After finally meeting his elusive father, Marcus, and receiving the three gifts that confirm him as a full adult witch, Nathan is still on the run. He needs to find his friend Gabriel and rescue Annalise, now a prisoner of the powerful Black witch Mercury. Most of all he needs to learn how to control his Gift - a strange, wild new power that threatens to overwhelm him.
Meanwhile, Soul O'Brien has seized control of the Council of White Witches and is expanding his war against Black witches into Europe. In response, an unprecedented alliance has formed between Black and White witches determined to resist him. Drawn into the rebellion by the enigmatic Black witch Van Dal, Nathan finds himself fighting alongside both old friends and old enemies. But can all the rebels be trusted, or is Nathan walking into a trap?
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(@PenguinUKBooks, 26 March 2015, ebook, 432 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I have a terrible habit of reading the first book in a series and then waiting years to read the rest of the book. I'm guilty of this with these books. I barely remember the first one. I was apprehensive about reading this as I had only a vague knowledge of what had gone before. Thankfully, this never became an issue. There are enough references to the first book and I started to remember bits of it. I loved this. So much happens and I'm still a little reeling from the events at the end. I can't wait to read the last book in the trilogy.
