I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley and Bold Strokes Books in exchange for an honest review.
I liked the first book in this series so much that when I saw the second book pop up on Goodreads, I immediately added it to my 'to read' shelf. Then when I saw it on Netgalley, I immediately requested. Then immediately started reading when my request was approved. I mention all of this because - at no point did I actually pause to look at the book's description. Oopsie. This book is not, in fact, a continuation of the Selene and Alec story, but instead a new story in the same universe (though both Selene and Alec make appearances, with Selene's appearances more like cameos).
No, this specific book stars one 'Tisera 'Tis' Graves' and one Kera Espinosa. Tis is the sister of Alec and one of the three Greek Furies sisters. She did appear in the first book, but if I recall correctly, more on a cameo like level. Kera did not appear in the first book.
The book opens with a prologue - a woman is being brutally tortured and abused. At that exact moment I realized this book was going to be somewhat different than the first. That woman? Kera.
The book then moves into the main part, several years after the prologue (5?). Tis is experiencing something of a crisis. She's been around for a really long time, and mostly interacted with the bad types of humans - since that's her job. Hunt down the people that need to be punished, and severally punish them. And yet . . . humans keep doing bad, keep needing to be punished. An endless cycle. Tis is getting burned out. And she's seriously contemplating 'retiring'.
Before she can actually thing too hard on the subject, she's given a brand new task, one that Zed (Zeus) believes she'd be perfect for. Herd cats. Right, no, sorry, get Gods to agree to a constitution type thingie for the new world order (see previous book as to what happened and why they suddenly need a 'constitution', no spoilers here!). She reluctantly agrees but immediately tells the Gods to get to a base understanding of what they want then call for her. Meanwhile she's taking a vacation. In France.
I'm purposefully going down this path because it's not exactly 'correct'. Well, it's what happened, but there were a lot more POV changes, and 'stuff' that happened before the vacation could occur. I just wanted things to not be 'spoiled' so . . right, hmms.
Meanwhile, a woman named Kera is bouncing around the world helping those less fortunate. Her first appearance (post prologue) sees her helping women and children flee a bombing in Nigeria. While doing so she happens to catch sight of a monstrous type figure of womanhood who started to attack the bombers right in front of Kera's eyes. It's the same woman Kera's seen before in similar situations. Needing to continue to protect the kids and mothers, Kera continues her fleeing.
After that harrowing adventure in Africa, Kera tells her people to take break. And she takes one herself. In France. Whereupon she stumbles across . . . the same woman she saw in Africa. The two start up a conversation, begin flirting, and, eventually, circle around the idea of 'hooking up'.
The book continues in this fashion - Kera helping people; Tis alternating punishing people, herding Gods (except for Freya, most seem to be Gods instead of Gods and Goddesses), and trying to relax and think about her future. Oh, and Kera and Tis continue their circling of each other.
On the sex front - there's a mixture of some graphic depictions of 'stuff' while at the same time there were a few occasional 'they rolled into bed together . . . the next morning Kera head her head' without sex being described in between.
This was a quite enjoyable and entertaining book. I look forward to more adventures in this world/universe (of which, I assume, there will be - otherwise the epilogue makes no sense). Since there are three Furies, and the first two books involved two of the furies, I assume book three will focus on Meg. Alec's the take charge, serious type. Tis is the depressing type. Meg? Party-girl, happy, bouncy type - the kind who, when she sees a very dangerous person who, if she blinked at the dangerous person wrong, she'd be torn apart and . . . wonder what they'd be as a bed-mate. The few times Meg's shown, she kind of reminds me of Harley Quinn. *shrugs* I'm probably reading too much into that.
Rating: 4.35
Book Publication: September 1 2017 (well, it says the 1st on Goodreads, and the 12th on Netgalley . . . one or the other will be when the book appears)
August 9 2017
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