Darkness Unchained Sky Brooks Series Book 2 (Audible Audio Edition) McKenzie Hunter Jorjeana Marie Tantor Audio Books
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Just survive. That's been Sky's goal since uncovering a dangerous secret she had died at birth and became host to a very powerful spirit shade. Now Skylar has the rare ability to manipulate magic - an ability some would kill for. Needing to lie low, she declines membership in the Midwest Pack, the most powerful pack in the country. Sky thinks she can return to a normal life. She's wrong.
When a pack member is brutally assaulted, Sky saves her. The Midwest Pack and their rivals, the Northern Seethe, are under attack, and the pack wants Sky to help find the person responsible. Drawn reluctantly back into the otherworld, Sky must work with the Seethe's hunter, Chris, to finish the job. Chris should be a welcome asset with her connections and extensive knowledge of the otherworld, but her turbulent history with the Seethe and Midwest Pack only causes more conflict between the enemies-turned-allies.
Once again, Sky must negotiate the lies, secrets, and strange politics that govern the otherworld while struggling not to draw attention to her abilities. Now she wonders if she will be able to find the killer - and get out alive.
Darkness Unchained Sky Brooks Series Book 2 (Audible Audio Edition) McKenzie Hunter Jorjeana Marie Tantor Audio Books
This was a fun and interesting read! It differed from the first book , because it is told from both Sky (first person) and Chris POV. Initially, I thought I would dislike it because I disliked Chris in the first book. In DU she becomes a badass that you love to hate. Sky is still transitioning into her own and this book she showed her potential. This world is too new to her and she is still adapting to its dark denizens. Chris doesn’t seem to have a problem.I enjoy the complex characters that keep you guessing where their true allegiances lie. In DU you finally understand the dynamics of the otherworld and peek into the vampires world from Chris’ perspective and the odd things in play that make the vampires and pack hate each other. Far too many times I have read books that have two groups that despise each other but never offer an explanation. In DU the politics and dynamics between the vampires and the pack are further explored. The strange dynamics between Demetrius, Chris and Ethan is dysfunction at its best. And Skylar's interaction with Quell is quirky and interesting.
This is more character driven than the first book but I liked getting to understand the rationale behind the madness of otherworld. As with the first book, there is always a twist. The characters are interesting enough that you actually want to know more about them. If you think you know how it is going to end—WRONG!!!!
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My only complaint about DU is that now I am more curios about other characters than Skylar. What is Ethan hiding? Why is the pack going through such great lengths to protect this secret? Quell the vampire that will not feed from humans because he thinks they are despicable creatures,why does he hate humans? What tragedy spawned him and this disdain? Because of the ending, I wonder how things will change for Chris?
I hope the next one returns the original POV. I am curious about Chris but not enough to have them share another book. Either she needs to get her own book or play a smaller role. I prefer to learn more about Skylar and her new skills. Come on book 3!
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Darkness Unchained Sky Brooks Series Book 2 (Audible Audio Edition) McKenzie Hunter Jorjeana Marie Tantor Audio Books Reviews
In this second installment of the SKYE BROOKS SERIES, many of the secondary characters from the first book take a step forward. Getting to know more about them and their role in this intriguing story the author weaves is compelling. It not only expands the story in new directions, it binds the closeness of the characters and shows how they touch each others life in one way or another. Some in a good way, some in a bad. Not a typical otherworld book, the werewolves have their own unique standards of life that are in many ways different from anything I have ever read. Embracing their animal side, many of their characteristics strongly reflect this more rather than the human side. Refreshing and entertaining, several characters keep you on your toes as to whether they are really good or evil. Not knowing for sure makes this story even more tantalizing and not able to put down.
Spoiler Alert- if you haven’t first read “Moon Tortured,” be aware that “Darkness Unchained” is the SECOND in the Sky Brooks Series. Now, with “Darkness Unchained,” welcome Skylar Brooks [character] & Mckenzie Hunter [author] to the world of the sequel. As most fiction fans know sequels can be hazardous waters for successful authors and characters, and with “Darkness Unchained” readers can ask both “can Hunter deliver a second performance as strong as her first?” and “can Sky Brooks as a character keep us as invested the second time around as she did the first?”
