Forever: The World of Nightwalkers

Jacquelyn Frank has returned to the world of the Nightwalkers. Forever is book two of her Bodywalkers leg of the Nightwalkers. I am beginning to believe that she will be telling the story of each Nightwalker Species then gradually tie them all together. This is beginning to get really interesting as we have heard from the Demons, the Shifters, the Vamps, the Shadowdwellers and now are getting some inside peaks into the lives of the Bodydwellers that leaves seven species unaccounted for... hmmmm.Jackson Waverly is a cop.. it's who he is, what he does. He has spent years as a canine cop and after the death of his first dog he went into serious depression. It didn't help that about that time his sister went missing and was presumed dead. When she came back to life sharing her body with another soul, let's just say he wasn't thrilled. But when he was close to death and the same option was offered to him, Jackson accepted the soul of Menes, the leader of the Bodywalkers. Now all he has to do is learn to merge their souls, figure out how to leave his job and oh yeah.. convince the sexy psychiatrist that she too wants to become a bodywalker.Dr. Marissa Anderson has spent as much time peaking out her window watching the ever smexy officer Waverly train his new police dog as she has spent treating her patients. While she is attracted to him she is determined to keep him at arms length, professional behavior and all that. Only her hormones seem to have something entirely different in store for her.When Jackson is forced to fight off an evil gargoyle in front of Marissa she is abruptly brought into the Bodywalker world. One of them escaped and is aware that she means more to him than just another human being. Now they must leave the world both are familiar with and begin a new life in the Desert of the southwest. A place where bodywalkers feel most comfortable. Menes, wants to convince Marissa to allow a melding with the great love of his life immediately but Jackson is still in protection mode and wants only for Marissa to be safe. Talk about an internal battle..This was just a good book!! Dealing with the names involved in this series was like taking a step back into ancient Egyptian culture and Ms Frank does an excellent job of keeping their personalities.. and yet explaining that with each soul merge they have had over the centuries, they have changed and grown. Excellent concept if a bit odd.. but she also deals with the differences between a symbiotic relationship and one where the original owners of the body are more or less subjugated and destroyed.On top of their eternal battle between the Politics (the good bodywalkers) and the Templars (the evil bodywalkers) a new evil is brought into play and the need to find the rest of the Nightwalkers is becoming dire.Yeah a really good book..You can read this book without reading the other Nightwalker Series but you are gonna want to read them all eventually..Happy ReadingShauni This review is based on the ARC of Forever provided by netgalley and is scheduled to be released on May 28, 2013

FOREVER (Book 2 in World of the Nightwalkers) by Jacquelyn FrankPUBLISH DATE: May 28, 2013REVIEW BY: Reading In Pajamas/DonnaRATED: 4.5 StarsREVIEW:Book 1 of this series, Forbidden, explained how ancient Egyptian royalty maintained a form of immortality by "blending" with humans on the cusp of death. Giving them a choice to live with an added soul and powers in exchange for helping protect others from evil. I like that this book did not have to delve into that as much and went straight to the good stuff.Jackson is an alpha male, blended with an ancient alpha male. Somehow I don't think it would have gone as smoothly as written, but it is a story, one that I enjoyed, so I will concede that point. I liked Jackson and the way he is around his friends and of course with Marissa. She is strong and intelligent so she took a bit of time to come to terms with her new reality. That life on earth is not all she thought, nor is her place in it. Marissa and Jackson's romance was built smoothly to the simmering point while enemy chaos surrounded them. Her reluctance to blend with Hatshepsut was understandable regardless of her feelings for Jackson. It may sound confusing but was actually easy to follow and just flow with it. I would recommend reading book 1 first however.I truly enjoyed this story. Not only the battle of good vs. evil, but the inner struggle of the Bodywalkers as well. The romance was very satisfying and I can't wait for book 3 to see what happens next.*Review copy provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.https://www.facebook.com/ReadingInPajamashttp://readinginpajamas.wordpress.comhttp://www.goodreads.com/readinginpajamas

Picking up about three weeks after Forbidden, Jackson is living out the remainder of his human life as well as he can while still trying to live in anonymity amongst his coworkers. He's able to still be in the sun for some time yet because when Menes first appeared he used way too much power and it's taking longer for their blending to progress. Docia and Ram have gone ahead to New Mexico and are taking care of running things until Jackson goes there. The last day that Jackson planned on working, a child goes missing and he's called out with Sargent to try to find him. While out in the woods with Marissa he's attacked by Templars. So much for not being known as the king. But by protecting Marissa he has essentially made her a target too and she invariably gets dragged into his new world.Pretty much nothing happens in this book. It's all pretty much about Jackson trying to break thru Marissa's walls and have her see what he feels for her and accept it and herself. Eventually leading to Menes wanting her to die so his queen can be reborn in her body. Which of course she rejects flat out right away. Though that only lasts a few hours in the end... While I can say that I like Jackson/Menes' character, I am not a fan of Marissa. Frankly, I don't like her much at all. I didn't care for her in the first book, and this one didn't endear me to her any more either.For things that actually did happen? Leo gets kidnapped and tortured by Chatham. And when I say tortured, I mean really tortured. Chatham is seriously totally insane. Leo's savior actually comes in the form of one of the last people one would expect. After accidentally reviving Apep, who's pretty much the epitome of evil here, Kamen finally sees the truth for what it has been for so long and that he had blinded himself to. So despite his own debilitating pain, he lugs Leo off to the Politic bodywalkers with the full intention of doing all he can do to fix the wrong he has done by unleashing this evil. So, hooray! Another powerful Templar defection.

I read the first book and it was very good and interesting story to read. So I immediately bought this second book.I can't wait for the next book.

excellent

i found this book quite boring.the characters did not hold my interest.it just seemed to ramble on it places.not good

I am very satisfied with this seller. Highly recommended.

Un peu difficile de me remettre dans le monde de l'auteur car j'avais lu le premier tome il y a longtemps. Le début a donc été difficile mais au final, je me suis laissée entrainer par la lutte interne que se livre Jackson amoureux d'une femme et de son alter égo, le pharaon Menes qui cherche un hôte pour son épouse. Lire les 4 tomes de la série d'une traite pour l'apprécier davantage. Forbidden, forever, Forsaken, forged...