Review: Mac's Angels: Sinner and Saint, A Review for the Blog Bodice Rippers, Femme Fatales and Fantasy
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2013
In Sinner and Saint, the second book Sandra Chastain's from Mac's Angels Series (that I have read), we find Mac still trying to help others.. and calling in old favors to do so. Each person he has helped in the past has promised a future favor and Mac uses these people to help more.While I really enjoyed the first Mac's Angels book I read and Reviewed, Midnight Fantasy, I found Sinner and Saint a little less entertaining. Midnight Fantasy was fun, silly, a bit off kilter and yet still offered both participants a last chance.. Sinner and Saint is a bit darker, a bit more intense and therefore looses the fun factor. Which to me is what set Midnight Fantasy apart from the pack.Dr. Nikolai Sandor has totally and completely withdrawn from the social world. He spends all of his time wrapped up in his research lab. The only time he bothers to leave is when he is called to a fundraising event, where he manages a smooth and suave facade. With the death of his sister Nikolai lost his way and has never really found a way back. Turning his back on his gypsy heritage he really doesn't have any sort of a life. And yet when Mac calls he knows he has a favor to return..Karen Miller is lost in the fantasy.. after being hit by a car and brought to emergency she has slipped into a coma and shows no signs of returning to the world. She is safe in her fantasy world where she is living a romance novel. When a voice from outside starts to incorporate into her shadow world she is slowly pulled back to reality.Nikolai uses a rather unique way of capturing Karen's attention, somehow he becomes the dream, the fantasy and with a weave of seduction pulls her from the depths.. Unfortunately that is not the end of Karen's problems.. Seems she might not have been trying to kill herself when she fell in front of that car. In Karen's new awakened state nothing is as it seems and she can't seem to remember just how it should be. Having no one but Nikolai to lean on she finds him to be a tower of strength that slowly helps her to leave the shadows and regain her life.Nikolai can't help himself, he too is seduced by the fantasy and wants nothing more than to somehow make it real. It doesn't matter that their relationship started as a means to help her medically, now it's the two of them against the great what if.. Karen manages to reach into Nikolai's very soul and force him to relive some horrors of his youth. The very horrors that made him turn away from the gypsy life and in trying to heal her, heals himself.This isn't a "fun" book but Ms Chastain tells a story of love and redemption.. vengeance and justice.. and finally finding yourself.ShauniThis review is based on the ARC of Mac's Angels: Sinner and Saint provided by netgalley