Product Description

Witnessing the rebirth--and subsequent death--of his beloved Brenna century after century, the vampire Valerian vows that the next time he sees Brenna, he will make her immortal at any cost.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #271940 in Books
• Published on: 1995-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Customer Reviews

Our most stunning vampire ever, Valerian & his undying love
Finally, we discover the story, the history of Valerian and Ms. Miller does not let you down. Seeing Valerian as we have never seen him, experiencing a side that we may have suspected from our knowledge of Aidan and Maeve we are honored with its reality. His one true love beginning with Brenna never dies, never ceases to exist within his heart. We discover that vampires are not of the dead but more of the living than in some cases we mere mortals are. Hearts and souls that remain true with desires and cravings for a complete bonding with ones true soulmate throughout centuries. We renew our connection with Maeve and Calder and their lovely miracle child Kristina, we are again reunited with Nemesis and Dathan and an increasing interest in this elusive warlock. You struggle alongside Valerian to discover the true curse and you swoon as he holds Daisy with his all consuming passion and undying love. Your heart may never be the same once you have experienced the love, the passion and the timelessness between them

One of her best!
This is the best book on her Vampire Series... Here you can see the gentle side of Valerian. He is as vulnerable as any other vampire, especially with his beloved Brenna near him. He fights for Daisy's love, as well as their future together. We can also see Maeve and Calder, Kristina, Dathan, Benecia and Canaan Havermail, etc. A definite must-read!!!!!!!

It went on and on and on... Stop already!
There's a new magic show in town, and no-one can even begin to figure out how the mysterious Valerian does his amazing tricks. Daisy, a Las Vegas cop, goes to his performance out of curiosity and is as baffled as everyone else - and completely drawn, for no reason than she can imagine, to the handsome, enigmatic Valerian.

As he is to her - but then, he knows who she is. She is the latest incarnation of his beloved Brenna, killed seven hundred years ago. Ever since his creation as a vampire, he's encountered her about once every century, only to lose her again shortly afterwards. The omen of her death is always the same: a ruby ring, sent to her by an unknown donor.

This time, Valerian vows, he won't allow it to happen again. But the danger is even more apparent than usual, because someone is killing women all over town. Women he knows. The message is clear: his enemy is out to get him and, very soon, he will kill Daisy. Just so that the message comes across with no doubt whatsoever, warnings are being left for Daisy too.

So far so not bad. Valerian, unlike a lot of vampire characters and in particular unlike the execrable, insipid Aidan in Lael Miller's appalling Forever and the Night, is not whiny. He likes being a vampire. He's perfectly happy with his life as it is - well, apart from the fact that he wants Brenna, now Daisy, back. A plus point for that. I liked Daisy too: she's resourceful, intelligent and doesn't swoon when she discovers Valerian's true nature.

But from there on the book takes a nosedive. Valerian sets out to find the vampire responsible for all the murders, the one who killed Brenna in each of her incarnations. This sends him on a search through time as well as most of the world, and this makes some of the plot from then on just silly. There's this, for starters: once Valerian finds out who his enemy is, why does he then have to beg for favours from all and sundry to find out where the other vampire currently is? And to get powers to kill him? Why not just go back in time and kill the guy before he ever becomes a vampire? That's a TSTL moment to start with.

But anyway, he finds the guy and they talk. They're going to fight and they agree some rules for the fight and the outcome, but then... nothing. Absolutely nothing. Days, even weeks go past and we're waiting for this big fight, and *nothing* happens. Now, given that the other vampire is very keen to kill Valerian and claim Daisy for himself, this makes no sense whatsoever. Nor do the deals Valerian makes with characters such as Nemesis and Dathan. The plot with Nemesis, whereby Valerian asks for the power to kill the other vampire in return for agreeing to accompany Nemesis to the pits of hell, seems only to be there to add extra unnecessary angst: the reader is supposed to be in agonies fearing that Valerian will die. But Nemesis in the end has *nothing* to do with Valerian killing the other vampire. The whole sub-plot was pointless.

There were other irritations - Valerian's brother being called Krispin instead of Crispin, which would have been more appropriate for the time; the human Valerian somehow managing to have enough energy to make love when he's half-dead from blood loss after being stabbed in the stomach; Valerian never once biting/drinking from Daisy; and Daisy *still* being condemned to die and reincarnate over and over again. I don't call that a good outcome.

Two stars for the non-whiny vampire, but otherwise this is going into the recycling pile.

- wmr-uk