ARC Review: Tempt the Stars by Karen Chance

…after this series is over (if she survives it of course!) then Cassie is going to need a long holiday on a hot beach with a hotter man (fingers crossed it’s Pritkin) with an ice cold Pina Colada.  ~ Under the Covers

We are now on book 6 of Cassie Palmer’s head long plunge in to the Pythia role, so far she has managed to survive vampires, faeries, demons and even old gods. All with the help of a certain bad tempered, slightly insane and half incubus war mage John Pritkin. But in an infuriatingly selfless act he traded in his life for hers and now he is in the place he hates most with the person he hates most; hell with his father. And Cassie is determined to break him out.

I think I have said this after every single book, but damn, I am exhausted just from reading Cassie’s mad dash from disaster to catastrophe and back again. The frantic pace of this series makes it hard to put down as we take magic carpet rides through hell and fight suits of armour in a Las Vegas casino, after this series is over (if she survives it of course!) then Cassie is going to need a long holiday on a hot beach with a hotter man (fingers crossed it’s Pritkin) with an ice cold Pina Colada. 

As well as the jaw dropping, heart racing action Karen Chance provides us with in the Cassie Palmer series, we also have the romance and a bit of a love triangle. I for one am firmly on Team Pritkin and this book more than any other really explores the depth of her feelings for the maddening war mage and just how far she would go to save him. It makes for a few tense moments both sexually and romantically as we see the two of them together.

But as well as action and romance, Karen Chance has woven a complicated and interesting story line of ancient gods and goddesses trying to enter the world. This is progressed further in this book as we learn more about Cassie’s parent and the apocalyptic plans of the ancient gods and goddesses to destroy not just Earth but Hell as well.

Tempt the Stars had one hell of an ending, which left me with tears in my eyes and desperately hoping for more, the next book promises to be just as exciting as this one and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

*ARC provided by publisher

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