Demon's Mercy (Dark Protectors, #9)

by Rebecca Zanetti

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So happy for Logan’s story. Garrett and Logan have become two of my favorite characters of the series.

I was so happy that Logan got his own story. Since Logan and Garrett beat each other up after finding their siblings (Zane and Jainie) in bed together, they have become like brothers. They grew up during the war between the vampires and the kurjans so they are well trained soldiers and very dangerous but they still have that bit of youth to them so they are also up for a little fun too. They showed up in the Realm Enforcers series ready to help out with the enforcers mission and only partly to get them out of trouble since they were bored and flirting with shifter girls.

I love that they are always up for some fun. This is missing from the older immortals who are always so serious. Yet when things get dangerous, they quickly switch over to the serious and deadly soldiers they are.

In Demon’s Mercy we are introduced to the Fae, and I am not certain if it is simply because Rebecca’s last release, Hidden, features a cult, but something about Mercy’s story rings a little false and I don’t believe it is a lie from her, but a lie she was raised to believe (back to the cult). We are told as a background that because the Seven created their dimensional prison bubbles (without a lot of knowledge of what they were doing) that Mercy and the few Fae trapped on Earth were separated from the rest of the Fae. It is really unknown if they other fae are all dead or just trapped somewhere else. So the elders Fae trapped on earth with Mercy are too old to procreate and they test-tube created 10 babies (5 boys, 5 girls) to keep their race alive. These 10 babies are now 25 and are expected to mate and create more purebred Fae babies, including Mercy. So I am torn if I want to believe that there was truly an accident leaving Mercy and the 9 other breeders and a few older Fae as survivors or did this group want to create their own Fae Utopia, simply separating from or trapping the others. Hmm…There is just something fishy about the whole thing.

So the Fae believe that when the circle of the seven is complete, the dimensions will implode and they have to stop Logan, who is not yet one of the seven officially. So Mercy is told to stay out of it, but she has decided to capture Logan and reason with him not to join the Seven. She tells him that his completing the seven will cause dimensional collapse everywhere, blah, blah, blah and he needs to see things her way. Mercy is going to reason with the demon where the other fae just want to kill him to make it stop. Again, will it really cause problems or is someone pulling strings and telling Mercy that the seven will cause the end of the universe. Hmmm…I honestly can’t make up my mind if Mercy is just gullible, brainwashed or is she actually going to allow the universe to implode because she has the hots for Logan? While she sees Logan’s point of view about the danger of not protecting the prison dimension, she is very focused on being in the right.

The Fae seem to have some pretty nifty toys and a greater control over teleporting, which I can understand would make them seem powerful and Mercy keeps insisting that Logan and the Seven continuing to risk the safety of everyone will create a war between the Fae and the Realm. Um…please see above where there are only a bunch of old folks and 10 millenials who make up the “Fae Nation” against the combined Realm which now contains of the Demons, Witches, Vampires and Shifters who are mostly made up of trained soldiers who have been fighting the Kurjans, and each other, for decades. So, it really wasn’t much of a threat, and every time Mercy brings it up, I’m almost shocked that no one is reminding her that the Fae, even with the toys and the teleporting, aren’t that much of a threat. It would be like my threatening to pull my blog’s support (and my handful of followers) from Nora Roberts next book tour.

I really like Logan and Mercy is a good choice for him. I do feel a bit sad for Garrett since he will be sitting home alone on Friday nights now that his BFF is settling down.

The Viking is next. He was a nice guy and some really bad things happen to him in this story. We also see that life hasn’t been kind to Quade for the last millenium or so. Ronan is going to have to stop complaining that like Sisyphus he had to move one pile of Chakra stones back and forth for his millenia, because that was paradise compared to the dimension that Quade got stuck with.

The Dark Protecters is a great series and I am more than happy to jump back in.

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