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Morning Star Institute #2
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When love and desperation collide, the pressure is on. She rescues someone she loves only to lose another…
Being the daughter to the Devil has its draw backs, just ask seventeen-year-old Desdemona Starr, aka Dessi, who attends the Morning Star Institute, a private school where teenage Hellions, paranormals like Dessi, can learn and practice their Hell-given crafts. There Dessi’s life takes a dramatic turn towards chaos when she learns she’s part of a prophecy foretelling she will one day tip the scale of Light or Dark, ultimately creating a war between Heaven and Hell.
Pulled in one direction by an intense desire for her Hellhound boyfriend, Ace, and in another by her profound connection to the prophecy set on making her life a living Hell, pun intended, Dessi endures loss and suffers discord to reach a critical point in her life; the impossible question of who to save first.
While she is devising a plan to free her brother from his imprisonment, she is too distracted by wailing vindictive banshees, evil spirits set on torturing her, and moon rituals going awry, to notice the boy she loves slowly slipping away from her. Will Dessi lose more than she bargained for this time?
Heartache is inevitable.
And this time when all of the monsters that go bump in the night come out to play, it’s eat or be eaten. Life in Hell just got hotter for this dark princess, and only a certain pesky Angel can save her now.
Being the daughter to the Devil has its draw backs, just ask seventeen-year-old Desdemona Starr, aka Dessi, who attends the Morning Star Institute, a private school where teenage Hellions, paranormals like Dessi, can learn and practice their Hell-given crafts. There Dessi’s life takes a dramatic turn towards chaos when she learns she’s part of a prophecy foretelling she will one day tip the scale of Light or Dark, ultimately creating a war between Heaven and Hell.
Pulled in one direction by an intense desire for her Hellhound boyfriend, Ace, and in another by her profound connection to the prophecy set on making her life a living Hell, pun intended, Dessi endures loss and suffers discord to reach a critical point in her life; the impossible question of who to save first.
While she is devising a plan to free her brother from his imprisonment, she is too distracted by wailing vindictive banshees, evil spirits set on torturing her, and moon rituals going awry, to notice the boy she loves slowly slipping away from her. Will Dessi lose more than she bargained for this time?
Heartache is inevitable.
And this time when all of the monsters that go bump in the night come out to play, it’s eat or be eaten. Life in Hell just got hotter for this dark princess, and only a certain pesky Angel can save her now.
296 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 29, 2016
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April 3, 2016
Loved Alissa's writing style! Great characters and intriguing plot line with enough twists make it difficult to put down. Perfect sequel to Malicious, well done!
April 6, 2016
THERE ARE SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW!!
Welcome back to the Morning Star Institute where the teenage inhabitants of Hell go to learn their who they truly are. We open with Dessi, the daughter of the Devil and Lilith an angel, and Ace, a Hellhound in training, still trying to figure out who they are as a couple, training to become stronger in their abilities, finding ways to help save Dessi's brother, Abe, from the underworld while trying to navigate the trials and tribulations of being a high school student.
While we get to delve deeper into this world, we also get to know more of the characters as a whole and why they do the things that they do. We see a lot of familiar faces along the way and meet new ones as well.
I really liked the 2nd installment of this series as there is a lot of information given that explains more of the plot, Ace's behavior toward their relationship, Kione's character and motives, and twists and turns all along the way. There is a lot that goes on in this story and sometimes it can be overwhelming. Other times you feel that Dessi shouldn't be able to do some of things that she attempts to do with little or no knowledge on the first try, but then you have to take a step back and remember, SHE'S HALF DEVIL AND HALF ANGEL!! lol Things come to her easily because of this, but she also learns that sometimes, rash actions with little or no knowledge can lead to mistakes and regrets later. With her father, Apollen, gone from the Institute things go from bad to worse. Kione is at the Institute as a new instructor. Dessi, Ace, Blake and Ebony are trying to figure out what his real motives are all the while, the masses of teenagers are fawning over him. Especially one mean, back stabbing succubus named Scarlet whom as we learned from the last book is out to get Dessi. She starts to have visions of her mother. But during the encounters, there are attempts on her life. She can't figure out why her mother wants to kill her but at the same time, she wants to let go and let someone else handle her burdens. With Ace's betrayal and the death of Pixie King, everything comes crashing down on Dessi's head.
By the end of this story, I was ready for the next installment so that I could figure out how everything comes together and if Dessi can truly embrace who she is.
Welcome back to the Morning Star Institute where the teenage inhabitants of Hell go to learn their who they truly are. We open with Dessi, the daughter of the Devil and Lilith an angel, and Ace, a Hellhound in training, still trying to figure out who they are as a couple, training to become stronger in their abilities, finding ways to help save Dessi's brother, Abe, from the underworld while trying to navigate the trials and tribulations of being a high school student.
While we get to delve deeper into this world, we also get to know more of the characters as a whole and why they do the things that they do. We see a lot of familiar faces along the way and meet new ones as well.
I really liked the 2nd installment of this series as there is a lot of information given that explains more of the plot, Ace's behavior toward their relationship, Kione's character and motives, and twists and turns all along the way. There is a lot that goes on in this story and sometimes it can be overwhelming. Other times you feel that Dessi shouldn't be able to do some of things that she attempts to do with little or no knowledge on the first try, but then you have to take a step back and remember, SHE'S HALF DEVIL AND HALF ANGEL!! lol Things come to her easily because of this, but she also learns that sometimes, rash actions with little or no knowledge can lead to mistakes and regrets later. With her father, Apollen, gone from the Institute things go from bad to worse. Kione is at the Institute as a new instructor. Dessi, Ace, Blake and Ebony are trying to figure out what his real motives are all the while, the masses of teenagers are fawning over him. Especially one mean, back stabbing succubus named Scarlet whom as we learned from the last book is out to get Dessi. She starts to have visions of her mother. But during the encounters, there are attempts on her life. She can't figure out why her mother wants to kill her but at the same time, she wants to let go and let someone else handle her burdens. With Ace's betrayal and the death of Pixie King, everything comes crashing down on Dessi's head.
By the end of this story, I was ready for the next installment so that I could figure out how everything comes together and if Dessi can truly embrace who she is.
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