Trigger Warnings - violence, swearing, sexual situations
Another excellent, mad, bad, crazy, un-put-downable (pretty sure that’s not a word, but I'm still going to use it here) book from Debra Dunbar. Usually the second book of a series is the decision-clincher – it's the thing that either makes you resolve to see the series to the end, or make you put the book down in disgust.
Satan's sword, absolutely, absolutely didn’t disappoint.
So – lets get started, shall we? Disclaimer – the review is rife with spoilers - so be warned.
The book starts off a little while after Demon Bound lets off, and picks up on one of the loose threads left in the last book – Sam’s brother Dar, and his Mysterious Request. Sam, being the adorable, lazy procrastinating imp that she is, puts her brother off over and over again until he comes over to earth himself to chew her ass off – but that comes later. There are a few more additions to her household – a particular demon horse comes into mind.
Diablo is utterly ridiculous, utterly violent, and utterly hilarious. [a certain scene at the end of the book comes into mind *chuckles evilly hehe* Lets just say, that Sam is way worse at handling devil horses than she is at handling regular horses]. Boomer’s a sweetie as usual, and, lets see, who else? There’s Dar – but Dar’s tied to a entirely separate knot, so I’ll come to him later.
As for the old characters, there’s Candy – the devious pragmatic wonderful woman that she is, is firmly friends with Sam, and as prudish as ever.
Wyatt still hasn’t gone and died off, unfortunately [*sigh*], and Sam is firmly in love with him(despite her assiduous claims to the contrary. The demon doth protest too much, methinks *grins at terrible cliche*) So, anyway. Sam likes that jerkwad, so I guess I’ll have to endure him for her sake.
Yeah, yeah, I know, he’s a sweet guy, he didn’t even do anything, blah, blah. Whatever. He’s still competition for my beloved Gregory, so I hate him on principle.
And Gregory. Oh, Gregory. That dreamy, dreamy, overbearing, domineering, control-freak asshole. He’s as grumpy – and adorable, as ever. He doesn’t have as much screen time as the previous book, but the scenes where he does shows up in, make up for them. Especially that first one. ESPECIALLY that first one.
And our dashing, mad, genius, anti-heroine, of course. Sam’s as mad, and bad as ever, but there are a few character changes, too. She’s more grounded, a bit matured (a bit, not a lot. Come on. It wont be Sam if she’s mature) She’s a slight bit more responsible too, and that creative streak’s still going strong. She’s taken on Gregory as a role model, of sorts.
Uhh, no. Wrong choice of words. Not a role model, more like, she admires him and all the awesome things that he can do, and tries to learn how to do them, too, to impress him. Yeah, that’s more accurate.
Anyhoo… bottomline, weird relationship, with promise of things getting way, way better in the next books. Now, if only Wyatt would die off somewhere along the line…
This book is again, a bit slow paced at the beginning, focusing more on building up a strong foundation and introducing all the characters – and quite a few come into play in this one. What I like the most is the threads left from the previous book that the author ties up in this one, and the new threads that Dunbar introduces as a premise for the next book. Delicious suspense for the next, anyone?
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