How to write an awesome sequel
SM Johnson greatly redeems herself in this, the second book of her DeVante trilogy. It is so much better in all ways than the first book ?DeVante?s Children?. After reading ?DeVante?s Coven?, I am grateful to SM Johnson that DeVante is no longer stored away in a floppy drive, but is in print to be shared and enjoyed. Thank you.
SM Johnson?s talents for telling a love story with hot sex is incredible as Daniel, the half-human half-vampire, is given the freedom to find his own way. He does just that in a house of humans/clubbers/teens that he can sip from without them knowing. However, Daniel will be forced to come to terms with not feeling any remorse for killing, something he never resolved in ?DeVante?s Children?, as his new lover, a human who is more than ordinary, may be his new master too.
SM Johnson?s creative talent is more developed as the story flows smoothly and is more connected when the impulsive Roderick makes another fledgling that is not just any ordinary vampire. Tony, left for dead, doesn?t sleep, doesn?t crave blood, and he can walk in the sun without it killing him to ash. Even though Roderick is bonded to Tony by turning him, he can?t see into Tony?s mind. Unable to control Tony as he is sloppily killing and accidently turning others into vampires, Roderick is forced with no other choice but to confess his trouble to his master DeVante.
Ultimately, SM Johnson masterfully brings it all together in one of the best endings so far, (I loved it better than the ending in ?DeVante?s Children?), as DeVante?s children of extraordinary vampires stand together against an enemy as quick, dangerous, and deadly as Katarina. ?DeVante?s Coven? will learn for themselves the answer to the question about love posed in the previous book, is an immortal life of love however long or short more valued than an immortal life of power and control, be it over a person, a fledgling, or over a domain? As each has their experience in abuse, sex, and rape, and not just rape sexually, but a rape of their soul, it will be through one another?s support that they will heal or that they will die.
