Logan Calhoun is the last full-blooded Paladin, the future leader of a race of immortal warrior angels. The heavy responsibility of continuing the Paladin line falls to him, and the last thing he should do is get involved with a human. Then fate throws Jessica Waters, a homicide detective who doesn’t believe in fate or divine intervention, into his path. Her devotion lies in her Glock and a good set of handcuffs. Like Logan, she’s a warrior for her people, and she awakens within him something he’d never thought he’d feel. But she’s also as human as they come…
Logan Calhoun is the last full-blooded Paladin, the future leader of a race of immortal warrior angels. The heavy responsibility of continuing the Paladin line falls to him, and the last thing he should do is get involved with a human. Then fate throws Jessica Waters, a homicide detective who doesn’t believe in fate or divine intervention, into his path. Her devotion lies in her Glock and a good set of handcuffs. Like Logan, she’s a warrior for her people, and she awakens within him something he’d never thought he’d feel. But she’s also as human as they come…Deliver Me From Temptation is the second in author Tes Hilaire’s Paladin Warriors series. The Paladins are a sort of volunteer angel brigade, sent to earth to help battle evil forces. When Paladin Logan Calhoun keeps having police office Jessica Waters cross his path, he begins to fall for her, even though the last Paladin to fall for a human ended up insane and sitting at the right hand of Lucifer himself.
While it’s a little bit difficult to get the swing of things coming into the series at book two, this book has a little bit of everything for paranormal romance fans: demons, angels, vampires including incubi and succubi, and a great urban fantasy plot in which Jessica is investigating a murder that involves supernatural elements she really should be keeping her nose out of if she values her life.
Like all human heroes and heroines of urban fantasy, she has an axe to grind with forces of evil, and not only is falling for Logan not in her plans, but contrary to everything she stands for: He may be involved in the murder case she’s investigating, and justice is her religion. Needless to say, things get hot and heavy, which is where things went a little bit south for me.
Any time you have angels — fallen or otherwise — in a romance novel, you touch on the subject of religion. Some, like Juliana Stone’s King of the Damned, touch on it only a little, but others, like Deliver Me From Temptation, feature religion fairly heavily.
There’s something about a book that features hot and heavy sex scenes juxtaposed with fairly intense discussions of faith that just takes me out of the story. I don’t like my religion mixed with my sex scenes — generally speaking — and this book pushed my limits.
Others may not have the same issues regarding religion and sex combining like this, but for me, it’s enough to make me think twice about continuing with the series.
I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
