I didn't realise when i started this book that it was the third in a series so for now this is a DNF until I have had chance to read the first two books!

Death, book 3 of the Keeper Series, gives readers more of the same, hot sex, graphic scenes, and love between Juma and Dutch. A love that should not be but is and is everything. Overall, I liked the writing style of the author, as the series is easy to read. However, readers will need to use their imagination to understand this dark, deathly world, where Death can be a real bitch.

One thing I should lead my review off with is that it was not too overwhelming to read this book without reading the others. While there were definitely relationships from the previous books, as well as plot twists, the book wasn't difficult to pick up.

And I think this lies with the electric chemistry between Juma and Dutch, the way it propels the book along, and the strength of their connection. It is their relationship which really ties the book together and serves as the motivation for a lot of the plot. So if you can understand it, love it, and ship it, then you are all good to go! The steam level in this book is to the max.

I am unable to continue reading. Please see note for publisher under "Dutch"

By now you should have already read Dutch (Book 1) and Juma (Book 2) and have discovered for yourself that this series is pure poetry.

"She moaned low and just for me and I knew heaven had nothing on her. She was the reason my left lung was smaller than my right—it was all to make room for her, she was my heart." -Dutch

This story is full of pain, death, love and hope. Dutch and Juma were once on opposite sides of a line drawn down the middle between life or death. Dutch is a Keeper. Keepers take the lives of Poochas. Juma is a Poocha. She is one of a small group of people tasked with restoring the life of worthy Poochas. See the conundrum? Once upon a time Keepers and Poochas co-existed with a tentative agreement. A new faction has a deadly agenda and they want Juma and others like her eliminated. Dutch suffers greatly for his love for Juma and Juma sacrifices herself time and time again in the name of love and revolution. Dutch and Juma are pawns in a bigger game that will either be the beginning of something great or the beginning of something more sinister than what now exists.

The book failed to hold my interest. I had to drag myself through it to finish reading.

Another book that was not made clear was the 3rd book of a series and as such i had no idea what was happening. It needs to be made a lot clearer in blurbs that its a series novel.

Wow! This is the 3rd in the series and I was hooked from beginning to end. The characters are amazing and the read is dark with so much emotion. The story really draws you into this world. I loved it!

Savage poetic beauty. It's as if words in a dictionary were asked if you could be strung together in the most effectively stunning formation how would you do that, but you must be vulgar, hopeful, animalistic, loving and violent, Dutch, Juma and now Death would be the outcome. This needs to be read out loud the writing is so brightly dark and vivid an imagination is not needed. Death was the only proper outcome for many and when Simone embraced Khan I felt it was too kind but necessary. Limited time and yet unlimited lifetimes of power and love achieved through such brutality and sadness.

In awe of this masterpiece! Such an amazing finale to an exceptional urban fantasy romance saga! Madhuri Pavamani has crafted poetic brilliance with this transcendent love story!