Delightfully absorbing. SCARS begins 2 years after BLOOD. Tidy bits of backstory fill those in while moving the current story forward in quick flashes. Then we join Cai and Marcus in their lives both on and off stage. Cai’s POV shifts a bit deeper and darker here, making his exhilaration and desperation palpable. So, too, is Marcus’s love and angst. The love and bond between the brothers make the book, and manifest how the duality of their scars, both physical and emotional, exist within both despite their drastically different childhoods. The story is entirely focused on them despite other happenings in their world. For example, there’s an organization mentioned early on that I was curious about, but we don’t learn much directly, which actually works well in the end. It looms like a shadow in the background, impressing upon the reader that it’s like a governing or policing body for the preternaturals of the world. As the story progresses and Marcus fights for Cai’s life, they never lament or question what they are, as is common in vampire fiction. They just are what they are. The other characters are what they are. It’s refreshing to accept everything as it is. Near the end, a coil of confusion winds up that’s fitting since it doesn’t seem that any one character knows exactly what is happening. What’s left lingering between the lines is for the reader to decipher going into the next book, MARIANNE. I enjoyed this!
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