Angie
Written on Aug 30, 2014
I didn't even realize it until the end, but Claimed by Light is the final book in this series. This time the focus is on Halena, who has been very kick ass and cynical, refusing to get close to anyone after losing her companion. And finding her mate is the last thing she wants, especially when it happens to be Slade, the young man who she was hoping to hook up with, but instead wound up drugged and at the mercy of a demon. Not the best way to start a relationship, but Slade feels horribly for what he's done, and he was only trying to save his sister's life. Now he's saving hers and Halena's while coming into his Oracle powers. He's also the most important piece in binding Lucifer and all of the demons to Hades.
There's something about this series that kept me reading, even though I was never fully invested, and Claimed by Light is no different. I definitely liked it better than the previous book, but my mind still went into a kind of autopilot mode. There's nothing wrong with books that you can just read through without much brain power, but I'd like to be more engaged than that. There's always something happening, plenty of battles and actions, but I found that I didn't really care. I was just reading to finish, with a glimmer of interest here and there. I do have to say that I liked Slade and Halena the best of the couples, since they weren't so sappy. They're more fun loving and frisky.
In the end, Claimed by Light was okay. The whole trilogy was okay. I did really like the twist on angels/demons and Heaven/Hell, but the plots all moved way too fast so I never got fully invested. The focus is on the romance, but there is a big plot going on which never got enough attention.
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