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Book Review: Caressed by Night

by on February 25, 2013, 0 comments

Caressed by Night

Description:
Dimitri Arsov, the last remaining pure vampire, was thought to be dead for the past four hundreds years. Now, he is back and has a score to settle with the traitor that had tried to kill him centuries ago. But as he waits for his prey to blindly step into his carefully laid trap, his overwhelming hunger for blood is triggered when he saves a beautiful art historian.
Kerstyn Ingmar’s life was normal and straight up boring until the night she is rescued by the dangerously sexy, powerfully mesmerizing, Dimitri. Unable to resist his diamond blue eyes and intense kisses, she is drawn into his world of darkness and closer to her impending doom.
While their desire consumes them, Dimitri is haunted by images of a bloody and deadly future. As his enemies draw near, he must find a way to save his mate from her destiny before fate destroys them both.
- Quoted from Goodreads.com

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Title: Caressed by Night (Rulers of Darkness #2)
Author: Amanda J. Greene
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Romance
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Note: Contains spoilers, sorry!

I started reading the 2nd book from the series. I already have the first book and will start reading it on my next break. :) Anyway…
Dimitri is an ancient, extremely powerful vampire (the origin) that has lived since the stone age. He is like the king of kings, ancient of the ancients, oldest of the oldest fangs, and his aura makes everyone look down or something. Yeah you get the idea.
Kerstyn is the… “nothing” girl who just happened to be the mate of a mighty hot vampire. And yes, yes, yes, I dislike Kerstyn’s character. In the whole story, I don’t see Kerstyn doing anything. She simply just exists for the sake of being the character of a book. Oh yeah, wait, I forgot. She did do something… stupid. She insisted on going out of a well-guarded safety area to pick her nasty cry-and-cry friend up while her soon-to-be mate fought for her life with an enemy.
I was like… huh? Seriously? You choose this time – this life-and-death situation to actually start pitying your friend when she kicked you out? Uh-uh. No way. Not smart. I’m fine with Kerstyn existing. I get irritated when she exists and but doesn’t treasure her own existence. If I tell you to stay because if you go out before tomorrow comes, you die, would you have gambled your life and gone out for A) your mate or B) an idiot friend?

-Sigh-

Please forgive my rant. I just wished the female could have a stronger character… be more resistant to Dimitri and not just melt in his arms and accept every single thing revealed. Too good to be true even though it’s just a story.

It seems like Greene had this planned as “fate” could be changed and such… and the story flowed smoothly anyway, so I enjoyed it a lot. I mostly enjoy the parts with Dimitri, which unfortunately, contained mostly conversations with Kerstyn.

I give this book 4/5. It is definitely worth a read.


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Book Review: Touching Ice

by on December 28, 2012, 0 comments
Touching IceTouching Ice

Description:
What can go wrong overseeing a bunch of android sex bots on an automated whorehouse in deep space? Great job, if Megan doesn’t die of boredom. Then she catches sight of the sexiest male she’s ever seen. On her grainy security monitor, she watches all his sexual exploits with the bots, and fantasizes. But that’s all she can do because he’s a cyborg. Then fate steps in. There’s a crash and Megan must escape or die. The cyborgs are rescuing the sex bots-taking them onboard their ship. She knows cyborgs hate humans. They’ll kill her if she asks for help so she devises an insane plan-pretend to be the most realistic sex bot ever made. His name is Ice, and Megan is now his personal sex bot. She just has to figure out how to keep her big, sexy cyborg from discovering that she is all woman.
- Quoted from Goodreads.com

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Title: Touching Ice (Cyborg Seduction #4)
Author: Laurann Dohner
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Romance
Published November 26th 2010 by Ellora’s Cave Publishing
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Note: Contains spoilers, sorry!

I’m in love with Dohner’s writings and decided to pick up another book of hers. This time it’s cyborg’s series book 4 – Touching Ice. Because I have read many if her books, I realized just after finishing it that Touching Ice was not as good as I expected. I find this book a little bland, and not too much of excitement. I have read any of the books in cyborg series yet, except for this, and I don’t find myself looking forward to them. Unlike the New Species series (which I sped read within days because the story was that great), I don’t find interest in reading more on this cyborg warriors. Nevertheless, here’s my review of this book.

Megan is a programmer hired to tend to Clara – the main com, and fix bots occasionally. She’s been spying on Ice, a cool male cyborg who comes to meet sex bots secretly on Earth. She’s sexually attracted to him and voyeurism seems to be her only choice at the start. Of the whole book, the only part I find clearly amusing was the initial part where Clara conversed. Other then that, not much humour later on. Bit disappointing really.

