Week 6 Review: Archangel's Lineage

From Goodreads:

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh's dangerous and beautiful world of archangels, vampires, and mortals has never faced a threat this cataclysmic…

Raphael and Elena are experiencing their first ever year of true peace. No war. No horrors of archangelic power. No nightmares given flesh. Until…the earth beneath the Refuge begins to tremble, endangering not only angelkind's precious and fragile young, but the very place that has held their most innocent safe for eons.

Amid the chaos, Elena's father suffers a violent heart attack that threatens to extinguish their last chance to heal the bonds between them and make sense of the ruins of their agonizing shared history.

Even as Elena battles grief, Raphael is torn from her side by the sudden disappearance of an archangel. But worse yet is to come. An Ancestor, an angel unlike any other, stirs from his Sleep to warn the Cadre of a darkness so terrible that it causes empires to fall and civilizations to vanish.

This time, even the Cadre itself may not be able to stop a ticking clock that is counting down at frightening speed…

My Review:
I absolutely loved reading this book! I just love this series so much, and this is book 16 in the series-and it's a tipping point. I loved how this book looked back on the fact that she was a mortal, and what it means to now be immortal-and those that she loves are getting older, and facing the fact that they won't be in her life, someday soon.

Things are going well. Healing from the events of this series has finally finished up, and it's time to relax. But really, it's not, because there's a threat to the Refuge, of where the young are raised-and it's mentioned multiple times what would happen if the young were harmed. We definitely didn't want anything to happen to them regardless, but even more so! 

This book really took a look at long-lived individuals, basically immortal, from both perspectives. Of Elena, whose mortal friends and family are getting older, and she's faced with the idea of losing them after being confronted by her father's heart attack. And it was saddening, the thought of that loss-but that just means that what they have is precious. 

It also takes a look at it from another perspective-that they are so long-lived, that they have all this history. Not that they know it all, or the beginnings, the Ancients are supposed to be made up. But when the defense of the Refuge starts to fail, the past gets examined more thoroughly. And I loved watching the story unfold! 

Loved reading this book, and if we get low stakes, romances, for other couples, like the one I hope was introduced in this book, yeah, I'd be thrilled! 

Author: Nalini Singh
Series: Guild Hunter #16
Read: February 7th, 2024 
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing and this world, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2024 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Berkley 
Expected Publication: March 23rd 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars