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    Darkness Devours
    Darkness Devours
    Darkness Devours
    Audiobook12 hours

    Darkness Devours

    Written by Keri Arthur

    Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

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    About this audiobook

    Keri Arthur is the New York Times best-selling author of the wildly popular Dark Angels novels. Taking listeners to the ominous Guardian World, Arthur continues the tale of half-werewolf, half-aedh heroine Risa Jones. When vampires begin turning up dead, Risa hunts for the killer in hopes the vampire council will lift the execution order on her life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 26, 2012
    ISBN9781470323691
    Darkness Devours
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    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
      The third book still has Risa trying to find the keys but none of the keys are found in this one and it takes more of a vampire side story to the main arc. Still enjoyable and Risa is trying to make a choice in her love life even if it isn't always the best one. I still like the setting and and I will keep reading the books for now.
    • 5/5


      I started reading this series earlier this May and even though the last book annoyed me enough about everything that I nearly call it quits. To be honest, this book redeemed itself. I enjoyed it thoroughly and can't wait for the fourth book on 6th of November 2012. Since I didn't quite do a proper review to either of the books and this being the review of the third book, I'll give some summary to to the series which if you don't mind me giving some spoilers to the early books.

      Darkness Devours was the latest installment for Keri Arthur's Dark Angel which is an urban fantasy series about a half-Helki-werewolf and half-Aedh Risa Jones, a successful restaurateur who sometimes aids her psychic mother with her powers of crossing the planes between the living and dead.

      In the first book, Risa was helping her mother to check on a dying girl in a hospital. Once she's there, she found out the dying little girl was already dead since her soul was being ripped off savagely by an unknown wraith. Doing so, the little girl soul will never be reborn. She was also well aware of being followed by a warrior angel and in her rage, he found out that he can see him. He eventually told her that he was sent to find keys to hell and only she can find the keys. With an angel as a bodyguard, things didn't get any better for her especially when she felt animal attraction to the powerful being which she found solace in the arm of an Aedh, Lucian, who had saved her in a surprised attack by people who wanted to keep her away from the investigation. She then began earnestly investigate more of the killings and found out everything was involved around the real estate of the town where a powerful magical ley line exist and there were someone powerful wanted buying the entire area by forcefully killing or threatening the land owners. While she was focusing on the case, many powerful supernatural creatures started to target her because of her father who was rumored to be in town. She found out that her Aedh father had created 3 keys that can permanently lock or open the gates of hell and Risa was the only one who can find all of them. Risa who was unwillingly being coerced to the quest to find all of them with everyone threatening the lives of her loved ones which in the end claimed the life of her mother.

      In the second book, Risa was in severe depression and distraught when she found her mother being literally torn apart in her house. Investigation by the Directorate gives her no leads to what may have killed her, the Directorate's head, Madeline Hunter, offers Risa the vampire council's resources to look into her mother's case if she was to help the Vampire's with cases that require Risa's expertise in exchange. When members of the vampire council started to die mysteriously, Risa was ordered to find the culprit. Her Aedh father suddenly gave her more clues to where the first key was and Risa had to piece everything together including finding a book that was stolen from her to prevent the Razvan from retrieving it. Things went awry in every sort of way with kidnappings, torturing, lies and blackmail, things seems to be at its end for Risa.

      In this book, Darkness Devours continued from the disparity of the second book with Risa still intending to find out who is behind the killings involved with the ley line's land requisition and the connection to her mother's demise. She met up with her ex-lover, Jak, a were-wolf, journalist who had tried to use her and her mother with the story about them to the paper and left Risa broken and betrayed. This time, she offered him an exclusive in exchange to his investigation skills to find the elusive John Nadler who was behind the consortium that was buying the lands. After the meeting, she and Azriel was attacked by powerful beings that was send to kidnap Risa by any other means, narrowly escaping them, Risa changed her features to avoid being targeted again. Madeline Hunter called up again and gave her another case involving several vampires that were find murdered and eaten after they left a vampire club. There, Risa found out that the vampires were using specially bred humans that are specifically being used to feed the vampires. In one of the room, she felt angry ghosts that were murdered in vampire's blood frenzies and found that there were dark creatures attracted to these dark energies and precede to appease the ghosts' anguish by targeting the blood-addicted vampires. Risa was forced to accept the case because the council will decided to kill her if she weren't able to find the culprit within 72 hours.