So Ice is a cyborg warrior with slightly grey skin – a unique DNA that has him in demand for …making babies… And then after 28 of them, he got ditched because his DNA was ‘overused’. If you’ve got the ‘what!?’ expression on your face, we’re on the same line. Although he’s cyborg, he feels and he hurts knowing that his children are out there but he is restricted from them.

I’m reading straight from the 4th book and I know I must be missing something about the cyborgs rules or something, because now I feel really bad to know how men must feel in a world dominated with women. Okay not very much dominated, but at least, controlled. I’m not sexist in any way at all, but the day Dohner described how these men were used for reproduction… Hell I’m fuming even now. But even if that were to happen in ‘cyborg city’, honestly, Ice didn’t have to use 2-3 pages to explain how emotionally hurt he was with the controlling council/females/stuff because he couldn’t …I don’t know really, be in contact with his kids? I’m confused and was always confused when reading the book. I will need to read the first book to understand all these.

And poor Coal, abused by females. I hope he makes it out alive, I really want him to, but I’m outright disappointed by the comments on the book of his. So, Coal has a book but it is bland as well and lacking ‘in the sexual department’ and the conversations with him were rigid. I don’t know why but after reading all these I’ve decided to drop book 5 of the cyborg series.

Although I’m not interested in this series at all, I’m going to try on book 6 with Zorus and his female. I’m expecting a lot from it since Zaron is an ass in this book. He is probably brainless or had his brain fried with hatred.

I give this book 3/5.


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Book review: Rogue Rider

by on December 20, 2012, 0 comments
Eternal RiderRogue Rider

Description:
The prophecies were there but no one listened. Until now. They are the Lords of Deliverance and they have the power to ward off Doomsday . . . or let it ride.

Jillian Cardiff came to this remote mountain town to forget the demon attack that almost killed her. Instead, she rescues – and falls for – a gorgeous stranger who has no memory of anything other than his name. Handsome, charming and protective, Reseph seems like the kind of man that Jillian can trust. But with hints of a troubling history of his own, he’s also the kind of man that can be very dangerous . . .

Reseph may not know his background, or why he mysteriously appeared in Jillian’s life, but he knows he wants to stay. Yet when Jillian’s neighbours are killed and demon hunters arrive on the scene, Reseph fears that he’s putting Jillian in danger. And once it’s revealed that Reseph is also Pestilence, the Horseman responsible for ravaging the world with death and destruction, he and Jillian must face the greatest challenge of all: can they forget the horrors of a chilling past to save the future they both desire?
- Quoted from Goodreads.com

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Title: Rogue Rider (Lords of Deliverance, #4)
Author: Larissa Ione
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Romance
Published November 20th 2012 by Piatkus
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Note: Contains spoilers, sorry!

After Ares’s side of the story, I was eager to jump to Reseph’s story. Yeah I’m like that, don’t judge, heheh. If you haven’t already, read Ares’s review (eternal rider) first before reading this one, it’ll make a lot more sense with me ranting out there.
So… The evil pestilence changed to the sweet loving Reseph in this last book of the series. After all the gruesome evil he has done, I wanted to know what would happen to him. Forgiven, or not. I vote forgiven, because that’s how paranormal romance books normally go… Oh yeah, don’t forget the mate part :P
Because I read this fourth book first and skipped the third, I got to know the twist and turns that I missed and I’m glad because I’m impatient and there seems to be a lot of twists in the third book.

So it goes like that…
Ares’s book: Sweet loving
Limos’s book: Thick plot
Thanatos: Twists and turns
Reseph: Hope and end

In the story, Reseph was rid of pestilence and he sort of became himself again. He met Jillian who was kind enough to ‘save him’ and… The first part of the book was soooooo sweet! Here’s an example:

Smoke drifted out of the sink, billowing up around a stream of rushing water. “Oh, uh… hi.” Reseph shot her a sheepish grin over his shoulder. “I tried to make you breakfast.”

Aww can anyone be cuter!

Anyway, in the end, Reseph got to have an important piece of evil, and a piece of heaven to make him powerful enough to defeat Lucifer. Well, and he did! In a scene of mental turmoil, tornado, gates opening…etc… And let’s not forget the courageous Jillian. Didn’t really like it though, it was over in a few. I was like, what? That’s it? That’s how Lucifer is defeated? =.=

Okay so anyway, evil watcher Harvester…. Shit that brought tears to my eyes. I mean, I was hating her for 2 books long and now she’s the goodie angel? I’m so hurt. Then again, this is one of the twists that I’m not going to elaborate. You’ll know it if you read it.

I’m so glad the fourth book is coming up, and this time, my best guesses Reaver with Harvester. He’s been feeling for her since the second book. I want them to be happy. Ever. Both of them did the most work in the series. One fathered and one sacrificed. And with Pestilence controlled and Lucifer gone, I’m willing to bet Satan is coming up next. Gosh, I can’t wait!

I give this book a 4/5.


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