Left me with questions but had some great scenes!

Reluctant heir to his father’s vampiric empire, Cristian Slava and his human bodyguard, Atlas Kincaid, return to NY after tangling with a nest of crazed strigoi vampires. With Cristian’s father facing charges from the Vampire Council, Cristian and Atlas must pretend to hate each other while they investigate just who is creating strigoi nests locally. With Cristian in danger of being kidnapped and used as a pawn for power, Cristian, Atlas, their friends, and trusted allies are all soon drawn into the fight of their lives.

I was pleased that this third in the Whitethorn Agency trilogy picked up the pace and plot again after the 2nd book meandered so much. There are some strong extended fight scenes here and it was great to finally piece together the dastardly plan to seize power. The strigois are key to this trilogy but I never felt I really got clear explanations about how or why they were created, how they could be controlled, and how Atlas was able to survive their bite at the end of the 2nd book. I also struggled with the half-baked plans that Cristian and Atlas came up with in this book—I was expecting Atlas’s military training to be more useful. At best this series is diverting but nowhere near as compelling as the Darkest Court series. 🎧 US voice actor John Solo makes a good fist of the accents, the action and the emotions—he always lifts the stories he narrates!

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