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carobcbg's review against another edition
4.0
Made me wonder why I left it so long to get back to this series. Loved Lore's story, poor guy couldn't seem to catch a break, and Idess seemed truly kick-ass yet good to the core. Fantastic story, though I'm wondering how they're going to keep the background tension going without Roag.
jennyliu887's review against another edition
3.0
I found this one kinda boring, it was sort of an insta-lust and insta-love situation, and I wasn't really invested.
Plot:
- H is an assassin, and as his last assignment, he needs to kill the person he resurrected from the last book. If he doesn't, then his sister will get killed. However, that person was charmed by the angels, and is under the protection of h. His arm is able to kill people.
- h is the daughter of angels, but she still has to earn her ascension. However, one of her priori, charmed people, under her care gets killed by H's sister.
- h prevents H from killing the person under her protection, but they mistake her as the enemy, and she ends up in the hospital chained. She explains who she is, and once they confirm, they let her go.
- H attempts again, but this time h captures him. They can't stay away from each other, and h even feeds on him (bc angels need blood?). Later, when they kiss, H gets out of the chains, and chains her down. Also, H is somehow also under h's protection.
- H's sister's blade tracks h down, and H rushes in from his shower and dives in front of h, taking a blade for her.
- H tells h that he can't help but care for her, and its why he took the blade, and is why he'll stop trying to kill the guy.
- Meanwhile, the spirits have gotten worse at the hospital, and Roag is still alive, just invisible. h sees him, and he asks for her help to get to a park.
- h wants to know who hired H, so she gets him to bring her to the council, and ask his master for information. It is revealed that her father is the grim reaper. However, the price for information is either being an assassin for H's master, or other services. Before h can agree or do anything, he whisks her away.
- He gets tortured by his master and h is horrified when she finds out.
- Roag gets to Shade's house and injures his mate, and kidnaps one of his children.
- No one knows who did it, and the brothers start fighting, with Wraith and Shade blaming H, while E is the only one defending him.
- h finds out that her brother that she once betrayed is now a fallen angel, and is working with Roag to bring her down, as well as the brothers.
- h and H make love, and h doesn't tell him that this will break her vow and prevent her from ascending. She did this so that she can flash to the demon world and defeat her brother.
- She does defeat her brother and get the child out, but at the cost of H's sister being a slave forever.
- When she gets back home, she runs away to the hospital to get away from the light. She has sex with H one more time, and they get bonded. She guides the souls at the hospital into another light, and then enters her own light.
- H is devastated because the mate bond disappeared, and he remembered how she mentioned she couldn't break her vow of chastity. Devastated at her death and his part in it, he becomes depressed and decides to die trying to get his sister out of slavery.
- h's actions are actually approved by the council because she was willing to sacrifice her life long goal of ascending to defeat her brother, a great evil. However, she asks to not ascend, and instead stay with H as his mate, which they oblige.
- h returns to H only to find him in battle with his former master. However, they are able to defeat him, and h lands the killing blow. Doing so makes her the new master, but she doesn't want that weight and gives it to H's sister instead.
Plot:
- H is an assassin, and as his last assignment, he needs to kill the person he resurrected from the last book. If he doesn't, then his sister will get killed. However, that person was charmed by the angels, and is under the protection of h. His arm is able to kill people.
- h is the daughter of angels, but she still has to earn her ascension. However, one of her priori, charmed people, under her care gets killed by H's sister.
- h prevents H from killing the person under her protection, but they mistake her as the enemy, and she ends up in the hospital chained. She explains who she is, and once they confirm, they let her go.
- H attempts again, but this time h captures him. They can't stay away from each other, and h even feeds on him (bc angels need blood?). Later, when they kiss, H gets out of the chains, and chains her down. Also, H is somehow also under h's protection.
- H's sister's blade tracks h down, and H rushes in from his shower and dives in front of h, taking a blade for her.
- H tells h that he can't help but care for her, and its why he took the blade, and is why he'll stop trying to kill the guy.
- Meanwhile, the spirits have gotten worse at the hospital, and Roag is still alive, just invisible. h sees him, and he asks for her help to get to a park.
- h wants to know who hired H, so she gets him to bring her to the council, and ask his master for information. It is revealed that her father is the grim reaper. However, the price for information is either being an assassin for H's master, or other services. Before h can agree or do anything, he whisks her away.
- He gets tortured by his master and h is horrified when she finds out.
- Roag gets to Shade's house and injures his mate, and kidnaps one of his children.