      One of the main reason I love the series was the intricate multiple of plots Keri Arthur's had weaved within each of her books. There are major plot around the series which was Risa's quest of finding the keys but the books instead focus on the continuation of the case in the first book which affected Risa the most. There was also side plots like Hunter's assignments which Risa was forced to undertake since the second book. Overall, it may overwhelm the readers but to me, its like an unconventional procedural crime story. There are plenty of suspense and supernatural action scenes which satisfies my blood/gore cravings. The story is structured nicely around Risa that I can't help but sympathized her a lot. She was one unnatural creature who wanted normal life with her family and friends but unwillingly being forced around by people who hurt her and her loved ones enough that made her fear and distrust everyone. I do like seeing character complexities to this extend which I found lacking in most of the books I read. Since I like urban fantasy books in this way instead of conventional paranormal romances storylines, I do recommend this if you like serious approach in supernatural's main female character that have other motives instead of a major storyline with alpha male saving the character and killing the antagonist.

      There's also a blooming romance elements with Risa's attraction to the Mijai reaper, the fallen Aedh and a the newly addition werewolf. With the world's conflict kept forcing their problems down on her throat, she crave for companionship and normalcy in life. She was confused with her attraction to Azriel who in turn was aware off since he can read her mind but they refused to act on it. She started to be uncomfortable around Lucian who is an Aedh who is incapable to feel for anything and instead intend on using her body to satisfy their need. Until Risa found out he was extracting information from her mind and kept pressuring her about it. This time, I'm so glad that Risa's strong attitude around Lucian because to me he is very suspicious since last book. Jak was Risa's past lover whom she had imagined a life with but he had betrayed her for his career advancement. Personally, I sympathized with Risa's inability to find her happy-ever-afters but it does made the serial a good read and destroy any sense of predictability to her romantic fate.

      I was fairly disappointed with the second book because Risa was constantly being forced in situation that made her helpless like a classic damsel in distress and she had to depend on Azriel and Lucian to get through the conflicts. Personally, the arc with her as a forced private eye is much better than minor story arc focusing on her choosing Lucian or Azriel. I really like the way it goes with Azriel and Risa now especially with their developing relationship since the last two books. With more things started to bring the series to its full motion, I am looking forward to the fourth book since I have read the excerpt at the end of the book and very anxious about the continuation.

