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5.0 out of 5 stars
Book 5 of "The Immortals" series! Jennifer Ashley continued the magic of the 5 brothers with power, emotion, & triumph., August 24, 2008
This review is from: The Redeeming (Immortals (Love Spell)) (Mass Market Paperback)
The Immortals Series:
IMMORTALS SERIES: (Paranormal)
The Calling
The Darkening
The Awakening
The Gathering
The Redeeming
The Crossing (Oct 2008)
The Haunting (Nov 2008)
The Reckoning (March 2009)
Note: Do not start this series with this book. As book 5 of the series, this story finishes the tale of 5 Immortal brothers. The hero, Tain, is the youngest of them. Each of the 4 older brothers stories involves the seven- hundred year quest to save Tain from a demon who is torturing him. Tain's own book is about how his love for a woman has helped his soul to find "Redemption".
The triumph was worth the wait!
For 15 months, Tain has been walking the earth looking for an end to the nightmares he has of his centuries of torture. His brothers have been giving him unconditional love and support, but Tain's soul is still tormented. The one thing that has kept him going is the comfort of the dreams he has of Samantha. She is half- human/half- demon. It was her powerful presence that helped him defeat his evil captor. Now he watches over her.
Samantha is a cop in the Los Angeles Paranormal Police Dept. Her half-demon blood gives her very little power, but her courage makes up for it. While performing her duties, Samantha is attacked by full blooded demons of rivaling clans. She is shocked when a face from the past rises to her defense. In a matter of seconds, her attackers are demolished. For the first time in 15 months, Samantha is face- to- face with the Immortal, Tain. All of the emotions he stirred in her over a year ago are back in a flash.
Young female demons are being murdered. Rival clans of demons blame one another. If the real murderer isn't found, the clans will burst into a full scale war. The world will become a battle ground. When evidence surfaces to suggest that Tain may be to blame, Samantha is slammed with a devastating choice: Believe in Tain and work with him to find the killer, or believe the evidence that indicates that Tain may be praying on demons to get revenge for his past torture.
Whatever the future holds, Tain will not let Samantha face the danger alone. Providing her with strength, support, and protection has become Tain's personal road to Redemption. More powerful than all four of his older brothers combined, Tain is ready to face Hell all over again for Samantha.
Awesome story! Jennifer Ashley did Tain's book right. It's not all roses and beauty, but it's also not all vengeance and anger. Tain is tormented by the past, but more than ready to find comfort in his love for Samantha. He is powerful, but not invulnerable.
Samantha is brave, but not stupidly so. She is stronger than a regular human, but not prideful when others step in to offer her help. No mean streak or immature pouting. I was able to really like both main characters as well as several side characters. (I'm hoping for a book about her police partner, a werewolf named Logan!)
If you want to read the series, Here are the first 4 books:
The Calling (Immortals, Book 1)
The Darkening (Immortals, Book 2)
The Awakening (Immortals, Book 3)
The Gathering (Immortals, Book 4)
The next book in the series:
Immortals: The Crossing (Book 6)
If you like paranormals, you definitely will want to try these two series (First book in each series listed here):
The IAD Series:
A Hunger Like No Other (The Immortals After Dark Series, Book 1)
The Psy/Changeling Series:
Slave to Sensation (Psy-Changelings, Book 1)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Captivating!, August 22, 2008
This review is from: The Redeeming (Immortals (Love Spell)) (Mass Market Paperback)
After 700 years of torture and captivity, the Immortal Tain is back. Born from a goddess and a human, Tain had protected the earth from the Old Ones, powerful vampires and demons. With the help of Samantha, Tain escaped the Old One Kekhsut, after endless torture, a torture that inspired him to try to end the world to relieve the pain. Within him lives a memory of darkness, so deep within himself, that Tain is not the man he once was. Samantha may have helped restore his freedom back then, but can she help him discover love, a love that heals rather than destroys? On assignment with the paranormal division of the LAPD, Samantha sits in Merrick's, a demon bar, trying to bait the owner into offering her Mindglow, a drug used by lesser demons to render their victims helpless to resist the taking of their life essence. Into the bar walks Tain with plans of his own, not only interrupting her undercover operation but setting off a powerful attraction in Samantha. Tain seeks her help. Four demon prostitutes have gone missing. The nature of the disappearances makes Tain suspect some kind of anomaly in the system, a threat more serious than isolated crimes or the girls disappearing of their own free will. Together Tain and Samantha must work together on a mission to discover whether these disappearances are crimes, and if so, the culprit. Together, they must face warring demon clans, anti-demon hater groups, an encounter with a clan matriarch and dangerous adventures at ever corner.
