A Savage Spell (The Nix Series Book 4) Kindle Edition

Why oh why another cliff hanger? You are one of my top ten favorite authors of all time, Shannon, right in there with Margaret Mitchell and Vince Flynn ( okay, I am eclectic - so shoot me! ) but I am 68 years old and may not have too many more cliff hangers in me! So hurry with the next Box book, please as I want to " see " Bear again as well as meeting his little sister and finding out how and where the bad angels go and what I next with Killian and Phoenix and... well, I guess I can ask for " reading privileges " in the hereafter?????!!!!!! This was the best of the best because I am already so invested in all of the characters as I feel I have come to know and love ( or hate ) them so well... I have been in and out of the hospital several times while awaiting this newest Nix novel and while it is certainly well worth the wait, please hurry with the next one but make it just as superlative as this one!!! I have three favorite fantasy authors and you are at the top of my list, love! Keep writing, Shannon, and know so very many of us out here sincerely appreciate it!!! Thanks for a superb read!!!

Nix is back with a vengeance! This book holy cow! When I first started this book I was thinking what the heck? I mean this was not the Nix I was used to, but then I kept reading and oh yes this was my Nix. It is just the circumstances that she is in in this book are so different!Nix is not someone you want to mess with, and you definitely do not want to mess with her family. I am used to the bad guys in Nix books being Demons or other abnormals, but in this one I was thrown for a loop.As with all of the Nix books, this one is well written. The story line moves along so flawlessly that you just keep turning pages until you hit the last page and you just flip it and say, "What? No!! You did not just end that book right there!" Now I am left wanting to know what Nix is going to do to fix things, can she fix things or is this too much for even our beloved Phoenix?If you love paranormal, action and a plot that twist and turns on you and an ending that has you wanting to strangle the author then this one is for you. (no worries, this author ALWAYS delivers in the next book and it is always worth the wait.)

Nix is back!!!! I didn't realize how much I missed Nix till I started reading A Savage Spell. I absolutely loved the first 3 books and I was so happy to be diving back into this world. This book is just as good as the others. Nix is trapped in a facility where they are brainwashing abnormals into thinking their lives outside the facility were false. They are told they're at this facility to "get better." Nix is one of their model patients. What they don't know is she's just biding her time. This is the second time she's been taken from her child and these people are going to burn in hell for taking her away from her family and endangering their lives. This book is like a rollercoaster. That slow build up to get to the top, only to come flying down and hit a twist here and there and then it suddenly comes to a stop. You just sit there afterwards thinking, I gotta do that again. I can't wait to see what else Nix's story has to bring us. Side note, the Easter eggs dropped in this book are the best (don't read too much into them, they are just fun tidbits for the true Mayer fans)!

It's the worst kind of writer who does thus. Not one but three unfinished cliffhangers. For heavens sake! Why not finish a series before you start another? You are a really hood writer, but thus simllybusnt fair to people who read you and while I got miffed at the first two - one more simply put me right off reading you again. If this is the way you want to write, juggling several series, dont make the damned things cliffhangers. It's my last buy from you; I just feel like I've wasted my time and money... for the third time.

Reading a work by Shannon Mayer is like riding in the most luxurious car in the world. Unfortunately, after that ride, one often must return to reading a Rent-a-Wreck. A Savage Spell is the latest in the world of Phoenix. It is one amazing ride. My blood pressure was through the roof. Shannon gets her readers so thoroughly invested in her characters that any break in the action, like the end of the book, is pure torture. That woman just can’t write fast enough. She also throws her readers a few Easter Eggs – referencing characters or substances from other series, also adored by her readers.This book opens after the world has changed somewhat. Abnormals are hunted, captured and their minds reprogrammed. Phoenix must tread a very fine line to come back to herself. Her motivation is, as always, her son. Does she abandon all others to get to her son or does she take the longer road to understand and rid the world of the problems? This story will continue shortly, if her readers have any say in the matter, such as begging and pleading. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. 10 -20 stars at least.

I think we all believed that Phoenix's story was right and tight... finished... consummated... finalized... concluded... destined to be remembered fondly but forever shelved on a The End aisle. I've never been so happy to see one of the more BA women characters ever created be taken out of mothballs and handed a couple of mouthy spirit-filled weapons! A Savage Spell takes place just a little over a year after where Rise of the Phoenix concluded (RofP is the third book in Mayer's Nix series).An unknown-before-now side of Nix is unveiled in this unrivaled character - Absolute Patience. If patience is a virtue then Nix is the proverbial Goddess of Time. Mayer not only continued the Phoenix series but reimagined it. Familiar faces have chosen alternate paths (*cough* he's Irish), and new faces (including a few new family members 😮) advance what Nix fans believed to be a completed story arc.KrisWhiskey & Wit Book Reviews

Well, I Wasn't Expecting Any Of That!!😲💔🔥🙏A Savage Spell (A Nix Trilogy)This book blew me away. The Author had left us with certain expectations at the end of book #3, but in typical Mayer style she threw a spanner in the works from the get go.🔧💥 So, we catch up with Nix a year after we left her but her circumstances have definitely changed!Nix isn't who we've grown to know & love, initially, plus she's not where we'd expect her either!😲 Once our bad@ss Nix does reappear (sigh of relief) the poop hits the fan, God help them all for what they've done!💔 Easter is practically brainless & hates her, her family aren't around so choosing a couple of new abnormals & a new dog is her only shot at escape!🙏 Along with a bit of help from one of her captors & lots of help from Dinah, they make their break for freedom.The world has changed drastically, for all abnormals, whilst Nix was out of commission. She sets out to find her family again but is stopped in her tracks by a revelation that shocks her to her core.😳 Agreeing a plan the group set off on a desperate mission to save their way of life, before it's razed to the ground permanently!🙏😢This was a superb addition to the Nix series. It's a well paced & executed read with a world build that leaves you feeling uncomfortable with its similarities to some world events!💔 The writing is, as ever, wonderful. The storyline, although not what I anticipated, was emotional & tension filled. I truly hope book #5 will come to us asap as this character is scary, intimidating & completely unmissable!!🙏🌟Debbie, 1970, UK

Shannon has done it again! I laughed and cried. swore (a lot at the end) A complete rollercoaster where Nix has to find her sanity, her family, friends and save them all from worse than death! As only Nix can, she picks herself up and escapes the nightmare only to find it is just beginning She gathers old friends and new along the way. So difficult to pace yourself on this one the pages turn themselves but be warned the ending is not so much a cliffhanger as a free fall without a parachute Need the next one NOW!

I have raved about this series of books to friends and have given the previous three books five stars and thoroughly recommend them. I feel, perhaps the series should have finished at the end of book three with most of the loose ends tied up and justice served.My reason for giving this book one star is that it is not a book but a short novella and ends on a cliffhanger which I usually enjoy however there is no indication of when this story will be completed and published. I feel let down Shannon as until now I felt you gave us your fans and readers value for money, disappointing, sorry.

I 'finished' this book on a cliffhanger - sure. Then I counted the pages (by flipping them), and checked the details of the length above. The description says 332 pages - I've only got 155 (including the cover). Also,, there's usually an afterword, and trailers for the next books etc. All missing. Finally I checked the length (end location 2993) against the end location of book 3 (which ends on page 331,location 4244).I conclude therefore, that I only have half a book, due to some sort of publishing error. Please fix this!

These books are getting better with every one. For me they're now at don't stop reading point. Nix has been through hell on earth and is now going to have to fight it on terms she might regret. Want to more??? Read, read and keep reading, I promise you won't regret a moment you spend in this world.