Night's Reckoning

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‘The course of true love never did run smooth’<br>(A Midsummer Night’s Dream)<br><br>With every book I read in this series I always think that there is no way that the previous book can be topped, and I am pleased to say that I am wrong. Every. Single. Time! Night’s Reckoning is outstanding. As soon as I started it, I felt as if I had finished it in a matter of minutes. It gave me all the feels. <br><br>After Puerto Rico, the bite, the kiss, the chemistry that has been building for years the tipping point for these two has come. Their dynamic and friendship was changing, the sexual tension was there, and everyone saw it. And they finally did the deed although it was angry sex, it was hawt. Get your fans out ladies and gents cause it was steaming!!<br><br>Night's Reckoning broke my heart numerous times throughout the book. The revelations that Ben felt hit me like a truck because I didn't see anyway how these two could meet in the middle at times. And I so wanted them to meet in the middle. I wanted them to bend or yield but not break or surrender. Tenzin has plans but surely even she cannot be that sure of everything. The future is fluid. But even in this book and the feelings that Tenzin was fighting she realized that the path that she was walking was in the end not the right one. <br><br>Ben has been adamant that he never wants to become a vampire but throughout the book I was wondering how was it to work? A paranormal romance where one is immortal and the other isn’t? Impossible.<br><br>Don’t read the spoiler, if you haven’t read the book, you have been warned. Remember curiosity killed the cat. <br><br><input type="checkbox" class="spoiler__control" aria-label="The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide." onchange="this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);" id="4f9bab10-1c81-4fe3-a315-0a840c41e1f4" /><label aria-hidden="true" class="spoiler" for="4f9bab10-1c81-4fe3-a315-0a840c41e1f4">I just knew it and why? Because that is exactly how I would have done it as well. There was no other way to do it, so bravo Ms. Hunter for making this totally, awesomely, distraught-ing read. Ben has changed and he was so vulnerable throughout this book. It just got to me. I wanted to hug him. <br><br>This quote comes to mind. <br><br>No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.<br></label><br><br>The writing is flawless and has a certain beauty to it and the characters and plot pull you into this amazing and utterly unique world. I just can’t get enough. The setup and what Ben and Tenzin are looking for is a treasure. The story of the lost sword and who made it touched my stone-cold heart.<br><br>There is so much more that I would like to write and what I have highlighted but I think that you should get the full experience yourself. <br><br>I could picture myself standing on Penglai Island with all these immortals. But now I have so many more questions that need to be answered. <br><input type="checkbox" class="spoiler__control" aria-label="The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide." onchange="this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);" id="079f0917-b323-46a5-931a-236d4052eb3d" /><label aria-hidden="true" class="spoiler" for="079f0917-b323-46a5-931a-236d4052eb3d"><br>How will the series continue?<br>What shall happen between Benzin?<br>Will the story of Saba continue? What about the other ancient ones? </label><br><br><br><br><br><br>Woohoo!!!<br><br> <br> <a href="http://s39.photobucket.com/user/phoenix374/media/New%20ARC_zpsdpyxs3wn.jpg.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> <img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1498404676i/23122862.jpg" alt=" photo New ARC_zpsdpyxs3wn.jpg" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"> </a> <br> <br><br>Snippet<br><br>“I am worried. About your health.” She frowned. “Do you at least have a spare phone?”<br>He held up his newest burner. “Yep.”<br>“Set an alarm and call me in three hours.” She held up a hand. “Don’t argue. You’ve been punched repeatedly in the head and I’m a doctor.”<br>“You have a PhD in Archaeology. That doesn’t make you a doctor.”<br><br>She wasn’t gone. She was never gone. Except that she was. She was a gaping hole in his life and nothing he did seemed to fill it. Not fighting. Not work. Not travel. Not drinking.<br><br>He's love sick bless him.</["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]>

I was given the opportunity to read an early copy and I am honestly in one of the biggest book hangovers ever! I have eagerly awaited every book that Elizabeth Hunter creates for us and the Elemental Legacy books are among my absolute favourites but this story is something else! It‘s a real adventure. It is intrigue, it is gritty, it is friendship, it is love all bound in the most beautifully written way. I devoured this book (despite having to stop and breathe a few times - but we wouldn’t love these stories as much as we do without feeling every emotion from joy to fear to anger to love). Dive in! Live in this world for the next journey, I promise you, you‘ll love it.

