Archangel's Enigma

Guild Hunter Series #8

By: Nalini Singh

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Naasir is the most feral of the powerful group of vampires and angels known as the Seven, his loyalty pledged to the Archangel Raphael. When rumors surface of a plot to murder the former archangel of Persia, now lost in the Sleep of the Ancients, Naasir is dispatched to find him. For only he possesses the tracking skills required - those more common to predatory animals than to man.

Enlisted to accompany Naasir, Andromeda, a young angelic scholar with dangerous secrets, is fascinated by his nature - at once playful and brilliant, sensual and brutal. As they race to find the sleeping archangel before it's too late, Naasir will force her to question all she knows...and tempt her to walk into the magnificent, feral darkness of his world. But first they must survive an enemy vicious enough to shatter the greatest taboo of the angelic race and plunge the world into a screaming nightmare.

©2015 Nalini Singh (P)2015 Tantor

Critic reviews

"Amazing in every way!" (Gena Showalter, author of Alice in Zombieland)

When does the next one come out

I am addicted to this series!! She is setting up something phenomenal and I can't wait.

The faces of love

Absolutely thrilled with this book. Andy (for short) kept Nasar on the edge, but when it came right down to it,Nasar kwt Andy honorable. Having almost? 12 Archangels at one time, whewww talk about a "Cascade". must read book to get the full picture.

OUTSTANDING

Really enjoyed hearing this story the characters are excellent hopefully there will be more of these two.

Naasir hunts for his mate

We finally get some answers about who or what is Naasir, who has spent 7 months looking for his mate. Naasir is sent to protect the scholar angel Andromeda, who is the expert on the resting places of the Archangels who sleep. Andromeda is anguished about the imminent deadline requiring her to join the court of her grandfather Charasemnon. Together they race to find the resting place of Alexander while trying to protect him from Lijuan, who is determined to kill him while he is weak from sleep.
Lijuan believes he is one of the Archangels predicted to kill her- the Angel of Death. Amazing creativity from Singh; talent from Eyre.

Brilliant

I love LOVE this series.
The narrator, as always, nails it. Completely engaging throughout.
I love these books in audio format.

loved it

this was a great story and I loved the bond between him and her and can't wait for the next one

Loved it

This book made me love Nasir so much. He's fun, funny, and an enigma. I'm so glad with hope it ended. The books get better as you go!

A favorite series!

One of my top two angel series. Nalini Singh never disappoints, and this series just keeps getting better! Love Nasser and Andromeda!

Most unforgetable couple of the year

To be honest?
I wasn't looking forward to this one. I couldn't see how Nalini Singh was going to make a delicious hero out of Nasser, the strangely animalistic one of The Seven. Was he intriguing in lead up books? Oh sure. There is no end to Ms. Singh's imagination. But I wasn't seeing it--him as leading romantic male.

But then I didn't see how she was going to make the callous manipulative Dmitri a leading hero, and now he perches at the top of my best-hero-of-all-time of 700 books. And now? Nasser is up there too.
So Ms. Singh has done it again. Its really a great story, fascinating character development that builds over the course of the book, and what I really enjoyed was the determined courtship and the receptive female--none of the usual weird contrived reasons she couldn't go for him. Yet--you have to really wait for Nasser to go back in time to find the missing key to unlock his mate, so you get the delicious slow build they've both been dying for. Its really a wonderful tale.

AND amidst this fabulous romance, we get more intense plot development about the awakening archangels, and yet another white knuckle battle with the incalculably evil Li Juan. I really thought that plot line was on an ending arc, but turns out Ms. Singh's got lots in store for us, a couple new magnificent characters and some shocking new developments with Aiden and "Bluebell" Ilyum (sp?). I've been most curious to see how The Legion and the Primary would develop out, but she's keeping us dangling.

This is not a book to jump into if you are new to the series. In this fantasy/romance genre this is one of the best series out there. You will not regret starting at the beginning.

A++ for both Nalini Singh and Justine Eyre.

six stars for Justine as nassar.

author and reader are a symbiotic match. nalini creates a remarkable character who is nassar and Justine brings him to life.