There is no such thing as happy ever after when you’re in love with a unique kind of monster.
We got a life that was more than I expected. More happiness than we probably deserved. Sure there were sorrows - seeing Indi suffer through the loss of Trans, that hit Gray hard - but on the whole we got peace when the Handler system shut down.
We travelled the world, or the ancient bits of it anyway. Gray played in the ruins and pored over ancient scripts on stone. I slowly curated my notes and started a book on the Handler System with no great rush to finish.
The sun shone on us, it shone through us, and there were no shadows.
I was wrong. There are always shadows, and Gray steps into them without a second thought.
I’d forgotten that. Which was stupid of me.
When Gray witnesses a serial killer at work on his latest dig site he is fascinated, and it arouses the killer in him. The one I thought I had tamed.
The monsters inside don’t die, they just kick back and bide their time. They will always come back, given the right stimulus.
Recast is the fourth book in the Handled Series. It pits Nathan and Gray against a kind of evil they both despise while testing their bond to its limits. Expect high heat, violence, and all kinds of dark romance.
I loved the Handled series, so I was excited to read Recast and get another glimpse of Gray and Nathan. Gray seems slightly mellower than before and continues to enjoy his work with ancient language and the relaxed lifestyle he shares with Nathan, but, it only takes witnessing a murder to bring the monster back. We also get to see the new dynamic between them since their lifestyle change. I didn’t find this as dark as the other books in the series, perhaps because it’s shorter, but it was still filled with intrigue, suspense, and steam between the two MCs. I was gifted an ARC of this book to review, and this is my honest and voluntary opinion.
I am reading this and in chapter two Nathan has a brief interior monologue about Trans being dead?? Did I miss a book? Trans and Indi were together and in the newest book about Janus in the ‘Teams’ series.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.