Elizabeth has done it again. Night’s Reckoning is everything I have wanted and everything I have dreaded. <br />I feel raw. I feel undone. The Elemental Mysteries and Elemental Legacy books have brought us up to this point and we have impatiently patiently waited for these stories of our beloved Ben and Tenzin, our “Benzin”, for years now. <br />This story started a little slow for me but then it just took off and I had to forgo sleep to finish. I was enthralled. Our characters are growing and changing and it’s so empowering but also astonishing at the same time. I gasped out loud twice in this book (trying not to wake my hubby) not believing what I had just read. Elizabeth takes us on a wild ride, but she weaves the story like we are birds ourself: crazy flying in the storm of the story and then also floating gently down to earth with the story. The ending was just what I needed, it really pulled on my heart but uplifted me as well. <br />I will be impatiently patiently waiting for the rest of Ben and Tenzin’s story. I cannot wait to see what happens next.

I read this book twice in 72 hours. Back to back. As in, I finished then I went back to the beginning and immediately read it again. <br />That's how good this book is.<br /><br />I highlighted the shit out of this book on Kindle. Sometimes entire pages were highlighted.<br />That's how good this book is.<br /><br />After reading this book I took my holiday vacation early because I felt dazed. I needed time to process. I know that means I will have to return sooner but that's okay. It's worth it.<br />That's how good this book is.<br /><br />It's rare for a writer to move me in the way that Elizabeth Hunter does. Her writing feels a bit like all my head fantasies of how I would have wanted situations to go when I'm rehashing them at the end of the day or week or month or relationship. You know...What I wish I'd said or done, what I wish other people had said or done. Her writing feels like that but wayyy better. It's clearer. More authentic. More honest and purposeful<br />That's how good this book is.<br /><br />I don't like "struggle love" but I also don't shy away from friction. I liked being able to relate to each character even though they disagreed fundamentally. Also, none of her characters were frivolous. I find authors sometimes let characters do dumb crap just to move the plot forward. This book was so well planned it just flowed and didn't need to create any artificial plot twists to reach a masterful conclusion.<br />That's how good this book is.<br /><br />Does it end in a cliff hanger? Yes and no. The Ben and Tenzin chapter is not complete. And yes I know I am biased towards Elizabeth Hunter. But honestly, seeing as it's part of a series you should expect that the books have some spillover until the series is completed. At the same time, this book managed to fulfill every last one of my expectations. Nobody will finish reading this book feeling short changed. It's impossible.<br />That's how great this book is.<br /><br />I know people will want to read this during the coming holidays but I must caution them. If you will have any family or friends depending on you being fully present and involved during the Christmas season, do not, I repeat, do not try to read this book then. Wait until the season has passed because if you don't you may end up snapping at friends and family who interrupt you, or you may end up letting family members down as you sequester yourself in your own hidden dungeon or light safe room just to finish reading and processing this book. Yes, this book will need to be digested afterwards. <br />That's how good this book is.<br /><br />Do yourself a favour and read this book. Let it shake you. Let it blow your mind. Because that's how frigging good this book is!

It took me over a week to come up with a review for this book. I had to really think hard about what I wanted to write. <br /><br /> I was through the moon when I saw an early copy of this book land on my kindle. As most will understand I was a bit leery of this book, what would happen?!? How will Elizabeth be able to write something to satisfy everyone when there seems to be so much riding on this story? So before I began, I took a deep breath, sat back and remembered who the author is. In the past I have asked this question about Ms. Hunter and she has taught me each time that the question need not be asked. She NEVER lets me down. <br /><br />This book....it’s complicated. Ben and Tenzin are the most complicated duo I’ve ever read. But that just makes the story all the more worth while. <br /><br />In this book we head to Pengali. I truly enjoyed getting to know Tenzin’s sire, Zhang more. I didn’t think I’d like him so much! Of course, anyone who has known Tenzin so long is worth getting to know. As with each hunt for lost artifacts or treasure, plans are made and in this hunt, a team is put in place. Enter Cheng, I have a bit of a crush on him even though he threatens the ideal of Benzin. His loose morals remind me a bit of Gavin! It was so neat to see the search commence and see how they went about an underwater search. <br /><br />This book is so very well done, my heart broke several times and then it beat so rapidly that I had my hand clutched to my chest pressing against my heart to relieve the exquisite pain, my eyes wept, and my soul broke in the most beautiful way. Scared yet? Good. Go preorder this book and remember to trust the literary goddess that is Elizabeth Hunter.

My comfort read. International travel, intrigue, danger, romance, and vampires!<br /><br /> I really love this series and these characters and this book delivers on the slow burn that has been building the entire series in a very satisfying way - not easy, mind you. Difficult, fraught, even. But it rings true to who the characters are and I am very excited to see what's next.<br /><br />If you're interested, start with the first book in the Elemental Legacy series, and if you want even more, reach back to the beginning of the Elemental Vampire books.

