Eve Levine. What can I say about Eve Levine? One, she is evil. Two, she is DEAD. And three, that won't stop Eve Levine.
Eve has a horrible reputation as a very dark witch, or a witch with demon blood since she is half demon. She has broken all the rules, including having a child with a sorcerer. She has always been seen as a threat and has always been one step ahead of everyone. Until she was captured and killed in a "scientific investigation" on supernaturals. She dies trying to save her daughter, but she is too impulsive and that impulsiveness is how she has made every other mistake in her life ultimately leading to her demise.
In Haunted by **Kelley Armstrong** Eve has been dead for three years. She lives in the ghost plain, but is able to see people in the living world. Although, she can see them, she is unable to communicate with anyone but a Necromancer. This does not sit well with her since she is always wanting to make contact with her Daughter Savannah, the ward of young witch Paige Winterbourne and sorcerer and good guy Lucas Cortez. She knows that Savannah is in good hands, has known that for quite some time. She even made a deal with the Fates to bring Lucas and Paige back to the world of the living so they could raise Savannah. But even with this knowledge that she is well taken care of she just cannot leave well enough alone. She is desperately searching for a way to contact and protect Savannah, even though it is putting a strain on her relationship with Savannah's father, Kristof Nast (who happens to be just as dead as Eve, due to his daughter and her uncontrollable powers and attempt to contact her mother).
But all of this is cut short when the Fates finally call in her debt. Eve NEVER backs out on a debt, she hates to owe anyone anything. When the Fates give her assignment to her she is a bit reluctant, until she thinks she can use it to her advantage. She states that she will do the job, so long as she can have Jaime Vegas as her Necromancer. Once this deal is brokered all hell breaks lose.
Eve is to find the Nyx. This is an evil being who can help give would be murderers the final push. Give them the courage to complete the deed. But, this Nyx is different. Ever since a witch cast a spell to allow her to inhabit her body and do the dirty act herself this Nyx is able to do the same with every other woman subject who has deadly desires.
The Fates had trapped the Nyx in a dimension of hell that she should not have been able to get out of but she was smarter than they gave her credit for and now she is on the run. Eve is hunting her down but doesn't take the job as seriously as she should until the being goes after her daughter and her guardians. Now Eve and Kristof are racing against the clock to protect what they hold closest to their hearts. But Eve has a chose to make. She can do this the hard way and keep the man she loves or she can take the surest way and lose everything.
What will Eve do now that she has seemed to grow a heart? Will Eve sacrifice everything just to get this done and over with and save her daughter? Or will she put forth the effort and fight for what she has worked so hard to establish... her life and her love?
I loved this book. I really didn't think I was going to. I actually took a year off from this series because I had preconceived ideas about this book. I hated Eve. I thought she was the biggest bitch on the planet. But truth be told she is just a scared woman and mother with unlimited power. Power that anyone could go dark over. But she is not all dark, she is the exact meaning of ying and yang.
I could actually give this book a 10 out of 10, and well that is exactly what I am doing. Great job to my favorite author Kelley Armstrong!
