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    Darkness Unbound
    Darkness Unbound
    Darkness Unbound
    Audiobook10 hours

    Darkness Unbound

    Written by Keri Arthur

    Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times best-selling author Keri Arthur received the coveted Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for her urban fantasy tales. In Darkness Unbound, Risa Jones' werewolf-and-aedh lineage allows her to see reapers-supernatural beings that escort the souls of the dead to the afterlife. But when Risa discovers that a practitioner of blood magic is preventing souls from moving on, she knows she must set things right before all hell breaks loose.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 16, 2012
    ISBN9781464029707
    Darkness Unbound
    Author

    Keri Arthur

    Keri Arthur, author of the New York Times bestselling Riley Jenson Guardian series, has now written more than forty novels. She’s received several nominations in the Best Contemporary Paranormal category of the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards and has won RT’s Career Achievement Award for urban fantasy. She lives with her daughter in Melbourne, Australia.

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    • 2/5
      Your server stops sending at a sufficiently req speed that it’s less than req to download vs streaming.
    • 4/5
      I liked the storyline of Riley Jenson Guardian series, but I didn't care for some of the context... I guess that's what I mean. I will say that I really do enjoy Keri Arthur's actual story. And I really liked this book more than the Riley Jenson books. Although since they take place in the same world, I really wish I sucked it up and finished RJG first.

      IDK, anyways, I am looking forward to reading the next book in this series.

