Available to read and listen via KU. Listened to the audio of this. Felt the narrator did a great job. I really felt like the world was built great, and the premise really went super unique with the angels and demons concept adding just enough new things to not make it stagnant at all. Unfortunately after the super strong start, I felt the book really drug on and on through the middle. The plot basically was at a standstill for multiple chapters while we went through a back and forth between our FMC, Jess, and MC, Mason. It drug on for so long in fact that I almost gave up, but I'm glad I didn't because things finally picked right back up there at the end. I could actually tell that this series was a spin off but never felt like I was dropped in the middle of the story. It seems like these events happen after the events from the previous Trilogy.
FMC, agent Jess Riley, was orphaned at age 7, when out with her parents trying to see the aurora borealis a worm whole opened up and her parents disappeared forever. Every year since then the worm whole opens up taking people and leaving people from alternate dimensions in their place. Now years later Jess is a part of an agency of "Watchers" that helps the people transported through the tear come to grips with their new world all in the hopes that some day she may be able to find her parents again. During a routine transport of a "tearer" back to the station Jess's eyes are opened to a new supernatural aspect to her world as her passenger goes demon and tries to kill her only to end up a pile of ash. At which point she becomes super interesting to the head "watcher", Mason, who's main goal is to seal up the tear and she has just demonstrated powers that may lead him to his goal...
We start with a lot of questions, and spend the entire book waiting for answers. I say waiting because it doesn't seem like our characters are really all that bent on finding answers as much as just waiting around till someone gives them the answers.. Some reveals are finally made and then we go back into waiting for answers again. Then we are left on one heck of a cliffhanger ending that made me want to dive right into book 2, I just don't know if I want to do a whole lot more waiting for answers.. I'll think about it.