Product Description

Cara DeLongpre wandered into the mysterious Nocturne club looking for a fleeting diversion from her sheltered life. Instead she found a dark, seductive stranger whose touch entices her beyond the safety she's always known and into a heady carnal bliss.A year ago, Vincent Cordova believed that vampires existed only in bad movies and bogeyman stories. That was before a chance encounter left him with unimaginable powers, a hellish thirst, and an aching loneliness he's sure will never end--until the night he meets Cara DeLongpre. Cara's beauty and bewitching innocence call to his mind, his heart--his blood. For Vincent senses the Dark Gift shared by Cara's parents, and the lurking threat from an ancient and powerful foe. And he knows that the only thing more dangerous than the enemy waiting to seek its vengeance is the secret carried by those Cara trusts the most.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #319794 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 384 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780821778357
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Will the Real Amanda Ashley please stand up...
I am a long time fan of A.A., and have read some excellent work in her other books. That is why this is so difficult for me... I absolutely did not enjoy this latest effort! It was so cliched and unexciting, that I give myself a huge pat on the back for finishing it (simply because I wanted to write this review). Cara, the 22-yr old adopted daughter of Brenna & Roshan DeLongpre, vampire/witch & vampire, acted & sounded more like a willful 12-yr old, than an adult. The dialogue was juvenile and so predictable that I found myself wondering why this book ever went to print, and if there was a way to get my money back! The characters, with the exception of Mara, Vince's mysterious maker, were uninteresting, underdeveloped, and just plain boring. In fact, the book itself was boring. I could not warm up to Cara or Vince. And HOW in the name of all that's un-holy, could there even be a remote possibility of Vince being able to father a child, and twins, no less! Further, I think Frank, the faithful bodyguard, was disposed of in a most callous & ungrateful manner. Further, the issue of Cara and the twins being human, and Vince being vampire, and the whole aging thing, was not addressed completely, and the reader was left hanging to draw her/his own conclusion(s). A very unsatisfactory & frustrating read. I found myself skipping parts of it. No exciting love scenes to spice it up, either. Flat, all the way! Miss Ashley is much more capable than this book suggests.

Dialog undeveloped
This is the third Amanda Ashley book I've read and while I still enjoyed it, I found it to be less well written. The dialog was a bit undeveloped (seemed sort of forced at times) and the plot left a bit to be desired. Overall it was okay, but nothing special.

Liked the idea, but it's getting kinda old.
I like to keep my favorite authors in paper and computers, but trying to shove too many people from previous books makes the story choppy and makes it drag. This is the problem with Chritine Feehan. Don't try to keep track of all of your previous characters from book to book, let them go or only make mention. I understand that our previous characters in this book are the parents and so must have some part, but it made the book very hard to read. I didn't get the soft loving glow from the two main characters because not enough time was spent on their relationship, although I did like the love/hate relationship between our vampire hero and his sire. That was cute. Amanda is one of my favories and I know that she's a very good writer, so I will continue to buy her books.