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Lädt ... Love Is Darknessvon Caroline Hanson
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 3.75-Would have been higher except main character is annoying ( ) DNF. Did Not Finish. Life is too short for this mere mortal to slog through the rest of this book. One star from me means yeah, it's a book, but that's all the credit I can give. By the fourth chapter of this sucker (get it? vampire joke) I suspect only the first chapter was (barely adequately) edited. By the fourth, the prose is childishly clunky. It has also become aggressively repetitive and stormily inconsistent. This leads me to strongly suspect that the people who wrote glowing GR reviews are either inexperienced readers, or shills. It's pretty terrible, y'all. Even free, it's too expensive. This story opens with Lucas (the head of the vampires) feeling a bit blah with life, what pulls him out is the discovery that one of his subjects has just fed (to death) on an empath and is now riding a high (reminiscent of 'The World on Blood'). Lucas kills him (to stop the word spreading) after learning that the woman in question had a daughter. That daughter is Valerie. Her father becomes a vampire hunter but Lucas protects her as he has a use for her. The main body of the book takes place 15 years later when Valerie has grown up enough to be of use to Lucas. He wants to find evidence of the other supernatural race (fey, werewolves, witches are mentioned) despite the fact that the reason there're gone is that he ran a very successful campaign against them centuries before. He thinks this will give him a reason to hold onto life. This of course throws a cat amongst the pigeons and vampire politics gets brutal. Then there's Jake who was raised with Valerie and who she lusts after (and who feels quite protective towards her as well). This drew me in. I've come across these themes before but it was well handled and made the reading easy. Not as good as I hoped". I was disapointed with this novel, I tried to read it, but found myself skimming through pages so I could just get to the end. My biggest problem is that I just didn't like any of the charactors - Valerie was annoying, Lucas was irritating and Jack, irksome. I won't be reading book 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheValerie Dearborn (1) Ist enthalten in
"Valerie Dearborn wants a cotton candy life, but it's more like a puffer fish: pointy, unusual, and-if not prepared exactly right-deadly. In London for graduate school, Val knows she's finally free. Her father and ex- almost-boyfriend are back in California and she's out of the vampire hunting biz for good. Or is she? She draws the attention of Lucas, a 1600 year old vampire, and King to his kind. He's also wicked hot. As golden as Lucifer, and just as tempting, he makes Valerie an offer she can't refuse: help him find out if the Others (Empaths, Fey and Werewolves) still exist or he'll stop protecting those she loves. Lucas tells her that Empaths were a vampire's biggest weakness before going extinct hundreds of years ago. While the Fey or a Werewolf might kill a vampire, an Empath could enslave them, seducing or harming them with emotions. The one detail he leaves out? Valerie is an Empath. And after 1600 years of an emotionless existence, Lucas is drawn to Val like a recovering alcoholic to a wine cooler. Can she keep those she loves alive, stop Lucas from munching on her, survive a fanged revolution and still find a way to have that boring, normal life she's always wanted? Probably not, but boy is she gonna try."-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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