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Archangel's Viper (Guild Hunter, #10)

Nalini Singh

Start date: October 1, 2024

Finish date: October 31, 2024

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Why we're reading this: Part of our group series (re)read: Guild Hunter

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Oct 04, 2017 Shawna rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: author-nalini-singh, format-audiobook, pnr-paranormal-romance, i-read-listened-to-audiobook, scifi-futuristic-fantasy-misc-pnr, psychic-special-abilities-powers, violence-not-for-the-faint-hearted, urban-fantasy, hh-post-traumatic-stress-disorder, favorite-romance-series

3.5 stars - Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy

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Sep 30, 2017 Steph rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: year-read-2024, author-웃, author-favorite, series-ongoing, my-re-reads, series-i-love, year-read-2017, favorites-2017, sos-games-bsb-r15, favorites-all-years

Re-Read: 12 Nov 2024
Rating stands. I just love these two together 🐍💕

Initial Read: Sept 2017
First and foremost, I want to simply urge those who haven't yet started this series to START IT NOW! The series is a paranormal romantic urban fantasy. Nalini's superb storytelling gets ya hooked with Elena (a guild hunter) and Raphael (an archangel) with tales and tidbits about his powerful Seven and vampire/angel politics. She then slowly weaves in PNR installments featuring different members of Raphael' Re-Read: 12 Nov 2024
Rating stands. I just love these two together 🐍💕

Initial Read: Sept 2017
First and foremost, I want to simply urge those who haven't yet started this series to START IT NOW! The series is a paranormal romantic urban fantasy. Nalini's superb storytelling gets ya hooked with Elena (a guild hunter) and Raphael (an archangel) with tales and tidbits about his powerful Seven and vampire/angel politics. She then slowly weaves in PNR installments featuring different members of Raphael's Seven and/or friends of the (what I'll call) Alpha pair, who are never far off and woven back in with additional stories of their own. And, as much as I miss the pair when a story veers off of them onto another, the end result is always a happy me with more knowledge about and love for these amazingly intriguing side characters. Not to mention another HEA for characters she's injected into your reader-verse.

Now, some of my favorite quotes and a quick gush about Venom and Holly's story:

He thought she was a spitting baby. She thought he was a conceited ass. That was the extent of their relationship.

That's how this pair began ... teasing each other with sniping and name-calling.

"Stop calling me kitty and Hollyberry and I'll stop calling you Viper Face and Poison."
His chuckle sent ripples down her spine, made her breath catch in a way that shocked. "But, kitty," he said, the ice no longer in evidence, "I don't think that's a bargain I want to make."

Yet, underneath all of that, you could tell Venom would not only allow her to explore her otherness, but also expected her to do so because how else would she learn what she's capable of and how to control it. She may not like having Venom as her newest babysitter, but having spent the past couple of years under close watch, she's aware of this, too.

"She's a wild thing. Not built for a cage."

As the youngest member of Raphael's Seven, I've been interested in learning more about Venom since Elena first met him. How could you not? A Made vampire/not-vampire with bright green, snake-like, slitted eyes and a poisonous bite. And, to be honest, I'd forgotten about Holly but quickly remembered her and her trauma. Who better to pair with his unique man than another who was turned into something very much other.

He was sinuous, a cobra snaking its way through unfamiliar territory with silent ease. She was a creature of the night, a bat with silent wings.

One of my favorite scenes was the impromptu race through Manhattan - Venom and Holly in his acid green Bucati, Dmitri and Honor in his red Ferrari and Illium flying on the wing. Loved it!

For those of you who have started the series, but haven't yet started this installment ... I know Venom’s birth name and you don't! Nanny nanny boo boo, I know more than you do! >;)

"You're not a vampire, not an angel. You're like Naasir, like me. One of a kind."

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Feb 10, 2020 Midu Hadi rated it it was ok

Shelves: series-completion-in-progress, person-on-cover, middlers, pnr, urban-fantasy, vampires-and-other-bloodsuckers, 300-400-pages, read-in-february, series, serial-killers-and-other-murderers

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Aug 12, 2021 Thenia rated it really liked it

Shelves: magic, to-review, r-ab, romance, 2021, series, paranormal, vampires

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Oct 07, 2017 Michelle rated it really liked it

Shelves: nalini-singh, read-in-2017

I enjoyed this one, didn't love it as much as most. I loved how the over all story evolved, we discovered more about Uram and what happened and we finally found out exactly what happened to Holly. I loved getting to know Viper better, although I did feel that their relationship was rushed in ways. The book focused less on their developing relationship and more on the overall story arc. I did enjoy them getting to know each other better, but it was a little rushed in my opinion. ...more

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Mar 23, 2019 Michelle rated it really liked it

Definitely a weaker addition to this series, I liked Holly and enjoyed her evolution from being Sorrow but I’m just not that much of a fan of Viper, and I didn’t like that there was almost no Raphael or Elena in the story.... and also the repetitive use of the word kitty was starting to get annoying.

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