Until death do us part. The war has become personal. Now it’s family, and blood has been shed, with lives that cannot be returned. Token Huntress, Esmore was crafted for one thing—to protect humanity. That was until she turned her back on the very Guild and people she loved to protect the new species of werewolves and opposing vampire coven members who were once considered family before their betrayal. She might’ve been the victor of the battle against Oppollo and his reign, but it took so much more, leaving her desolate a decade later with the war still to be won.
Everyone has lost something, and with the final hours of redemption and revenge looming, unlikely alliances come together for their own selfish desires. Someone must pay.
With time ticking by and her familiar, Chase’s sanity and life being slowly taken with a sickness that can’t be cured, Esmore must fight the urge to abandon the empire she’s built all in the notion to protect him and face the vampire who’d cursed him.
With twisted emotions of betrayal, hurt, and longing, the two must learn to trust one another again to take down the remaining forces.
Or consequentially, it might already be too late. What’s more important? Legacy or love?
Australian Author, Kia Carrington-Russell is known for her recognizable style of kick-butt heroines, enemies to lovers, fast paced action and romance that dances from light to dark. Including multiples genres such as Dark Romance, Contemporary Romance and Fantasy Romance. Obsessed with all things coffee, food and travel, Kia is always seeking out her next international adventure.
Now back in her home country of Australia, she takes her Cavoodle, Sia along morning walks on beautiful coastline beaches, building worlds in the sea breezes and contemplating which deliciously haunting story to write next.
Follow Kia at: TikTok- kia_crystal Instagram- kiacarringtonrussell Facebook- kiacarringtonrussellauthor www.kiacarrington-russell.com
Having read the entire Token series I can say that this author is the lousiest, laziest, inarticulate, illiterate writer I've ever had to slog through. What a load of puffed up cliches and zero spelling...did she go to school? Is your and you're really so hard? Would have and would of? Embarrassing.
The final book (unless Kia decides to treat us to more) in the Token Huntress series is soooo good! It picks up 10 years after the war that took place in Token Darkness, book 5. Esmore is residing in a castle where she relocated after the war and has taken in many more werewolves in the past 10 years. She wears her wings all of the time now and she often sits in the dark of night staring out a window while thinking of Chase.
Near the end of the last war when she defeated Oppollo, she had Darcy and Jeremiah take a drugged Chase to a place that was safe and guard him there, together with the other gargoyles, in an effort to keep Fier from twisting the disease in Chase’s mind to turn him into a saber. She has told everyone around her that Chase is dead so they won’t keep asking questions about him.
Titan and Chris, the wolf pups, are teenagers now and Tori, the young Hunter turned vampire, are still with her, as well as Fire. She has many more human werewolves now and only a couple of vampires, including Lincon and Iris, formerly of Tracey’s Council. Esmore spends her days searching to all of the Councils and using her Hunter’s gift to eradicate every such Council she finds.
I can’t rightfully tell you anymore about the book as almost every event could be construed as a spoiler. What I can tell you, is that this book is so compelling that you turn the pages as fast as you can read them. There’s heartache (I cried in several places) and joy (I also cried in several places for that) and tons of action. As always, the world building is so attentive to detail and the character development is impeccable. The battle scenes leave nothing to chance and are impeccably detailed. This is a book worthy to complete this series. Kia did such a wonderful job, as usual.
My rating: 5 + 5 + 5 stars!! (Once for the world building, once for the character development and all three for the story!) Kia graciously gifted me with an advanced copy of the book, which is why I’ve read it twice now!
Having tortured myself by reading the entire series by this author (I am a masochist clearly) I can honestly say this author is an immature, self absorbed and self deluded amateur who should have posted her terribly (and i mean terribly) written Mary Sue *look at me!* on fanfiction.com Anyone can self publish. It's like she went through the checklist of actual successful storylines (vampires, werewolves etc) and basically plagiarised but tweaked it. Authors like these are a dime a dozen.