A review by mollymortensen
Blood Passage by Heather Demetrios

3.0

Chapter one starts up right after Exquisite Captive ended. (Seventeen hours before the prologue told by Malek)

The first quarter of the book was great! Unfortunately it just went downhill after that.

Most of Blood Passage felt unnecessary.

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I don't know why the siblings didn't just go to the cave the minute they were free. If Raif already has the ring, there's nothing that can take it away.

Just when I thought this book couldn't get any worse,

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Nalia lost her magic. At least it didn't last too long. (20-25%)

The cave was excruciating. And lasted FOREVER.

The Good:

We heard how great a warrior Nalia was, nice to finally see it! She kicked butt! The action scenes in the beginning were great!

Malek's funny bickering lines with Nalia and when he "acts" the villain were great. (He's still irredeemable, even if he can make me laugh)

The Bad:

She totally ruined Malek's character from book one! He lost quite a few IQ points.

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Malek from book one would've negotiated a deal with the Ifrit and gotten freed. And be so would've made sure Calar was dead.

And it was completely out of character for him to

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sacrifice himself. I know that's why we got his POV but I still don't buy it. He'd have let Raif kill himself and continue as he had been.

I'm not one for sympathetic Malek, or emotional depressed Malek. Give me the evil megalomaniac.

Zanari's POV reveals her to be a whinny annoying girl. She constantly jealous of her brother, wanting to leave the resistance, and feeling guilty about it. (Which is ironic since she's always nagging Raif how he has to act for the good of their people) I really loved Phara though.

Celar being a

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teenager

makes her far less scary. I thought the ifrit had sort of secret weapon or power that let them beat the Aisouri. I don't see how even guns could beat an entire army or Nalias.

Who died?

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Bashil
Umbek
Malek