Book Blurb
FOREVER
The World of Nightwalkers Series
New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Frank returns with the sizzling second book in her sensual new series set in the World of the Nightwalkers—where alluring entities known as Bodywalkers face the ultimate threat.
After being brought back from death, police officer Jackson Waverly receives the shock of his life: he has become host to a Bodywalker, a spirit that is reborn in flesh and blood, and part of a proud, ancient race that uses its extraordinary gifts to battle dark, evil forces. Jackson’s spirit is a powerful one—none other than the Egyptian pharaoh Menes, who longs to reunite with his eternal love, the Egyptian queen Hatshepsut.
While Menes is obsessed with finding the perfect vessel for his queen, Jackson cannot stop thinking about Dr. Marissa Anderson, the gorgeous precinct shrink who keeps pushing him to confront his grief over the loss of his K-9 partner. But what Marissa really arouses most in Jackson is intense desire, which is exactly what Menes is looking for. To fight a great enemy, pharaoh and queen must join; but to host Hatshepsut, Marissa will first have to die. Fate has given Jackson a profound choice: save Marissa from Menes’s plan or keep an entire species from the brink of extinction.
Toot's Review
As you can tell from the blurb above, this is the story of Jackson and Marissa. We first met this couple in the first book in this series, Forbidden. I absolutely fell in love with Jackson in the previous book and was really looking forward to his book. I also really thought there was a lot of potential for Marissa as a character as well but unfortunately I felt Forever fell short of its potential. Both characters were so busy trying to avoid any social implications of impropriety, he being a cop and her, his departments' therapist, that it wasn't till the last 1/4 of the book before you felt the chemistry spark between them again like it was in the first book. Also I just felt something was off with the story. As the reader, I could see all the future pairings and the threads that the author was weaving for future books and the story itself seemed to be more of a stepping stone for the larger and future stories then having a complete individual story of its own. I, myself, when reading my PNR, like a set romance, an all-encompassing plot story that throws or brings our couple together and then threads or set up's for future books. If not for the coupling of Jackson and Marissa, there really isn't another full circle story, it just has build up for a larger one.
Gosh I hope that all makes sense, let me summarize it for you.....
Basically, you have our already established B-story-line couple from the first book, fighting their feelings due to their jobs, they end up on the run for like 2 seconds (the drama that lead up to them being on the run is fizzled out and nothing comes of it, definitely a missed opportunity for at least some high stakes action/drama but nothing comes of it), other stuff happens and he asks her to make the ultimate sacrifice to be with him, the end. Other story-line, baddie (1) takes a friend, tortures him over and over, accidentally brings even bigger baddie to life, baddie (1) sees error of his ways, the end.
Yep, that about sums up the book.
3 out of 5 books
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