Jennifer Ashley's fifth book in the series, IMMORTALS: THE REDEEMING is packed full of passion, dynamic action, and suspenseful clues as Tain and Samantha uncover more and more layers of connections beneath the initial mystery. Samantha is the perfect romance heroine for Tain. Intelligent, yet patient and accustomed to working within the law rather than acting on impulse to achieve justice, she alone has the inner strength to bring Tain back, to heal the healer himself deep from within. Tain, an Immortal, is none too fond of demons after being captive to one, but something about Samantha, half demon and half human, is different. As they work together, Samantha's life opens up in ways she never expected. Jennifer Ashley writes an emotional moving romance that brings two opposing forces, a half-demon and an Immortal together, so that each comes into the richness of their being. Tain and Samantha's love transforms them on the deepest level and puts choices before them that call them from within to be what they are meant to be. Jennifer Ashley presents a detailed emotional vision as fate and free will play out in her characters' lives.
IMMORTALS: THE REDEEMING is my kind of book! With its intricate world building, rich characters, universal moral codes set within a new unfamiliar environment, and an opposites-attract romance that enlarges the characters as individuals through love, IMMORTALS: THE REDEEMING has all the fine ingredients that make me love the paranormal genre itself. The background history of the demon world and the look at the changes in the demon world as modernity challenges traditional, conservative demon beliefs add a richness and depth to this romance that creates a legendary history. The world building is intricate and beautifully constructed --- and revealed in just the right measure throughout the story. Jennifer Ashley creates a beautiful balance in her portrayal of life and death magic in an intricate network of beings and their connections to one another. IMMORTALS: THE REDEEMING with its fine portraits of fanatical villains upped the level of suspense with each page. The careful plotting of clues kept me guessing (and glued to the pages!) until the very end with a trail of exciting twists. I never suspected who was behind everything, and yet, the trail made perfect sense. THE IMMORTALS are back, and does this one ever captivate!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The tortured Immortal Tain's much awaited tale, September 15, 2008
This review is from: The Redeeming (Immortals (Love Spell)) (Mass Market Paperback)
Fifteen months prior Samantha Taylor, a half human - half demon witch and detective for the Paranormal division of the Los Angeles police force had helped to save the Immortal Tain from the sadistic clutches of one of her own kind, an Old One know as Kekhsut (THE GATHERING). In doing so she had helped to restore the balance between life and death magic in the world and fallen hopelessly in love with the half crazed Immortal. Unfortunately Tain had needed to restore his own balance and she had not seen him since that fateful day. In her heart she'd known that after what he'd suffered at the hand of the ancient demon that he'd never be able to tolerate the death magic that was a part of her. She'd left Seattle and had gone home to do what she did best, investigate crimes involving Paranormals.
Samantha's current assignment is as a decoy in a demon bar owned by Merrick a member of her father's demon clan. She hopes to charm the owner into revealing the club's use of Mindglow, an illegal demon date rape drug which left the demon's victims pliable and unable to resist the stealing of their life essence. Unfortunately just when she is certain that success is imminent, the club is stormed by demons of a warring clan and a seemly harmless derelict rises to the challenge -- Tain! It's no secret that Tain hates demons and not certain if he would bother to make a distinction between the good guys and the bad, she jumps into the fray.
Something deeper than date crime is going on in the demon world and there are those among the human kind who want revenge for the events of the previous year. Samantha and Tain both know that balance needs to be maintained or the world would be unmade. Young demon prostitutes are being brutally murdered, their hearts ripped out and sent back to their clans. The victims' clans are blaming each other. If the crimes cannot be solved a demon war is imminent. This new investigation exposes Samantha to both life and death magic extremists, the head of the Lamiah demon clan (her paternal great-grandmother) and Mrs. Townsend leader of the No More Nightmares group who endorses death to all death magic creatures.
Tain discovers portals to a demon realm in both the Lamiah Matriarch's home and a location used by the No More Nightmare's group and believes the demon hearts are being used as a sacrifice to attract another Old One, Bahkat. The deaths haven't stopped with the prostitutes and when the highest ranking Lamiah demon is found murdered as well as Mrs. Townsend's assistant, damning evidence surfaces that points to Tain as the culprit. There's no question that Samantha loves Tain with all her heart but can she trust him or has his mind been so twisted that his view of demons will always be warped? But if he's been set up, then she has bigger problems -- because then Tain was in big trouble and she was the bait! The whole thing is further complicated when Samantha is put up for the new leader of her father's clan and she must decide whether to right their world and lose the man she loves, or walk away leaving them in chaos to have him. Will Tain at long last find his redemption?
Poor Tain, it was too much to hope that his trials had ended with Kehksut's death. But have no fear, as always love will win the day. The young half Sidhe Immortal Mac, who we first met in THE AWAKENING, is the next to find love in THE CROSSING. Wondering about Samantha's mysterious werewolf partner Logan? It looks like we'll finally have his story, Jennifer Ashley's "Wolf Hunt" novella. in THE RECKONING anthology. Tain's story was well worth the wait, and I recommend strongly that you read the first four novels that lead up to THE REDEEMING first. Only by knowing what Tain has suffered will this story have a full impact. ~ reviewed for PNR Reviews
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