Milja was seven years old when she is first introduced to
a prisoner deep within the mountain of Eastern Europe.
This silent man, chained spread-eagled to the altar, has
been like this for no one knows how long. Her father, an
Orthodox priest, is in charge of keeping this being
imprisoned and a secret from the rest of the world. The
task is passed down as a family tradition and now he
introduces her to her future duty only for the little
girl to find the captivity barbaric and sympathize with
the prisoner. As the years pass, she only ends being more
fascinated by this beautiful man despite his condition
and the need to free him. A forbidden curious intimacy
leads to her father sending her away to Boston. She comes
back after five years when her father suddenly takes ill.
This is the beginning of things going from bad to worst.
The beginning of the story captured my imagination
building expectations. Unfortunately the great start only
began to go downwards as the story progressed with Milja
freeing the prisoner. Some things felt overly exaggerated
and too fast to keep up with. One minute she is
determined to follow her father's instructions and
excited & nervous at the same time about seeing the
prisoner. The next she is freeing him, which to me felt
was because he has been manipulating with her mind. The
belief only strengthened when he left her to her devices
each time she does not comply to his wishes.
For a child to be introduced to such a prisoner in such
conditions is always asking for trouble and so is keeping
them in close proximity for all her developing years. So
for me, her family condemning her for freeing the fallen
angel is simply crazy. Following is a weird roller-
coaster ride involving a man she only met on plane,
willing to drop everything, break every law to help her,
a trio of fanatic priests and another angel. Where Azazel
is in all this, no one knows. What shows he is in love
with her, I cannot say except the parts where he rescues
her despite knowing the danger but only when she calls
out to him. What shows she loves him instead of lusts and
is infatuated by him; again I cannot say since she is
also attracted to her shining knight.
COVER HIM WITH DARKNESS had lots and lots of potential but
it seemed
like Janine Ashbless tried to put in everything without
working out the story, the characters or building their
relationship. I could not connect at all with any of the
characters. Loved Milja's compassion but otherwise found
her pretty unlikable because of her decisions and her
thinking. I found her pretty confusing and confused.
Since Azazel was missing in most of the book, why this
story is categorized a romance is beyond me. The wild
sex, compassion and a couple of rescues do not add up to
a romance. Overall, COVER HIM WITH DARKNESS is written
well but just
not with enough depth and clarity to keep me involved,
wanting to read more nor remember it after I am done. An
okay read if you do not mind the dark religious
undertones and underdeveloped characters.
In a remote and mountainous part of Europe, a priest keeps
a
dark secret beneath his chapel—a prisoner. Even the holy
man
does not know how long he has been there—hundreds of
years,
perhaps, or even longer. The priest's fear is that anyone
in
his parish would ever come in contact with his mysterious
and unholy charge. But what happens is even worse than he
could have ever imagined. His lovely young daughter Milja,
whose innocence and devotion to God he prizes over all
else,
trails her father into the cavern and catches a glimpse of
the prisoner, a beautiful being like the most handsome of
men, and yet not.
She looks into his eyes and sees pain and wisdom and
eternity. Unable to keep away from this silent creature
chained to an altar stone, she is torn between family
loyalty and her growing connection to their prisoner. One
day her father discovers their forbidden intimacy and
sends
Milja off to America to be raised by her aunt in Boston.
Cover Him in Darkness is a dark and thrilling story of an
archangel banished from heaven and the human woman with
whom
he falls in love.
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