With Asa by her side, she'll face not only the supernatural forces arrayed against her but the all-too-human temptation that she fears she can't resist. Now, from magic-laced Vegas casinos to the netherworld clubs of Bangkok, Mattie is on a rescue mission. Asa agrees to help find Ben on one condition: Mattie must use her uncommon talent to assist his smuggling operations. Asa has the power to sense magic, and he realizes Mattie is a reliquary, someone with the rare ability to carry magic within her own body, undetected. It's wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy almost beyond human endurance.ĭetermined to find out who took Ben and why, Mattie immerses herself in a shadowy underworld and comes face-to-face with the darkly alluring Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer, infamous hustler.and her missing fiancé's estranged brother. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real - and Ben is hooked. I get “out of the frying pan into the fire.” but must we then try the bbq, boiling kettle and foreman grill? Thank you for having characters that aren’t 17!!! To be fair, I was captivated and stayed up into the wee hours on a work night just to know what would happen., and I’m moving on to book three.Mattie Carver's engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale.
I also thought some of the danger scenes went on way too long. although the story basis would have allowed for more steamy scenes, and I missed the intense intimacy of the first book. Love “Eve.” Love how the Asa - Mattie trust and vulnerability plays out. He jumped around so much that he wasn’t believable. Was he a compassionate pet lover or a canine foe? Is he addicted to magic, or doesn’t care about it? Is he intuitive and caring, or totally oblivious and selfish? Is he super smart and manipulative, or just dumb and pushy? We’re all complex, but you cant be all THOSE things at one time.
And his character was all over the place. I understood she was hanging into an entire self portrait of her future, but he’s not the only boring white collar GQ in town. Maybe if he had not done SO many traitorous deeds I would have understood her desire to hang on but he did, over and over. But yet with her fiancé she’s ridiculously stupid and weak. complex, ignorant of the real world and scared, but also confident, strong and brave. Is Mattie strong or weak? In general she is depicted as strong.
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