Review: Ecstasy in Darkness

Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter

My rating: 2 of 5 stars



If you're going to have a sexy man on the cover with a whip, he better use it in the damn book. McKell seemed sexy, smart, and powerful, yet at times I felt like he was a complete idiot for all that he put up with in regards to Ava.

Ava Shot McKell and stunned him twice and he does nothing about it. In addition, she was a complete bitch to him for about 80% of the book. There was barely any sex in the book and I don't even feel like there was a growing relationship with the two main characters either.

Ava and Noelle were completely stupid throughout most of the book. The fact that they were arrogant enough to believe that they could catch McKell was beyond me. Also, the way Mia was acting like she was so in charge of everything and everyone killed me too. She had the audacity to believe that she could trap McKell and make him do things on her terms when he could STOP TIME. I'm pretty sure he could have just killed everyone in AIR at any moment yet he didn't. I kind of wish he had just to shut Mia up. Who is she to command him?

What Ava and Noelle did at the end was the stupidest thing ever. They went out to hunt vampires when they'd barely had any experience with vampires before. Ava decides to be the bait and cuts her arm. Not only are they lame ass humans with barely any training, Ava's also bleeding all over town, weakening from blood loss for a significant time, and then they almost die because they get attacked by two vampires. Complete idiots!

In the end, AIR and all the agents did nothing to stop the evil sick queen and save the world. They completely thought they had it but they were useless. Someone from another world had to swoop in and save the day because the humans couldn't.

The last thing I need to vent about is Mia. Even though she hasn't been the main character since book 1, she continues to be a complete bitch and ass hole. In book 1, I thought she was okay. I didn't think she was that smart to go up against an ancient alien whom she had no chance of winning against, but hey, she wasn't so bad. It's good to be confident but not arrogant (unless you where that well). As this series has continued, she seems to appeal to me less and less. First is the way she treats her friend, Dallas. It's like she doesn't care at all about what's happened to him. When they first found out about her connection to Mia's man, she could have given him time to work out his new reality but no, she's in his face and so is her man. I pretty much only semi liked either of them in the first book. I feel like Dallas would have been better off if she'd let him die. But since he's alive, he's got these new powers to deal with, people treating him differently, an evil sick alien queen after him, and these ass holes for friends.



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