Guildhunter Series

Angel’s Blood and Archangel’s Kiss

Nalini Singh

Published by Hachette Australia

Reviewer: Jeremy Kong

Another series in the non-traditional urban fantasy style that is becoming so popular. In this style we see the characters being depicted as more human with human problems, and it gives a new look to old characters.

In the cities people can petition the “archangels” who run them to become vampires with all the benefits that entails – immortality, power, beauty. In return you are expected to offer yourself for a hundred years service. There are those who break the contract. The Guild Hunters are mortals who track these contract breakers down and return them for punishment. The punishments are no light thing – if you are immortal, you can have every bone in your body broken over a very long time.

Archangels are not the godly creatures of legend – they are a powerful, immortal and utterly amoral group. After all, these are the ones who create vampires as servants.

Angel’s Blood

Elena Deveraux is a Guild hunter. She has acutely developed senses including a sense of smell that allows her to track vampires and it also makes for some interesting descriptions of the vampires and angels she comes into contact with.

“ he smelt like sex and pain”

She is hired by an archangel Raphael to track down a rogue archangel who has gone on a savage killing rampage. She will need all her skills as a hunter and a woman to fulfil the contract. There is as much danger from the possessive Raphael, who oozes sex appeal, as from the rogue. Elena herself is pretty strong with the sex appeal.

Archangel’s Kiss

Raphael, the Archangel of modern-day New York, is now Elena’s lover. He has fed her ambrosia and turned her into an angel, but she needs time to adapt to her new powers. The other Archangels may not allow her that much time. There is a plot to kill her because of what she is. There is constant intrigue between the archangels, always looking for a weakness in each other. Elena may be Raphael’s weakness. To Elena it may be Raphael’s arrogant assumption that love means total possession. She has enough to deal with just there, but there is a series of crimes that shake the Angles to the core.

These books are a great read when you get past all the lavish erotic descriptions of the male characters. These books would be great to give to your girlfriend or wife (or both) if you want to get a bit of action.

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