Volume 7

Rehvenge is one tough bad ass and is known to many as the Reverend. He isn’t above killing when needed or dealing drugs and selling sex to keep his sister and mother from the evil of his other half. Rehvenge is a sympath. Well his father was a sympath and his mother a vampire. A sympath is a subspecies of the vampire known for the manipulations of emotions to others. The vampire race had killed them to near extinction. Now when a sympath is known, he or she is sent to the colony up north and with Rehvenge being a half breed, he wouldn’t last long there. His sister doesn’t know about him. Only the Brotherhood know his secret. He’s been blackmailed by the princess for years and had to do evil and dirty things for her and pay her in cut rubies every month. He had to run the drugs and sell his girls at the club just to take care of the princess’ price. He takes care of his sympath side by shooting dopamine into his veins but the downsides of that medicine is extreme. He is cold to the bone all the time and he has no sensations at all.

Ehlena is a vampire just trying to take care of her father, who is suffering from voices in his head. She works at the clinic and happened to get the short end of the stick when all the other nurses declined to take care of Rehvenge. For all the nurses, he made them nervous but she seemed to handle it better than the rest.

Events start to change for not just Rehvenge and Ehlena but the Brotherhood as well.  Many vampires from the glymera get killed by lessers. No one seems to know how the lessers found out about the clinic’s location or that of the rest of the aristocracy. The only result they could come up with was Lash. He was taken from the clinic, on his death bed. The Omega has plans for him. The Brothers try their best to defend their race but they can only do so much. After trying to get everyone to evacuate to their safe houses, their hands were tied. Whether they went or not wasn’t up to the Brothers.

John has fallen in love with Xhex but doesn’t know her little secret of being a sympath either. He also gets surprised by Tohr coming home. He doesn’t know how to feel and spends a lot of time getting drunk and sleeping around so he wouldn’t feel anything. He is alone except for Quinn and Blay. Quinn finally opens his mouth about Blay trying to keep him from following and doing anything stupid.

There is so much to tell about this book. There are twists and turns and no way you’ll be able to put it down. All the dirty laundry gets aired in this one. What a page turner. The characters are so alive and I have to give it up to Ward for making them come out and I hope that she keeps up the good work. I’ll definitely recommend this book.