I don’t know how to review this book because it’s more that a book to me, family!
How many years has it been since?

I love the series even when Darian makes make’s choices that make me angry! Damn it Darian!
I feel like we’re growing up along with her & heart break is hard and moving from the ppl you love even harder.

I love the books, I’ll read as many as she chooses to publish. x

For Darian and the gang it’s been a year between events from the previous book, Shadows at Midnight (2015) but for readers it’s been seven years! And this reader was ready for more Darian, Tyler, Xander and more.

Secrets at Nightfall is the long awaited 6th book in the Shaede Assassin series by Amanda Bonilla and it was all an urban fantasy reader could want. It’s not a standalone, you do need to read the rest of the series or you will have no idea what’s going on. In fact if you haven’t read the previous books READ THEM or it’s been a wait I recommend a reread. Luckily I had just recently read the previous book so I was ok picking up where the story left off.

Secrets at Nightfall finds Darian feeling alone and uneasy because her Shaede family has left town to take care of Shaede business and there’s a heaviness in her chest at the feeling that something missing from her life. She knows there’s something going on with her memories, but she is not sure if those are what is causing her melancholy.

The Synod, the governing body for the Jinn, took her missing memories because they fear Darian and her bond with one of their own, Tyler. They are doing their best to keep the two apart. The Synod believes they are too dangerous together because of a mysterious thing they call Nys’Asdar.

While some things start to fall into place for Darian the biggest memory reveal doesn’t happen until the last chapter where she gets an information dump as her memories about Tyler hit her all at once. But before that happens she has to do something she is not known for, trusting others. Darian no only has no memory of Tyler but anything or anyone associated with him. She was hired to fulfill a contract by killing someone named Levi. Luckily her memories about him come back in time to save her friend from being assassinated by her.

Secrets at Nightfall definitely read as a bridge book, bridging the plot lines between the previous book and the next book to come in the series. I’ve got to say I’m not sure if this Tyler is the Tyler we all know and love. I think there is more darkness and heart break to come. I hope in the next installment there will be more from Xander, Raif and Asher, Darian’s adopted Shaede family. All the mystery surrounding Tyler and Darian’s bond, the Nys’Asdar, the Synod and the Arx will all come to ahead soon. It’s a pressure cooker waiting to release, I just hope all of our beloved characters survive it.

Please Ms. Bonilla, don’t make us wait another seven years!!