Another great installment in the Dante saga...
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Not so much a review - but some information:
From the back cover: "Saint City has always been Dante Valentine's home. It's where she grew up, it's where her dead are buried, and it's where she learned to hunt.
Now one call from an old friend will bring her back to investigate a murder too close to home for anyone's comfort. But the one person she trusted has just betrayed her.
Soemtimes revenge is best served demon-hot."
And from the Lilith Saintcorw site: "Fifth and final book of the Dante Valentine series
Plot. Counterplot. Betrayal. Intrigue. When you're working for the Devil, it's all par for the course. You just have to live with it. Right?
Wrong. When you're Danny Valentine and the Devil double-crosses you one too many times, there's only one thing to do.
Fight back. No matter how hopeless it is. No matter how suicidal it is. No matter how far the game is rigged in the Devil's favor.
Welcome to Hell."
This is very fast paced, moving on directly from the last book in the series. It leaves you totally high and dry at the end - "to be continued" it says. "What???!!!" you shriek (waking the sleeping husband) "You can't do this to me, not after I've just stayed up far too late to find out what happens". She does, and the first two short chapters of the fifth book provided at the end only stoke the fires of needing to know. This need is driven by Saintcrow's statement that this is the last Dante Valentine book - so things have to get wrapped up somehow.
Dante is changing into something scary; she (and we) learn a bit about what being Hedaira means; there are other players who have more of a role here, and a few characters from the earlier books reappear.
If you've read the first three books then you have to read this. If you haven't, don't start here - you will struggle to make sense of what's happening. Begin at the beginning and enjoy - when I get my copy of To Hell and Back (Book 5) I plan to start from the beginning and read the whole lot through again.
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