Review: different but good!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
Lightning is an empath, and uses drink to dull the barrage of emotions she is faced with every day, from humans. Ryker is an Alpha, a new one at that. When Light is faced with a deadly force hell bent on her capture, Ryker is forced to step up, and guard Light. When Ryker touches Light, weird things happen. Her pain eases and she feels....him. Now, Ryker just needs to keep Light safe, and if they can do that without killing each other?? all the better!First up, the bit at the front of the book says its best to read Breaking The Storm, which is the first book in this series. However, I have not, but did not feel that I was missing any back story, and picked up all I needed to know from this one, the second book.Now, I really REALLY liked this book! The story starts off, and moves along at a shocking but *correct??* pace, its right for this story. Some books run away with themselves and its not right for that story, but this one?? Perfect. The reaction Light has to Ryker is intense, and hot off the page! How they manage to fight it I'll never know, cos its nearly 80% the way through before they FINALLY get to it!The plot involving the Credence Curse turns out not to be, and there are darker forces at stake. Light gets a family reunion, a reunion with a dead (iI know, right??) friend, and then.....a CLIFF HANGER!!! Now, I was aware this would have a cliffhanger since I read some reviews beforehand, but I was so engrossed in the story, I didnt see the end coming!What let it down was two things...Its written from Light and Ryker's point of view. This wouldn't normally put a book down, since I am a big fan of multi POV's, BUT Light is written in the first person, and Ryker, the third. WHY???? It flips from chapter to chapter, sometimes WITHIN the same chapter, its all very annoying! And secondly, the language in this book is raw, and gritty and lots of F words, so, when it comes to talking about parts of the male anatomy, I was expecting it to be equally gritty and raw, BUT NO!! the author uses the correct biological name for it! it wont let me use the word in my review, but you know which one i mean! Not right, as far as I'm concerned, keep it in the tone of the book, go one way or the other, not both.I will be looking out for Book Three, since there will be one, but I don't know when that will be. I have also added Book One to my wish list, as I would like to know more about Storm and Knox, and how they came to be together.