      I think there will be three more books in the series. But looking at the publication rate, I think the series will end quicker. I really do hope so.
    • 4/5
      Review courtesy of Dark Faerie TalesQuick & Dirty: Dark urban fantasy that amps up Risa’s relationships and the action.Opening Sentence: We do what we have to do—we track these people down by whatever means necessary.The Review:Risa Jones’ life is once again held in the hands of Madeline Hunter and the Vampire Council. Risa has only 72 hours to prove herself by finding what is cannibalizing vampires or else she will be executed. She is once again drawn into a vampire underworld that she didn’t even know existed. Risa really wants to stop these gruesome acts on humans but she knows that to do so would only be foolish.Darkness Devours continues with Risa trying to find the remaining two keys her father is forcing her to find. Risa is still being watched closely by friend and foe who want to get their hands on the keys either to open the gates or to keep them closed. These gates have the potential to unleash hell on earth or to keep souls from reincarnating which will not bode well for the human race. After a fight with fire elementals that left Risa’s friend Tao hurt badly, Risa starts to rely only on herself and Azriel to protect her friends and keep them from harm’s way.Risa foolishly enlists her horrible ex-boyfriend Jak Talbott for his skills as a journalist. Risa is still trying to find out who is behind the murders. She has a name but she needs more information on this secretive man and Jak has the skills to find him.Little is seen of the sexy and mysterious Lucian, which is fine by me. I think there is something fishy with him anyways even though Risa trusts him for some reason. Az and Risa’s relationship takes a giant leap (Yes!). Risa is having conflicting emotions about her relationships. She is still too scared to surrender to her feelings and hides behind self-deprecation and hurtful words. She is worried about having her heart broken.Darkness Devours is action-packed and intense. The two different storylines play out equally, the key storyline plays out heavily but still adds more mystery to the story that will be played out later. Risa is learning some hard lessons that are going to play into her immediate future.In the end, Darkness Devours is the book I have been waiting for in this series and not just because of the sexy Az. This novel really delved into both storylines which seem to have more in common with each other instead of being separate cases. This was a pivotal book in this series and it has sold me into this world. I absolutely cannot wait to see what happens next in Darkness Hunts.Notable Scene:“But,” he said softly, lightly pressing his palm against my cheek, “I can share what it is like to be with a reaper in human form. And perhaps in the end that will be less dangerous for us both.”He didn’t mean physically dangerous. He meant emotionally. And he was wrong on both counts. He was breaking all reaper rules, and I was risking my heart yet again—how could any form of relationship between us not be considered dangerous?And yet, as he’d noticed earlier, sometimes the gain was worth the punishment—or the broken heart, as I suspected might be the case for me if I wasn’t very, very careful.“I don’t care what form you’re in, Azriel,”I said, meeting his gaze steadily. “I just want you. Here. Now.”His hand slid from my cheek to the back of my neck, the gently tugged me closer.“Well, then,” he said, his words a warm caress that made my lips tingle, “I guess I have no choice.”FTC Advisory: Penguin/Signet provided me with a copy of Darkness Devours. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
    • 4/5
      I had not picked up the first two books in the Dark Angel series until I received DARKNESS DEVOURED but loved reading them back to back. I loved Keri Arthur's Riley Jenson Guardian series so I had no doubt that I would enjoy this one. In the Riley series Risa is just a little girl so it was neat to see her all grown up and I also loved that Riley is a part of this series as well even if she is in the background. The book takes place in the same world as Riley's series so I have no complaints on that front and I love being back there. The progress of the storyline and the growth of the characters progresses nicely with each book. There is plenty of action and scenes filled with situations that feel like it would be impossible to escape from. Romance/relationship thoughts....Risa and Azriel... SO frustrating and filled with sexual tension towards each other but wow they make a good team, can't wait to see them in book 4. Risa and Lucian... I can NOT stand Lucian, yeah they have good sex together but he is so involved in her problems I just KNOW it and cant wait until he is revealed for the scum he is. I really enjoyed how Risa acted towards Lucian is DARKNESS DEVOURED and hope it keeps up. Final thought? I'm so glad I decided to read the series. If you have not read the first two books I'm sure you could jump in and not be lost but why would you want to? Go back and read, you wont be disappointed. Bring on DARKNESS HUNTS.I gave it 4/5 stars
    • 3/5
      Review courtesy of All Things Urban FantasyReminiscent of the early Anita Blake books, Keri Arthur’s third Dark Angels book is an action packed and highly sensual urban fantasy. DARKNESS DEVOURS was my first foray into this series, but Arthur did a good job of weaving important previous events into this story so I was able to mostly jump right in.The plot is complex involving multiple death threats, tracking down the last member of a supernatural terrorist group, finding the mystical keys to heaven and hell, and hunting down a serial killing monster. On the personal side, Risa’s romantic life is no less complex. She’s forced to seek help from Jak, an ex who brutally betrayed her years ago, deal with a confusing–potentially mutual–attraction to Azriel, an austere reaper who is mostly detached from human emotions, and evaluate her ongoing arrangement with the fallen Aedh Lucian, her bed buddy/body guard with highly questionable motives (who is responsible for most of the very erotic sex scenes in DARKNESS DEVOURS). It’s a credit to Arthur’s characterizations that I didn’t get too frustrated with Risa’s many suitors. Her situations is anything but conventional, but I mostly understood her reasons for keeping it this way (although I do have my personal preference for who she should end up with).This is an intriguing urban fantasy series with a hefty dose of romance and robust worldbuilding that I’ll probably go back and catch from the beginning. If you’re a fan of Arthur’s Riley Jenson Guardian series, you won’t want to miss reading this spin-off. The fourth book in the Dark Angels series is titled DARKNESS HUNTS and will be released on November 6, 2012. It’s going on my TBR pile already.Sexual Content:Several graphic sex scenes