amyiw 's review for:

Mortal Danger by Eileen Wilks
3.0

A bit disappointed as I didn't think the explanations made sense. Lily is trying to understand and control the mate bond that she and Rule have. If it was up to Rule, he would put Lily in a little safety bubble but Lily is FBI and she likes to think she can take care of herself. She grouses at the plans he makes without informing her, he makes plans without telling her knowing she would refuse.
Spoiler We never get a resolution to this though it is suggested that she will be the next alpha and it is the reason she doesn't take well to others deciding for her, but this was from Culen, not Rule.
They are wary of the imminent attack and the stick/staff that the FBI wants to capture rather than destroy as they know that it needs destroying. They are doing regular family and friends things, at a wedding. We get to see them as a couple and how Lily is still unsure of the interplay and mate bond. They are in a discussion on living together even though at the beginning of their mate bond and they could not even be 100 yards away from one another. It has become better but still has pull. I'm wondering 'how can they live apart with that?' First 1/2.

A show down occurs and the whole plot of the book changes. There are definitely some interesting occurrences in this second half but many of them don't make sense. Still the new direction and characters and the case of a split being was interesting (at first). New creatures are introduced and we need to figure if they are truthful, helping or hindering.
Spoiler The demon could not bond correctly and ends up halfway bonded to Lily and pulls a split copy of Lily's body that is not quite whole. At the same time, even though he is not touching Rule with the staff but Lily (therefore the bond to Lily) Rule also is pulled into the death realm (supposedly because of the mate bond but... what about the other Lily half? no bond there? Yet the human side body can sense him and that he is alive and direct to him), in wolf form as he is fighting.

Later we find that he cannot change back from wolf because there is no moon. I'm thinking "What?" It should be the exact opposite, no moon, no moon call, no wolf, he should have changed back to human and not have his wolf to help. But she needed a character that could not talk, attack, and the suspense that he might loose himself to the wolf. This... well hmm...

Also it is never explained well as to why the demon can bond to Lily but not completely only that it has to do with her being a sensitive. But isn't that why "SHE" wanted the little demon to take over her body? You would think that "SHE" would understand this. So, we get Lily in split bodies, one in the demon realm, that has the sensitive's powers and no memories and the other body in the human realm that lost the powers but has the memories. Both seem to have the bond to Rule. Both seems to be whole bodies.

When the passage is opened, the demon realm half (body) ends up having to sacrifice herself to death to reconnect the powers, and the little demon is now connected to the other body now. OK, this just didn't make sense at all. The two halves are right there together in space, not a ghostly or something like this but bodies. **sigh** I'm just not going to agree with this other than it was to meet the dragons, make a pact and bring them over, and get the little demon on their side of the realms.
If more of this plot had feasible reasonable answers, I may have liked the whole better but it all seemed "created just for" the situation. Also if it didn't end so abruptly and we got some epilogue with some other explanations, it might have helped.

It was OK/Good for me. Since I remember the 1st being pretty good, I've bumped up and probably will try one more.