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Demons of Oblivion #5
Oblivion
Earthquakes. Plagues. Rivers of blood. The ever-so-popular rain of toads. When end of the world fare is on the rise, it’s well past business as usual in a city where the veil between dimensions is thin.
Quarter-demon Persephone Takata isn’t so keen on killing herself anymore. This time when death approaches, she’s ready to take a stand and fight to protect the woman she loves, along with everyone around them as the apocalypse swings into full force.
Meanwhile, trapped in her home dimension where her antichrist father’s rule is weakening, Mishka Thiering’s hopes for revenge on the living are put on hold when she stumbles across the truth the Court has kept hidden for centuries. Her death was the last piece of the puzzle, leading to a change in the dimensional landscape, affecting humans and demons alike.
Despite its fractured numbers, the shadow government who has kept tabs on Peri and Mishka for years is still very much in the game, ready to set into motion their final plan. For there is something much, much worse waiting in the wings—something old, something powerful, and something far more terrifying than Oblivion or any of the creatures it’s spawned.
Alliances, betrayals, casualties. This is war.
And only one sister can win.
Quarter-demon Persephone Takata isn’t so keen on killing herself anymore. This time when death approaches, she’s ready to take a stand and fight to protect the woman she loves, along with everyone around them as the apocalypse swings into full force.
Meanwhile, trapped in her home dimension where her antichrist father’s rule is weakening, Mishka Thiering’s hopes for revenge on the living are put on hold when she stumbles across the truth the Court has kept hidden for centuries. Her death was the last piece of the puzzle, leading to a change in the dimensional landscape, affecting humans and demons alike.
Despite its fractured numbers, the shadow government who has kept tabs on Peri and Mishka for years is still very much in the game, ready to set into motion their final plan. For there is something much, much worse waiting in the wings—something old, something powerful, and something far more terrifying than Oblivion or any of the creatures it’s spawned.
Alliances, betrayals, casualties. This is war.
And only one sister can win.
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Award-winning author Skyla Dawn Cameron has been writing approximately forever. Her early storytelling days were spent acting out strange horror/fairy tales with the help of her many dolls, and little has changed except that she now keeps those stories on paper. She signed her first book contract at age twenty-one for River, a unique werewolf tale, which was released to critical and reader praise alike and won her the 2007 EPPIE Award for Best Fantasy. She now has multiple series on the go to keep her busy, which is great for her attention deficit disorder.
Skyla lives in Southern Ontario where she dabbles in art, is an avid gamer, and watches Buffy reruns. She’s naturally brunette, occasionally a redhead, and currently blonde. If she ever becomes a grown-up, she wants to run her own pub, as well as become world dictator. You can visit her on the web at www.skyladawncameron.com for free fiction, book news, a community forum, and tons of other totally awesome stuff.
Info about the current series she's working on--which begins with Bloodlines--can be found at www.ZaraLain.com
Please don't spam me with invitations to read your book. Thanks.
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Award-winning author Skyla Dawn Cameron has been writing approximately forever. Her early storytelling days were spent acting out strange horror/fairy tales with the help of her many dolls, and little has changed except that she now keeps those stories on paper. She signed her first book contract at age twenty-one for River, a unique werewolf tale, which was released to critical and reader praise alike and won her the 2007 EPPIE Award for Best Fantasy. She now has multiple series on the go to keep her busy, which is great for her attention deficit disorder.
Skyla lives in Southern Ontario where she dabbles in art, is an avid gamer, and watches Buffy reruns. She’s naturally brunette, occasionally a redhead, and currently blonde. If she ever becomes a grown-up, she wants to run her own pub, as well as become world dictator. You can visit her on the web at www.skyladawncameron.com for free fiction, book news, a community forum, and tons of other totally awesome stuff.
Info about the current series she's working on--which begins with Bloodlines--can be found at www.ZaraLain.com
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August 14, 2016
It comes down to one of the two quarter-demon sisters will bring Oblivion to land. Neither figured it would be the way it is to happen. Peri was warned, but she didn't want to believe it. But she will be involved in stopping the world she knows from dying, along with news she thought she'd never hear again. Mishka is in Oblivion and learns what her father's plans are for Oblivion. Both Peri and Mishka will have have to decide who's dearest to them, and protect them, at any cost. Would they die for their loved ones or will they kill for them?
