Book Review: "Dark Summer" by Q.K. Petty

 

Betrayal burns hotter than any summer sun.

The Chattanooga Incident has left the House of David in shambles. Chaos ripples across the city, and the terrorist faction Seditio is seizing its moment to strike.

Haunted by loss and personal betrayal, Judge Eden Dowler is fighting to hold the House together even as trust fractures from within. When an old ally resurfaces with answers—and secrets—Eden faces an impossible truth: the traitor he’s hunting may be closer than he ever imagined.

With the lines between justice and vengeance blurring, Eden forges fragile alliances to dismantle Seditio before they unleash catastrophe. But every step deeper into the shadows exposes new lies, and loyalty becomes a deadly gamble. - from Booksirens.com

This eARC was provided by Booksirens.com and I am giving an unbiased review.

This is the third book in the "A Series of Four Seasons" series, and though it had been awhile since I had read the previous books, I found some of my reading tastes may have changed. First, I have never been a fan of the switching character viewpoints on each chapter, and this book did more than two characters. I understand the fact that it helped explained what was going on in the background from other points, but would get somewhat confusing to me at times. War is coming to a head with the House of David and Seditio, and The House is losing. But you smell victory coming - just by the way tings sort of happen. We lose dome higher-ups in the House, and Seditio loses a lot of peons.

Overall the story line is interesting: a protective group keeping certain special items with "magical" powers from being in the public world. Though at times, it seems a bit much. Of course the 'evil' group that wants the power for themselves under the guise of freeing the power to the world of people and their corrupted governments. Sigh. The book started dragging a bit for me, and I worried about the fourth and final one.