Review: Powerful Writing That Will Keep You Up At Night!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2014
Sometimes second novels in a series can fall short of the first, as authors often spend their best material on creating a real masterpiece and then have to glue together bits and pieces to come up with something new for their second installment. This was certainly not the fate of Felices' novel, The Call of the Righteous. The intensity of the first book picked up instantly in the second and that same compelling energy and tragedy that ended the first part of the Judgment of Souls series carried over beautifully into the motivation of the second. Rachel is an angry, slighted woman with revenge and redemption on her mind, which always makes for emotionally charged and gripping writing. Add some new characters with questionable motives and dangerous pasts, sprinkle in some slightly terrifying vampire hunters, and a whole lot of action, and you have yourself a rather spectacular second offering to the series. I particularly like how much more grown up Rachel has become, shedding the naivete that she wore so well in the first novel. She is hardened, determined, and a much more fleshed out and developed character.I like that Felices seems to have a well-crafted story arc for the entire series, so you feel this tension building consistently. There is rarely a moment when you feel as though the author didn't know where the story was going next, which is the sign of a gifted and meticulous writer that truly immerses herself in the words and the story. It is a passionately written tale of revenge, love, death, and growing up - a vampire-laden Bildungsroman with twists and turns aplenty. Not a series to be missed, nor an author to be taken lightly!