An old ally turns enemy and puts Phoebe’s redemption in jeopardy.Phoebe’s next job from Fate isn’t one that will count towards salvation. It’s to clean up the mess the Fae made following her directive.It’s a tall order considering the slaughter has made it onto the public news.With war between the Fae and demons exploding all over Manhattan, Phoebe navigates the fine line between bounty hunter … navigates the fine line between bounty hunter and peacemaker. Unfortunately, she has never been good at discouraging violence.
Her old taskmaster from Hell gathers the demon forces together for the next battle, one that would make his ascent to Hell’s throne possible. And he wants Phoebe strapped to a table screaming for all eternity for her betrayal.
Phoebe must stop him before he opens a two-way portal from Hell to Earth, even if it means sacrificing her own soul.
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Salidas and Taylor deliver an entertaining page turner with “Beyond: ( Running From The Devil: Book Three ). While Phoebe attempts to mitigate the unexpected backlash from the breakup of the nascent Fae/Demon alliance that took place in “Between” we get to meet Nick/Death, Fate’s/Julie’s, husband. We also find out something surprising about Fate’s recent behaviour. I’ll not say more, you’ll have to get the book and find out for yourself.
The authors, as is to be expected, continue their superb world building and character development as they introduce new characters and show us more about the main characters.
As with the two previous volumes in the series I was hooked from Page One to Page Last and hated having to stop reading for mundane things like, oh, working. I recommend this entertaining page turner.
In the interest of transparency, I was given a review copy of this book and I am voluntarily sharing this review.
It is my own honest opinion.
This has been a page turning series. You can’t help but enjoy all of the characters. The fight scenes are detailed so you can see them happening. This old idea “redemption”, with some new tweaks, keeps things fresh in this paranormal set. You feel as though you aren’t ready to say goodbye to everyone yet.
I really enjoyed the entertaining conclusion to this urban fantasy trilogy. Phoebe is still trying to work towards gaining her redemption, but with the war between the Fae and the demons causing havoc, her old controller from hell hunting her and plotting world domination, and guilt eating away at her for lying to her friends, she fears that she may never gain back her soul. There is lots of exciting action, fights, heartache, suspense, humour and sacrifice in this book, and I loved the twist at the end. The characters are great, and you can’t help but want them to succeed and find happiness. I especially loved Smoke, his sarcastic humour and snarky repartee never failed to make me smile. It was nice to see more of Faith in this story too. The authors tied everything up nicely creating a satisfying ending that to an enjoyable series.
I have written many book reviews and I always go back to Katie Salidas’ as one of my favorite Urban Fantasy authors. Katie teams up with J.E.Taylor for the “Running from the Devil” series, which is up there along with my favorite series from Ms. Salidas, Agents of A.S.S.E.T. In Running with the Devil Book 3 “Beyond” we find Phoebe cleaning up her mess from book 2. The beginning of the story Phoebe has escaped from hell where she has been torturing souls for many a millennia but is given a chance to to remain on earth and get her soul back if she can capture and wrangle back the 7 deadly sins. In book 3 she has two left, Wrath and Pride plus good old Prometheus to take down. This is a fun, quick, entertaining read and clean, no detailed sex. Although Heaven, Hell and Earth are the characters playground there is a good dose of saucy, snark, sassy and unholy to keep you entertained and reading.
I was given a copy of the book for free from StoryOrigin in exchange for an honest review.
The best book of the trilogy. Sometimes the final book in a series isn’t as good as the previous ones but this book was the perfect ending. Lucifer is dead but a demon Phoebe knew in Hell is trying to take his place. Phoebe, Adam, and Smoke will have a tough job stopping him and his followers. A sacrifice will be made. I loved how Fate didn’t know she was pregnant (funny) and that she is married to Death. I am going to miss the characters in this series. I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.