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lincolncreadsbooks's review
5.0
This book pissed me off royally. Sacrifice continues the story Everson began in Covenant (also reviewed). Joe Kieran, now possessed by Malachi, the demon haunting the town of Terrel in the first book, teams up with a young, inexperienced witch to stop the beautiful, deadly Ariana from raising the Curburide, the demons Malachi had originally been summoned to stop decades ago.
I refuse to say it finishes the story, however. I don't want to believe John's going to let Kieran's (and Alex') story end with the final chapter of Sacrifice. I guess that's a testament to Everson's skill, really; I want these characters to have happy endings, to score a win that's not bittersweet, and well... I don't want to give the book away, but let's just say the title is apt. Every main character in the book makes a sacrifice of one sort of another. And I'm not pleased about it.
The rapport between Joe and Malachi is amusing at times, the borderline-forbidden relationship between Alex and Joe grows in small, tantalizing doses and Ariana... well, I almost wouldn't mind being sacrificed by her. The book moves along at a fast pace and Everson even manages a couple of twists I didn't quite see coming. He just might be my favorite Leisure author.
Pick up Sacrifice. Pick up Covenant first, if you haven't already (you could get by without it, but you shouldn't). You won't be sorry you did. I have to say, though, that if Everson doesn't have Part Three in the works already, I hope all his beer goes flat for the rest of his life. 9/10.
I refuse to say it finishes the story, however. I don't want to believe John's going to let Kieran's (and Alex') story end with the final chapter of Sacrifice. I guess that's a testament to Everson's skill, really; I want these characters to have happy endings, to score a win that's not bittersweet, and well... I don't want to give the book away, but let's just say the title is apt. Every main character in the book makes a sacrifice of one sort of another. And I'm not pleased about it.
The rapport between Joe and Malachi is amusing at times, the borderline-forbidden relationship between Alex and Joe grows in small, tantalizing doses and Ariana... well, I almost wouldn't mind being sacrificed by her. The book moves along at a fast pace and Everson even manages a couple of twists I didn't quite see coming. He just might be my favorite Leisure author.
Pick up Sacrifice. Pick up Covenant first, if you haven't already (you could get by without it, but you shouldn't). You won't be sorry you did. I have to say, though, that if Everson doesn't have Part Three in the works already, I hope all his beer goes flat for the rest of his life. 9/10.
kkehoe's review
3.0
Diverging thematically from its predecessor, may have been a boon or a bane for this book. I'm truly not sure how I felt about the turn that it took into a more action-supernatural thriller. Still a great read, but my feelings are mixed.
kkehoe's review against another edition
3.0
Diverging thematically from its predecessor, may have been a boon or a bane for this book. I'm truly not sure how I felt about the turn that it took into a more action-supernatural thriller. Still a great read, but my feelings are mixed.
samtee222's review
4.0
Pretty good book. I was not expecting what happened at the end. It ended extremely well but sad. It was a very well written book. Ended like I would expect a good movie to end, hero walking away into the sunset. It was a pretty gruesome book, there were lots of blood and lots of violence. This book was actually a sequel to Covenant written by John Everson as well, if you wanted to know how the story all started you should read the first one but you don't have too to understand what's going on. John does a pretty good job of getting you to understand what happened in the first one without really dragging it out too much. Like I said pretty freaking good book.
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