Book 2 of the Succubus Hitwoman series Alexis Rayne is anything but soft. She’s trained to kill, collect her paycheck, and ignore everything else. But when an old flame pops back into her life, she struggles with her emotions. Meanwhile, someone—or something—evil steals a bunch of powerful items, threatening the lives of everyone on Earth. Alexis isn’t a hero. She didn’t sign up for this crap. But it’s because of her that these items surfaced in the first place. Now, she has to clean up the mess she made before it’s too late. *Intended for readers 18+
You know how sequels sometimes tend to suffer from "second book syndrome", where they're bad and/or feel like a filler? Well this book just blew that stereotype into oblivion. It's even better than book one. And book one was awesome. So what does that make this? Awesome x2? Yes.
The story continues where we left off, more or less, and immediately the action starts. Poor Veerka and Alexis can't catch a break. A couple of chapters later, the main "quest" is revealed. For a second there I thought it would be one of those "go there, fetch that" things and I'm glad I was wrong.
The scale of their mission gradually increases and so does their little disfunctional found family.
TO MY GREAT JOY, THE INCUBUS IS BACK. And now I'm having problems picking a favourite. But maybe Alexis won't have to pick??? THOUGHTS HAVE BEEN THUNK. HINT HINT.
He's not just back, he has a role to play, one I wasn't expecting at all. I love all of his scenes. I think him waiting to show up wasn't the best choice on his part, but oh well, he's here now, that's all that matters.
Rachel got so good at magic, I'm SHOOK. She really has mad skills. I'm proud of my little witchling. They grow up so fast *wipes tear*. And Zane? I ship it.
This isn't a long book, but a lot happens. And yet it doesn't feel crammed in. Of course I wish it was longer though.
AND WHEN I TELL YOU I CRIED. OH I CRIED.
ANYWAY, I'm really excited to see how it's all going to end in book three. We had a good build up here so the conclusion is going to be epic, I can feel it.
*Thank you to Eliza Hendrix for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review*
This series just gets better by the book issue the latest one “Lethal Blow” is full of surprising new characters, new companions and new villain’s some twist and turns which turn out to be not what they look like at the start, deep plots afoot that has kept me up burning the Midnight oil, definite page turner, so a well-deserved five stars read as far as I’m concerned.
This book was sent to me for a fair unbiased review which I think I have given.
I love the chemistry Alexis has with the teenage girl. She tried not to care about the girl, but it's obvious she does. Also, I love the twist at the end with the Incuvus. The question is, where do they go from here?