Review – Valiant Light (Demon Trappers, Book 6) by Jana Oliver (3/5 stars)
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Length: 346 pages
Publisher: Nevermore Books
Release Date: November 23, 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1941527146
Stand Alone or Series: 6th book in the Demon Trappers series
Source: Gift
Rating: 3/5 stars
“With her wedding fast approaching, as well as her fiancé’s investiture as grand master, Master Demon Trapper Riley Blackthorne is just trying to keep Atlanta safe from Hellspawn. When she meets a high-level fiend who claims to be free of Lucifer’s control, and allows him to remain at large, she knows there will be consequences.
Denver Beck is facing two major events: taking his vows as a grand master and then as a husband. He’s as nervous about committing his life to the fight against Darkness as he’s excited to say, “I do”. All his worries about the future are confirmed when a city is buried in brimstone, killing every single inhabitant. Was this Hell’s doing, or is some other entity at work? It’s Beck’s job to find out.
After more cities are destroyed, Riley is summoned to Rome to answer for her actions. If they want a future as man and wife, she and Beck will have to take a stand. But will they be strong enough to stop this new threat, a killer that even the angels fear?”
This is the sixth, and final, book in the Demon Trappers series. This is a series that I keep thinking has ended but then “surprise!” another book gets released in it. This was by far the worst book of the series and didn’t really need to be written. The book moves very slowly and was tough for me to get through. It does tie up all the loose ends from the previous books but it wasn’t very interesting or exciting.
In this book Beck is just about to be made Grand Master and Riley is continuing her Summoner lessons when whole cities of people start ending up destroyed/dead. Of course everyone thinks it is an ArchFiend but Riley and Beck think there’s more to it than that.
This story jumps around between many viewpoints, sometimes multiple in a chapter and as a result the story moved really slow. This book was more about tying up some loose ends that were left from book 5, than actually creating a new and engaging plot for this book. I almost stopped reading this book a number of times because it was so slow and boring. I really wish the series had stopped with book 5.
The above being said we do get our wedding scene and mysteries from other parts of the series were tied up completely. I just wish it hadn’t felt so boring and forced.
Overall my least favorite book in this series. I loved the series as a whole but this book just wasn’t as good as previous books. If you are a huge fan of the series I guess read it and finish it up. Honestly though I would have preferred to stop at book 5.
This book goes towards the following reading challenges:
– Goodreads Reading Challenge
