A magical object attaches itself to her in the Scottish Archives. While Roderick searches the Archives for a way to imprison or kill Morgwen, the hunters seek a spell book. It could hold the key to break Ari free from the hold Von Hades has over her. In order to secure the book, she will have to perform a difficult task for its owner. Once again, someone infiltrates the London Archives and steals an important artefact. When they hunt down the thief, they will discover that their troubles are about to become far worse. The items the burglar has taken will serve a dire purpose that will endanger them all.
Morgwen has taken refuge in a place that holds bad memories and dread for Connor. After being banished from the shifter community for taking a vampire as his mate, returning to Scotland will be fraught with danger. Hunting A Necromancer The team returns home from London and are drawn into another mission straight away. Quin has to face her father who rejected her so long ago for being defective.
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She will have to put aside her hurt and focus on finding a bunch of missing kids before it becomes too late to save them. Ari also takes a trip down memory lane when they are sent to find and eradicate a rogue necromancer. She encounters a new threat during the mission that warns of danger to come. They have another run-in with the assassins that have been hunting them and everything is about to change. No matter her decision, nothing will ever be quite the same again in the Hunter Elite. She makes an unlikely friend who could turn out to be beneficial to her in the long run.
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Croix Stanhope , a battle neomage working in stone who is no longer in hiding and with the permission of the High Host to be outside an enclave. Lemuel Hastings had been Thorn's foster father and brother to Gramma Stanhope. Rose is the twin Thorn thinks was killed. Rupert Stanhope is one of the partners and Lucas' brother.
Audric is a half-breed mule and a famous dead-miner with a claim on the town of Sugar Grove. He's also in a relationship with Rupert. And, regrettably, bound to Raziel after events in Bloodring , 1. Both men declare themselves Thorn's champards , her champions in battle. Jacey is the third partner and married to Big Zed. Zeddy is his oldest; Cissy is both of theirs. Thaddeus Bartholomew is a state police cop, Rupert's cousin, and a kylen attracted to Thorn. Durbarge is an Administration of the ArchSeraph Investigator, an assey, who is supposed to protect a mage in the human population.
Mineral City is… …located in the Appalachian Mountains and known for its quartz and feldspar. Esmeralda "Miz Essie" Boyles and her son, Eli Walker , a part-time miner and tracker who prefers cowboy gear and Sennabel Schwartz , the local librarian, and her husband are some of Thorn's supporters. Townspeople also include Old Lady Vestis who makes the sign of evil when she passes the shop; Howard ; Ephraim ; Earl ; Widow-woman Henderson ; Louis ; Richard ; Joseph he is thought to own a still in the hills ; Florence Watkins who is firm orthodox; Mrs.
Abernathy who gossips; Hannah Zelmack ; Mack who is up for cursing, lewd speech, and propagandizing for supporting the EIH; Amos and Mabel Ramps who were bought witnesses; Ken Schmidt who is a miner; Eugene who is a fiddler; and, Derek Culpepper and his father who are two of those who hate Thorn, partly because she screwed up a business deal for him. Lucas Stanhope is Thorn's catting-about ex-husband, currently married to Jane Hilton. He's changed since he was taken prisoner and fed manna.
Ciana is his eight-year-old daughter who prefers Thorn's company with his first wife, the nasty Marla. Their grandfather, Mole Man , a. His wife, Gramma Stanhope , had been Adain Hastings ' daughter. The Council of the Town Fathers include… …the kirk elders. Elder Jasper , a Cherokee, had been Thorn's friend, as was his wife, Polly. Elders Culpepper and Perkins are definitely not her friends. Elder Shamus Waldroup , a baker, is the senior judge over all civil and criminal disputes; Do'rise is his wife.
Tobitt is a bailiff. The High Host of the Seraphim are… …the ruling council of seraphs, angels of punishment who descended upon Earth and destroyed its populations. Now humanity answers to them. Raziel is a warrior angel who bound Audric and is second to Michael. Michael is the ArchSeraph. Uriel , Raphael , and Gabriel are also high-order seraphs, princes. Adonal is the Angel of Punishment, a. Cheriour answers the mage-in-dire cry, a two-edged sword, as it usually ends with the Sword of Punishment that can rebound back on all humans in the area.
Watchers are Fallen but repentant angels, who had lived on earth and taught new skills to humans. For this they were stripped of many powers and exiled to earth. Minor Flames are creatures of spirit and energy, warriors who look like fire. Holy Amethyst is a cherubim whose Wheels were freed in Bloodring , but she is still trapped. She claims Malashe-el as hers by day. Baraqyal " Barak " is a Watcher imprisoned by the Dark. He might also be Baraqijal who taught astrology. Daria is a neomage with whom Barak mated, the first seraph to take a mage lover.
The EIH is… …a. Tomas and Rickie are EIH operatives. The Enclaves are… …reservations for mages. Lolo is the priestess of the New Orleans Enclave and is as a grandmother to Thorn. Mages have specific powers that use creation energies: Powers of Darkness are… … demons , who are immortal spirits with two physical forms, and the Fallen who taught skills to man. Malashe-el is a daywalker, mortal, and a Minor Darkness in thrall to the Master of the Trine the mountain by night. Azazel is one of Satan's.
Ephrahu is one of the human guards. Forcas is now a Major Power, promoted after Bloodring , after Lucas. Dead-miners scavenge abandoned homesteads and towns for the household goods left behind. Kylen are half-mage, half-angel who may only breed with humans with all offspring taken to a Realm of Light. Mages, the first unforeseen , aren't fertile with humans but they are with seraphs.
