Title: Requiem
Series: Fallen Fire: Book Two
Author: Richard Amos
Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited
Length: 268 Pages
Category: Urban Fantasy
Rating: 3.75 Stars
At a Glance: Requiem gets off to a bit of a slow start, but once Richard Amos escalates the chaos and intrigue, I was left nothing less than curious about where he’s taking his characters next.
Reviewed By: Lisa
Blurb: The truth isn’t always beautiful…
They say knowledge is power, but do I want it? For a deadly creature like me, power comes with a high price tag. Still, it would be nice to fit all the confusing pieces together to fully understand myself. I’m stuck at a crossroads. Any direction isn’t my kind of ideal, yet I’ll need to pick one soon before a choice is made for me.
It’s not just my life that’s been turned upside down…
Charlie, my Felineblood friend and aspiring private detective, is tangled up in my mess, the wrong kind of attention pointing his way too. But what is actually going on? With various players looming over the chessboard we find ourselves on, we have to be strong enough to survive the game.
Maybe then I can claw back some sense of normality.
Review: After what I felt was a bit of a slow start, author Richard Amos successfully stepped up the action and suspense by several notches in Requiem, the second book in the Fallen Fire series, to deliver a story full of intrigues and revelations, exposing an inescapable past and delivering a fate that pulls Zayn in two and tears him away from Charlie just when they’ve admitted they want to be more than friends.
Amos continues the world-building in Angelica City, a place where angels are the pinnacle of the justice system, and the devil is literally in the details of a bid to usurp their power. Lucifer is as Lucifer does—he cheats, he deceives, he tempts, and he manipulates—seducing Zayn to face the truth and accept his destiny. A future that includes Charlie dying in order to fulfill Lucifer’s plans. Lucifer’s estranged wife Lilith figures prominently as well, as she is bent upon stopping her nefarious husband’s ascent to power, which was a great source of conflict. I was rooting against both of them and their corrupt ways, and now that Zayn has accepted he’s more than a Humanblood and has confronted a past that’d lain dormant until Lucifer forced him to remember, there’s the added conflict of Zayn being the villain of his own story. For now, at least. And there’s also the wondering what will happen to Charlie now that he’s been left behind to, presumably, fend for himself against powerfully sinister forces.
While Zayn has inarguably evolved into something extraordinary (whether it’s in a good way remains to be seen), Charlie remains the same, which isn’t bad since I liked the Felineblood from the start. Zayn isn’t what I’d call a sympathetic character—he’s a loner who’s inarguably done some bad things over the course of his existence, and yet there are compelling reasons to try to understand his circumstances and why he did the things he’s done. Charlie is there to pick up the slack in the sympathetic hero department, though, with his sweet, almost innocent, approach to everything, and I felt for the soft-hearted, wanna-be detective in his ever so complicated relationships. In fact, I liked all the conundrums the author introduces in the story, moral or otherwise. Those added to the imagination of a world where angels and demons and the devil and dragons chaotically coexist has left me nothing less than curious to discover what mayhem the author has in store for his characters next.
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