Lure of the WickedAuthor: Karina Cooper
Series: Dark Mission, book 2
Available: June 28th, 2011
Publisher: Avon
ISBN-10: 006204690X
ISBN-13: 978-0062046901
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Naomi West is a Missionary with the Holy Order. She has been sent by the order to a posh spa, to find Carson, a rouge Missionary, and kill him. She finds a lot more than a simple mission.
Naomi is sent on an undercover assassin mission to kill a bad agent. She doesn’t like giving up her many piercings and not so nice clothes, to go undercover as an heiress. The first thing that bothered me, but seems beside the point is her many piercings. I don’t have a problem with them personally. I just thought it was strange for a person whose job is to kill witches. Usually any kind of fighter won’t have a lot because they can be used against them. At the start of the story I was massively confused of why she was just so negative, but as her history is explained it makes sense, unlike the piercings. Naomi might be ass kicking, but she was very hard to get into.
Phin I liked. Unlike the pervious male lead he didn’t do a lot of grunting. In fact he was a cute, rich, and sometimes a sensitive fellow. His mothers, Gemma and Lillian, own Timeless, the spa. They were my favorite characters next to Phin. The sexy scenes between Phin and Naomi are hot and heavy, and the strongest part of the novel. The only thing I didn’t like about Phin was how often he mentioned Naomi’s legs. I felt like ‘leggy’ was over used from the book before this one.
A lot of the plot is a little bit of a mystery for the reader, but it didn’t build a lot of suspense. Carson, the bad Missionary, is killing people, or trying to. The reader won’t know why towards the end. After reading it his choices at some points didn’t make sense to me. There is a nice deal of action, but it isn’t that strong. Things that seemed pretty important didn’t seem that important to Naomi. Instead of worrying about her mission she tends to start worrying more about her attraction to Phin. This might be because I didn’t feel deeply rooted in their relationship.
Altogether I was a little disappointed with this installment after the first one, Blood of the Wicked. The suspense was not as strong, and I had a real problem getting into the characters. Apart from that the sexy scenes are hot, and yes, very sexy. I, like Naomi, wanted to get out of the spa and see the chaos of the post-apocalyptic Seattle. Despite my misgivings I look forward to the next installment, which stars a character I didn’t expect.
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Reviews for other books in the series:
Blood of the Wicked
6 Comments:
I love reading other people's views. I actually didn't like Blood of the Wicked but did like this one... in no small part because I didn't connect with the H/h in the first one. I am curious with how she'll redeem the brother in the next one...
Thanks for the review. I'm still not sure what this book is about, and what missionairies have to do with it. Unless you mean something entirely different than deep-believing people going to Africa to bring their beliefs to other people not really interested in it?
I like reading other peoples reviews as well Jen.
I am sorry Aurian if I didn't make it clear. In this future time, or alternate time, Witches are hunted down by Church Missionaries and killed.
Thanks for sharing your review today. Your efforts are appreciated.
You know a lot 2nd book in series are like that but hopefully book 3 ties them all together :)
Great review!
1. My mom told me to always take my ear rings off before fighting. Yes, my mom was the type to say, "Don't walk away. Give her lickin's!" The last part is slang for Kick her Ass.
2. Phin- cute and sensitive fellow. Uhhh, not sure.
3. Missionary with the Holy Order? Never read this one but that sounds religious-ish... not to hot on that front.
Yeah, the cover looks HOT though but it would be great of the content measured up!
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