Dangerous Deception

Margaret Stohl, Kami Garcia — 2015

From the world of Beautiful Creatures--a dangerous new tale of love and magic continues in the sequel to Dangerous Creatures. After a disastrous car crash outside New York City, Ridley Duchannes-Dark Caster, Siren, and bona fide bad girl-has gone missing. Her wannabe rocker and quarter Incubus boyfriend, Wesley "Link" Lincoln, was driving, and when he comes to, Ridley is nowhere to be found. The only clue is the giant raven emblazoned on the hood of the truck that hit them, which can mean only one thing: Silas Ravenwood is back. And he has Ridley. Determined to find her, Link reunites with old friends John Breed and Liv Durand, his New York bandmates, and the mysterious Lennox Gates-who has his own reasons for tracking down Ridley. Together they travel through the Caster Tunnels and the Deep South to New Orleans, where they uncover the truth about the infamous Ravenwood labs and exactly what Silas has been doing within those walls. By the time Link and his friends reach Ridley, she is no longer the Siren they know and love. She's something new. This time, love might not be enough to save them. In this sequel to Dangerous Creatures, the bestselling spin-off of the #1 New York Times bestselling Beautiful Creatures novels, coauthors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl deliver an intoxicating blend of magic, suspense, and danger.

Reviews

Jessica Williamson@jlw_writes

Dec 5, 2021

3 Stars There was one glaring issue for me in this book. While it is written in the same style as its predecessor (multiple POV's and flashbacks) rather than the third-person flashbacks we see in book 1, this book had first-person flashbacks. That may not seem like a huge deal to most people, but for me, it took me straight out of the story every time. I don't mind switching point of views as far as characters go, but from third to first to third again is just a giant headache for me. The plot wasn't as great, this book is basically half the size of every book from the caster chronicles and it doesn't really end with a definitive ending despite the fact the authors have stated they have no desire to continue writing this series. The thing that made me love the Caster Chronicles and to even want to read this follow up series ws the relationship dynamic between Ridley and Link. And for me, because we only see them on about four pages together throughout this entire book, it just completely fell flat for me. I didn't hate it, but it just didn't have anything really special about it.

Jackie@dauntlessbooky

Sep 1, 2021

** spoiler alert ** Where do I even begin with this book? I guess I have a love-hate relationship with the sequel to Dangerous Creatures. The book starts off exactly where the first one left off and Ridley is missing. We soon find ourselves in a tri-perspective (I guess that's what you'd call it when it's three POVs?) between Link, Ridley, and Nox. The two males are trying to search for the siren. In the meantime, Ridley is locked up and definitely not the girl we've become accustomed to. She's weak until she's experimented on and becomes a new type of caster altogether. In a way, she's worse than how she was at the beginning of Beautiful Creatures - more vindictive - and definitely not the same girl who loves Link. I was a little disappointed about the ending to this one. It seemed rather underwhelming compared to how they've been building up Ridley and Link since Beautiful Creatures. I look forward to where this will lead the two and whether Ridley will go back to how she was before. She had become a better person throughout the series and spin-off and now it almost seems like they went backwards with her character?