Book of the Damned: A-E5L1-01-00 by V.E.S. PullenMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Secrets Revealed
This book continues where book 1 left off. The secret of why the triplets and twins have been brought in is revealed and it’s not pretty. Azzie is really sick from the virus she exposed herself to and no one thinks she’s going to make it, and Mouse has gone missing.
It’s really hard to talk about the plot of this book without revealing any spoilers so all I’m going to say is that it is clever and multi-layered. I think it’s clever that the author has set this in a period 9 years after COVID-19. A few years after COVID-19 set the world on it’s backside, came another virus JANUS-23, which was more deadly and attacked an already weakened world. This allows the author to really project what could happen during the direst circumstances of a pandemic without making it about COVID-19. The author draws on the experiences of the world and what we’ve witnessed and continues with worse case scenarios to come up with the plot for this series.
I loved that in this book we see Azzie come out of her shell even more than the first book. The slow unveiling of her true personality is fantastic to read about. It’s done in a believable way so nothing feels incongruous to the character.
We also learn a bit more about the twins and triplets and why they have ended up in Salem. They may have all come from different places but their reasons are fairly similar, they came to get their families the vaccine and to try and find out what was going on in Salem for their communities. Communities are important in post-JANUS-23 America. Communities are those people who help you survive but also help you to keep the virus as far from the vulnerable as possible.
This series is gripping but I imagine if you are living with the worst consequences of COVID-19 you may find the subject matter triggering. Personally, I felt that the distinction between the two viruses helped, also that it was set in the USA rather than the UK where I am based, which means my experiences have been different enough to prevent drawing too many similarities between fiction and reality.
I will definitely be downloading the next book as soon as possible because even though this is a slow burn reverse harem and there’s been nothing but a few kisses up to the end of this book, I still want to see what happens to the romance part of the story as well as the getting everyone safe part of the plot.
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