My copy of this book was given to me by the author herself. She's awesome like that with people that give her honest reviews. None of my reviews have EVER been bad, she's that good. Honest.
So now on to the book. "The Phantom King" is the next edition in the newest series by HKW, "The Kings". A spin off series from her super popular Big Bad Wolf series (if you haven't' read those, you really should, serious. Get on it) Based on clues from the first 2 books in "The Kings" series, I am assuming we will see 13 books in this series (squeal). In book 2, we meet The Phantom King, Thanatos. The very lonely king of purgatory. Going by Thane, the phantom king really kinda hates his job. Purgatory is a place for innocent and murdered souls, and Thane just hates the amount of work he has because of the violence and destruction in the world, which takes innocent lives that he is responsible for greeting upon their arrival in purgatory. Very Lonely indeed.
When a strange spirit is sent to Purgatory, only to disappear again back to the human plane, Thane has no choice but to leave purgatory and go find him. A spirit can't just walk out of purgatory, its simply not done. Calling in a favor to the Warlock King, Thane sets out to find his jail breaker so he can return to purgatory and his lonely lifestyle. When he locates his missing spirit he also finds something else he needs more.
Siobhan is a woman on the run. An unknown creature has murdered her boyfriend and she fears that they are coming after her and Siobhan, a warlock by birth, has been hiding ever since.
Together Thane and Siobhan have to find out who is after her and why, and stop them so the phantom king can claim his queen.
I never have anything bad to say about a HKW book. The plot is amazing, the action is awesome, and of course, you have that "juicy" part that you can't put down.
