The Unrepentant: The Complete Novel by Grace McGintyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Great Sequel
I’d probably give this 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.
This is a great follow up to The Redeemable. It follows one of the daughters of the main characters from The Redeemable. Her name is Estrella and she is a twin who is a little bit extra than human, thanks to her mother sharing her body with a fallen angel during the pregnancy. At age 21, Estrella hasn’t followed in any of the family traditions and is working as a cop. That is until her sister Hope was kidnapped. Hope had followed into the family philanthropist business and is empathic. The twins share an empathic link that they can also communicate with. So when Hope is taken Estrella knows it instantly.
Estrella resolves to find out who is responsible for her sisters kidnapping and assault and quits her job. In response her pseudo parent, Lucifer, loans her two demon gargoyles to protect her whilst she goes hunting bad guys with her best friend Charlie, a tech genius from the Irish Mob and Naz a mercenary who was saved from Aleppo by angels and raised by Estrella’s mother’s best friend Clary.
The five of them set off into the underworld and travel the globe trying to find out what happened to Hope and they uncover some very scary people.
I really enjoyed this book. I liked that Estrella wasn’t necessarily a really good person. She is the child of en ex-embodiment of one of the seven deadly sins and his redeemer. A fallen angel helped her in the womb and she is beloved by the devil. She’s kind of got flexible morals, as do the men she finds herself with.
It was interesting watching Estrella open up emotionally, as Charlie stated she had ‘the emotional range of a frat boy’. These men forced themselves into her heart slowly and surely, for very different reasons.
The world building in this story was less complex because most of the work had been done in The Redeemable, with it’s environment created of heaven and hell, Lucifer and God, archangels and fallen angels, all trying to do their best with the human race.
I felt that the ending was a bit abrupt, but I’m hoping that will be covered in the next book The Fallen: The Complete Novel, which I’m going to go and download now. I don’t mind abrupt endings or cliffhangers when the next book in the series is already out!
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