Retribution (Dark-Hunter #20)

Harm no human...

A hired gunslinger, William Jessup Brady lived his life with one foot in the grave. He believed that every life had a price. Until the day when he finally found a reason to live. In one single act of brutal betrayal, he lost everything, including his life. Brought back by a Greek goddess to be one of her Dark-Hunters, he gave his immortal soul for vengeance and swore he'd spend eternity protecting the humans he'd once considered prey.

Orphaned as a toddler, Abigail Yager was taken in by a family of vampires and raised on one belief - Dark-Hunters are the evil who prey on both their people and mankind, and they must all be destroyed. While protecting her adoptive race, she has spent her life eliminating the Dark-Hunters and training for the day when she meeting the man who killed her family: Jess Brady.

A gun in the hand is worth two in the holster....

Jess has been charged with finding and terminating the creature who's assassinating Dark-Hunters. The last thing he expects to find is a human face behind the killings, but when that face bears a striking resemblance to the one who murdered him centuries ago, he knows something evil is going on. He also knows he's not the one who killed her parents. But Abigail refuses to believe the truth and is determined to see him dead once and for all.

Brought together by an angry god and chased by ancient enemies out to kill them both, they must find a way to overcome their mutual hatred or watch as one of the darkest of powers rises and kills both the races they've sworn to protect.

This book was a change from the norm. We are given a whole new pantheon. The Native American lore in this book made me giggle at time. As I read this, the names of the gods and the references to guardians like Snake and Coyote made me laugh as I tried to pronounce the names over and over. One of the gods, I just ended up calling Choo Choo through out the story. 

We meet Jess, a gunslinger with a soft heart. His past is riddled with death and a touch of betrayal. That is what makes a good dark hunter right?

Enter Abigail. A woman from Jess' past. She witnessed the murder of her parents and she saw who did it. 

Then she was adopted by Apollite family, where her mind was poisoned to believe that Dark Hunters were evil killers of all Apollite kind. 

Enter dark power....Abigail's blood was infused with demons blood. Yes, folks there is trouble in the world. 

Add in some interesting new characters, we might have a good story.

Overall a good book. We also get to see the birth of Ash's son. And Simi...YES I LOVE HER!!!


Quotes

“Acheron always says that our scars are there to remind us of out pasts, of where we've been and what we've gone through. But that pain doesn't have to drive or determine our future. We can rise about it if we let ourselves. It's not easy, but nothing in life ever is." -Sundown”

“Got to say, dying would really wreck my best day. Been there, done that, and now that I think about it, Artemis forgot to give me the t-shirt.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Retribution

Rating

Until Next Time,