Helpful Score: 4
Absolutely loved this book. Great action, chacters, plot. Well written. Can't wait to read book 2.
This reminds me of Lara Adrian's Midnight Breed series. Vampires and Kurjans have existed with a shaky peace treaty for two hundred years. Now a Kurjan king wants to wipe out the vampires. Cara and her daughter, Janie, hold the key to both races continued existence. Talen, a Dark Protector of the vampire race, kidnaps Cara and Janie to save his people. Talen and Cara are married and mated in the first 24 hours. Talen is way more dominant than I like in an alpha male. The "claiming" scene is too close to rape to be romantic or sexy. The storyline is good and I'm sure I will read the next book to see what happens to Cara's sister. For now, I need to get past the ick factor. 3 stars
I read a review at Amazon titled 'Forceful Much' and I completely agree, except I couldn't get past chapter 7. Talen and Cara, without her daughter, were forced to stay in a cabin far from everyone. He informs her that they WILL mate that night, and comes so close to making her it made my skin crawl. Whatever happened to 'No means no.' Up until that point I really liked the book, and made sure the next two were on my wishlist. The book may have been really good, but that chapter ruined it for me.
I enjoyed this book, but it was very similar to two of my favorite series (J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood and Lynsay Sands's Argeneau). This series was good, but wouldn't make it to my permanent bookshelf.
The characters were marginal and a bit lacking in the development and follow through. For instant the main character, Cara, is suppose to be this empath who's a single mother, a scientist and adverse to any dominant male because of her childhood, yet she succumbs to Talen. The author tries to put some of it on Talen's dominance and persistence yet she writes it in a way that makes the reader believe it's due to his sexual nature and dominance in bed that ultimately makes her succumb.
I find it hard to believe that a woman as strong and independent as Cara would allow Talen to marry her within hours of meeting her and mating with him. Like I said the book seems a little lacking.
On the bright side the author writes in a slew of other characters which are automatically endeared. For instance Cara's daughter Janie who is merely a child sees the future and is instantly able to make all the dominant males surrounding her fall in love with her to the point of them trying to braid her hair and failing ultimately or lousing to Old Maid and allowing her to paint their nails pink. ADORABLE.
Like I said.....this book was good, but it reminded too much of those other series.
The characters were marginal and a bit lacking in the development and follow through. For instant the main character, Cara, is suppose to be this empath who's a single mother, a scientist and adverse to any dominant male because of her childhood, yet she succumbs to Talen. The author tries to put some of it on Talen's dominance and persistence yet she writes it in a way that makes the reader believe it's due to his sexual nature and dominance in bed that ultimately makes her succumb.
I find it hard to believe that a woman as strong and independent as Cara would allow Talen to marry her within hours of meeting her and mating with him. Like I said the book seems a little lacking.
On the bright side the author writes in a slew of other characters which are automatically endeared. For instance Cara's daughter Janie who is merely a child sees the future and is instantly able to make all the dominant males surrounding her fall in love with her to the point of them trying to braid her hair and failing ultimately or lousing to Old Maid and allowing her to paint their nails pink. ADORABLE.
Like I said.....this book was good, but it reminded too much of those other series.
