Casee‘s review of Sin Undone (Demonica series, Book 5) by Larissa Ione.
HER TOUCH IS DEADLY
As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to being treated like an outcast. She spent decades enslaved, and now vows she’ll die before she’ll relinquish her freedom again. Then Sin’s innate ability to kill her enemies goes awry: She creates a lethal new werewolf virus that sparks a firestorm of panic and violence.
HIS HUNGER CAN’T BE DENIED
Half-werewolf, half-vampire Conall Dearghul is charged with bringing in Sin to face punishment for the plague. And she’s no stranger: He’s bound to her by blood, and the one sexual encounter they shared has left him hungering for her raw sensuality. Worse, Sin is the underworld’s most wanted and Con soon learns he’s the only one who can help her . . . and that saving her life might mean sacrificing his own.
Sin is one of those heroines that makes you wonder…how can she even be a heroine? She used to be an assassin. Now she’s the leader of an assassin’s den. She created disease that is killing wargs. A disease that has no cure. Sin isn’t very likable. At most you can feel pity for her because she’s been through so much. I have to hand it to Larissa. By the end of this book, Sin became my favorite heroine of this series.
Con is a dhampire which is a half warg-half vampire. I think that’s why he’s a dhampire. That was all a bit confusing to me. Anywho, Con loves to hate Sin. He loves to do her, too. He hates that he wants her because there are no redeeming qualities that he can see. She’s a stone cold killer as far as Con is concerned. When Eiolden tells Con and Sin that the two of them are the key to creating the antibodies for the antidote, Con can’t say no. He’s heroic like that.
To do what her brother wants her to do forces her to leave her assassin den. By doing so, she is fair game to her assassins. Whoever kills her gets to take over the den. It doesn’t take them long to start coming after her and pretty soon she and Con are running for their lives. Sin’s feelings for Con are mixed. As a Seminus demon, she wants him all the time. She chalks that up to wanting sex because that’s the kind of demon she is, but eventually admits that she actually likes him. What she doesn’t like is his obvious disdain for her.
After being forced into close contact with Sin, Con can tell that there really is a big ‘ol softie underneath the hard exterior. Okay, not really. What he can see is that Sin holds everything in. Something primitive in Con rejects that and he does everything he can to make Sin let go. Just let it allllll go. When he does, well, that’s my favorite scene in the book. It’s powerful stuff, yo. Emotional as anything I’ve read in recent memory.
When Sin decides to do something, she doesn’t do it halfway. That’s one of the things I loved about her. Once she actually let go and admitted that she had feelings, she didn’t try to hide them. She would try to hide them from Con, but she could admit to herself how she felt where before she couldn’t even do that. Con really couldn’t understand where his feelings for Sin were coming from. Since she was a Seminus demon, he knows she needs sex and needs it often. What’s confusing him is that the thought of her having sex with anyone but him all but throws him into a jealous rage, something he has never felt before.
Sin Undone really takes the reader farther into the world and the politics involved. In the Demonica world, the paranormal beings are just like human beings. They have the same biases, the same feelings of being better than others.
What really made this book amazing were the sacrifices that both Con and Sin made for each other. That’s how you really know that these two were really meant to be.
4.25 out of 5.
This book is available from Grand Central Publishing. You can buy it here.
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thanks so much for your review – I can’t wait to get my hands on Sin Undone 🙂
@Ina I really hope you enjoy it!