5 Smooches!
Synopsis
An Angel visited me three times in my life. I would like to say that I deserved each visit, but we all know, I didn’t; in fact far from it.
I didn’t even deserve to see the sun rise the day after I first saw Mae, an angel amongst the chaos of Satan who resided inside me. Her wide beautiful smile eclipsed everything else around me. I selfishly took that smile and I created a screaming hell with it. I took her dreams and I sculptured nightmares from them.
The first time I was given a piece of Mae’s soul, death took it away and through the years that followed, I was only ever granted it twice again.
The second was the day I met our daughter, the reflection of her mother. Annie was the angel formed from the sins of my own soul. Yet her light drown my dark, her smile broke my anger and her innocence massacred my past.
The third time… well that is what you are about to witness. The third, and final piece granted was the last card played, the closing hand dealt. The definitive roll of the dice and the conclusion to my story.
Would my angel grant me redemption against the sins I indulged, even in loving her? Was life and death the deliverance of resolution? And did my butterfly, soaring with the wings of an angel, award me forgiveness?
I’m sure many of you will interpret this story in your own way, each of you as in Mae’s death, experiencing either a happy ever after, or an ending without hope or escape. And I have no doubt that you will all see the end to my own story in many different ways. But whichever way you go for, I, myself, know that I was granted the ending I feel I deserve. I earned.
I am Daniel Shepherd, and this is the story of my Salvation.
Review
The Salvation of Daniel is the second book in The Blue Butterfly Series and you should definitely read it after reading The Decimation of Mae or you are going to be very very confused! The Salvation of Daniel starts off where The Decimation of Mae ends. Daniel is reformed somewhat and taking care of his and Mae’s sweet baby girl.
“Love you to the moon,”
They are pretty happy together and have been seemingly left alone for the past couple of years but things are about to get pretty sticky for them.
I wasn’t sure I was still breathing. I’d gone mad. My head was shaking, my mouth wide open as I started at the reflection. “Lamb.”
This is where things pretty much hit the fan and the book becomes ridiculously action packed and very very sexy! Whoa!
As usual the writing is superb and poetic. I really do love Dawn’s style. It is dark and has an old school classic feel to it. These books are definitely not for the faint of heart. Dawn to continues to break my heart with each story but I just have to keep reading because they are amazing stories with so much grit and fire to them. Daniel broke me this go around. I pretty much hated him in The Decimation of Mae but I grew to love him this time. I think Dawn must hate my happiness because while this book has a Happily Ever After, it wasn’t what I would have hoped for. 😉
“I was her decimation. She is my salvation.”
Just beware going in that this book is going to rock your world. You won’t know what to expect and Dawn does a fabulous job of keeping her readers on their toes! Loved it and hated it but mostly loved to hate it.
