Review: follw up to the demon's song
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 27, 2013
Arc supplied by publisher.I really enjoyed the first in this series The Demon's Song, so was keen to read this follow up. Sadly I've mixed feelings about it. Overall I did enjoy it, just not quite as much as the first. I found it hard to engage with Meresin, he'd been through some traumas that were unimaginable and horrific even by the usual cruelties immortals face and commit, but he was just so surly, unpleasant, rude to everyone including Dru. Then there's Dru, she's fixated on him, she's intelligent, loving and caring and has the balance immortals need in their lives. I liked her immensely, she was looking for the best in everyone and she was so strong and supportive to Justin, her brother the vampire king. I guess she was in a special, privileged position, and yet she used her power sensibly and fairly. She and Meresin have a strange relationship, he wants her but thinks he's not good enough and so won't even admit it to himself. She's taken with him on first sight two years ago. They've had little interaction with each other since the one time she kissed him, to shock him in a situation where he was - as usual - causing problems, and no-one able to talk him down, and she can't get that kiss out of her head.Anyway - its business as usual, Meresin taking offence at something a vamp has said and in danger of killing him, and Dru to the rescue as the only one who can stop him. Its the last straw for the Angel top brass, and Meresin is sent on a journey which he is unlikely to survive. Through a series of incidents Dru ends up going with him, and his life is caught up with hers so they both face an uncertain future. Once in Purgatory I began to enjoy the novel - when they were there I mean, not me :) - and the relationship began to go somewhere. Dru isn't one to give up, and gradually wears Meresin down and his personality starts to come out rather than just the irritable, surly, belligerent mad we've met so far. Once they get together they are Hot too!! and there was some subtle humour to help the flow - Duct tape in purgatory. Dru's right, that stuff turns up everywhere..I tell my grandkids they only need two things for DIY, duct tape and W.D.40 :)Stars: just tips in at four. Overall three-quarters of the novel was a good five stars from me, but the early part barely three. I liked the interaction with other angels and vamps (and Levi) but Meresin was so grumpy I wanted to kick his ar*se, and his actions and moods seemed to overly dominate this section. I wasn't really sure at that point what on earth Dru saw in him to put up with his insults, he was hot true but so rude, so what did she see? I really wanted to rate this book higher, but the start was so slow to get me hooked I can't.