Credo (Scars of the Wraiths Book 3)
4.75 "undying love" stars
I have been waiting for Waleron and Delara's story for a looong time and now that I have finally devoured it, cause that was exactly what i did, read it on one sitting, one gulp, or whatever you wanna call it, I don't want it to end. It's all true what it says about them in the blurb:
This is Waleron and Delara’s story. It’s not pretty and it’s not kind. But it's theirs. Their love was well-known throughout the immortal world.
And it’s nothing that you can easily grasp…it’s complicated, it’s toxic, it’s powerful, it’s gripping and crippling at the same time, it’s all consuming and overpowering…it’s undying passion against time and space, against duty, against rules…against being torn apart and being glued back together when all the odds fail to destroy them. We meet Waleron and Delara from the first time they saw each other, being the hypersensitive and highly sensual creatures, they both succumb to the pull and they develop the passionate relationship, friendship, teamship, love…
Our connection couldn’t be explained with words.
They were indestructible, undeniable, unseparable until one mission tears them apart leaving Delara in notion that Waleron had been killed. She’s devastated, broken and totally consumed by darkness of sorrow and pain, until her broken pieces are glued by friendship and affection of Xamien, a leader of another Scar’s Talde in Spain… but she never truly found herself again…nor she wanted to. We follow the span of 60 years of Waleron’s absence in an enemy’s imprisonment and torture, while Delara is in abusive relationship that leaves her beaten to death cause of the never dying bond she holds for Waleron. That little gasp of lingering between life and death, makes it possible for Waleron to escape his restraints and fights to safe Delara’s life and putting the man who destroyed her to the Rest as a punishment. Even their long - awaited reunion wouldn’t hold them together cause of Waleron’s oath and duty towards his Talde of Scars…and he makes a decision to not pursue it any further…even though it’s impossibly painful to do so…
Unquestionably, the road I was about to take
would haunt me for the all time,
but I needed her.
One night would be worth everything.
As he believes he could free her of himself, to protect her from himself and his powerful ink that feeds on his rage…he stays away, cause he’s afraid he would hurt her, and he didn’t trust himself when his ink took over… for twenty years, he’s kept his distance and as the time of Delara’s tormentor’s release is coming near, Waleron fights against himself to contain his raging ink not to consume him fully while he’s trying to cope with the same spark of undying love for Delara.
A love crucified. That’s what we were. He was my savior. My ruin. My strength.
Not even that length of time diminished Delara’s love for Waleron, even when he rejected her. Although, she tried to find comfort in others but as being bonded to him… she could never leave… or be free of him…not as if she really wanted to be
He was my everything. Everything. And without him, I was nothing.
And when the noose of a hidden ploy comes tight around them, putting Delara’s life in mortal danger once again, Waleron will have to come to terms with his own inner battles and while facing the aftermaths of an ultimate betrayal, he will have to make a choice… between his oath and love.
I’d fight my worst enemy for her. I’d die for her. Now, my worst enemy was inside me and this was our last chance. Give me a chance to fix us.
The powerful Taldeburu Waleron and his Delara…the impossible love made possible. The excrutiating pain of angsty, anticipating and yelping hearts torn apart by time and brought back by fate. And they would burn in the passion and through out…
Two people so woven together that we’d become one and the same. We existed without one another, but we’d never lived.
Our tragic love had spanned over a century,but now it was just a love story with meandering paths that had led us to where we were now.
"I'll Be Over You" by Toto
Some people live their dreams,
some people close their eyes,
some people's destiny passes by
There are no guarantees, there are no alibis
That's how our love must be, don't ask why
It takes some time, God knows how long
I know that I can forget you
As soon as my heart stops breakin', anticipating
As soon as forever is through
I'll be over you
Remembering times gone by promises we once made
What are the reasons why nothing stays the same
There were the nights holding you close,
Someday I'll try to forget them
Someday I'll be over you
As soon as my heart stops breakin', anticipating
As soon as forever is through
I'll be over you
What I love in Nashoda Rose’s books is exactly that “passion” so palpable and visible in her written words. It’s just the way it is and there’s no escaping from it. It grips you into a tight, pulsating hold and it doesn’t let go until it’s all over and then you still reel from it all until it wears off. Credo, book 3 in the Scars of the Wraiths series MUST be read after the first 2 books, otherwise you won’t get the full picture and you won’t be able to connect all the details and known facts you get the notion of in book 1 and 2. Cause all the characters are linked and interchangeable through out all three books, if left out, you’ll be confused and have a sense like you ‘ve missed out on smth. Fast paced, passionate, consuming and heart gripping world of these fantasy characters will leave you wanting for more of them, of their passionate struggles, danger, love as we get another glimpse of secondary cast Damien and Abby, Xamien, even the beginning of Jasper and Max (their story was told in Take), I had a blast, even though as times I had a feeling the story slipped through my fingers as the wide span of years and events were covered, some more and some in less detailed way. All in all, I can’t wait for the next installment of the dangerously addictive Scars’ world. NASH, Thank. You.
