Kings Falling
Leif Metcalfe and his team, dubbed Reaper, need to recover the stolen, ancient Book of the Wars if they hope to stop the Armageddon Coalition and their pursuit of global economic control. But their attention has been diverted by a prophecy in the book that foretells of formidable guardians who will decimate the enemies of ArC. While Iskra Todorova uses her connections in the covert underworld to hunt down the Book of the Wars, Leif and Reaper attempt to neutralize these agents but quickly find themselves outmaneuvered and outgunned. The more Reaper tries to stop the guardians, the more failure becomes a familiar, antagonistic foe. Friendships are fractured, and the team battles to hold it together long enough to defeat ArC. But as this millennia-old conspiracy creeps closer and closer to home, the implications could tear Leif and the team apart.
****screaming**** So, yeah, I just finished this and I just...I can't...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I really don't think I can wait for November for Soul Raging. This book! My heart, my head, my loves! All the characters need to be okay, please! I will beg on my hands and knees for them to come out of this alright! Or at least healing. I'll accept them not being 100% but they need to be healing! There's family potential going on here and apologies need to be said and secrets need to be unveiled. This book definitely got a little darker, tugging on more emotions. Everyone is examining their places in the world (it feels like), and how they fit with the team and themselves. And then they're still hunting for the Book of the Wars and the Neiothein. From the previous book, there were definitely things that I'd suspected (Leif's missing time, Andrew being more than he seemed, etc) and while certain things weren't expressly stated, I feel like I've gotten started on answers, at the very least. I wavered between getting excited and getting frustrated with Leif and Iskra. Don't get me wrong, I love both of them and I know they're both kind of new to this, but it seemed like every time one of them would start to open up, the other would pull away. Granted, that was usually because Leif was being paranoid, although some of the internal reasonings, I don't blame either of them. I did like that they talked about a potential future and both seem open to it. All that being said: Leif!! No! Please, no! There's got to be more to this! I know there's secrets and fear, but just, stay on the good side! Don't take the cookies! I ended up with a few more questions regarding Cell. Although that was mostly because I still feel like his assignment with Reaper has more to it. But maybe I'm just reading into things because there's so many questions left! And Mercy...more questions! Like her past. Clearly there's stuff there and someone went to great lengths to discover it so that Andrew had a pressure point to leverage. And of course, Andrew. Seriously, Loki, what's the end game here? Basically: ALL THE QUESTIONS! I did like that even though it feels like Mercy is still trying to misplace feelings for Ram, she's slowly opening herself to a potential something with Baddar. And Peyton and Adam seem to (please, oh please let it be real) heading towards something interesting as well. I loved getting to see more of Canyon and Dani and their family. Hopefully they come back and Dani gets to smack Leif upside the head again. Please survive for familial abuse! And then there was that appearance of Canyon's there at the end...QUESTIONS!
