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I saw several thumbs down for the cover of this book, but to me, it was the perfect Venom. He was always presented as very slick and always very dangerous. He was always stylishly dressed with the dark glasses and the slight smug smile giving off the "just try me" vibe.
Venom was made by Neha, the Archangel of India, also known as the queen of snakes and poison. We learn more about Venom, how and why he was changed and how he was subsequently shunned by his family even though he ageed to be made to save them from their own follies.
Holly is the perfect match for Venom although I did do an eye-roll that like venom, her bite was toxic. Of course the only two characters with a poisonous bite fall in love.
In case you don't recognize the name, Holly spent part of the series know by the name Sorrow. She is the human from the first story who was tortured and feed blood by Uram, the crazed Archangel. They still don't know Holly's full potential or what she truly is since she eats rather than drinks blood. She's not a full vampire nor has she become an angel.
She has emerged from the depression which engulfed her after Uram changed her and killed her friends and has also tossed off the name Sorrow. Holly now works for the Tower and has become sort of a ward of Demitri. She spends time in the poorer and more run down sections of the city and has many contacts among those living in the shadows which includes many broken vamps after their century in the "care" to some of the more brutal and twisted angels.
My biggest issue with this story was that we were working on a plot of kidnapping for 75% of the story, then we are sent off on archangel business. Then I realized I am more than 90 percent done and WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE KIDNAPPING? It gets wrapped up but left me feeling WAIT! WHAT HAPPENED HERE??? at the very end. This kind of screwed with my feelings about the story as a whole. We were investigating. Important things were happening. We had to go handle this other thing. That was interesting too. Then we forgot all about what we spent most of the book being concerned about. There were a few little dangly story bits since we really didn't get back into the whole kidnapping storyline but like I said, it was all interesting enough that you forgot what you were doing to begin with.
It's like after you clicked on 20 different pop ups on Facebook and then realized, "Hey, wait. I came over here to check my bank balance. Why I am now reading Unknown facts about Llamas?"
This was a good story and you will race through it. I really like how Venom and Holly compliment each other. Holly doesn't fade into the background next to such a vibrant personality like Venom. It was a good pairing, and I like how Holly had reclaimed her life after years of depression. I just feel a bit weird about the whole change of storyline at the end.
**This review was supposed to post last June. I have no idea why it showed as scheduled but then they sometimes never post.**
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