Review: ABSOLUTELY in LOVE!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2013
I'm addicted to Stephanie Rowe's The Order of the Blade series with her hot Calydon warrior and their shevas. LOVE the action scenes and the imagery Stephanie provides to her readers as she takes us on this journey with each of our beloved Warriors. You feel and relate with these strong guys and even stronger willed women who make their shevas. Imagine WWF wrestlers, MMA & UFC Fighters as one being with super powers, intense and constant sex drive, and immortal. Add that to the ability to mate with one designated female for life or until they go rogue (crazy). This book is actually book 6 in the series.1-Darkness Awakened is where we meet Quinn Masters, who's weapon is a sword and his sheva, Grace Matthews, who is a deadly illusionist. They start the ball rolling to test the waters of having one of the powerful Blade Order members keep their sheva and not kill the sheva at the sacrifice of the greater good.2-Darkness Seduced is where we continue our beloved warriors of Gideon Roarke, who wields the double bladed throwing axe, and his sheva, Lily Davenport (scientist/professor) who opposes and discredits the purpose of Calydon warriors and their usefulness. Only when Lily gets kidnapped, then rescued, and becomes a sheva, does Lily embrace her acceptance of our beloved guys.3-Darkness Surrendered continues with Elijah Ross, who's weapon is a throwing star, is mentally tormented and manipulated since book 1 by evil and he meets his sheva, Ana Matthews, Grace's sister. Ana is also an illusionist.4-Forever in Darkness is a novella but important nonetheless. Continuing the storyline, we (the readers) continue the timeline and sequence of events that lead to book 5, Darkness Reborn. This we get a taste of Ian Fitzgerald, who's weapon is the throwing mace and who has a "sheva curse." To learn more about this curse, you have to read the story. So poor dear Ian fights this curse as he meets his sheva, Alice Shaw, who is an Angel of Life. Ironic thing is that Alice keeps getting killed, what? Yep. Poor guy is forever freaking out! So with that in mind, we move onto the next book.5-Darkness Reborn is "what is he?" Kane Santiago, who's weapon is a double-spiked flail with spiked balls attached with steel chains. Here we learn what Kane actually is, so mystery is solved and he is the only Order member able to teleport. Cool, huh? Yeah it gets better. Since Kane learns what he actually is and why he has all these tattoos all over his body, our Stephanie gives this guy more obstacles by introducing him to his sheva, Sarah Burns, who is an Angel of Hope. Yeah, interesting match.6-Darkness Arisen (this book) is where we complete tormented Ian's journey and finally the poor guy gets a break at peace. So we learn how he is able to rid the curse that has run rampant for over many Fitzgerald generations. So we find out where Thano has been and YES, he is still alive! I was glad too because Thano is my favorite. I'm in love with his sense of humor.7-Darkness Unleashed is the latest release continuing with Ryland Samuels, who's weapon is a throwing machete. Last we read, he goes after the Angel of Death, Catherine Taylor. We learn so much about the significant of our warrior's sheva's and their impact not just with the guys but how issues are resolved.8-Inferno of Darkness is a novella due late 2013 which, like book 4-Forever in Darkness, continues the storyline.9-Darkness Possessed will be released in 2014.So giving those summations of each book, I HOPE you are encouraged, curious, inspired, nosey, and just plain excited to read about these good, tough, hot guys with their life goal to protect the earth and its people from rogue (crazy) Calydon warriors and evildoers.