Loved It: Immortal by J.R. Ward

Series: Fallen Angels 6
Format: Hardcover
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Publisher: NAL
Source: Publisher
Genre: Paranormal Romance

The Creator invented the game, and the stakes are nothing less than the fate of the quick and the dead: seven souls, seven crossroads. Reluctant savior Jim Heron has compromised himself, his body and his soul, and yet he’s on the verge of losing everything...

...Including Sissy, the innocent he freed from Hell. Jim’s determined to protect her—but this makes her a weakness the demon Devina can exploit. With Jim torn between the game and the woman he’s sworn to defend, evil’s more than ready to play dirty.

Humanity’s savior is prepared to do anything to win—even embark on a suicide mission into the shadows of Purgatory. True love is Jim’s only hope for survival—and victory. But can a man with no heart and no soul be saved by something he doesn’t believe in?

Back to back J.R. Ward, I never thought this would happen and it's all thanks to Blood Kiss. I'm not great with goodbyes so I tend to dawdle when it comes to series endings. Like heck, I haven't "finished" Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke & Bone series as well as Veronica Rossi's Divergent books. It took me a year and a Black Dagger Brotherhood reboot to get me to finally read IMMORTAL.

If you're unfamiliar with Fallen Angels series, it's in the same universe as BDB, it's also set in Caldwell, NY with a couple of characters that both series shared. While BDB have vampires, Fallen Angels... well have angels and demons. They're currently at war over 7 souls which will determine who will rule the universe: good or evil. So even with some similarities, Fallen Angels is nothing like BDB, but it's just as entertaining and engaging to read.

I am not going to give a play-by-play on how the war ended and is the apocalypse happened. I found it clever, the plot twists felt organic and not contrived, the whole Jim-Sissy tandem was great including the other pairings, Nigel-Colin, and Adrian-Eddie. I have to say though, I'm going to miss the villainess, Devina, a LOT! She's my favorite character in this series hands-down, such a scene stealer, Devina carried the series hands down! I mean she's the Lucifer to Jim's Jesus/savior persona. Such a powerful adversary, and yet she's doing therapy 3 times a week because of her OCD, hoarding, the war with Jim, who incidentally she's madly in love with, all these is unravelling the demon.

Fallen Angels wasn't a smooth ride, the previous books before IMMORTAL was good at best. IMMORTAL at least managed to put a strong exclamation mark on the series, it's a great ending, I laughed a lot reading it (posted a few snapshots on the blog's Facebook page), thought the resolution was solid, wasn't a fan of the angel storyline including the HEA (felt it was too cheesy), but it's a decent ending overall. I'm speculating that there may be a spin-off (?) based on Dog's message to Ad and Ed. So we'll see, we just got a new BDB book, I won't be spurprised if there's a new angel series on the way.

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