What a bittersweet, beautiful book! I was all misty-eyed. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Ben and Tenzin were shining so brightly here! Ben, going through his evolution of love and self. Tenzin, finally accepting the profound changes he carved into her. It was poignant.<br /><br /> <br /><br />All the steps we took following the escalating intensity of these two partners and friends paid off with an explosive finale. I think it's Elizabeth's finest work so far. She just keeps getting better and better.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Sorry, I am fangirling here. <br /><br /> <br /><br />But I also can't say much beyond the synopsis without giving you major spoilers. It's a very fast read, the conservation work on the boat is beautiful, Tenzin's logic mesmerizes me, but so is Ben's frustration. There are fascinating insights into Tenzin's sire's character, and he will be a formidable figure to get to know in later books...<br /><br /> <br /><br />But.<br /><br /> <br /><br />What I can honestly tell you is that this is the end of the chapter. I can sorta see what will happen next, but the ride will be wild. And I can not wait!<br /><br /> <br /><br />Buy it, read it, you won't regret it!<br /><br /> <br /><br />* * *<br /><br /> Какая горько-сладкая, красивая книга. У меня аж комок стоял в горле.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Характеры Бена и Тензин здесь светились ярко. Бена, с его эволюцией любви и себя. Тензин, наконец-то отдающей дань изменениям, которые вырезало в ней присутствие Бена, ее друга и партнера. Очень было это трогательным и глубоким.<br /><br /> <br /><br />С прошлой книги отношения между парочкой сошли на ней из-за того, что Тензин не захотела ответить на чувства Бена к ней. И вот это молчаливое, напряженное противостояние, этот стэндофф, наконец-то взрываются с такой силой, что и Бену и Тензин долго придется разбираться с последствиями. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Это несомненно одна из лучших книг Элизабет, она оттачивает свое мастерство с каждым годом все острее и сильнее. Но извините меня, родные, помимо синопсиса, я мало пока что могу сказать, чтобы ничего не проспойлерить. <br /><br /><br />Да, сюжет прекрасный, да сокровище на дне моря завораживает, да мы узнаем отца Тензин больше в этой книге, и характер у него завораживающий...<br /><br /><br />Но.<br /><br /><br />Эта глава "Бензин" закончена. Готовьтесь к чего-то совершенно новому и волнующему. Я не могу дождаться!<br /><br /> <br /><br />Покупайте, читайте, очень рекомендую. Прекрасная книга!

To start with the most important: this book really deserves 5 stars. <br /><br />However, this is one of the most difficult reviews I've ever written. Why? Because Night's Reckoning is difficult to classify. It is the 3rd book in the Elemental Legacy Series, continuing the story of Ben and Tenzin. It is - as all the books in the series - a stand alone urban fantasy story. It is, however, so much more. It is a story about friendship, about family and about love; about personal development and the willingness and unwillingness of people to change; about survival and sacrifice. <br /><br />While reading the book I was fascinated, captured, afraid, laughing, crying, yelling, hoping and feeling relieved (not necessarily in this order). And all of this is only possible because Elizabeth Hunter is a true master of story telling. Her protagonists become your family and friends, the plot contains a good arc of suspension without being either predictable or unbelievable. And last but not least, it is always a pleasure to immerse into Elizabeth Hunter's language. And it is really difficult to leave the world she created once the book is finished. I didn't want to - and I will re-read the book just to stay longer in its world and to find new nuances like I always do in second and third readings of her books. And at the same time I'm eagerly waiting for the next book of the series - I just NEED to know how the story continues (although the book does not contain a cliffhanger). <br /><br />Thank you, Elizabeth Hunter, for this wonderful rich story!<br /><br />Note: I was given the opportunity to read an early copy of this book (which did not influence the outcome of my review).

I've been sitting here for days trying to put into words how insanely intense and all-consuming this book was... And I keep finding myself staring at the screen, completely lost for words. I've only read a couple of Elizabeth's books and each one I loved, and this? I think this goes on the re-read pile and a favorite of hers now. This was deep... Deeper than I expected, I did not see any of that coming. The emotions inside these pages were overwhelming. In the space of a book, I cried, I laughed, I trembled and I shook and I screamed in anger and frustration. It truly took me on a rollercoaster ride... This book gave me all the feels.<br><br><br>Truthfully I went into this with no much to expect. Fantasy romances are a big thing for me, but I discovered Elizabeth a few weeks back and I am loving her words, and love learning about all these characters, so I found myself checking this book and honestly it was amazing. Nothing I expected and that's a good thing. <br><br><br>This is a standalone and I read it as one, It was easy to follow without the rest of this couple's story, but I will be going back and reading from the start. I'm completely fixated on these two and want to see what happened before this book. BUT THIS BOOK,... Holy Crap! Ben and Tenzin were something else. These two had a relationship like no other and I found myself completely hypnotized the deeper I got into the story. It felt me happy with the ending but wanting so much too. <br><br><br>I want to go into detail on how amazing these two are, and this book is but I won't be. This epic tale needs to be experienced... <br><br><br>5 Stars!<br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1567925876i/28116871._SX540_.jpg" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy">