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Archangel's Consort by Nalini Singh

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sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Archangel's Consort is the third book in the paranormal romance Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh. I think the base story was interesting enough but I'm just not sure if I liked to execution of it. 

In book three Raphael's archangel mother, Calian, is rising from her long slumber and that's causing vampires feel bloodlust, and thus they start attacking innocents. The skies have also darkened and storms have been summoned. Elena does her best to investigate the crimes with The Guild, but now that she's an archangel's consort she can't give The Guild all the information she has, she has to keep some of it to herself. So essentially, the only people on the case who know the most pertinent information happens to be Elena and her archangel, Raphael. Elena and Raphael basically end up working together on this case because of how connected Raphael is.

The ending was a bit disappointing, I wish there had been more description when it came to the climax of the story, and I'm not talking about one of the many times someone orgasmed in this. 

It seems like every time the main characters would do something, there would be a spicy scene afterwards. So, go on an investigation, and then a spicy scene. Train with your guild hunter friend, then a spicy scene. Elena visits her father and he upsets her so afterwards her and Raphael, you guessed it! They have another spicy scene! Now I love my spicy scenes but there was definitely more spice than I expected. I wished there as a little more story at the end instead of more spicy scenes. I want
the fight scene at the end to have longer of an explanation.


There were quite a few spicy scenes in here and they were all okay, none of them were bad but none of them were amazing but there were a lot, so I'm giving this 3.5 chilies out out 5 chilies šŸŒ¶ļø worth of spice. 

Overall this story was okay, I'm not really a fan of the rushed ending. I'm giving this three and a half stars because this was interesting but the overall story and ending didn't blow me away. 
ā­ļøā­ļøā­ļø 3/5 Stars

I read this for free on libbyapp.com

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adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This was great in keeping with the rest of the series but for me it has too little of the outcome with Raphaelā€™s mom. There was sooo much building of the potential of what Calianeā€™s power could mean and what she could want from Raphael that the expectation of what the climax would be was not met. It was interesting and action-packed as can be expected. There was a perfect blend of romance and action, but we didnā€™t make much progress with the overarching plot in this book and I thought that would mean we got another book featuring Elena and Raphael but it seems like with Book 4, we will be shifting speed and getting Dmitriā€™s story which is good- but he featured so lightly in this book that Iā€™m less excited about his book than I would have been after Books 1 or 2- unless of course weā€™re being set up for more overarching archangel drama. Still super invested in this series and looking forward to more.

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medium-paced

0.25


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