Review: Great trilogy with room for more
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2014
I read and reviewed the first book as an individual title previously, but I was happy to get the first three books as a bundle. This trilogy leaves things at a nice resting place, but show Niki ready to go on in the new role she's ended up taking on. These books fall into the category of paranormal adventure/mystery, but they have some unsuspected depths. There's some really interesting celestial theory and some hot debate between the characters about the nature of the war in the heavens that saw Lucifer leave, the nature of angels, demons, heaven, hell and the Creator. In the course of the three stories, Niki comes to understand betrayal, forgiveness and true love and she also grudgingly comes to accept true sacrifice and to accept herself as she is. I'm afraid it's the rest of the world who are going to have to figure out how to deal with her now. I hope they're ready....I'm ready for book 4!I loved Niki as a heroine, angry, ready to kick someone where they'll feel it most, but with good intentions, trying to save her world, one cause at a time. She has no patience for fools and very little for wimps, but infinite time for her old Baba and the younger sister she discovers. She also found it within herself to forgive her father for all the criminal things he had done and the messes he left her to clean up. Sam was a wonderful counterpart for her, even when she knew who and what he was, she still managed to fall in love as he had with her, but she still gave him crap about being a stalker.  She's sickened by the violence and violent in turn, tough when she needs to be and yet able to cry, and she is almost always sarcastic.There is no sex in this series, but there is a lot of violence and mild profanity. Heat factor mild.