{"id":9419,"date":"2013-05-19T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T15:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2016-08-19T05:44:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T09:44:22","slug":"review-rogue-rider-lords-of-deliverance-4-demonica-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=9419","title":{"rendered":"Review: Rogue Rider (Lords of Deliverance, #4; Demonica, #9) by Larissa Ione"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alright, anything I say about this book is going to be a massive spoiler for the earlier books in the series, so I will warn you not to click on the spoiler unless you have read the previous book of the series.<\/p>\n

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Reseph has been sent to the human world with no memory of who he is, or the atrocities he carried out as Pestilence. He is found naked and unconscious in the snow and taken in by Jillian \u2013 an independent, very private woman living an isolated life while she recovers from the death of her parents and a tragic demon attack that left her scarred and afraid.<\/p>\n

When Reseph wakes, he finds himself in her bed, and we immediately see that the funloving, manwhoring playboy lives on\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t remember\u2026anything.\u201d He pushed up, his shoulders and biceps flexing with power, and looked down at his naked body. \u201cDid we fuck?\u201d<\/em>
\nShe nearly choked. \u201cNo.\u201d <\/em>
\n\u201cWhy not?\u201d \u2026 <\/em>
\n\u201cBecause we\u2019re complete strangers.\u201d <\/em>
\nHe lifted his head. \u201cSo?\u201d <\/em>
\nSo? This was not going well. \u201cLook, maybe you should, ah, get off me, and we\u2019ll discuss everything over dinner.\u201d<\/em>
\n \u201cDinner?\u201d he grinned, and good Lord, he was stunning when he wasn\u2019t scaring her half to death. \u201cTotally on board with that. I\u2019m starving. Maybe we could fuck first?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over the course of trying to figure out who Reseph is and where he has come from, the two of them realise that they can\u2019t fight the insane chemistry between them \u2013 so they don\u2019t. HOLY HOTNESS!! These two are seriously steamy together! And it doesn\u2019t take long for Jillian to reluctantly start to fall for the mysterious man staying at her house and rocking her world night after night, and Reseph, although not knowing his past, knows that he hasn\u2019t felt for anybody the way he feels about Jillian.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need you in bed tonight, Jillian. I need more than a fuck. I need to make love to you until neither one of us can move, because after tonight, I don\u2019t want there to be even the slightest doubt that you\u2019re mine.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI love you, Jillian. I love you, and I want this to be the start of something new.\u201d \u2026 \u201cI love this life, I love you, and I want to start our lives together now.\u201d <\/em>
\n\u201cYou\u2019re\u2026 serious?\u201d <\/em>
\n\u201cCan you handle not knowing who I was? \u2026 Can you deal with the man I am now?\u201d <\/em>
\n\u201cYes,\u201d she whispered in a husky rasp. \u201cOh, yes.\u201d <\/em>
\n\u201cGood,\u201d he said, lowering his mouth to her throat. \u201cBecause the man I am now is who I want to be. Forever.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, this is when Reseph suddenly gets his memory back. The sudden reappearance of his siblings, who have learned of his survival, triggers the return of his memories of his time as Pestilence, and he is disgusted with himself. Locked in Ares\u2019 house for his own safety, he is tormented by his memories, and becomes crazed, unreachable to anybody who tries to help him. Jillian is brought to him, and is the only one that can soothe him, but can she look past the horrific things that he, as Pestilence, has done, not only to the world, but to her? And is she even safe with him? For Pestilence isn\u2019t dead. He still lives within Reseph, and it\u2019s up to the previously irresponsible Horseman to keep him restrained, but how does that work when he is being ruthlessly hunted by some of the nastiest creatures in the underworld, hell-bent on releasing him?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a wild ride, and I LOVED how it all played out!!! I totally fell for Reseph, and my heart broke for him watching him realise all that he had done. His strength and determination to do anything to try and make things right, is amazing. And I love the way that he and Jillian fight to be together, despite everything that stands in their way. <\/div><\/div>\n

I\u2019ve gotta admit, I was a little worried about how I would feel reading this one, and was wondering how Ione would pull it off, but she did a sensational job.\u00a0 Looking at things from a different perspective, she was able to redefine her characters, and although they are the same Horsemen that I have loved through three books, we get to see them in a slightly different light here, and I thought that was really clever.<\/p>\n

The story is well paced, with multiple POVs so there are storylines running all over the place, but it\u2019s all linked in beautifully.\u00a0 There is a big, kick-ass finale where everybody comes together to fight the bad guy, and it\u2019s all pretty freaking epic.\u00a0 There are also some sensational twists for Reaver and Harvester, and I cannot WAIT to get my grabby little hands on Reaver\u2019s book!<\/p>\n

Giving us her usual mix of fantastic characters, humour, action, mythology and a beautiful romance, Ione has given us another epic story in her Lords of Deliverance<\/em> series.\u00a0 I absolutely loved it!<\/p>\n

5 stars.<\/p>\n

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For more information about the Lords of Deliverance series – including series reading order – please check out our Demonica \/ Lords of Deliverance Series<\/a> page.<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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