Jilly's Reviews > Archangel's Blade

Remember how I always say that I like alpha men as long as they don't cross that line into dick-dom? Well, Dmitri crosses that line and then dances in dick territory while flipping me off. Yeah, I pretty much wanted to kill him this whole book.

Yes. While I was reading this book, this seemed like the most rational response..

So, instead of focusing on Elena and Raphael during this book, we get to have a story about Dmitri, Rapael's second and a vampire. Dmitri has always been a total dick to Elena, and he is into pain and sex. I thought I would like to read his story....but I was wrong. I was really pissed off for most of the book. Why?

The love interest is Honor, a female Guild Hunter who was abducted and tortured by vampires in a basement for two months. She was raped, tortured, starved, and fed upon. It was so bad that she had to have surgery to fix the internal damage done to her body.

Really? She's the one who is chosen to be with the vampire who likes bondage and pain during sex? Cuz, for some reason, I think this is a bad idea...



But, it would be okay if he treated her with kindness and sensitivity (since he knew exactly what happened to her). Of course, he didn't. Instead, he pushed her, kept bringing up her pain, threatened her, told her that he was going to "have her", and even restrained her in the way she was restrained during her ordeal. All this while saying that he was planning on using her and then throwing her away. Call me crazy, but I find this a bit insensitive to victimized women.



So, I couldn't get into this story because it was impossible to believe that a woman who had been held prisoner and victimized in every way would be attracted to this guy who was just another abuser. If she was, she needed some serious psychological help because there is something really wrong about that. And, then the story took a weird route to try and make it all okay, but I didn't care for that either. It was like trying to justify a relationship that was obviously wrong by writing in this special circumstance that means it was meant to be. But, truly, the way Dmitri treated Honor was not okay at all. I just couldn't believe or understand the love story in this one.