humans enlisted by both Archons and Demons to do their will on Earth since there are agreements in place limiting what can be done by the demons and Archons) and the fact that there is something quite special about Ivy.  Ivy is the last descendant who has the blood of David from the biblical story of David and Goliath.  The Archon who informs Ivy of all this brings someone to hep her Adrian, a man who was brought up in the demon realms and switched sides and who also has an illustrious ancestor as well-Jude, the man who betrayed Christ for 30 pieces of silver and who is prophesied to betray Ivy as well.  Apparently there are 3 artifacts that can only be wielded by one of David’s descendants and have become necessary as the walls between the realms are weakening.  Anyways, this second book revolves around a search for a magical staff, the one that Moses used.  When Ivy used the slingshot at the end of the first novel, it became a tattoo embedded in Ivy’s skin and it comes as a great surprise when she learns that it can still be used although not to the same effect as before.  This installment shows Adrian and Ivy’s partnership going to the next level, with a number of ramifications that, of course, only become apparent AFTER the events have occurred.

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