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    Darkness Wanes
    Darkness Wanes
    Darkness Wanes
    Audiobook12 hours

    Darkness Wanes

    Written by Susan Illene

    Narrated by Cris Dukehart

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    About this audiobook

    Melena Sanders is locked away in Purgatory-which is no vacation-but she'll soon be returning to Alaska, where troubles are mounting once again. Suspicious fires are breaking out, supernaturals are being attacked, and there's an enemy lurking out there waiting for his chance to strike. Her lover, Lucas, is managing to hold their home together during her absence, but he's more than ready for her to return. It will take the two of them working together, along with friends and family, to overcome the darkness that is about to unleash.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 21, 2016
    ISBN9781494587642
    Darkness Wanes

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    • 4/5
      I received this book through the Early readers program in exchange for an honest review. I have to say I am really surprised by how much I like this story. It has a lot more going in it than I thought it would. I thought it would be a cheesy paranormal story but instead it is a very good paranormal story. I really liked the characters and how well each was developed. It really is a good story that has a good amount of things happening in it to keep you interested throughout the entire story. I am very pleased.
    • 3/5
      I received this book through the Early readers program in exchange for an honest review.I had not read/listen to the previous books in the series. I felt like it was hard to follow the book and keep up with all that was happening. The characters were not engaging and the story had too many plots. Maybe I will go back and read the previous books to see if this one makes more sense.
    • 2/5
      I received this book through the Early readers program. I thought at first this was another of the YA supernatural books so prevalent these days but I found myself about halfway through it hoping it wasn't for the YA crowd as it has a pretty graphic sex scene about the halfway mark. This book seemed to want to be too many things at once, Action book, supernatural book, horror novel, romance book that it doesn't take the time to be any one genre long enough. I was disappointed at the number of characters/species the author tried to cram into one book so that it became a chore just figuring out who was who. And the story line was hard to follow as we first try to rescue this person than that person. I always try to find something I like about a book and some of the characters were amusing, the humor was funny here and there but there was just too much going on to keep it all straight.Vampires, Nephilim, pixies, werewolves, archangels, demons, humans and senors, Witches, you name them they are thrown in somewhere.It might have helped if I had read the other 6 books that make up this series, but somehow I doubt it. I like a good Horror story, action adventure, but this is not one.And the graphic sex scene was just gratuitous and unnecessary.Though it doesn't bear on the story I also had trouble with the format. I've grown to enjoy audio books on cds but these were MP3 coded cds making them impossible to play on just any cd player, I had to download to my PC and then copy to my MP3 player, a time consuming and completely unnecessary step.Oh, and don't let me forget that the story switches perspective back and forth every other chapter, from Lucas told in third person to Melena told in first person, another confusing thing.Sorry, but I didn't enjoy this book.
    • 5/5
      I had received this audiobook from librarything.com in turn for an honest review.I had not read any of the other books in this series before listening to this book. So I wasn't sure of a few things when the book had first started out. I didn't know the characters backgrounds and such, but that didn't make a difference for me.I really enjoyed this audiobook. I enjoyed learning about the different class/type of characters in this book and why they interact the way they do with eachother.I agree that the sex scene really came out of nowhere in this book and there is always sexual references but then only one big scene. I really want to go back and read the other books in this series now and see how everything started and turns out.The only thing that I really didn't enjoy about the audiobook was the voice that did the reading. She would not have been my first choice.
    • 3/5
      I don't feel anything about this book, which should actually say something about how little the characters mattered to me. The plot in this book is almost non-existent, I couldn't care for the characters, didn't care if they all died, and what the actual fudge does that sex scene accomplish in the novel? I was pretty excited for this book, but I found it lacking in most parts.The thing that saves it a little is the voice actor of the audiobook, which is the only reason this has 2 1/2 stars instead of 1/2.
    • 3/5
      Darkness Wanes by Susan Illene suffers from being part of the series. Not enough back story is given to really make sense of all the relationships and characters in the story. World building is also lacking, as it was probably done in an earlier book and not repeated in this one. This is a series that you definitely can't jump into with any book. The sex scene was unnecessary for the plot. I think a lot of urban fantasy writers suffer from the "must include sex idea." It really puts a damper in the flow of the prose. I'm still trying to figure out what the plot was supposed to be. Was it to rescue an angel from hell or rescue one of the protagonists friends? Either plot could have been interesting, but they weren't given enough time to make an emotional impact. The narrator did a decent job differentiating the characters, but some of the vocalizations of male voices lacked any emotion behind them.
    • 3/5
      Given this book for a honest review. I think had I began reading from #1 in the series that this would have been better for me. Too many references to earlier things that had happened and not enough back ground to "catch up"; therefore, not making it a truly stand alone volume. Some parts were stilted and others flowed very smoothly and kept the story moving along. Character development was somewhat lacking, but I think that it has to do with this being book 6 and I probably missed that in previous volumes. All in all, it was not a bad book and probably would have been at least a 4 star if I had read the prior volumes.
    • 1/5
      Fatally flawed and difficult to endure.As renfield1969 has noted, this book has no discernible plot or point. Worse, while based almost entire on action scenes, they were all lackluster and--given that the characters are all so shallow I couldn't care about any of them--I couldn't get remotely invested in the action. Worse, the writer's use of language is deplorable. She doesn't know how to use pronouns, and consistently got he/him, she/her, and me/I confused, which was horribly distracting, and annoyed the heck out of me. Then, in the middle of the book and for no apparent reason, there was a cheesy and poorly-written soft-core porn scene that came out of the blue. If I wanted soft-core porn, I would have chosen a bodice-ripper. It *really* had no place in this novel.Do yourself a favor and give this one a miss.
    • 2/5
      Nearly plot free and cluttered with characters, the magical world the author built rarely makes a lick of sense. This book really suffers from the "series trap" in that the author has to take time to explain the events of every single book that came before it, which in this case happens rather organically but only serves to complicate the narrative. The worst parts are when something does happen to one of the main characters you can be sure that character will take time to explain what happened to the other characters, so essentially the reader is forced to endure several scenes two or three times over.