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I continue to be wowwed by Jaquelyn Frank's Nightwalkers series. The second installment, Gideon, does a wonderful job of continuing the thread of the story introduced in its predecesor, Jacob. Readers that fell in love with book one's romantic pairing of Enforcers Jacob and Isabella will be pleased to see that couple get their fair share of facetime in this sequel.
Honestly, I was a little worried I wouldn't like Gideon -- I wasn't very taken with its namesake character. However, I did love his love interest Legna, so I hoped she could drag the story along on her sassiness and girl-power alone.
However, I have to give Frank credit. By the end of this book, I absolutely LOVED Gideon. Instead of finding him dry and arrogant, he ended up being... well, every bit the male romantic lead in an urban fantasy. Gideon is the Demon race's oldest member, an esteemed medic and healer with powers over the body. Legna -- the Demon King's baby sister -- is a young, headstrong and mentally strong beyond her years. Frank transforms a virulent love-hate relationship into an imprinted bond that defies their May-December romance. The love story is wonderful.
Not only is Gideon as steamy as its predecessor, it's well written, too. The broad storyline continues to build in this second book, with the bad-guy necromancers growing in strength an attacking the Demons with a personal hatred and frightening intimacy.
The Demons enlist the help of old friends to help sniff out the traitor in their midst. This plotpoint allows Frank to introduce new breeds of Nightwalkers, opening the door for further expansion of the series in future books. We meet vampires and lycanthropes, and hear rumbles of shadowdwellers, too.
Overall, the book is really good, and the series as a whole is stellar. I have high hopes for the next installment, Elijah, which promises further exploration of the lycanthropes and a focus on one of my favorite players, the sarcastic Warrior Chief.
Honestly, I was a little worried I wouldn't like Gideon -- I wasn't very taken with its namesake character. However, I did love his love interest Legna, so I hoped she could drag the story along on her sassiness and girl-power alone.
However, I have to give Frank credit. By the end of this book, I absolutely LOVED Gideon. Instead of finding him dry and arrogant, he ended up being... well, every bit the male romantic lead in an urban fantasy. Gideon is the Demon race's oldest member, an esteemed medic and healer with powers over the body. Legna -- the Demon King's baby sister -- is a young, headstrong and mentally strong beyond her years. Frank transforms a virulent love-hate relationship into an imprinted bond that defies their May-December romance. The love story is wonderful.
Not only is Gideon as steamy as its predecessor, it's well written, too. The broad storyline continues to build in this second book, with the bad-guy necromancers growing in strength an attacking the Demons with a personal hatred and frightening intimacy.
The Demons enlist the help of old friends to help sniff out the traitor in their midst. This plotpoint allows Frank to introduce new breeds of Nightwalkers, opening the door for further expansion of the series in future books. We meet vampires and lycanthropes, and hear rumbles of shadowdwellers, too.
Overall, the book is really good, and the series as a whole is stellar. I have high hopes for the next installment, Elijah, which promises further exploration of the lycanthropes and a focus on one of my favorite players, the sarcastic Warrior Chief.
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