- No one knows who did it, and the brothers start fighting, with Wraith and Shade blaming H, while E is the only one defending him.
- h finds out that her brother that she once betrayed is now a fallen angel, and is working with Roag to bring her down, as well as the brothers.
- h and H make love, and h doesn't tell him that this will break her vow and prevent her from ascending. She did this so that she can flash to the demon world and defeat her brother.
- She does defeat her brother and get the child out, but at the cost of H's sister being a slave forever.
- When she gets back home, she runs away to the hospital to get away from the light. She has sex with H one more time, and they get bonded. She guides the souls at the hospital into another light, and then enters her own light.
- H is devastated because the mate bond disappeared, and he remembered how she mentioned she couldn't break her vow of chastity. Devastated at her death and his part in it, he becomes depressed and decides to die trying to get his sister out of slavery.
- h's actions are actually approved by the council because she was willing to sacrifice her life long goal of ascending to defeat her brother, a great evil. However, she asks to not ascend, and instead stay with H as his mate, which they oblige.
- h returns to H only to find him in battle with his former master. However, they are able to defeat him, and h lands the killing blow. Doing so makes her the new master, but she doesn't want that weight and gives it to H's sister instead.
naomilane's review against another edition
5.0
I love doing rereads of books I loved. This one is no exception. I think I loved it even more the second time around. ECSTASY UNVEILED is such an amazing book, this entire series is amazing.
I already said it but I'll say it again, I absolutely adore Larissa's writing style and this spectacular universe she created. Reading her books is always a pleasure, they transport me into this world where everything is possible and where sexy-as-hell demons exist.
I love all the characters in the Demonica/Lords of Deliverance series, they're all amazing and reading once more about Lore and Idess was perfect. They're such a great, beautiful, sexy couple. I need more of this in my life.
Their story is poignant, there are so many things going on in this book and yet it doesn't feel like it. Larissa did an amazing job with the plot, there was the perfect amount of everything. I loved that we got to see a lot of each brother, Eidolon, Shade, Wraith and Kynan (and Sin!).
I adored Lore and Idess's relationship. It was beautiful, funny, hot and not even a little bit frustrating. It was the perfect pace, not too fast and not too slow to develop. Thank you Larissa for that!
Lore is a pretty great character, I fell in love the first time and a little bit more the second time. He's such a bad ass, selfless, caring guy. He loves his sister deeply and wants what's best for her. I loved their relationship actually. He's an assassin and good at it. His last mission, the one who will free him and his sister from their master, is to kill Kynan (Gem's husband and if you've read the previous books, you know him). And that is how he meets Idess.
Idess is quite the woman (or angel) as well. She loves what she is and she cannot wait to ascend and go to Heaven but, in the meantime, she has people to protect. And she's dedicated to her job. She's very close to ascend but for that to happen she needs to protect Kynan from getting killed and there is one Seminus Demon who is hell bent on accomplishing that task.
I just love them. The way they met, how their relationship evolved, everything was perfect. The chemistry between them was palpable and holy shit, the sex scenes were scorching hot. Seriously!
I already said it but I'll say it again, I absolutely adore Larissa's writing style and this spectacular universe she created. Reading her books is always a pleasure, they transport me into this world where everything is possible and where sexy-as-hell demons exist.
I love all the characters in the Demonica/Lords of Deliverance series, they're all amazing and reading once more about Lore and Idess was perfect. They're such a great, beautiful, sexy couple. I need more of this in my life.
Their story is poignant, there are so many things going on in this book and yet it doesn't feel like it. Larissa did an amazing job with the plot, there was the perfect amount of everything. I loved that we got to see a lot of each brother, Eidolon, Shade, Wraith and Kynan (and Sin!).
I adored Lore and Idess's relationship. It was beautiful, funny, hot and not even a little bit frustrating. It was the perfect pace, not too fast and not too slow to develop. Thank you Larissa for that!
Lore is a pretty great character, I fell in love the first time and a little bit more the second time. He's such a bad ass, selfless, caring guy. He loves his sister deeply and wants what's best for her. I loved their relationship actually. He's an assassin and good at it. His last mission, the one who will free him and his sister from their master, is to kill Kynan (Gem's husband and if you've read the previous books, you know him). And that is how he meets Idess.
Idess is quite the woman (or angel) as well. She loves what she is and she cannot wait to ascend and go to Heaven but, in the meantime, she has people to protect. And she's dedicated to her job. She's very close to ascend but for that to happen she needs to protect Kynan from getting killed and there is one Seminus Demon who is hell bent on accomplishing that task.
