I Liked the Brother Better
*****Spoilers*****
Maleah and Enzo meet when she's accosted by and almost raped by a man at a gas station. Enzo helps her out by breaking the assailant's neck and taking off. However, neither can stop thinking about the other. Although Enzo has his own things to deal with, such as the fact that his brother Zachriel's soul shares a body with him, thoughts return to Maleah for both of them regularly. After a botched attempt to separate his brother's soul, Zachriel is now in charge of Enzo's body and is able to call on his own powers. Zachriel, injured in Enzo's body teleports to Maleah's house. Maleah finds an injured Enzo, really Zachriel in control of Enzo's body, and does what she can do get him back to good health.
Slowly, Maleah's eyes are opened to the supernatural. Enzo is a demon and angels exist. She and Enzo have this crazy chemistry and a lot of the book is spent with touching and almosts before they finally get together physically. For me, the almosts were more, particularly the almost in the hotel. Also for me, once we get to the revelations, the book takes a dive in terms of my interest and enjoyment in it which is about the 67% mark I think. It's when an idea that's been tossed around here and there throughout the book is revealed. That is Maleah is the woman Enzo loved so many centuries ago reborn, they're soul mates and she's the new Divinity, which is the role he was protecting at one time when he used to be an angel. Sighs. I'm absolutely certain my disappointment with this book comes from the fact that I liked Zachriel a lot more than Enzo, was hoping the book would eventually reunite him with his body, and with that body Maleah would have a mini harem. Alas, that's but what happened at all. Turns out Zachriel has been in love with Maleah but both brothers held their feelings back from her, Enzo because he knew how his brother felt, and Zachriel because he knew that Enzo and Maleah were soul mates. Fast forward centuries from then to now and those feelings get discussed and Zachriel's romantic feelings are rejected by Maleah though not unkindly.
Anyway, hell gates, angels, demons, Divinity, prophets, witches, and zombies make appearances. Maleah's best friend Finley was the devil is disguise, literally, and since they were children. Maleah recovers her memories and so does Enzo and once they all recognize who they were, Maleah is now a warrior woman in her own right which is what she was centuries before. After he Awakening, she has incredible powers that she doesn't know yet how to fully use, and charges into battle to fulfill her purpose. This I struggled with as well because while Maleah was by no means a shrinking violet, she also wasn't portrayed as a fierce fighter either early, she was mostly a passionate snappy and especially when it came to her interactions with Enzo. The dialogue and characters were different, I enjoyed some of the banter between the brothers and also between Enzo and Maleah.
There were typos and misspelled words, some made me cringe. Torcher was used a couple of times instead of torture. There's place where words are left hanging out there on its own. All in all, this book ends with a cliff hanger but I'm not interested in the next so I didn't get too worked up about that part.