Darkness Awakened by Katie Reus
SUMMARY
As leader of one of the fiercest werewolf packs in the south, Finn Stavros is in full battle mode 24/7. He has no choice—he’s one of the few beings strong enough to fight the Akkadian demons, whose mysterious escape from hell threatens the entire world. With the battle turning bloodier by the second, Finn is ready for anything…until his vampire long lost love shows up on his doorstep in desperate need of his help, sending his heart into a tailspin. He agrees to help her, unaware that she carries a shocking secret that will turn his life upside down.
This time, he’s not letting her go…
Vampire Lyra Marius curses the day she met Finn. The ruthless werewolf promised to love her forever, but he rejected her instead—before she could share her life altering news. Pregnant, kicked out of her coven, and cast aside by the love of her life, Lyra struggled to raise their rare shifter-vampire daughter Vega alone among humans. When the 16-year-old is kidnapped and used to fulfill a frightening prophecy, Lyra swallows her pride and turns to Finn for help. But how long can she fight her feelings for him and keep him from guessing the truth about who Vega really is? As they race against the clock to save their daughter, they must defeat the lethal threat imposed by demons infiltrating the human world and a hell gate that could not only reveal their existence to mankind, but destroy the world in the process.
MY REVIEW
That was a nice surprise!
Sometimes I like to experiment. Well, I did not know anything about the story when I jumped in the book and I did not expect much. BUT a lot I got…
There are three main themes in this book.
1. The paranormal aspect. There is a little bit of almost every paranormal creature: Wolves, vampires, demons, hybrids (i.e. half demons-half humans and half wolves-half vampires), ghouls, even a dragon.
2. The forbidden love aspect. An Alpha wolf (Finn Stavros) and a vampire of a royal line (Lyra Marius) fell in love 17 years before the events of this book. Apparently in that world vampires are not supposed to have relationships with wolves. Their story ended badly back then. Finn broke up with Lyra because he wanted to protect her from his dangerous uncle and Lyra never told him that she was with child.
3. The second chance romance aspect. Nowadays Lyra’s daughter has been abducted and desperate Lyra asks for Finn’s help, but she is hiding the fact that Vega is his daughter too. Both Finn and Lyra are crazy in love with each other, although they were apart all this years. Soon they will jumb into the bed to remember the old times.
“Make me sleep. Make me forget”
Of course Finn is crazy also from jealousy and he cannot understand how Lyra could go and have a child with someone else.
The truth will come out at some point. Oh, all this drama! I loved it.
“I love you, Lyra. I never stopped.”
Although this is not a long length novel, it is packed with the right elements of a good PNR adventure. There are:
-an interesting complete story with beginning, middle and end
-hot sex scenes,
-battles between wolves and demons, demons and vampires, vampires and wolves
-treason and loyalty and
-a good number of interesting secondary characters that could be further developed and have their own book in the future.
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