End of Eden by S.L. Jennings

My edition: Kindle Unlimited
Pages:261
Series: Se7en Sinners #2
Genre: Supernatural, New Adult, Demons
Rating: 5 stars

Synopsis:

I thought I knew what Hell was like.
I thought I had been living it all these years on Earth- abandoned, forgotten, and left with a dangerous secret that not only ade the Se7en’s #1 target but also turned me into a deadly weapon, a threat to every human in my path.
I was wrong.

In order to survive Lucifer’s plans for me, and his unquenchable thirst for more power, I have to surrender my humanity. I have to lose a part of myself in order to find my way back to him. Back to the demon who save me, only to break me. Back to Legion

But even supreme evil has its limits, and the real foes never show their devastatingly beautiful faces. Forget fire and brimstone. They aren’t shit compared to what’s coming.

Centuries=old bonds will be broken. Unlikely alliances will be forged. And innocent blood will be spilled. Blodd that will stain my hands for the rest of my mortal days.

I thought I knew what hell was like.
I was wrong.
Hell is coming.
Hell is just the beginning.

First book: Born Sinner
Next book: Wicked Ruin

Review:

And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.

Wow. This one was something I did not expect. Eden has taken Lucifer’s hand and is now in hell. There she meets Niko. Niko is going to help her get through hell. Eden has much to face going up against the devil at his own game.

Beauty is a distraction-a diversion-from the ugliness pulsing within these walls.

I like that even though Eden goes through challenges she never gets rid of her sense of humor.

No offense to Ben- he’s nice. Which is exactly the problem. I don’t do nice. Or easy. Or comfortable. Probably explains my current predicament, but at least I’m consistent.

“Excuse me, but- Johnny baby, is it?-yeah, I know that steroids can shrink your balls, but I wasn’t aware that they actually turned people into dicks. Quick, Snookie Barbie! Stuff him in your mouth before the little fella gets away!”

At first I wasn’t sure I was going to make through some parts of the book. I actually got queasy but I understand what the author did. I mean it is the devil she is writing about so she had to go to an extreme.

While Eden gets preached to she knows how to keep it real. This is what I like about her. She doesn’t hid the ugly truth when it comes down to hit.

Crime in Chicago is out of control. And that’s not the work of seven rogue demons. Humans destroyed this city. Humans are fighting and killing and hurting each other every day all over the world. Maybe it’s time we take ownership of that.

L… What can I say about L but he is an alpha demon that I liked and trying not to love but It’s hard.

Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”
“My name is Legion,” he replied, “For we are many.”

He is power. He is pain. He. Is. Legion. And after centuries of slumber, the beast has just been awakened.

This man is ready to get his love back even if it means battling Lucifer. While a bigger opponent is revealed at the end that is more dangerous than Lucifer I can’t help but fall in love with L.

On to the next book. Wonder if it will be the final one or if there is more to this series.

 

 

Born Sinner by S.L. Jennings

My edition: Kindle Unlimited
Pages:355
Series: Se7en Sinners #1
Genre: Fantasy, Dark
Rating: 5 stars
Buddy Read: With Felicia and Rae on Goodreads

Synopsis:

Twenty-two years ago, I was cut from a cold, sodden womb, and cradled in the filth and poverty of Chicago’s concrete arms. Statistically I wasn’t supposed to survive these streets past the age of eighteen.

Fate had a different plan.

I was bred for one purpose and one purpose only: to unleash death and destruction on my world.

My thoughts are power.

My words are weapons.

Evil created me than graced tired to save me. But first… they tried to kill me.
They call themselves the Se7en. They are sin and salvation, and everything we’ve feared from the beginning of time. And their leader is the deadliest of them all.

He doesn’t lose.

He doesn’t compromise.

And most importantly, he doesn’t distract himself with mortal weakness.

Not until me.

Kill one to save a million.

That’s what he told me when he took me as his prisoner.

Kill one to save a million.

That’s what he’s been trying to tell himself ever since he took me into his arms.

Next book: End of Eden

Review:

At first I saw this cover and thought okay another New Adult book, awesome. Then I read the blurb and thought okay this has got to be a supernatural New adult. It is but that really doesn’t cover it.

Eden was born tainted. She can make people do whatever she wants just by saying it. While arriving at work early one evening, some mafia looking men come in to see her. What she doesn’t know is that they want her dead. Enter L. L saves her only to drag her back to his place and holds her prison.

This was amazing. I loved it. I was hooked the entire time. The quotes from this book. I had quite a few favorites. The author’s description is one of the best I’ve read this year.

There’s a stain that poverty leaves on everything it touches. It coats your palms when you’re cold. It bleeds onto your lips when you’re hungry. It paints your skin when you’re sick. You can try to scrub it away, but the result is always the same. You’re one of society’s forsaken.

The is only one POV which is Eden’s. She was a laugh riot. She made me laugh many times. There is one point that is of L’s POV but it’s not till the end.

Surely I’m seeing things. Murderers don’t play X-box One. They should be skinning cats or designing necklaces made of ears.

I know I’m right. Life is short, L. At least for me it is. I might as well die happy covered in orange Cheetos dust than waste away eating air-crisped cardboard.

Aw, come on. Sour Patch Kids are an American staple! And look- they’re fruit flavored. That has to be healthy.

There were also times when a character just says something that totally gets right to your soul. Eden says something like this for me.

Music has always been sacred to me, my escape from the crumbling world outside my headphones.

See what I mean. And the author put one of my points out I have mentioned to Wy a time or two. Lucifer is mostly cast as an old guy or a creepy horned guy. Why?

“I swear, they always depict him as some dark haired, old guy. Humans.”

“Who”

“Lucifer,” he answers flippantly. “Doesn’t anyone crack a book these days? He was God’s favorite, the most talented and beautiful of all the angels. Why the hell would he look like an over-the-hill, saggy-balled, short dude?”

Makes sense doesn’t it. Why make evil always look ugly. If it looked like that evil wouldn’t be so tempting now would it? Now onto L. He is a puzzle but damn is he hot. And delivers one of the best one liners ever.

But he’s Kanye West. And trust me, it’s not an act. He sincerely believes his own bullshit.

Good thing I was home and not at work when I read that one. I was laughing out loud. Wy just looked at me weird till I read it to him. He agrees with L. Plus with L he is knowledgeable. When Eden starts to say he wouldn’t have her because of the things she does, he steals our hearts with this,

We’re all sinners, Eden. Some of us just sin differently than others.

Then when Eden is talking about her sister and he delivers yet another knowledgeable quote.

“There’s nothing false about hope, Eden” he says, his voice trembling with a nostalgic timbre, as if he once had felt, tasted, and held hope in his palms. “It can be blind-foolish, even- but it’s never false. Not if you truly feel it in your heart.”

Great start to the series. Can’t wait to start the next book.