The prologue for Single White Vampire, with the hero’s all-too succinct responses to letters from the heroine, made me laugh, and I settled in for a funny read. The rest of the book did have its moments, but too many in-jokes and a heroine who’s both dull and annoying put a damper on the fun….
Catching Midnight features the upyr, an immortal, shape-shifting, blood-drinking race. Although written about by no less than Tolstoy, Emma Holly first introduced the upyr to romance readers in 2002’s Fantasy anthology. As a fan of Ms Holly’s work, I had high hopes for a book that combines two sub-genres I also enjoy – vampire romance…
Embrace the Twilight gets off to such a fascinating, atmospheric and romantic start that it seemed destined for DIK status. Then the introduction of a deeply annoying secondary character sends the book in another direction, where the story begins to unravel. Colonel Willem Stone is a prisoner of war after being captured by the terrorist…
I was won over several years ago by the strange and fascinating world of Christine Feehan’s Carpathian race. Dark Symphony intersects the Carpathians with the Scarletti family, introduced in the melodramatic Gothic romance The Scarletti Curse. While this book, the 10th full-length romance of the Dark series, isn’t my favorite, it’s also not my least…
The Vampire Viscount manages to be a number of interesting things in a brief 224-page space. This is a book that may sneak its way onto a number of AAR’s Special Title Listings. It’s a vampire story, which is unique enough for a Regency. It’s also a redemption story, an arranged marriage romance, and it…
Though I’ve read a couple of Susan Sizemore’s romance novels, she’s gone in an entirely diffferent direction with this series. A romantic element remains, but be warned: these are not kind and gentle vampires. While the books in Laws of the Blood are genre novels, the genre is horror – not romance. Olympias, Alexander the…
Maggie Shayne started her Wings in the Night series with the Silhouette Shadows line about nine years ago. In the forward to this book she states that she has written a total of seven stories, including this one. I haven’t read all of them, but enough to know the basic outline of her vampires and…
Dark Guardian is the eighth book in Christine Feehan’s series about a long-lived, psychically gifted race called Carpathians. The book’s hero, Lucian, is a two-thousand-year-old guardian of the Carpathian people. Lucian is supernaturally gifted, sexy, intelligent – and predatory. He is the perfect example of a male Carpathian. He is also an example of one…
This was my first foray into Christine Feehan’s Carpathian series, and I found the underlying concept entertaining and full of promise. I’ll probably pick up some other books in the series. Although I enjoyed this book’s premise and the chemistry between its lead characters, I thought its early promise waned, and by the end, Dark…
I’ve heard many positive comments about Susan Sizemore’s Laws of the Blood vampire series, and being a tremendous fan of vampire fiction, I was thrilled to find Laws of the Blood: The Hunt, the novel that began it all. But as I began to read my excitement faded and I continued turning the pages only…
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