Review Silver Tongued Devil by Jaye Wells
Now that the threat of war has passed, Sabina Kane is ready to focus on the future. Her relationship with Adam Lazarus is getting stronger and she’s helping her sister, Maisie, overcome the trauma of her captivity in New Orleans. Even Giguhl is managing to stay out of trouble thanks to the arrival of Pussy Willow and his new roller derby team. But as much as Sabina wants to feel hopeful about the future, part of her doesn’t believe that peace is possible.
Her suspicions are confirmed when a string of sadistic murders threatens to stall treaty negotiations between the mages and the vampires. Sabina pitches in to find the killer, but her investigation soon leads her down dark paths that have her questioning everyone she thought she could trust. And the closer she gets to the killer, the more Sabina begins to suspect this is one foe she may not be able to kill.
There’s nothing better than a smooth slick talking kick ass heroine who knows how to hold her own and get it done when the time comes for fighting and standing ground and thats who Sabina Kane was for me. Until this novel. There are so many times I wanted her to back hand people, Alexis her fellow investigator in the murders, Adam her lover who acted like a sanctimonious prick for most of the book, Masie, who just would not even take the first steps to heal herself until the very end of the book, and who just needed to be shaken into life again.
Masie was having such a difficult time coming back down from the extreme abuse she suffered at the hands of her mmother that it was amazing she was able to cope at all, yet there were so many different parts that showed she couuld have healed if only people would have stopped feeling sorry for her and just kicked her in the ass a little.
The whole novel was less about action and more about setting up emotional conflicts and ties for the next books, so that in the final book out this summer the big things can happen. I get why this book is necessary at the sme time as I loathe it because I’ve gotten used to seeing Sabina being the kickass in your face heroine I’d come to love.
While there was some “big” action at the end, this was a very slow book for fans of the series, becase you are used to seeing this as an extremely fast paced series with characters who routinly do amazing things and ppush all sorts of limits with their bold and brash attitudes, and though this was the “character building” “thinking mans’s” book of the series it also was not done so well that I fell straight into it, without any issues or problems either.
All in all, fans of the series will read it, should read it because it sets up the net book amazingly well and foreshadows some coming conflicts that are sure to be spectacular, but if you haven’t read this before, don’t diive into this particular one.
Overall Rating: B-
