The Mephisto Covenant by Trinity FaegenGrade: 10+ (right away there's realistic violence and sexual content)
Pages: 448
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Source: NetGalley
Challenge: 2012 TBR Pile Reading Challenge
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Description: Sasha is desperate to find out who murdered her father. When getting the answer means pledging her soul to Eryx, she unlocks a secret that puts her in grave danger—Sasha is Anabo, a daughter of Eve, and Eryx’s biggest threat.
A son of Hell, immortal, and bound to Earth forever, Jax looks for redemption in the Mephisto Covenant—God’s promise he will find peace in the love of an Anabo. After a thousand years, he’s finally found the girl he’s been searching for: Sasha.
With the threat of Eryx looming, Jax has to keep Sasha safe and win her over. But can he? Will Sasha love him and give up her mortal life?
Thoughts: I only made it 21% of the way through this one before I had to stop. Way too many implausible things happened all at once - Sasha is a descendant of Eve with some kind of mystical powers, Hell Boy is her soul mate, she’s being hunted by a mystical group of trouble makers, and oh yeah, Dad was in the CIa and mom is being deported back to Russia as a spy so you’re going to go live with your Uncle (whom you’ve never met) and your evil Aunt. Oh! And because we haven’t put enough totally implausible plot twists in the first 20% of this book, did we mention that your aunt and uncle happen to live 20 minutes from your Hell Boy soul mate?
This was just the first to two chapters. I can suspend belief pretty easily - it’s a fantasy novel - I get it’s not going to be “grounded” in reality, but this was just way too many totally ridiculous things happening all at once.
I wasn’t a fan of the writing style either. There were no character or plot discoveries through dialog or action, everything was a declarative sentence. The combination of writing style and totally ridiculous plot just really turned me off. The appearance of the “perfect male lead” didn’t help either. I’m utterly tired of totally attractive, flawless, super human creatures falling in love with humans and the humans being so easily swayed by them.
I’m told that one of the strengths of this book was that Jax actually has to win Sasha over, but I never got that far. I stopped as she started to immediately swoon.
I’ve read a lot raves for this book though - from people I normally 100% agree with - so if you like angel/hell plot twists and crazy-out there story lines, this one might be for you.
Wasn't for me. I couldn't get past the C-R-A-Z-Y amount of crazy things that happened to Sasha in a 48 hour period.
