Author: Aubrey Law
Length: 206 pgs.
This was such a fun book!
I picked this up as a freebie on Amazon and I download a ton of freebies every few days, but this one stuck out to me and I made a point to get to it sooner than later. It begins with our main character Annis, a Black Witch, who was executed roughly 400 years ago. She’s been hanging out in the Lake of Fire ever since, just, you know, being tortured and stuff in Hell. One day a girl named Ashley, who’s being kept as a sex slave by members of the deranged Priesthood, is attempting to escape her prison and accidentally opens a Hellgate in her desperation. Annis is waiting behind the door – and immediately snatches up Ashley’s body as her own, thus returning to the land of the living.
From there, the adventure never stops. Annis tears through priests and demons alike, exacting her long-awaited revenge. She befriends Sonja, Ashley’s friend and fellow prisoner, though she explains that Ashley no longer really exists. Together they bust out of their prison and begin Annis’s mission of punishing everyone (or in some cases at least the descendants of everyone) who had a had in her torture and execution.
This was fun to read for many reasons, one of them being that Annis has so much power that we get to watch her destroy demons, kill supernatural beings and some humans with different spells and weapons in her magical arsenal. It’s fun being on the powerful end of things when we’re normally reading from the point of view of the character who has all the odds stacked against them. And while there are many odds stacked against Annis, she’s too powerful for them to stop her completely. Watching her get around the obstacles that are in her way is exciting. Aubrey Law’s creativity here makes the book a blast to read.
The world building with its many different supernatural creations is enthralling. We’ve got everything from the everyday vampires and werewolves to fallen angels, dark cherubs, goblins, demons and Archdemons, necromancers, Hellhounds, and many other beings, and pretty much every one of them is after Annis for one reason or another. The excitement doesn’t stop for a second which is great for the reader, not so much for Annis and Sonja.
Speaking of, Sonja was not really my favorite person. She became quite grating after a while, although I understand the purpose of her existence. She was just sort of unlikable and Annis is drawn to her, though she’s not sure if that’s due to the lingering remnants of Ashley’s soul or because Annis herself genuinely likes her.
This book ends on a giant cliffhanger and you can pick up the second for free, but fair warning that book ends on a cliffhanger as well. However you won’t be able to stop at just one, so make sure you have #2 downloaded before beginning this one! I am hooked and will be looking out for the third book as soon as it’s released!
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