Veena’s review of Archangel’s Lineage (Guild Hunter, Book 16) by Nalini Singh
Paranormal Romance published by Berkley 23 Apr 24
Peace is in the rear-view mirror and Armageddon is here. The entire world is on the brink of destruction, and the archangels have to race against time to figure it out. Cassandra, not yet fully asleep, decides to meddle one last time and send them help. Meanwhile, Raphael and Elena are separated by conflicted duties. Elena’s father has a heart attack and not expected to survive, and Elena must haste to his bedside. The Pacific Islands seems to be without archangelic oversight, and Raphael must head there to get to the bottom of what’s going on.
The usual suspects are around – Sparkle and Bluebell now a power couple in their own right, Elena’s sisters all grown up, and little Beth is starting to show her age even with two children of her own now. Sara’s daughter, Elena’s god child, is becoming a weapons-maker, following in her father’s footsteps. Where did time go and how did all these kids grow up? I often feel that with my own family, so to see this jump from one book to the next totally takes me back.
In the meantime, events are escalating, and the newest archangel to wake up, thanks to Cassandra’s meddling, is not just an ancient, but he predates the ancients that we’ve grown to know and love and considers them children. He’s the one who created the army that flocked to Raphael in his need and sacrificed themselves to save the world.
Can this world be saved? Will even the all-powerful cadre of archangels find the price to be beyond them? Fast paced, the story keeps you on your toes along with the emotional impact of family, friendships, and love.
Why does it feel like this book is a goodbye to the guild hunter world? I certainly hope not. Please, I’m sure there are still a lot of good stories to be told in this world.
Grade: A
Summary:
Raphael and Elena are experiencing their first ever year of true peace. No war. No horrors of archangelic power. No nightmares given flesh. Until…the earth beneath the Refuge begins to tremble, endangering not only angelkind’s precious and fragile young, but the very place that has held their most innocent safe for eons.
Amid the chaos, Elena’s father suffers a violent heart attack that threatens to extinguish their last chance to heal the bonds between them and make sense of the ruins of their agonizing shared history.
Even as Elena battles grief, Raphael is torn from her side by the sudden disappearance of an archangel. But worse yet is to come. An Ancestor, an angel unlike any other, stirs from his Sleep to warn the Cadre of a darkness so terrible that it causes empires to fall and civilizations to vanish.
This time, even the Cadre itself may not be able to stop a ticking clock that is counting down at frightening speed…
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