ARC Review – Hearts of Darkness (Deadglass #1) by Kira Brady

Description:
In the first of a dazzling new romantic trilogy, one woman’s courageous search plunges her into a millennia-old supernatural war—and an irresistible passion…

Nurse Kayla Friday has dedicated her life to science and reason. But for her, Seattle is a place of eerie loss and fragmented, frightening memories. And now the only clue to her sister’s murder reveals a secret battle between two ancient mythologies…and puts Kayla in the sights of lethally-sexy werewolf mercenary Hart. He’ll do whatever it takes to obtain the key to the Gate of the Land of the Dead and free what’s left of his soul. But seducing the determined Kayla is putting them at the mercy of powerful desires neither can control. And as the clock ticks down to hellish catastrophe, the untested bond between Kayla and Hart may lead to the ultimate sacrifice.

Kayla has lost everything that she loves and Hart has nothing he cares about except for his freedom. These two have nothing in common but heartbreak and a mission to find the key. Can this good girl help the bad boy werewolf find the key and his heart before the world goes up in smoke.

Kayla is your typical good girl that is heartbroken over the loss of her sister. Her sister was everything she’s not. So now she has to channel some of what made her sister special to find the key in order to save Hart and the world. She stumbles through learning that the world isn’t so black and white and that the supernatural are very real and now she has a soul sucking dragon on her tail. Hart is a bad boy werewolf who was marked at birth to have moon madness. He is an outcast who is also a blood slave to the soul sucking dragon. Hart is doing anything in his power to gain his freedom but Kayla gets in the way, and Hart has to choose his freedom or once in lifetime kind of love.

This book does a good job of laying the groundwork for the rest of the series. I took it as an introduction to a lot of characters we will see in the future while giving us a couple to root for. I would have liked to see more of a romantic interaction between Kayla and Hart, but it was also important to future books that we get a better understanding of the world that this takes place in. I also liked how the author incorporated mythology so effortlessly. I can’t wait to see how the next installment unfolds.

3.5 Stars