I remembered liking this book but, now that I’ve read it a second time, I’m not so crazy about it.
Aeron, keeper of Wrath, is finally free from his bloodlust that drove him to try and kill Danika and her family in the previous books. He feels guilty over the choice Paris made which saved him and he’s trying to help his friend grieve and stay healthy. Aeron’s happy with Legion, a demon minion he thinks of as his daughter, but he never expected to find himself eye-to-eye with an angel. Olivia was sent by the heavens to kill Aeron, but she couldn’t do it and chose to ‘fall’ instead of taking his life. Now a human with some angel gifts, she has two weeks to spend with Aeron before another angel is chosen to kill him.
My main problem with this story is that Aeron constantly chose Legion, his manipulative adoptive daughter who’s lusting after him, over Olivia who gave up almost everything to save Aeron and to just spend some time with him. Legion can’t stand Olivia, but Olivia is tolerant of Legion. Aeron is described as selfless, loving and giving, and he is to everyone but Olivia. Aeron wants Olivia and seduces her without going all the way more than once. He wants to make Legion happy more than he does Olivia so he purposely hurts Olivia. I don’t understand why Olivia stayed with him so long. She didn’t often act like an angel since she wanted to have ‘fun’ all the time. In some ways she was a strong character but she’s weak when it comes to love and obsession. Aeron finally realizes about ¾ of the way into the book that Olivia is more important to him than anyone else is. He finally chooses her, but it doesn’t work out as he planned.
As always, the scenes with the side characters are my favorite. We meet Scarlet, keeper of Nightmares, and learn she has a connection with Gideon, the keeper of Lies. Super interesting! We finally see William and Gilly interact, but it’s totally clean since she’s so young. Legion makes a deal with Lucifer, and the results aren’t pretty. We meet Baden towards the end, and learn there’s a way to free him from the afterlife.
Again, as always, the author writes in passive voice with lots of fragment sentences. The middle section dragged with repetition and too much sex that never amounted to anything. Still, I’m drawn to the characters so I keep reading the series (I’ve already bought most of the books but I did so when they were on a big sale).
3 Stars

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This could've been five stars but Legion is so annoying, I can only give four stars. ( )

A re-read

Love this series.

This messed with my emotions. I can't stand Legion and can't understand how anyone likes her. Olivia was way to nice to her and Aeron is blinded by the little fiend.

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I enjoyed this angel and demon-(possessed immortal) love story. It had some nice tension between the couple. One aspect really irked me though, I'll try to be vague so as to only give small spoilers After the couple gets together a situation arises that seems to require the hero to have sex once with someone else, whom he doesn't even want to have sex with, to avoid extremely disastrous consequences. And everyone acts like that's automatically the death knell to their relationship. The notion is so preposterous that it boggles my mind, and yet they all just take it as a given. Like that a single instance of sex with someone else (under total duress- multiple lives are on the line at minimum, and potentially the downfall of all humanity, lol) means that their love doesn't matter at all and that the other woman, who again, he doesn't even want to be with!, has won him! Even among puny humans that shouldn't be enough to be insurmountable to true love, but especially not with immortals, it's like one unpleasant blip in their future of all eternity! It seemed petty and small minded. And takes the idea of monogamy to an extreme past all reason. I'm a little surprised to still give it 4 stars because that part was so preposterous, but besides that, it was good. The final act (besides that one aspect) was solid and drew me in. ( )

Pretty good book, but I had a hard time getting into the premise of the couple. They were hot and heavy together, sure, and wow, her life has been rough, but the relationships of the Titans are getting incredibly fantastic and complicated. I'm not sure who is on whose side and for what reasons at this point. I like that Showalter keeps the other story lines moving in the background so that they don't stall out. It will be interesting to see where those go as well. And the overarching war continues to increase in intensity with seemingly higher stakes. Definitely a series I will catch up on quickly this year. ( )