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| Guardian Angel. Statue on the Krasnystaw's cemetery. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
In Melynda Price’s Shades of Darkness, Redemption Series: Book Two, we pick up on the
continuing saga of Olivia, a mortal with the ‘sight.’ Olivia has the rare
ability to ‘see’ the dark angels, and thus expose them to mankind, and for
this, they are determined to destroy her. She has been guarded since birth by
Liam, a Ronnin warrior commissioned to be her guardian angel. Liam’s problem,
though, is that he has fallen in love with her, thus threatening his very
angelic status.
As Olivia, now a fully grown woman, is about to wed,
Liam learns of yet another attempt by the Dark Court to kill her, and he again
risks the displeasure of his own superiors in order to save her.
A fascinating blend of theology and mysticism, love
and betrayal, Price takes us into the minds and hearts of the characters in a
deft way. Although some of the prose and dialogue tends toward the stilted, the
reader is nonetheless made to care, and care deeply, about the fate of the
protagonists.
A surprise ending, though, lifts this tale above the
mundane mortal meets angel story. Language and scenes of violence make it a
book not for the squeamish.
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