Skyla still surprises me with new twists I didn't see coming. This book uses everything we've learned in the previous four books from each character and their experiences. The characters are forced, through events, to face their deepest fears and realities to move forward. Some are hard and easy discussions, but all take a toll on those around them.
We see all the great characters again. Those we didn't expect to see are still as important as the first time they graced the pages. All the characters will have to find in them to form allies with those they hate to save others they love. It is great seeing the characters face these realities and swallow them.
We get time with all our favorites. We see Mishka as she's in Oblivion. We FINALLY! get to meet demon daddy. Well, half demon daddy. He's an interesting person and the world he lives in feels so alive. Through Mishka we see some characters we've lost along the way, one of which we hadn't met yet and I loved seeing here. Mishka also gets the scoop in Oblivion about what her father has in store for Oblivion. She's one smart woman and I'm... attached to her. She's got one person on her mind the whole time, her son. And I can understand that!
Peri... Oh Peri. She has come such a long way, and she'll have to face some hard facts about her and the divisions she was once part of. She is the one that has some of the hardest choices in life. What she picks just might surprise you.
Ryann! Yes! I've been worried about her for some time. I've had my suspicions on who...what... she is. We start to learn of what Ryann is capable of and how valuable she is with the demon presence. She has so much more to give us! Ryann and Ellie are a great couple. I do enjoy Ellie's humor as he tries to lighten the mood.
I know everyone's waiting on Zara. She is one of my all time favorite characters with her hardness and quick lip. We see sparks of that Zara here, though she has changed. And after this book, I don't think she'll ever be truly the same again. Zara has lived through some serious emotional trauma and is starting to come through with having to take the reins of the group and lead once again. There is a glimmer of hope for Zara and Nathan, in the very end. I am holding out for them both.
This story brings back some of the old feel that I had with Zara back in the beginning. Then, Skyla dives into the world and what happens from there keeps me worried for all and shocked at what we learn. I'm amazed at how all the pieces we've learned from all our characters of Oblivion throughout the books have come together and given us these pages that make our jaws drop.
Skyla delves into my emotions for her characters, vibrating each emotion through events, making a song of happiness, sadness, and even contentedness that I feel through her words. Basically, Skyla's not afraid to rip out your heart, stomp on it, and place it back a little bruised and sore. But, it's back where it belongs! The characters come together to help save the world. Some won't make it out, but some will. And what's waiting on the other side may not be what everyone expected.
Skyla still surprises me with new twists I didn't see coming. This book uses everything we've learned in the previous four books from each character and their experiences. The characters are forced, through events, to face their deepest fears and realities to move forward. Some are hard and easy discussions, but all take a toll on those around them.
We see all the great characters again. Those we didn't expect to see are still as important as the first time they graced the pages. All the characters will have to find in them to form allies with those they hate to save others they love. It is great seeing the characters face these realities and swallow them.
We get time with all our favorites. We see Mishka as she's in Oblivion. We FINALLY! get to meet demon daddy. Well, half demon daddy. He's an interesting person and the world he lives in feels so alive. Through Mishka we see some characters we've lost along the way, one of which we hadn't met yet and I loved seeing here. Mishka also gets the scoop in Oblivion about what her father has in store for Oblivion. She's one smart woman and I'm... attached to her. She's got one person on her mind the whole time, her son. And I can understand that!
Peri... Oh Peri. She has come such a long way, and she'll have to face some hard facts about her and the divisions she was once part of. She is the one that has some of the hardest choices in life. What she picks just might surprise you.
Ryann! Yes! I've been worried about her for some time. I've had my suspicions on who...what... she is. We start to learn of what Ryann is capable of and how valuable she is with the demon presence. She has so much more to give us! Ryann and Ellie are a great couple. I do enjoy Ellie's humor as he tries to lighten the mood.
I know everyone's waiting on Zara. She is one of my all time favorite characters with her hardness and quick lip. We see sparks of that Zara here, though she has changed. And after this book, I don't think she'll ever be truly the same again. Zara has lived through some serious emotional trauma and is starting to come through with having to take the reins of the group and lead once again. There is a glimmer of hope for Zara and Nathan, in the very end. I am holding out for them both.
