The Malevolent Eight by Sebastien De
Castell is second book in the Malevolent series that began with The Malevolent Seven. At this point
there is supposed to be a third book in the series, The Malevolent Nine,
but the publishing date is unknown. All we have, for now, is the reference to
it in the author’s multi page acknowledgement section at the back of the book.
Spinning out of the events of the first
book, The Lords Celestine (their version of angels) and the Lords Devilish
(their version of demons) are recruiting humans to wage war against their
counterparts on the Mortal Plane (quasi Earth). Cade and his friends (The
Malevolent Seven) are attempting to stop the war before it truly gets going by
murdering people both sides until they call it off. Of course, things only get
worse from there. As happened with the first book, the plot synopsis does not really
reflect what the book is actually about and I am not going to ruin with a more
accurate description.
This book has humor, action, sex,
extensive and graphic torture scenes, and much more. If you enjoyed the first
read, you should enjoy this book as it is more of the same. As was true with
the first one, this is very much an adult book. Like the previous read, this
one also gets weird at times, but in a good way. For example, one of the new
characters introduced to join the team includes a vampire Kangaroo from another
dimension. About halfway through the read, the Kangaroo also learns and can
speak Samuel L. Jackson’s favorite movie curse word.
I read the hardback book through my
local library and enjoyed it a lot. I am eagerly awaiting the third book which
is supposed to be the final book in the series.
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My hardback reading copy came from the
Central, aka Downtown, Branch of the Dallas Public Library System.
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