Review: Rage and Ruin by Jennifer L. Armentrout (The Harbinger, #2)

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Out June 9, 2020

Dangerous secrets and forbidden desires lead to shocking consequences… Don’t miss book two of the fantastical Harbinger trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout.

“Jennifer L. Armentrout’s intoxicating new fantasy is her best yet!” —New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter on Storm and Fury

Half-angel Trinity and her bonded gargoyle protector, Zayne, have been working with demons to stop the apocalypse while avoiding falling in love. The Harbinger is coming…but who or what is it? All of humankind may fall if Trinity and Zayne can’t win the race against time as dark forces gather.

As tensions rise, they must stay close together and patrol the DC streets at night, seeking signs of the Harbinger, an entity that is killing Wardens and demons with no seeming rhyme or reason. Forbidden to be with each other, Zayne and Trinity fight their feelings and turn to unusual sources for help—the demon Roth and his cohorts. But as deaths pile up and they uncover a sinister plot involving the local high school and endangering someone dear to Zayne, Trin realizes she is being led…herded…played for some unknown end. As anger builds and feelings spiral out of control, it becomes clear that rage may be the ruin of them all.

Read from: May 29 to June 1st, 2020

Read on: eARC

Review:

IMPORTANT: If you haven’t read Storm and Fury, do not read this review since it might contain some spoilers from the first book of this series.

ADVICE: You should also check out The Dark Elements series from what The Harbinger series is a spinoff of. It gives you a background and plus it’s an amazing series.

Oh my God! I have no idea where to start this review because my mind is still trying to focus on everything that happened in it. Rage and Ruin continues where Storm and Fury ended and Trinity and Zayne are determined to find the Harbinger. Of course, they have no sure way or knowing how to find it or any idea who it might be.

I still love Trinity. She’s far from being perfect and sometimes, I wanted to give her a little slap behind the head, but still, she’s just such a refreshing character. Trinity will learn a lot about herself in this book. I really enjoyed the process she goes through in this book as events unfold and actions are taken that makes her doubt who she was sometimes. Personally, I feel like she had done a lot of personal growth in this book and was more aware of whom she was too.

Trinity and Zayne are obviously both trying to resist the pull they have towards one another while also not being able to stay away from it either which will cause a lot of frictions throughout the book, not counting how they are both dealing with it differently and making it even more difficult for them. I really liked how their relationship evolved in this book because you see both ups and downs of it and you see them work through those slowly but surely.

And Zayne. What can I say about him? I really loved him in this book as well. If sometimes I felt like hitting him too, I really loved his personality and I’m really enjoying seeing a new side of Zayne that we didn’t experience in the first series, The Dark Elements.

Also, old characters from The Dark Elements also make an appearance in this book and it brought a whole new twist to this series. I really enjoyed seeing them again and not to spoil anything, I will leave it at that.

So much happens in this book as well. It’s hard to go into details about it without trying to spoil the book, but just be ready that you might be going through a long range of emotions with this book. Trinity, Zayne, Roth, Layla and company have a lot to deal with in this book and each time they unfolded some more information about what they might have to face, there always seem to have a new twist that was added to complicate their situation.

Overall, this was another awesome addition to this series. Honestly, I feel this review is short, but I was sort of left without words after I was done reading. I loved this book so much and it got me through so many emotions that I’m not sure I’m over it yet so be prepare that you might feel like me after you’re done reading it. Jennifer L. Armentrout once again showed her amazing talent to keep us unable to close a book and to always demand more. I cannot wait to see what’s in store for the next book especially with everything that we learned in this one.

I was giving an advanced copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.