The vampires want it. The demons want it, too. And someone is willing to kill Val for it.
Val and Fang have to find the powerful Encyclopedia Magicka before either of San Antonio's warring underworld factions locate it or the consequences will be deadly for the entire city. As usual, Val's vampire enemies (they still call her The Slayer) want her dead. Even some of her fellow demons may be less than trustworthy, since they'd like to grab the legendary book of spells before she does. Val has a personal claim to the Encyclopedia - her demon father left it to her when he died - but someone stole it recently. And that can't be good.
Battling vamps and dodging demons, Val struggles to unravel the mystery and find the thief. At the same time, she's fighting her attraction to sweet, sexy Shade - her favorite shadow demon. Rumor has it that Val will lose her part-demon, vampire-fighting powers if she gives herself to him.
With a crowd of vamps and demons out to trick her or kill her, it's not a good time for her to risk her job as the city's best vampire hunter by falling in love. The stakes are high and aimed right at her heart. But Lola, Val's hungry little lust demon, doesn't like being denied. Will Lola finally get her way?
What's a part-lust-demon-teen supposed to do? Whatever it takes.
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"This again picks up just a couple of days later from the other book. So it is pretty seamless reading from one to the next. Val and Shade are an item. Dan and Nicole are an item. The encyclopedias are still missing and she is now on retainer to Alejandro. The movement vamps and the unaffiliated are still at war with eachother and demon/vamp relations are still ambiguous. In this book we have a demon, Trevor, turn up from L.A. claiming he is the keeper of the books and heard them "awaken" when Val delivered them to Micah. Everyone but Val seems to find him charming, she just can't seem to trust him. He just seems a little off to her. Shade is paired up with Trevor to help him find the books. In the mean time Val is also searching herself. She has to take a break from The SCU due to working for Alejandro and uses that time to look. While all of this is going on Val also has to battle her hormones. She is wanting increasingly more and more to get it on with Shade. But, if she does she'll lose her strength, speed and ability to heal faster then normal. Poor thing, I'd be all over Shade, LOL. I liked this one the best of the three. They just seem to get better as the story progresses. So I also gave this one four stars
I really enjoyed the second and third of this series and plan on getting the 4th soon! I would say go ahead and borrow these and if you like them buy them. They are a good read and Val seems to be coming into her own, Shade is smexy, and Fang is just plain hilarious. He's such a smart ass!"
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Nikki (4 out of 5 stars)