Surprise! It has been a while since I had a bonus Friday blog post. You will probably be getting a few of them this month because I am blowing through this series.
To pick up where I left off, I was right and I love it when I am right! Book two in the Monsters and Muses series was indeed focused on Riley. Little did we know, when the Ricci sisters were gossiping about the disgraced rock star at the diner in Promises and Pomegranates, that we were actually getting a glimpse of the scandal that makes up the plot of the following book. I did not see that coming, but I am pleased with the little piece of information that set up the story for Vipers and Virtuosos.
As much as I liked the story and the characters, I was unfortunately once again faced with my least favorite trope, the virgin. The untouched female in this story was slightly more believable in terms of her character, as she was very unsure and skittish. This made me willing to look past the ick I usually get when I realize the story I’m reading is about a virgin discovering the delights of sex. There are some places in the story where I believe that Riley should have been a little bit more unwilling and afraid when you take into account the events of her past. I won’t spoil that for you, I’ll let you discover it for yourself. I will only say that she experienced an incredibly traumatic event when she was sixteen, and when the events of this story take place it has only been two years since the incident. In my opinion, the horrible experience she went through and the time that had passed since, along with her very young age, would not allow her to be ready to be ready for the type of intimacy that Aiden exposed her to.
We get to see a little bit of Kallum in this story, he is assisting Riley on her journey but I won’t say how. Other than that we pretty much get all new characters. We get to delve a little bit into the world from which Kallum came. So if you were curious about Kallum’s origins, or you just wanted more of him, you get a little bit of his backstory here. Ivers International, the security organization he used to work full time for, is now headed by its namesake Kieran Ivers. Riley’s older brother, Boyd, works at Ivers and is one of the best at what he does for the association.
I think based on the plot of this book we can expect to learn more about Ivers International and the men, and perhaps women, who work there, in future books. At the end of this book, Riley is back In King’s Trace, the town she hailed from, and I feel like more is going to happen there. Perhaps the next book will be about Boyd and Fiona? I was hoping for a book focused on Jonas or Blue, and I can see one or both of Elena’s sisters getting a book as well. There are four more books in this series, so maybe I will be correct on most of these predictions. I am most eager to learn more about the mysterious Blue, the bouncer from Jonas and Kallum bar in Aplana. You’ll see another review from me on Thursday next week.
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