Review: Worth the wait!  Book 2 is even better!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2014
Tempting Fate is book 2 in the Immortal Descendants series by author April White. If you haven't read book 1, you need to go do that as many things will only make sense if you've read that one first.Saira Elian, descendant of time, has learned a lot lately. She learned that she can travel through time. She learned that she is the child of a forbidden love between her mother and a shifter named Will Shaw. She learned about the value of friendship, the price of secrets, and the pain of loss. When we meet up with Saira in Tempting Fate, she's back at St. Brigid's school, learning everything she can to survive and thrive in her new reality. Beside her are her friends and the vampire who loves her, Archer. Mongers are getting bolder in their attempts to "fix" the problem of her birth and there's a growing sense of danger in the air as the drums of war beat ever closer.When Saira accidentally sees a vision of her Victorian friend Ringo being tortured by her nemesis Bishop Wilder in a Renaissance prison, she knows she has to go back and save him - and fix the tear in the fabric of Time that Bishop Wilder is creating.This book is even better than Tempting Fate, if that's possible. Since we learned all about the Immortal Descendants in book 1, book 2 hits the ground running with plot, chaos, intrigue, love, and battle. Saira has grown a bit of confidence in her abilities and in Archer's love, although both still give her plenty of worries. The time spent in the 16th century is immaculately researched and filled with vibrant and interesting details. I couldn't put the book down for fear of missing what was going to happen next. The entire text is cohesive, clear, vastly entertaining, as well as wickedly fun. The author is a master at weaving bits of story in, out, and around the text - it creates a masterfully told story. Despite tons of time and space travel I was never lost in the story or confused. It was, in a word, epic.I cannot WAIT for book 3.