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Devil's Gambit
When the actions of the malevolent are judged by the truly righteous, the lines are clear.
When corruption stands in judgement of evil – that’s when the lines begin to blur.
Can a righteous Avatar fulfill her destiny when her duty is turned against her own conscience?
Jilah’s about to find out.
What started out as a clear path of righteous duty, develops a distressing new wrinkle. With the arrival of a mysterious new ally, Jilah now finds herself at uncomfortable odds with the covenant struck in brutal necessity.
It may be her undoing.
When corruption stands in judgement of evil – that’s when the lines begin to blur.
Can a righteous Avatar fulfill her destiny when her duty is turned against her own conscience?
Jilah’s about to find out.
What started out as a clear path of righteous duty, develops a distressing new wrinkle. With the arrival of a mysterious new ally, Jilah now finds herself at uncomfortable odds with the covenant struck in brutal necessity.
It may be her undoing.
304 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 30, 2013
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Jhada Addams
4 books13 followersI write erotic horror/erotica, sing, travel, eulogize those who have crossed over, challenge popular notions and am a kinky, socially marginal, mildly felonious anarcho-shamanic Santeria Priestess. I am a psychopomp troubadour.
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May 10, 2013
In May of 2009, Jhada Rogue Addams brought us "It Never Ends" an entirely new realm of vampire literature. In a world where vampire novels are getting predictable and soft, she introduced characters that were vivid and raw, scenes that both elevated your soul and ripped you apart (sometimes in the same chapter) and a whole new type of heroine in the form of Jilah, the Vengeance Avatar. Jilah's power to avenge the violent wrongs done to women in a world where we see heinous acts of violence done to them in the name of "honor", "a man's right" and "well, she was asking for it" cannot help but make women cheer. We rooted for her, encouraged her and smiled for her when she found her soul mate in the form of Argent.
Now Ms. Addams in bringing us the next chapter in the Vengeance Cycle, "Devil's Gambit". In this novel, we witness Jilah's inner turmoil regarding her pact with The Dark Lady and what payment will be asked of her to fulfill her end of the bargain. We learn new things about Argent's past, New Orleans preternatural politics and the callous manner in which the living forget their dead. The deep underlying current beneath this fabulously woven novel seems to be the ever changing definition of what we consider to be monstrous, in people, in our loved ones and in ourselves. Ms. Addams plays with this pertinent question like a combination of a concert violin and a cat with a broken winged bird.
This novel will make you cry with tears of both unmitigated joy and gut wrenching anguish as Ms. Addams leads you down her winding and wooded road less travelled by deep into the forest of thought provoking moral value, soul binding love and the power and faith of the spirit that from whatever darkness we find ourselves, we can find what we most desire, balance.
Now Ms. Addams in bringing us the next chapter in the Vengeance Cycle, "Devil's Gambit". In this novel, we witness Jilah's inner turmoil regarding her pact with The Dark Lady and what payment will be asked of her to fulfill her end of the bargain. We learn new things about Argent's past, New Orleans preternatural politics and the callous manner in which the living forget their dead. The deep underlying current beneath this fabulously woven novel seems to be the ever changing definition of what we consider to be monstrous, in people, in our loved ones and in ourselves. Ms. Addams plays with this pertinent question like a combination of a concert violin and a cat with a broken winged bird.
This novel will make you cry with tears of both unmitigated joy and gut wrenching anguish as Ms. Addams leads you down her winding and wooded road less travelled by deep into the forest of thought provoking moral value, soul binding love and the power and faith of the spirit that from whatever darkness we find ourselves, we can find what we most desire, balance.
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