Elaine White's Life in Books

This series is going to kill me! And I don't even mind, if I can mince along with Mal.

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Book – Dead Camp #2
Author – Sean Kerr
Star rating - ★★★★★
No. of Pages – 206

Cover – Nice!
POV – 1st person (with multi-POV)
Would I read it again – Yes

Genre – LGBT, Paranormal, Historical, Religion, Nazi, Angel-Demon


** I WAS GIVEN THIS BOOK, BY eXSTASY BOOKS, IN RETURN FOR AN HONEST REVIEW **
Reviewed for Divine Magazine



WARNINGS: a little bit of gore, on page; heartbreak; cheating; secrets; historical events that may be upsetting for some readers: Holocaust.


Oh, Eli!

Oh, Mal!

Gideon, you rat!

This, pretty much sums up my thoughts of book 2. I needed to read it so badly that I didn't finish until 2.30am. And then I had a total book hangover for half an hour, unable to even attempt to sleep, while wishing book 3 was available already. Because then I'd have bought it and stayed up until 6am if that was what it took to read it and find out what happens next.

And the annoying thing is that I can't tell you anything about the plot! Because it's all spoilers. Secrets, man. So, so many secrets!! And we finally get to learn some, in the heartbreaking, perfect way I imagined.

To try to articulate how I felt reading this installment of the saga that is Dead Camp, I spent half of the book crying. Poor Eli, for being so tormented and so evil that he couldn't make up his mind whether to love the humans of the world or hate them. And poor Mal, for trusting so unconditionally, when he really should have questioned everything.

Again, Melek was a troublesome, sneaky one, but I only fell more in love with him. I now very firmly ship Melmal. To the end! The way he dealt with things, carefully manipulating a really, really long game, was just genius.

The world building, once more, was spectacular. Not only did it use real events in history, but it wove them into this paranormal tale seamlessly. I cried so hard for Joseph and celebrated with even more tears when the prisoners from the camp fought back against the Nazis. Ugh. The way Sean Kerr can write emotion, can tug at your heart strings within a brutal, bloody battle scene, is just beautiful. Then I cried for Eli, because Gideon is a rat bastard.

It was a shame not to see Ethan, but I also think it was important. He wasn't strictly needed right now, though I don't doubt that he'll have a very important part to play in part 3. Daniyyel, similarly, is only in the story very shortly, but Wowee does he have a huge part!

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In the end, this is the story of Eli, Malachi and Gideon, and how all three are intermingled in a war between Heaven and Hell, God and Melek. And how, ultimately, there are no heroes in the world. There is a world full of hatred, horror, death, lies and secrets. And there are humans, vampires, Menarche and more. But, in the end, there are only the monsters within us all.

All I can say is that I NEED book 3. NOW! Please and thank you.

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Favourite Quote

“All humans were the same, but not all humans were Ethan.”

“You go for years without seeing a single ghost and now I was positively drowning in them.”

“Damnation was calling my name, and I deserved it.”

“I had gambled everything with a dangerous strategy. And Heaven would either stand or fall by my hand.”