Ravel by R Pheonix - Review

In the desperate and bleak world R Pheonix has created, Ravel stands out as a beacon of light and mercy.  Here is guilt.  Here is forgiveness.  Here is redemption.

This is a story of attaining what we do not deserve.  Ashton is a flawed human, moulded by his circumstance and the bitter plight of humanity in a world where Supes rule with the harsh hand of lethal justice.  Do not upset the ‘Status Quo!’  NOT EVEN IF YOU ARE A SUPE!

Breaking into a supe’s house no matter how desperate an act was a risk Ashton took because his humanity, no matter his belief it was dead, was alive and insistent.  He had to help his life-long friend.  The futility of such heroics seemed doomed almost from the beginning when the resident supe, a reclusive werewolf, comes upon him almost immediately.  What has he got to fight the dangerous and threatening beast that stands before him.  Nothing but wit, and the mind numbing idiocy of attraction.  He’s human.  And this is a wolf!

Those very things are his salvation.

Reese, a man, a wolf filled with guilt and loneliness is taken by the mouthly thief.  Though his chance to change what he sees happening in his world now that the status quo has been set by those who hold ferociously to the power they have gained, here is the opportunity to regain his ‘humanity’, to help those who suffer the most brutality under the regime he feels he allowed - he helped - to take control of the world.

It is a small thing.  Two humans.  And one that proves himself, in a moment of weakness, unworthy of everything that Reese has afforded the little thief.  Can Reese overcome such betrayal?  Can he offer life and forgiveness to the one man he has come to feel so deeply about?  And in doing so will he find damnation or redemption?

This was a masterful piece of writing, the desperation, the depth of feeling gripped you tight and held you to the last word.  The only gripe I have to offer on this second book in this Status Quo series is that, for my liking it was too short!

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Sydney Whyte

Rating Chart

«……………….A no goer

««……………Alright, but not a re-read

«««………..Liked it

««««…….Loved it

«««««…Amaze-balls – ticks all the boxes!!!