Slaying Monsters for the Feeble by Annette Marie
#2 Guild Codex: Demonized
Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Self-Published
Published: 11.1.19
Pages: 358
Rating: 4.5 stars
Format: ebook
Source: KU borrow
Sellers: Amazon
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GoodReads Synopsis:
I'm bound to a demon.
For my entire life, I avoided magic at all costs. Now, I'm responsible for a demon who wields magic more powerful than the toughest mage or sorcerer.
Demons are evil.
That's what my textbooks say. That's what I see. He's ruthless, he's temperamental, he's cold. But he protects me without fail. I wonder if he's hiding a heart behind his hostility.
My demon is a monster.
Whether he's heartless or not, my contract with him is illegal and beyond dangerous. Together, we must find a way to return him to his own world before anyone discovers our secret. If that wasn't bad enough, I've come to realize something else:
My demon isn't the only monster I should be worried about.
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From the author of The Guild Codex: Spellbound comes a new series that will plunge an unprepared young woman into the darkest magic of the mythic world.
Sophia Rose's Review:
The vampire presence in the city seems is on the rise and the Crow and Hammer Guild is kept hopping with all hunting. Its looking less like a coincidence when Robin’s hunt for her uncle and the family grimoire keeps crossing paths with the vampires. Slaying Monsters for the Feeble has Robin in way over her head and stumbling her way along as a demon contractor and ignorant vampire hunter. If she can’t figure out how to work with Zylas and learn a whole slew of ways to stay alive in a fight, she won’t be around to worry how to get past the standoffishness of her new guild members.
Slaying Monsters for the Feeble is an exciting action-packed book where Robin, her demon Zylas, and her cousin are on the track of her uncle and the grimoire, but also adjusting to being new members of the Crow and Hammer Guild. She’s getting hazed a little and feeling out of her depth, but Tori (the heroine from the Spellbound series), the grumpy bartender seems to be on her side. She even makes friends with one of the top vampire hunters even while she has to keep Zora from getting suspicious about Zylas. She’s a hopeless combat team member so Zylas insists she start learning ‘prey’ strategies that will save her. She’s resistant at first though they do seem to keep coming up against her splaying helplessness that forces Zylas to constantly work to defend both their lives. Who is making these new stronger, faster vampires and why?
But what really gave Slaying Monsters for the Feeble depth was Robin’s need to learn from a series of mistakes and gain from all that she’s experiencing. Her parents kept her sheltered and away from the magical world and the family connection to demons so she’s floundering. She insists on being out on the dangerous tracking and hunt activities, but she is so ignorant about even basic things like don’t talk when you’re stalking, like don’t backpedal and trip all over stuff, or totally ignore the fighting expert in Zylas. Speaking of Zylas, Robin was awful to him in her fear of demons and ignorance of fighting. She kept ‘yanking his chain’ and manipulating rather than asking him and nearly killed him and did get him hurt badly because she tossed him into situations against these suped up vamps and other demons, outnumbered and having to fight not only for himself, but her protection. She’s breaking her promises and getting over-the-top angry, making huge assumptions about his actions and not noticing that he is making efforts to understand things that are foreign to the demon world. Let’s just say I wanted to slap her so many times. But, her cousin gives her the verbal slap needed and she has her epiphany and begins making wiser and better choices and actions.
So, this was exciting, but also full of personal development, too. Timewise it takes place during the Spellbound series’ The Alchemist and an Amaretto. This one gets to the heart of the vampire trouble and part of the hunt for her uncle and the grimoire is resolved, but there are threads dangling that connect with the Spellbound series arc and the Demonized ongoing series arc. I love how the suspense tightens with each book and I really loved seeing Robin’s dealing with a big issue that will help her progress faster in learning how to be a more powerful and effective demon contractor.
An outstanding urban fantasy series that kept packing a punch.
Author Bio:
Annette Marie is the best-selling author of over thirty books, including the expansive urban fantasy series The Guild Codex, epic urban fantasy series Steel & Stone, and romantic fantasy trilogy Red Winter.
A 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist in Fantasy and an Amazon Charts Bestseller, Annette has sold over 2 million books. Her books have been translated into French, German, Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian, with readers coming back again and again for her addictive blend of fast-paced adventure, tantalizing forbidden romance, and unforgettable characters.
Annette lives in the frozen winter wasteland of Alberta, Canada (okay, it’s not quite that bad) with her husband and their furry minions of darkness. When not writing, she can be found elbow-deep in her garden or an art project while blissfully ignoring all adult responsibilities.
To find out more about Annette and her books, visit www.annettemarie.ca
Sophia’s Bio:
Sophia is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing, piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments, restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and Chocolate.
As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.
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