Simone Dubois gets a call from the coroner. He's Tate, her friends and a squire... He needs her help since his corpse got off the examiners table and walked out of the room... Since Simone has paranormal gifts (she has a ghost as a housemate) she might find out something.
When she gets at the place, she meets the ghost of Gloria, the girl that walked out of the room, but her body is gone...
Suddenly they are attacked by daimons. Luckily a handsome stranger rushes to her aid: Xypher. One of the daimons attaches bracelets on both their wrists. This are bracelets given to Satara by Stryker. They connect the two people... Which means when one dies, the other one dies too. Satara did this because she knows Xypher will come after her now that he's released from hell for a while. To be able to kill him, Stryker gave her the bracelets.
Xypher knows the bracelets are no good. But he can't identify them, so he and Simone decide to go to Julian for help. Julian is able to tell them the limits of the bracelets and also that they are unable to be removed...
So now Simone is stuck to this handsome stranger, a man so angry he leashes out to everyone around him. But when she gets a glimpse of the man behind the anger, she can't help but feel curious about Xypher... So when she is nice to him, Xypher realises that is the one thing he has no defence against...
This should be part 3 in the Dream Hunter series. We meet Xypher, whom we met in Devil May Cry. And the story that began there, just continues, so I don't understand why this is a Dream Hunter... It proves to me that both series are still connected very strongly. We don't see M'Adoc or V'Alerian at all, there are no dreams to appear in... So to me, this is just the sequel to Devil May Cry.
Xypher is the type of man I love. Hard, hurt, he lashes out to everyone and everything. Until Simone is just nice to him. He has no defence against that, but he doesn't trust it either. Never in his life has somebody been nice to him just because...
Simone is a ME. She lives with a ghost and things from other dimensions are no suprise to her. She has lost her parents and learned to survive on her own. Still her core is nice and friendly, so even when the odds are against Xypher, she still tries to reach out for him.
I really like most of this book...
Xypher is hard, he has some great comebacks...Simone is sweet, but strong at the same time. We meet Ash again and a new caracter that really caught my attention...
We have the ghost Jesse, who died in the 80's and got stuck there... Readers that were born then will have a good laugh at his cultural references.
What bugged me... The Kenyon errors as I call them... In one chapter Ash removes Xypers scares, a few chapters later, Simone traces his scars with her fingers...
And the end... I feel it's rushed... The book could use one more chapter to give it the ending it deserves... Or at least to explain the end some more...
When Katra showes up f.e. and does what she did ;) I felt like: that's all there is to it?????????
But overall it's a nice read? Jaden is a new person I would love to meet again soon... ;)
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