why isn't this a 20 book series b/c its so much better than what is out there now. ( )

The twist from the ending of the first book? When the demon told Rhiannon to choose a number and she chose 101, she had no idea that would be the number of years the demon would send her into the future. She lands in a horrible post-apocalyptic city, where vampires are in charge and humans are not much more than cattle. So many people she knew are now dead. Disco is dead.

The demon told Rhiannon that if she gave Disco a message the demon's claim on him would be over. What she didn't know was that the demon's claim transferred to her.

She's desperate to find a way to travel back in time, give the message to Disco, and prevent this horrible future.

This book followed the same pattern as the first, for me. It would have been 2.5/5 stars except Saare throws in a twist that changes everything. Now I'm anxiously awaiting the next book.

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This book is absolutely insane. Deliciously so.

Right from the beginning when Rhiannon is transferred 100 years in the future the whole book is a blur. Everything is moving so fast your brain stumbles. It's like WHAT?! HOLD ON... WHOA, WHAT? SAY AGAIN?

I think I simply inhaled this book I read it so fast. Definitely an improvement over the first one, although a lot of things are not explained: for example, extra speed and healing abilities Rhiannon seemed to have picked up in the future.

Despite the idiot testosterone filled men surrounding her the girl is a total bad-ass, ruthless, snarky and bloodthirsty. I loved her!

It's the men I had issues with. They don't listen to her, it's like they are not only deaf, but brain dead as well. There is a Huge Misunderstanding, bouts of rage and a bad possessive streak... *sigh* I really wanted to shoot them all - Carter, Payne and Disco, and be done with it.

Also Rhiannon went out of her way to save Disco and then when he behaved like a jealous jerk for a millisecond she wanted to have nothing to do with him. Talk, people, talk! Communication is the key, for God's sake!

Apart from that I highly recommend the book for all UF fans. Its a fast and furious ride if you feel like it *wink* ( )

Rhiannon has been transported 100 years into the future, reminding her just what a bad idea it is to make a deal with a demon

This is not a hopeful future. She learns far more about the world than she imagined – the existence of half-demons and werewolves for a start. But she also learns about the ominous future awaiting them – the Renfield syndrome, wiping out a vast amount of humanity and leaving many of the rest enslaved to vampires – or languising under the werewolves’ dubious… protection.

Rhiannon has to find her place in this war torn, devastated world – and desperately try to find a way home.

Any regular reader of this blog will know that I have a habit of continuing series long past the time when I should have given up on them. It takes a lot for me to let a series go once I’ve read the first book – and this book reminded me why I do that

I wasn’t a big fan of the first book for several reasons. But this book was a massive step up.

Firstly, it was much more original. With the introduction of time travel, the wider array of supernatural creatures and even a dystopian element we were definitely outside of the Urban-fantasy-by-the-numbers game. The world setting was different from anything I’d read before and while the various supernatural creatures weren’t immensely, the way they interacted with the world was. In fact, the fact the vampires et al were quite familiar worked well in a setting that was so different from what we usually see

On top of that, Rhiannon was the driver of the plot for her own reasons, following her own planning and according to her own, personal motivations. She refuses to be manipulated, adamantly refuses any attempt to protect or shelter her (especially when that protection means imprisonment” and equally refuses to be pulled into anyone else’s agenda – even that of loved ones. She knows what needs to be done, she knows what she needs – with the looming deadline of the demon contract in front of her as well as the alien world she finds herself placed in – and refuses to be pulled into comfortable, safe existences even with people she cares about or even when it would be easier to do so.

As an extra bonus, Rhiannon actually went about achieving her aims with something resembling sense, planning and coherent thinking which was nice to see (ok, her success was based on huge chunks of luck and a magical-shiny that is ridiculously overpowered and renders far too many conflicts sadly anticlimactic, but she used her over-powered deus ex with decent common sense).

Personally, I also really appreciate Rhiannon’s refusal to forgive. When she is abused or wronged Rhiannon doesn’t just let it go – I like that because we have culturally absorbed an idea that forgiveness is some kind of duty; that somehow if we do not forgive people who have harmed us then we are failing as a person in some way. I appreciate the subversion of that – Rhiannon does not always accept an apology, in fact, if she has been hurt she won’t even give the person a chance to apologise: she will create, demand her own space away from them and no matter how much they want to reconcile, she will not be open to that until she is ready.

The plot itself is engaging, albeit a rather jarring departure from the first book, in the way it revealed more about the world, the conflicts and the future that was looming before them all. The plot was not only good, but it set this series up in a way the first book didn’t – we have direction, we have focus, we have a character who has finally proven themselves as being other than generic (and other than annoying). After an initial stumble, this book did everything the first book should have – I now have a world, a cast of characters and a meta-plot to enjoy and be engaged by – and I am both.

The weakest element of this book, oddly, was the last book. As you can see from my last review, I wasn’t a great lover of the last book – but that book was very much needed to form a foundation for this one and it did a very poor job

Take Rhiannon’s relationship with Disco and Paine. Both of them are integral to this book, they’re central to a lot of Rhiannon’s motivations and conflicts and they were terribly set up in the last book and made it a real struggle for me to connect with what she was doing/feeling/thinking in this one. There was also an issue of incomplete or glossed over world building (especially in regards to world building) in the first book which left me a little lost, and characters introduced with a sense that they were big and important last book, but actually had relatively little involvement and, again, left me a little floundering. Then there’s Rhiannon’s character reactions – she was so unreasonably raging and awkward and snarky in the last book that her much more REASONABLE snark and anger in this book harder to run with.

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Major Rape scene between h/H in book 3.