The Reckoning by Alma Katsu (The Immortal Trilogy)

Started: 1.1.26

Finished: 3.1.26

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3.1.26 - I'm 39% of the way through. After being 'buried alive' behind a brick wall for 200 years, Adair has been released (the mansion was being demolished). He goes to the house of Jude, another immortal, who has to teach him about modern life in 2010. Meanwhile, Lanore senses that he's free, and runs away from Luke, to protect him. 

Adair at first is filled with murderous rage at Lanore, but as time passes he realises that he is actually in love with her. He doesn't want to kill her, but he's still angry with her for leaving him, and he's scared of what his rage might make him do.

He has used a reincarnation spell to raise the badly decomposed body of Jonathan, with a view to moving his soul into Jonathan's body, in the hope that Lanore will love him.

I wish I had someone to talk to about this book! Adair is, I think, what they call 'morally grey'. He's done some horrific things, but he is capable of remorse, some of the time, and he's also capable of love, albeit quite a possessive love. I don't know how I feel about Lanore though. 

3.1.26, later - Just finished! Jonathan brought with him news of the 'Queen Of The Underworld' who Adair was quite afraid of, so he eventually sent him back. He found Lanore, and by then was completely in love with her (although raped her as soon as they met, so, hmmm). He let Luke survive, after removing all memories of Lanny, and then Adair and Lanore moved to a house in the mountains above Lake Garda. After two months of realising that she wasn't going to love him in the way that he wanted her to, he let her go. 

Bring on book 3!