The Tampa nightclub
Shadows, in Ybor City, has been more than just a place of employment for
Sin. For the last year and a half she has waited tables at Shadows and
has not had to look over her shoulder for the destroyers who constantly
searched out her kind. Hidden among the others who were not 'norm', she
knew she had finally found a home and the family she had never had
before.
However, her boss Alec's upcoming wedding has brought an influx of guests to the club; a destroyer among them.
This book contains adult sexual situations and is intended for readers of legal age in the country in which they reside.
However, her boss Alec's upcoming wedding has brought an influx of guests to the club; a destroyer among them.
This book contains adult sexual situations and is intended for readers of legal age in the country in which they reside.
Embracing
Sin
was an excellent addition to the Shadows series. Not only do we get to find out
what kind of being Sin is, we also get to attend Alec and Kira’s wedding!!!
Sin’s identity eluded me more than those characters featured in the previous
books. Her ability to incite lust in her potential bedmates reminded me somewhat
of a succubus, but because she didn’t feed from her partners that eliminated
that possibility. Even meeting Cham, the Destroyer (which we learned was what
Sin’s kind called angels), didn’t really clue me in. Nope. I am ashamed to
admit that it wasn’t until Cham’s brother Kiel labeled her that I got it. I
mean, why else would we have angels in a book if not to balance out demons?
Yep,
that’s right, Sin is a lust demon. Even though she’s not hurting anyone, it’s
an angel’s duty to rid the world of demons. However Cham sees his duty a little
differently – rather than banishing the demon back to hell, he attempts to
“rehabilitate” them by teaching them about love. As much as I loved this
concept, I didn’t realize how important Cham’s approach was until Kiel arrived
on the scene and decided to destroy the lust demon, sight unseen – hence the
Destroyer moniker. Kiel’s attitude actually surprised me because of how much it
differed from Cham’s genuine interest in getting to know Sin, and boy did they
ever get to know each other! Good and Evil in bed together equals sinfully hot
sex scenes. But when an angel and a demon find their other half in each other,
that’s a love story even better than the hot sex.
I will
say that it still baffles me that the employees of Shadows can work together
for a year or more and never suspect that the others aren’t human. While I’m
sure that Alec knows which of his employees are norms and which aren’t, there
seems to be an automatic assumption among the staff that all new hires are
norms. Usually this makes for some rather entertaining reveals. However, when
Kiel’s arrival sent Sin into escape mode, the reveal was not the least bit funny
as Nick was not only confronted with Sin’s true form, but also with a blast of
lust that nearly caused him to rape Sin – at least that was the scene Jordy
encountered. I have to say that even as great as the wedding was, how intense
the battle between Cham and Kiel was, how heartbreaking Cham’s sacrifice was,
and how heartwarming the end was, the scene I probably enjoyed most of all was
when Kira put Kiel in his place – there was just something about itty, bitty,
underestimated Kira handing Kiel his ass that I REALLY enjoyed. As I have
previously read Shattered Illusions,
I must now wait and hope that Ms. Cothern writes another installment in the
Shadows series. Until then, I can enjoy rereads of the series when the need to
visit the Shadows nightclub hits me.
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