The answer to both questions is resoundingly yes! In “Darkness Unchained” Sky Brooks emerges not as the naïve victim & novice to the paranormal world of her true birth that she was in “Moon Tortured,” but now as a genuine heroine. Refreshingly, Sky does not appear as a bad-ass heroine slaying vampires with ease; instead, Hunter develops her character much more realistically, couching her heroic emergence as one of ethical courage as Sky repeatedly navigates choices to hide behind others more physically trained and powerful than herself or to take the morally easy road and give in to her animalistic or victimized impulses. In trial after trial, the Sky Brooks who emerges throughout “Darkness Unchained” is a young woman of resolute integrity, increasingly confident not just in her slowly growing physical survival skills but more importantly in her ethics and decisiveness amidst the chaos of crisis & combat. In a genre flooded with the stereotypes of indecisive or weak & easily dominated female protagonists, Hunter gives her readers a true heroine in “Darkness Unchained” as Sky Brooks grows crisis by crisis into a werewolf willing to make hard split-second choices that, regardless of consequences, solidify her integrity and affirm her ethical humanity despite her developing position in an inhumanly weird world.
Yet in “Darkness Unchained” Hunter doesn’t stop at her successful development of Sky Brooks. Rising with great talent to the challenge of the sequel, Hunter provides a diverse cast of characters that rounds out the palette for readers of any taste. In Ethan, Josh, Steve & Sebastian she provides male characters of multiple types whose powers and positions are as complicated as their personalities & interactions with Sky- none are love interests, none are one-dimensionally safe, but all are resolute and become familial despite clashes with Sky’s ethics. In Winter, Joan & Chris (the sole human to occupy center stage in the unfolding story) Hunter provides a trio of powerful female characters each of whom easily eclipses Sky as a fighter, and each of whom comes into the story with dramatically different (and reader-challenging) origins & outcomes. She also injects a surprising degree of complexity to the vampires, portraying them as undesirable allies of convenience against a common enemy without denuding them of their cold-blooded capacity for murderous and perverse tastes. This is evident in the ethically challenging but intimate bond between Quell & Sky, or Demetrius & Michaela’s complicated polyamorous political dynamics within the seethe. Finally, the expanded dynamics for witches, the fae, and elves offer readers hints at exciting new complexities for the series.
As a result of these rare successes in both character & plot development, while retaining her now trademark gritty realism in a world of vivid paranormal surrealism that leaves readers irresistibly invested in the future of Sky Brooks and her shadowy world of dangerously enticing characters (including Chris, the human woman straddling two worlds with a success Sky can only envy), Mckenzie Hunter’s “Darkness Unchained” earns another solid 4 out of 5 stars and a call for more of this series!
McKenzie Hunter has a way of inventing quirky characters that are interesting and not your ordinary run of the mill people. I actually found that I liked the villains --Chris and Demetrius--a lot. Too much goodness (Joan) is boring. It's unusual and refreshing to read an urban fantasy book where the vampires aren't the good guys and there aren't pages and pages of sex scenes. Don't get me wrong--I like the sexual tension between characters but I get tired of reading volumes of gratuitous sex scenes--if I want porn I can probably find it easily enough. The writing has improved from the first book--I am looking forward to reading the next one.
This was a fun and interesting read! It differed from the first book , because it is told from both Sky (first person) and Chris POV. Initially, I thought I would dislike it because I disliked Chris in the first book. In DU she becomes a badass that you love to hate. Sky is still transitioning into her own and this book she showed her potential. This world is too new to her and she is still adapting to its dark denizens. Chris doesn’t seem to have a problem.
I enjoy the complex characters that keep you guessing where their true allegiances lie. In DU you finally understand the dynamics of the otherworld and peek into the vampires world from Chris’ perspective and the odd things in play that make the vampires and pack hate each other. Far too many times I have read books that have two groups that despise each other but never offer an explanation. In DU the politics and dynamics between the vampires and the pack are further explored. The strange dynamics between Demetrius, Chris and Ethan is dysfunction at its best. And Skylar's interaction with Quell is quirky and interesting.
This is more character driven than the first book but I liked getting to understand the rationale behind the madness of otherworld. As with the first book, there is always a twist. The characters are interesting enough that you actually want to know more about them. If you think you know how it is going to end—WRONG!!!!
.
My only complaint about DU is that now I am more curios about other characters than Skylar. What is Ethan hiding? Why is the pack going through such great lengths to protect this secret? Quell the vampire that will not feed from humans because he thinks they are despicable creatures,why does he hate humans? What tragedy spawned him and this disdain? Because of the ending, I wonder how things will change for Chris?
I hope the next one returns the original POV. I am curious about Chris but not enough to have them share another book. Either she needs to get her own book or play a smaller role. I prefer to learn more about Skylar and her new skills. Come on book 3!
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