Great Fantasy Adventure Book – Torn by Julie Kenner

Torn by Julie Kenner is Book 2 in the Blood Lily Chronicles. The series has an extremely unique heroine who has learned to accept the fact that she is the “prophecy girl” – the person who has the answers to everyone’s questions about the future. In the first book, Lily Carlyle spent all her time working toward the goal of saving the Earth – only to find out she was duped by her demon handler. In Book Two, Lily (understandably) has major anger issues. She now knows she’s been working FOR the demons instead of against them. So, she devises a plan for revenge: become a double agent and take down the demons who tricked her.

But as with most things, things aren’t as black and white as they appear. Case in point, there are good demons as well as bad ones: Lily has a tenuous relationship with Deacon Camphire but a bona fide hateful one with another demon, Lucas, who recently invaded her sister Rose’s body. Keeping herself from accidentally killing her sister while she interacts with Lucas becomes one of Lily’s biggest challenges. She’s a tough, no nonsense heroine that will do anything to keep her sister safe.

As a double agent, Lily has to play many different roles to keep up her charade. Julie Kenner delivers a powerful story about a woman who has many difficult decisions to make and writes it in a way that has you rooting for her the whole way, hoping she makes the right ones. While it’s easy to pick up and follow the storyline in Torn I also recommend reading the first book, Tainted, to get a real feel for how intense Lily’s anger is at the betrayal she suffered. And knowing the full storyline helps make the revenge – and there will be revenge – oh so sweet!

Julie Kenner creates a dark and believable fantasy world where the thrills of Lily’s subterfuge keep you engaged from page one.