From the Grave by Kresley Cole

Story 3 of 5 stars

Heat 3 of 5 stars

Series – The Arcana Chronicles

Main characters – Jackson Deveaux, Evangeline Greene, ‘Death’ Aric Domīnija, Kentarch Mgaya, Matthew, Circe, Richter, Lark, Zara, Joules, Sol, Gabriel

III. The Empress, Our Lady of Thorns, Evangeline ‘Evie’ Greene – She’s Mother Nature with a dark side… the Red Witch. Torn between Aric and Jack and pregnant with Aric’s child. Trying to end the game so no more of her friends has to die.

XIII. Death, the Endless Knight, Aric – He’s the bringer of death and winner of past games. He’s planned and plotted for centuries but his love for Evie and his unborn child has changed everything.

Jackson Deveaux – The Hunter, has loved Evie for years. He would do anything to protect her and her child.

While they prepare for Evie’s child to be born, hoping it will end the game. They also make plans to face off with Richter and Zara who are bent on destroying them all.

As this is the final book in the series, I want to be careful not to give anything away. I have enjoyed this series over the years and have grown attached to the various characters. Especially Evie, Jackson and Aric. I’m torn about this final installment. It took me months of starting and stopping to get through this book. It felt like traveling through mud with brief glimpses of sunshine and then back to the mud, until about three-fourths of the book. The last quarter was more in line with what I expected and hoped for from this installment. But getting there was a slog and for the first time ever, I wanted to just skip to the end of the book to find out how it all ended. I didn’t but it was a close thing.

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Patriot Games by Tom Clancy, narrated by Scott Brick

Story 4 of 5 stars

Series – Jack Ryan

Main character – Jack Ryan

Listened to audio narrated well by Scott Brick. I liked his voice; it had good pacing and was easy to listen to.

Jack Ryan is a former Marine, former financial broker and is now teaching history and giving lectures. He has a brilliant, analytical mind and has been sought after by the FBI.

Ryan takes his family on a London vacation and ends up saving royalty from an attack by Irish terrorists. This takes Jack down a rabbit hole of being a hero in England, befriending royalty and becoming a target for vengeful terrorists.

An engaging read but I was disappointed by some really stupid decision-making by an otherwise brilliant group of people.

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