The Quest by Mary Abshire

Retribution. At any cost.

Now that she knows her name and what she is, she wants justice for everything she’s lost. Though her memories elude her, she takes a job for a half-demon Senator and, aided by werewolves from a local clan, intends to uncover evidence that will convict the Senator of more than thirty murders. 

Getting to the Senator and finding the necessary evidence is more difficult than she anticipates, especially when there is a bounty for her death. If that were not enough, the vampire who stole her memories returns and reveals unexpected truths. But she’s not going to let anything stop her. Not a sadistic assassin or a servant or Lucifer. Not even her ex-lover, the vampire God of the Underworld. Nothing will stop her from claiming retribution...even if the price is her life.

A Lyrical Press Urban Fantasy ~ Book Description.

Urban fantasy book with some erotic content. This is the second book in a series, I’m not sure if there's a third, the ending leaves it open for another book, and I'd love to see more of Shelley and co I hadn't read the first one and think I'd have picked up the story quicker if I’d known the background however its a good tale and soon had me feeling engrossed in Shelleys' problems. 

She's lost her memory and doesn't know her real name or any of her history before being rescued from a dump where more than thirty people were killed, she believes on the orders of a senator. Shelley wants retribution for their deaths and believes the senator knows more about her background too so she's on a quest for justice along with friends Boss (yummy ancient vampire and casual sex partner!!), Jonas (human) and Tabby (cat shape shifter) and Jackson (werewolf policeman). The search for evidence puts Shelley very close to the Senator and places her life in danger a number of times. It’s a whirlwind of adventure and action, wrapped up with some sensual erotic sex scenes, and each question answered throws up further treachery until it’s hard to know who to trust and Shelley feels her problems are placing her friends in undue danger.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and at some point will get read the first as I feel this is a series I’ll read over again. It’s one of those with so much information that on second and subsequent readings you'll see bits you missed first time round. The main plot is clear and well written and there are many smaller sections leading to interesting revelations. The characters were well fleshed out and felt real and I found it easy to get lost in the story.

It’s a good length at 267 e pages and value at $5.99 for something that will be read over again. Some stories only hold interest for one reading but the ones I love best such as this can take more readings without losing freshness.

Excellent editing and grammar, and easy to adjust text– one of my e book bugbears, I’ve dumped one book this morning because the text was so tiny and would only adjust to enormous so it left a choice of being unable to read it or changing page every six lines!! 

Stars: I really enjoyed this story, want to read first book and would love to read any further ones and I’m giving it 4.5 stars.

                                                               Reviewed by Midnight Ruby

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