Feral Night The Revenant Records Book #2
Contemporary Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, LGBTQ Fantasy
Independent
Nov 28, 2023
Kindle
290
Amazon
Return to Kell Shaw's Vestiges of Magic world in a knife-edge sequel.
Lukie's father is trapped in the Underworld and it's all her fault.
Twenty years after her murder, Lukie has returned to life and is ready to go home, but her father isn't willing to believe his beloved daughter is back from the dead. Before she can reconcile with him, a supernatural predator steals her father's soul. One that she's led straight to his door, after foolishly ignoring the signs that something was amiss.
To get her father back, Lukie must uncover the true nature of the ancient horror haunting Thunderhead Ward before a spectral hunt of bestial ghosts is unleashed upon the world.
And she only has until midnight on New Year's Eve, when the borders between the dead and living lands seal, or her father will be lost forever…
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Before reading this review you should read book one, Final Night, since this series needs to be read in order. Now in book two Lukie has finally found and killed her murderer and is now free to find her father. With help from Inspector Tamlyn who was a high school friend of Lukie’s twenty years ago before her death and reawakening as a revenant she knows her father’s new address and despite Tam advising her to stay away for now she does what she always does and charges ahead.
Her behavior was the same behavior that in high school caused her to hurt so many friends including Tam who she knew as Sera. She is trying to adjust from life in 1980 to life in 2003, she hates the new music, has no knowledge of the new technology i.e. computers and cell phones and tries to keep from charging in without thought.
When she gets to her father’s house, she sees an old man not the father she remembers from twenty years ago and when he sees her his reaction is not what she expected, he refuses to believe she is his daughter. All the way to his home she sensed something was watching her but as usual she ignored the signs until it was too late. Her father remarried and had a daughter, a teenager named Sienna. She broke down the door filled with anger and jealousy that she had been replaced and the thing she sensed following her crashes through the broken door and reaves her dad’s soul.
Chasing after the monster she loses it at the gate to the ghost realm in Tenebra. She must figure out a way into the ghost realm before her father who is in the hospital in a coma dies. She meets a young girl ghost and knows that she is her way into the ghost realm only the ghost has amnesia and remembers nothing. She gives the girl the name Anneth and with the help of Tam and another revenant named Meven they search for answers about the girl and how to bring her memory back.
The only way to save her father is to find the Ghost Lord and stop him like she did to her murderer. Unfortunately, she has only a few hours before the New Year when saving her father will become almost impossible. Little by little Lukie begins to find out about Anneth, she was a young girl who died, and Lukie now has possession of her ashes.
Anneth refuses to accept who she is and refuses to help Lukie and with no other choice open to her Lukie uses her ability to control souls and deceives Anneth into entering the Ghost Realm and assisting her in finding her father and finding a way to escape. She learns about Anneth’s life a life filled with pain and understands why she found it hard to go back but her father’s life is most important.
The story behind Anneth is something I won’t mention in this review, but it is both surprising and sad.
Lukie made a huge mistake in going to her father without giving it any thought, he spends time in hospitals, is on medication and counseling unable to ever fully accept the death of his daughter and any parent knows the loss of one child cannot be replaced by another so Lukie’s jealousy was unwarranted and caused a situation that may be impossible to correct.
Betrayal, secrets, lies and a teenage girl who never got to grow and learn how to be an adult, so she still thinks and acts as a child. Now I wait for book three hopefully the wait won’t be long.