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The Mage in Black (Sabina Kane Book 02) by Jaye Wells

Description: Sabina Kane doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to family. After all, her own grandmother, the leader of the vampire race, just tried to kill her. When she arrives in New York to meet the mage side of her family, the reunion takes the fun out of dysfunctional. On top of that, the Hekate Council wants to use her as a pawn in the brewing war against the vampires. Her mission will take her into the bowels of New York’s Black Light district, entangles her in mage politics, and challenges her beliefs about the race she was raised to distrust. And Sabina thought vampires were bloodthirsty. Buy From:

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The second book in the Sabina Kane series picks up where the first book ended. In this installment Sabina comes to New York to live with the Mage part of her family that she never knew existed.

The book was quite fast paced and at no point it felt like the author was dragging the story out. Unfortunately, the author didn’t summarize the events from the last book anywhere in this one so for the first few chapters I had to think really hard to remember the details from the last book. After that there wasn’t a lot of need to know the old story so the book got interesting again.

The characters were quite well defined and given decent personalities.

Final recommendation: A fun read.

The Reckoning (Darkest Powers Book 03) by Kelley Armstrong

Description: The nail-biting climax to Kelley Armstrong’s bestselling YA series. Chloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen. First of all, she happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be ‘cursed’?) friends are on the run from the evil corporation who created them. To top it all, Chloe is struggling with her feelings for Simon, a sweet-tempered sorcerer, and his brother Derek, a not so sweet-tempered werewolf. And she has a horrible feeling she’s leaning towards the werewolf. Definitely not normal… Buy From:

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The darkest powers series is written in the same universe as the Otherworld series but other than a few vague references to characters and places they both don’t interact. The Reckoning is the last book in the trilogy and while it answered most questions it did leave enough material and ended the story in a manner that left the possibility of more books in the series later on. I liked the book, however it had been a while since I read the previous books so I didn’t remember all of the back story completely. While the book did cover most of the current story in a way that it was possible to keep up there were some parts where an explanation of who/what something was would have helped. The characters are well rounded and their personality and quirks are well explained instead of just being pushed on you. Final recommendation: A good read. Read the other books in the series before you read this one, otherwise you might not understand parts of the book – Suramya