Second Rite by Geneva Lee

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

He wore darkness with such graceful ease . . .

Thea Melbourne has a broken heart. A month after her world turned upside down, she’s struggling to return to the life she left behind. Her mother is in a coma, she’s selling off designer gowns to pay the bills, and her roommates seem to think she’s made of glass. But when the vampire who broke her heart shows up at the hospital, she learns a devastating secret.

To save the love of his life, Julian pushed her away. Now he has to live with the pain and regret or find someone to put him out of his misery. When it becomes clear that Thea is still in danger, he has a choice to make. He can stay away like the Council demands or risk everything, including their lives, to win her back.

Convincing her means facing his own dark secrets and resisting the temptation to claim her as his mate once and for all. But Thea isn’t going to make that easy for him.

Second Rite

Lots of action and answered questions!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Chemistry: 🧪🧪🧪🧪
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: 🙂🥰😎🤩
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The Hero: Julian Rousseaux – He is a pureblood vampire from the wealthiest and oldest vampire family. Basically, he is vampire royalty. Due to low birth rates and the fact that pureblood vampires are incredibly old, and hate each other after knowing each other for so long, they have an agreement with witches, since both of their magic has waned throughout the centuries, they can use each others magic in a way that they breed pureblood vampire children and witches get a long life instead of a human lifespan. As the eldest Rousseaux, it is Julians time this season to find a wife. Instead, he found a mate, something that was thought to be a myth. However, his mate, is Thea, and she is human. It is against vampire law to marry her.

The heroine: Thea Melbourne – she is a cellist and when she first met Julian, she was finishing college for music, and she had a job playing cello in a quartet. She gave that all up to travel the world with Julian and be his pretend girlfriend. In exchange he was going to pay her student loans and her mother’s hospital bills, for her cancer treatments. Thea realized that she is in love with Julian and had hoped they could find a way to be together, though she now knows that is impossible.

The Story: This book started out with Thea and Julian apart. Julian is distraught at losing Thea even though he was the one to kick her to the curb. Julian also saw his twin sister Camilla at the opera when the elite vampires were attacked by other vampires who wanted change. Though he wasn’t quite sure whether he saw her. What he didn’t know was that Camilla was out to get his entire family including Julian. When Julian thought she died, he had wanted to die as well. However, Camilla didn’t share his feelings. She was angry and out for vengeance against everyone and she wanted Julian to lead her to Thea as well.

I really enjoyed the first book, and this book was nearly as good. It had more action and more happened in this book than in the first. Also, we finally got some answers to questions brought up in the first book. The one thing I disliked about this series so far is the fact that when someone finds out something new, they don’t ask the questions I would ask. Well, they do, but only when it is too late and the people that could have answered the questions are no longer there or not willing to be forthcoming,

This audiobook is in dual points of view and narrated in dual narration. Stella Hunter and Teddy Hamilton did the narration. They are two of my favorite narrators. Stella hunter has a great voice and never sounds like she is reading. Teddy hamilton has a deep, gravelly voice and is also very natural sounding. They do a terrific job.

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