I just love them. The way they met, how their relationship evolved, everything was perfect. The chemistry between them was palpable and holy shit, the sex scenes were scorching hot. Seriously!
Anyway, I loved absolutely everything about this book. The characters (the secondary characters were as good as the main ones), the entire story, the romance...just everything.
sarahdelucchi's review against another edition
3.0
This was my least favorite of the series so far (up to Sin Undone). I don't know. I just don't care about Lore and thought it ended just too nice and together. HOWEVER. READ THIS BOOK. Because the next one about his Sister Sin was hands down the best on out of the 5 starter books.
kristadeanne's review against another edition
5.0
I absolutly LOVED Lores book!
I am almost at a loss of words for this one! I loved everything about it!
I am almost at a loss of words for this one! I loved everything about it!
traecrochet's review against another edition
4.0
It was a good book but Lore was too much like Vishous from BDB.
bungleboo's review against another edition
5.0
Best book of the series! Lore is my fav brother and I want him as my own!!!
I really like how this book keeps us more up-to-date with the other brothers. Ione's writing just keeps getting better!
I really like how this book keeps us more up-to-date with the other brothers. Ione's writing just keeps getting better!
lenahe's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.25
Ok, I admit that even though I didn't found this series particularly good, I was hooked and wanted to keep reading. The world building is well done, and we want to see more of the previous characters. Unfortunately, we only see a bit of the brothers, rarely any glimpse of the female leads of previous books.
In this book, I felt like the MCs had a very fast change of hearts, but that was good, since seeing the MCs working together was nice.
In this book, I felt like the MCs had a very fast change of hearts, but that was good, since seeing the MCs working together was nice.
lindaunconventionalbookworms's review against another edition
4.0
Another great Demonica book. It was a little less exciting than the last ones, maybe I'm on overload, I don't know, I loved the book, but not as much as the others. Still I'm excited to read the next installment.
laurenjodi's review against another edition
4.0
Ecstasy Unveiled
4.5 Stars
Solid storytelling, strong characterization and an irresistible romance - Ecstasy Unveiled is definitely my favorite in the series so far.
Ione is brilliant at balancing complex and multi-faceted storylines although there are one or two questions that remain unanswered, for example:
As expected, the characters are well-developed and engaging. Lore is the tortured hero that Wraith should have been. Don't get me wrong, Wraith is an amazing hero but his personality seemed toned down in Passion Unleashed, which was disappointing.
Lore is in an extremely difficult situation - torn between betraying his newly discovered brothers and saving his sister's life, and his internal struggle exposes the guilt and loneliness concealed by his harsh, caustic and cynical exterior.
Idess, with her guilty secrets and battle hardened skills, is a compelling mix of strength and vulnerability - a far cry from your typical timid, goody-two-shoes angelic character. She and Lore have a sensual and sexy relationship but their bond is also tender and emotional, and they compliment each other so well.
The secondary characters are entertaining - the three villains each have their own agenda and finding out what happens with them keeps you turning the pages. The conflict between Lore and his brothers is realistic although Shade's obnoxious behavior merely reinforced my dislike of him in book #2.
Sin and Con are intriguing together and the lead in to their book is very titillating - looking forward to the next and final installment in the series.
4.5 Stars
Solid storytelling, strong characterization and an irresistible romance - Ecstasy Unveiled is definitely my favorite in the series so far.
Ione is brilliant at balancing complex and multi-faceted storylines although there are one or two questions that remain unanswered, for example:
Spoiler
why does Lore become a Primori and why exactly happened between him and Sin when they reached maturity?As expected, the characters are well-developed and engaging. Lore is the tortured hero that Wraith should have been. Don't get me wrong, Wraith is an amazing hero but his personality seemed toned down in Passion Unleashed, which was disappointing.
Lore is in an extremely difficult situation - torn between betraying his newly discovered brothers and saving his sister's life, and his internal struggle exposes the guilt and loneliness concealed by his harsh, caustic and cynical exterior.
Idess, with her guilty secrets and battle hardened skills, is a compelling mix of strength and vulnerability - a far cry from your typical timid, goody-two-shoes angelic character. She and Lore have a sensual and sexy relationship but their bond is also tender and emotional, and they compliment each other so well.
The secondary characters are entertaining - the three villains each have their own agenda and finding out what happens with them keeps you turning the pages. The conflict between Lore and his brothers is realistic although Shade's obnoxious behavior merely reinforced my dislike of him in book #2.
Sin and Con are intriguing together and the lead in to their book is very titillating - looking forward to the next and final installment in the series.