Vile Acts (Legacy of Deth 2) by Crea Reitan -review tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 17, 2026
The missing black paint told of horrors…
Sometimes rescuing someone once isn’t enough to banish their demons. This is something that has haunted the Deth brothers for a decade. Erez can’t let it go.
It took him ten years to prove that his baby sister didn’t die accidentally. Ten years to uncover horrors that he never imagined plagued her behind the smile she wore.
Now that he’s discovered the truth, Erez and his family are ready to usher in the days of reckoning for such vile acts committed against his sister.
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This is a LGBTQIA+ story with content not intended for those under 18 years of age due to graphic scenes and situations.
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REVIEW: This is the second installment in the Legacy of Deth series, it picks up the threads of family, grief, and justice that began in Dead Nights and weaves them into something darker, more intimate, and ultimately more devastating.
This book is about Erez Deth and his ten year long refusal to accept that his younger sister’s death was accidental.
The story digs into the horrors that hid behind her smile and the slow, relentless work of uncovering the truth.
What follows is not a simple revenge tale but a careful story of trauma, loyalty, and the kind of love that waits patiently while someone else learns how to see it.
Erez is consumed by what happened to Alice. His grief has shaped him so thoroughly that almost everything else in his life exists in its shadow.
Fade, his best friend of five years, has been right there the entire time, offering quiet constancy without ever demanding more than Erez can give.
Watching that dynamic unfold is both frustrating and deeply moving. Erez’s obliviousness never feels like a cheap plot device, it grows naturally out of the way his trauma has narrowed his focus.
Fade’s patience, seems infinite. He stays, he supports, he softens the edges of Erez’s pain without ever trying to fix him.
And when the shift from friendship to something deeper finally arrives, it feels earned rather than sudden, the natural result of two people who have already built a life around each other without fully naming it.
The revelations about what Alice endured are heavy, sometimes nearly unbearable, yet they were handled with care and a seriousness that never slips into exploitation.
The involvement of the wider Deth and Van Doren circles, along with the unexpected presence of Aven, an AI figure tied to Van Doren technology, adds layers of both practical help and quiet philosophical unease. These elements never overwhelm the central story, instead they expand the world in ways that feel consistent with the larger Creaverse while still keeping Erez and Fade at the heart of the story.
I would say that Vile Acts is one of her darker stories.
I loved how this book shows us that love does not require perfection or immediate clarity, only presence. The banter, the found family warmth, and the moments of genuine tenderness keep the darkness from becoming total, but they never pretend the darkness is not there.
This is not a light read, and it is not meant to be. It is a story about reckoning, about the cost of looking closely at what people suffer in silence, and about the possibility that even the most broken among us can still be met with patience and care.
Vile Acts delivers exactly what her best work always does, characters who feel real, emotions that land hard, and a conclusion that leaves you both gutted and strangely hopeful. I
finished it feeling drained and grateful at the same time, already eager for whatever comes next in this series.
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Reviewed by Julie B 🦋
Crea lives in upstate New York with her dog and husband. She has been writing since grade school, when her second grade teacher had her class keep writing journals. She has a habit of creating secondary, and often time tertiary, characters that take over her stories. All of her RH relationships end up being heavily polyamorous – meaning it’s not just all the men for one woman. There’s also some M/M action going on. When she can’t fall asleep at night, she thinks up new scenes for her characters to act out. This, of course, is how most of her meant-to-be-thrown-away characters tend to end up front and center – and utterly swoon-worthy! Don’t ask her how many book boyfriends she has…
When not writing, Crea is an avid reader. Her TBR pile is several hundred books high (don’t even look at her kindle wish list or the unread books on her tablet). Sometimes, she enjoys crafting; sometimes, exploring nature; sometimes, traveling. Mostly, she enjoys putting her characters on paper and breathing life into them. Oh, and sleeping. Crea loves to sleep!
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