      I am bummed that I didn't finish the RJG series, the more I think about it. So I would recommend finishing that off before picking this up. Just so you understand the directorate and the people better.
    • 3/5
      I thought it was an okay read. This was my first book I read by Keri Arthur. I felt that there were some things I should know IF I had already read the Riley Jensen series. I also didn't understand why it was such a big deal to point out that Risa needed sex. Was this just a way to throw sex into the story? I also don't like books ending on cliff hangers.
    • 4/5
      Keri Arthur begins a new series in the world she created in the Riley Jensen series. This time the main character is Risa Jones, half-Aedh and half-werewolf. Risa and her friends Ilianna and Tao met in school and now have started a restaurant together. They are all independently wealthy. Ilianna is a mare and a witch; Tao is half-human and half-werewolf. Risa has inherited some of her mother's gift of clairvoyance but she has also inherited some of the Aedh gifts from the father she has never met. Her mother uses motherly guilt to have Risa visit a children's hospital to see if the child of one of her mother's clients is gone or can be healed. Risa is astonished to learn that the child's soul has been ripped from her and destroyed, making it impossible for her to be reincarnated. Risa is also being followed by a reaper named Azrael. Usually reapers are the ones who guide souls to the light path or the dark path but Azrael isn't that kind of reapers. His job is to destroy those who escape from the dark path. He is following Risa because he believes her father is planning to seal the gates to the dark path and the light path. While this sounds, at first, like a good thing, in fact, it means that the world will run out of souls and babies will be born vegetables. Risa has never met her father but that doesn't keep Azrael and a number of others from trying to use her to get to him. The story is filled with kidnappings, attempted murders, and other mayhem as Risa and her friends try to find out who is stealing souls and what her father really wants.This is the first book in a series that has now reached seven books. Fans of urban fantasy and especially fans of the Riley Jensen series won't want to miss these.
    • 3/5
      Review courtesy of Dark Faerie TalesQuick & Dirty: Dark urban fantasy set in a deadly and mysterious world. An ongoing storyline leaves several plots unfinished at the end of this book. Opening Sentence: I’ve always seen the reapers. The Review: Risa Jones has unique skills as a half werewolf and a half Aedh. Aedh’s are most commonly referred to as angels because that is what they look like but that is not exactly what they are. As an Aedh, Risa has always been able to see the Reapers, collectors of the souls of the dead, so when one begins to follow her, she prepares to confront him but not before her mother asks her to do a favor, to see if a little girl who has fallen into a coma has already crossed over or if her soul is still in her body. One of Risa’s skills allows her to see if souls have moved on for people who are in comas or worse and this is how she realizes that someone is stealing souls. Risa then confronts Azriel about the stolen souls. Azriel is stunned that Risa can see him, almost everyone human or supernatural cannot see reapers but then Risa isn’t normal. On top of the news about stolen souls, Risa finds out Azriel is following her because he is looking for her father. He isn’t the only one looking for her father. Risa believes her father to be dead and the fact that she has never met him makes her think these people are crazy for confronting her. Her father is the prime suspect in holding keys that will unlock the three gates between the world and where the souls go and are reborn. People are using her to find these keys for good or for bad. Risa then enlists the help of her friends, Tao and Ilianna, and her “Aunt” Riley into finding who is destroying souls forever. Risa is a strong and impetuous character. She often doesn’t think about what she is going to do until she does it. She is also very highly sexual. She likes to blame this on her werewolf genes but I’m not so sure. She enters into an unemotional but very adventurous sexual relationship with an Aedh named Lucian. She is afraid of relationships since her heart was broken so sex really feels this void. She highly values friendships that she has and she does everything to keep them alive. Darkness Unbound is a spin-off of Keri Arthur’s Riley Jenson’s series. Unfortunately I have not read this series but it is one series I have entirely on my TBR pile so I was a little wary about jumping straight to this title. There were a few spoilers said but they didn’t seem to really ruin too much, just enough to tease those who may have read the previous series. Darkness Unbound really sticks with Risa and her life. Darkness Unbound is an urban fantasy that is told strictly through Risa’s first person point of view. There are two main plots going on through the story, one to find who is stealing souls and the other mystery of Risa’s father. One gets resolved while the other does not. Also, with a cliffhangerish ending, you will want the next book, Darkness Rising, setting nearby. I think if I had known that there would be a huge multistory plot line going on before I read Darkness Unbound then I may have liked this story better than I did. The worldbuilding has been fairly well established in the previous books but for me the background was pretty fantastic and refreshing with its Aedhs, Reapers, psychics and face shifting werewolves. Since this is such a huge world I did have some trouble initially getting into the story but once I did I really enjoyed this novel. Overall, Darkness Unbound sets up a mysterious new urban fantasy. This is a reasonable start up to an all new series, if you can make it past this first book the next two get much better. I would recommend having the other books in this series close by after finishing Darkness Unbound. Notable Scene: Several more empty pages followed; then came a picture of what looked like a wingless, serpent-like dragon. Unlike anything else in this old book so far, the colors were vibrant and colorful, the serpentine form drawn with such skill that the tiny violet scales almost appeared to glow in the half-light of the room. I touched it lightly, running my fingers down the jeweled spine and the spiraled tail. It almost seemed warm, as if life really did pulse underneath the luminous paint. “Fuck, Risa,” Ilianna yelled from the other kitchen. “Whatever you’re doing—“ The rest of her warning was lost in an explosion of power that knocked me backward and tore the dragon from the book. It was no picture. It was alive. The violet dragon was real and whole and powerful, and it swirled toward me—a glinting, arcane force I could feel through every fiber of my being. I screamed and scrambled backward as fast as I could, but the creature was faster. It hit my fingertips, curled up my left wrist and arm, then seemed to settle, its little claws sinking into my arm, drawing blood but not really hurting. Its scaly hide felt like ice, and the bright violet of its scales glittered jewel-like against my skin.FTC Advisory: I purchased my own copy of Darkness Unbound. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
    • 4/5
      This a new series, Dark Angels, set in the Riley Jensen world. I actually read Darkness Rising first, because I was not paying attension. This is the first book. The main character is Risa Jones, the daughter of Riley's friend. Risa was a little girl in the Jensen series.Risa is half werewolf and half Aedh. The keys to the gates of Hell are missing and Risa is the only one with the ability to find them. The contingent that controls Risa, controls the keys. Risa will not hear of it. She is in charge of her own life.I quite enjoyed the book. I really like the majority of Arthur's work.
    • 5/5
      I first fell in love with Keri Arthurs work's when discovering the epic love story that is Riley and Quinn. To say I was sad to see their story come to a conclusion was an understatement. I secretly held out for another book. It was just one of those series you didnt want to end. In fact I was ready to see Riley kicking butt while taking care of a baby.But if anyone could take their place in my heart it was little Risa all grown up and facing challenges of her own.The cover art is just brilliant. And even though the saying is that you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, it is eye catching. Having read the Riley Jenson series and knowing how she saved Risa and helped Dia, her mother, out before it was nice to see little Rissa all grown up and facing the same problems Riley seemed to run into. This book was one I could not put down, I settled in my own little world and would not step out of it at all as I kept turning the pages in anticipation.I must say, I love how the ending is a cliff hanger despite the death of a key character. Not going to say which, just letting that teaser out so fellow readers will have added incentive to buy the book. I am counting down the days until the next installment of the series is released and the book is added to my library as it is a guaranteed re-read.
    • 4/5
      Fans of the author's Riley Jensen series are going to be delighted to find that even though this series belongs to Risa, Riley and the gang are on hand to help out. Last seen using her ability to go to the gray world in between the physical and passing over when Riley was dying over twenty years ago, Risa is asked by her mother to check out a client's young daughter who is in a coma. Risa is horrified to discover the child's soul had been torn out of her body and destroyed. If that doesn't qualify for a bad day, add finding that a reaper is following you and that a number of individuals are trying to kidnap Risa in the hopes of finding out where the father-she's-never-met might be.Risa is half Helki wolf and half Aedh (a non-physical being that can take on a physical form). She's unable to shift into a wolf but carries all other wolf and Helki traits, including totally changing her features. And let's not forget the wolf's horny/free-spirited nature. "Uncle" Quinn had taught her how to use her Aedh abilities which include seeing reapers and shifting into energy. "Aunt" Riley taught her how to fight, although Risa readily admits she's not qualified to handle situations she ends up in between dealing with the soul stealer and the kidnappers. But honestly, she can't just leave things to Rhoan and the guardians to handle; Risa needs to be involved.Everyone seems to have a different agenda when it comes to why they want to find her father and this dangerous aspect of the story carries forward into the next book. Instead of dealing with Jack at the Directorate, Risa is being forced to deal directly with Madeline Hunter, the woman who created it; although she'd prefer to avoid them all together.Risa's best friends and roommates help her along the way. She shares a huge warehouse apartment with her best friends, Ilianna, a very powerful witch, and Tao, a werewolf with fire abilities. There's plenty of action throughout the book as well as some rather interesting characters.It shouldn't be necessary to read the Riley Jensen series in order to enjoy this one, but seeing what's happened to old friends and having them as minor characters was enjoyable.