This story brings back some of the old feel that I had with Zara back in the beginning. Then, Skyla dives into the world and what happens from there keeps me worried for all and shocked at what we learn. I'm amazed at how all the pieces we've learned from all our characters of Oblivion throughout the books have come together and given us these pages that make our jaws drop.
Skyla delves into my emotions for her characters, vibrating each emotion through events, making a song of happiness, sadness, and even contentedness that I feel through her words. Basically, Skyla's not afraid to rip out your heart, stomp on it, and place it back a little bruised and sore. But, it's back where it belongs! The characters come together to help save the world. Some won't make it out, but some will. And what's waiting on the other side may not be what everyone expected.
July 22, 2020
Skyla Dawn Cameron’s Oblivion (Demons of Oblivion Book 5) is the conclusion to this wonderful series. Vampire Zara Lain accidentally kicked off the apocalypse in the previous novel, and now it’s really shifting into gear. Quarter-demon and whole-badass Peri is our main point of view character in this volume. She runs into an old acquaintance, who explains that things are about to get bad–particularly for her. She and her friends head to a bunker Zara has equipped and try to figure out how to stop the apocalypse from happening. There’s a rain of toads, the moon has become red, and a lake turned to blood. Not to mention that as the veil thins, there are demons of all kinds running around the city. Mishka’s also back–she was swept into Oblivion in the last book, and even though she really is dead, she’s determined to keep her son out of the clutches of the folks who want to use him to bring about the apocalypse. However, that’s going to require ducking her father, the half-demon antichrist.
We get to find out more than just “it’s the apocalypse” this time. It turns out there’s a very specific reason why all of this is happening, and it’s meant to achieve a similarly specific goal. I’m trying not to give anything interesting away, here.
The characters are still wonderful, particularly what happens with Peri’s relationships with the others. There’s definitely some dark stuff going on, and our unlikely heroes are having a bad time of things. You really get to see how far they can be pushed.
We finally get to see the dimension they’ve been referring to as Oblivion! It’s crazy in there. Enki, the antichrist and Mishka and Peri’s father, can shape it pretty much at will, and it seems to be alive in some sense.
I love that Cameron assumes intelligence on the part of the reader. There are some things that happen that refer back to other events in other books–some great payoffs for things that were mentioned earlier. She doesn’t explain them to death, and if you have a halfway-decent memory for the other novels (or read them recently), you’ll be fine.
Content note for blood and guts, but you should be expecting that after the other volumes in this series. Enjoy!
Original review posted on my blog: http://www.errantdreams.com/2020/07/r...
We get to find out more than just “it’s the apocalypse” this time. It turns out there’s a very specific reason why all of this is happening, and it’s meant to achieve a similarly specific goal. I’m trying not to give anything interesting away, here.
The characters are still wonderful, particularly what happens with Peri’s relationships with the others. There’s definitely some dark stuff going on, and our unlikely heroes are having a bad time of things. You really get to see how far they can be pushed.
We finally get to see the dimension they’ve been referring to as Oblivion! It’s crazy in there. Enki, the antichrist and Mishka and Peri’s father, can shape it pretty much at will, and it seems to be alive in some sense.
I love that Cameron assumes intelligence on the part of the reader. There are some things that happen that refer back to other events in other books–some great payoffs for things that were mentioned earlier. She doesn’t explain them to death, and if you have a halfway-decent memory for the other novels (or read them recently), you’ll be fine.
Content note for blood and guts, but you should be expecting that after the other volumes in this series. Enjoy!
Original review posted on my blog: http://www.errantdreams.com/2020/07/r...
November 12, 2022
End of the series. Unlike most UF series, this one had three different protagonists, and in Oblivion we cycle through all of them, each adding their bit to the story. It wasn't quite an ensemble, because Peri took the majority of chapters, but I found it quite refreshing and interesting technique. Some plot threads are still dangling because a second plot arc was planned at one time, so I did not get the ending I was hoping for. Maybe someday the author will get back to it.
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