Mules are the second unforeseen , sterile, incompletely developed, and half-human, half-seraph. An omega mage can command seraphs in battle. Federal crimes include forbidden sexual practices and black magic. Back History General Bascomb , a parent of one of the original neomages, ordered a nuclear bomb dropped on these teens. Enoch was a human man who had pled for the Watchers before the Most High. The Cover and Title The cover has dark borders with an explosion of gold in the middle with a background of industrial abandonment.
It's the red-haired Thorn in the middle of it all in her black leather battlesuit, swords in hand and one on her back with a flourish of what seems to be the misty red flame lining of a black cape. The title is in a shadowed white across the center with the author's name in white at the bottom. The title reflects our closer introduction to the Seraphs. Really not sure what I think about this series nevermind this book. There was more action of both the angelic and the sexual kind but i still feel like a lot of this book was filler and could've been fleshed out a lot more.
The premise of this book is very interesting and has soo much potential. What if the world didn't end like it had been predicted for several millenia and people and culture still existed but in such a modified form that while it's similar to ours it's extremely different? Curs Really not sure what I think about this series nevermind this book. Cursing, color and extreme shows of opinion are frowned upon.
So why were certain passages almost directly lifted from descriptions in her previous book? Why has Thorn not progressed in her training and her understanding? Why has Lolo not made more of an appearance? I felt there was a lot of circular plot without any real conclusion and a lot of things were explained in such a way that it left me a bit confused but not interested enough to go back and try to understand.
It gets three stars because although the plot is a little undefined and circuitous, the characters are interesting enough to keep me reading. It may not be enough to keep going onto the third, but we'll see. View all 4 comments. Oct 27, Ravyn rated it liked it Shelves: Honestly, I just don't even know what to say here. For starters, I'm not sure how to even classify the Rogue Mage series. Actually, now that I think about it, that's sort of been a theme for me as I've been reading the first two novels of the series. What's up with the thwarted, useless mage-heat all the time?
What's the deal with the Amethyst lady's freakin' wheels? What are the freakin' wheels?
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And so o Huh. Lots of times I end up skimming those parts. Yet at the end of the day, there's definitely something that keeps me reading. For starters, I find the characters weirdly compelling. Although maybe I'm just waiting to find out who Thorn finally decides to shack up with. Also, I find that I quite enjoy the battle scenes of which there are many - even if I don't really get the neomage hocus-pocus half of the time.
Anyway, I can't really put my finger on it, but in the end, I have enjoyed the books, and I'll definitely be picking up the next one. Oct 29, Fangs for the Fantasy rated it really liked it. Thorn is backed by some very close friends, a fiercely loyal family. Even when her powers may be the very thing keeping them safe from the monsters underground But are those powers also responsible for drawing them?
A post-apocalypse world, nearly wiped out by angelic and divine wrath, nearly consumed by demonic rage, living in equal terror of both angel from on high and demon from beneath. A deeply religious society, desperately and faithfully following proper sacred rules - but without any clear indication of what those sacred rules actually are, which religion is right and in a world where one certainty they actually have is that religious conflict will get you killed.
And these are just the stories the Seraphs tell… what is the real truth? And into that complex world we have Thorn continuing her story - only this time revealed to be a Neomage, much to the hatred and prejudice of her neighbours. The outright bigots willing to do anything to bring Thorn down. And, of course, Thorn makes a convenient scapegoat whenever things go wrong.
All are fiercely loyal to Thorn and along with Jessie make an excellent team around her. She has strong, good relationships. The town itself is also very racially diverse, though not with major characters, Many important characters - like the chief elder of the town - are POC Read More After the events of Bloodring, Thorn can no longer hide who she is.
She has a few very loyal allies, but as for the rest of the town most are wary of, if not outright against her. Most fear her, and a few would love nothing more than to prosecute and execute her. Although their fears are mostly based on prejudice, some of them are warranted.
The dark forces on the Trine are drawn to Thorn as they want Thorn and her powers, bringing the fight to the town. In the end, to save the ones she loves sh After the events of Bloodring, Thorn can no longer hide who she is. In the end, to save the ones she loves she must do something she vowed never to do again, go underground into the Darkness' lair to rescue a fallen Seraph that is vital to the looming war. This book was much less confusing than the last one, and while we still do not know the entire truth of Thorn's past, things are starting to become a little more clear.
Considering how frustrating it is to me to not know what she truly is, I cannot imagine what it would be like for Thorn. The poor mage has had so many things thrown at her, and everyone seems to know much more about her than she does, its a wonder she can even begin to handle it all. Throughout this book Thorn continues to prove her inner "goodness" regardless of what the townspeople may say, nor the fact that she is supposed to be soulless as all mages are. I'd enjoy seeing more from this storyline in hopefully larger installments. May 23, Missyb rated it really liked it. Good twists, sex, action.
He's reluctant and annoyed to be stuck with her, but quickly they fall for each other. He figures out that she's a shifter, and she tells him that she's part of a offshoot group of the BVA Bureau of Vampire Affairs. They find the killer and confront him. Good twist on who the killer is. Really liked the charac Great characters.
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Really liked the characters, and look forward to the next book. May 01, Cindy rated it liked it Shelves: A quick read with shifters and vampires.
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I would have enjoyed having a closer look at the world building in this story but it is a series so my hope is that more will be revealed as we get further in the series. But one girl and foug guys?!?!? My only complaint is that I wish it was longer. Keara rated it it was amazing Oct 07, Isabelle rated it it was ok Feb 19, Jillian rated it it was amazing Dec 27, Cynthia rated it really liked it Dec 29, Stephanie Murillo rated it it was amazing Apr 06, Sarah Murphy rated it it was amazing Sep 02, Mel rated it liked it Sep 12,