Warning: This book includes mature content such as: sexual content, and/or drug and/or alcohol use, and/or violence.
Reaver by Larissa Ione Series: Lords of the Underworld #5
Published by Forever on 17 December 2013
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance
Pages: 383
Format: Kindle
Source: Kindle Purchase
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WARRIOR OF HEAVEN
Reaver is an angel with a past, a record, and a less-than-heavenly attitude. Powerful enough to fight alongside the fiercest battle angels-and crazy enough to risk his wings on a one-way mission to hell-he's agreed to go where no angel has ever gone before...to steal the most seductive and dangerous prize of Satan himself.
ANGEL OF HELL
Harvester is one of the Fallen, a once-heroic angel who sacrificed her wings to work as an undercover agent in hell. But now her cover has been blown, and she's been doomed to an eternity of agonizing torture. Even if Reaver can snatch her away from Satan's lair, even if they can fight their way out of the underworld's darkest depths, there is one thing Harvester can never escape-her newfound thirst for an angel's blood...
What can I say? Reaver was an amazing story, with a long trek through Sheoul, lots of innuendos, some nasty angels, good demons and so much intrigue my head was spinning.
My Reaver review:
I have started reading this series completely out of order, so I may have missed a thing or two – however, as you can see, I still loved Reaver! The writing is so good, and the characters grab your heartstrings from the beginning without ever letting go. There are incredible fights, both verbal and physical, romance, and of course a level of intrigue that is very hard to find. Reaver definitely showed a new side of himself here, especially because he managed to stay calm and actually do something constructive by trying to save Harvester. And for once, possible because she’d just endured months of torture, she didn’t have all her shields up, so she was much less prickly than usual.
The contradictions of this story don’t only inhabit Harvester, Reaver has his own, but also, the whole universe where there are angels and demons, and the angels are really supposed to be on the side of ‘good’, there are exceptions to every rule. Fast paced, the story took me first on a long, and quite scary trip to Sheoul, then there were so many other things happening it was hard to remember where, exactly, I was 🙂
Written in third person past tense, mostly from Reaver’s point of view, but also showing the reader quite a bit of what happens inside of Harvester’s head, Reaver is a very solid installment in the Lords of the Underworld / Demonica series. These demons are truly one of a kind, and I had almost forgotten how much I love them!
Some of my favorite Reaver quotes:
Enjoy. She was going to enjoy something while enduring and eternity of torture. The very fact that the word enjoy had broken through the gray matter of her brain at all was a measure of how high a threshold for pain and how low a threshold for pleasure she now had.
Reaver held harvester’s frail body tight against his as he navigated the final steps of a winding ledge that dropped them into a world of weird.
Only Harvester could push someone away while simultaneously keeping them close. She was the most contradictory person he’d ever met.
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About Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms
Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.
I haven’t read this series yet, but I’d dearly love to… I only read her Moonbound clan vampire series which I really liked 😀 One day ?…
I really enjoy her Moonbound Clan vampire series, too, Iza. This series, though… it’s so, so good! With creatures you can hardly imagine!
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Ah, Reaver. I so loved his story. One thing I loved the most was that when you see bad boy turns good, it is usually, well, a bad BOY. I loved that she did a gender swap here and had the bad girl that is really a “good” girl and has the redemption. It was a nice change. Great review.
I agree, it was awesome to see the changes in Harvester, and also Reaver did have a lot to make up for as well 🙂
Oh Lex, you’re making me wonder why I’ve not picked up this series! It sounds like it delivers everything I could want in a PNR. I’m tossing this series atop the TBR pile and hopefully once I’ve caught up in a few other series (or finished them) I can embark on this one. 😀
Hope you’re having a lovely day! **BIG HUGS**
Ha! Don’t toss it up too far, you’ll never be able to reach it :p I’m sure you’ll love this series, because it’s really well done – the world-building, the characters, the stories all of it 😀
Have a terrific Tuesday, Brandee. *BIG HUGS*
Nice review! This series is new to me but I’m curious. Seems like a very intriguing world.
It’s an amazing universe, Shane, and any kind of supernatural being you can think of is probably a part of the cast of characters, too! Thanks for stopping by!
I’ve had this on my kindle for eons. I think I need to bump it up on my tbr pile.
I had it on my kindle for a long time before I finally read it, too, Angela. And now, I’m thinking I should have read it long ago 😀
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I don’t know why I stopped reading this series. The 4 horsemen of the apocalypse is a fantastic plot and I was wondering if all the seals are going to break and all that. Also Harvester is definitely a favorite character of mine, she’s very anti-hero. Definitely need to catch up!
LOve the review, Lexxie!
Yeah, it’s a really great plot, plus I absolutely love this creative universe and all the creatures that inhabit it 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Braine!
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This is a series I seriously want to dive into Lexxie. I like the perspectives.
It’s so good! And I really enjoy the mythology, too!
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No wonder this sounds so good..I read book one..and own book two *facepalm*
LOL this has happened to me before, too, Kim… there are so many series, and if I have only read one or two, it’s not sure I remember offhand that I’ve read any at all 😀
It’s always fascinating to read a book from a different pov, and it sounds like getting into Reaver’s head was really fascinating!
Getting into Reaver’s head was definitely something! He’s been through a lot through the centuries 🙂
This is my next book in the series, I about keeled over when I read the last one and Harvester’s role was revealed! I’m a huge nutso for this series, I’ve read the entire thing, even back to the Demonica beginnings 🙂 I’m so glad you liked this one!!!
I think I’ll pick this one up b/c I’m back into LOVING PNR again – great review!
Me, too, Kristin! It was almost too much, and there’s still a lot going on in Reaver, too. I loved it 🙂 And I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.
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I have only read one by her-Moonbound-and I really liked it. This series sounds so good, I just don’t know if I can add another series right now. Thanks for posting this 🙂
I’ve only read the first of the Moonbound series so far, and I really enjoyed her different take on vampire in that. This series is really long so far, so I can completely understand if you don’t feel like it’s a good idea to add it right now, Lorna.