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Imserba Webstore - A Hunger Like No Other (The Immortals After Dark Series, Book 1)
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Manufacturer: Pocket Star
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781416509875
Feature: ISBN13: 9781416509875
ISBN: 1416509879
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2006-03-28
Publisher: Pocket Star
Studio: Pocket Star
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ISBN13: 9781416509875
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Acclaimed author Kresley Cole introduces a sizzling new series with this tale of a fierce werewolf and a bewitching vampire -- unlikely soul mates whose passion will test the boundaries of life and death. A mythic warrior who'll stop at nothing to possess her . . . After enduring years of torture from the vampire horde, Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan, is enraged to find the predestined mate he's waited millennia for is a vampire. Or partly one. This Emmaline is a small, ethereal half Valkyrie/half vampire, who somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within him. A vampire captured by her wildest fantasy . . . Sheltered Emmaline Troy finally sets out to uncover the truth about her deceased parents -- until a powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral Scottish castle. There, her fear of the Lykae -- and their notorious dark desires -- ebbs as he begins a slow, wicked seduction to sate her own dark cravings. An all-consuming desire . . . Yet when an ancient evil from her past resurfaces, will their desire deepen into a love that can bring a proud warrior to his knees and turn a gentle beauty into the fighter she was born to be? Includes an excerpt from Kresley Cole's next romance novel, No Rest for the Wicked.
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Summary: this series sucked me in!!
Comment: I fell in love with the IAD series after this book. The story was great, not too deep, but just right for a fun, romantic read. Lots of steamy romance!!
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Summary: A Hunger Like No Other
Comment: I never was really a reader, I read the Twilight series in a week and wanted something else to read, I found this book after looking at many on Amazon. I LOVED IT! I have many of my friends, who were also not readers reading The Immortals After Dark Series. My only problem- I have to wait for the next in the series to be released.
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Summary: Amazing
Comment: A lycae (werewolf) tortured for for a very long time breaks free only to find the mate he smells near. Now with a mate that is all wrong for him, one of his enemy no less, he must convince her to stay with him. Emma starts out a timid half vampire/half Valkyrie, and soon grows into her own skin as her love grows for her mate.
I started this book like most others, expecting it to be just alright, I would read it and then put it on the shelf and forget about it. Nope, didn't happen. After the first chapter I was so hooked I skipped dinner and continued reading in one straight shot all the way through. There is so much going on in this book, but it is amazing. It has a sweet new twist on the whole mythological creature genre. It also has a bit of the Carpathian feel with the bonding and mating, but that's ok...it wasn't the same at all. It was a wonderful book...oh, and so freaking hot there is practically steam coming off the pages.
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Summary: Entertaining story
Comment: I tried to read this one some time ago, and gave up, frustrated. So I gave it another go, and I liked it more, but still had some issues. In fact, I started off wanting to rate this one star, but after a second chance, and some thought, I'm going to give it three (more like three and a half stars).
I'll start with what I liked.
Once I got into it, I really did like the main romance a lot. The main characters do change a lot, learning to become who they need to be in order to survive together. They make a lot of mistakes along the way, and there are struggles, but that makes their romance all the more special. If it weren't for the distractions of all the other characters I think I would have rated this book much higher.
The love scenes were imaginative, but the constant build-ups to sex only for something to happen to stop them - over and over again - became annoying. But the relationship was wonderful, with the oddest mix of caring, passion, hatred and desire. I loved that they were thrown together even though it's the last thing either wanted. I love that they found their way to each other.
The twists and turns in the plot were great, and the final third of the book was really exciting...until the last few pages when the author turned cutesy on us and I wanted to groan.
Now the bad.
The side-story with the aunts is uninteresting and distracting, with far too many characters to either remember or care about. It was clearly the set-up for later books in the series, but I didn't enjoy being hit with all of them at once. And then right when the story became interesting again we'd be hit with an information dump.
I think my biggest problem with the story is that I like paranormal romance to have some connection to the real world. My favourite books in this genre involve some characters who are human or strongly connected to humans. This series has so many different species - many of them hundreds or thousands of years old - so it felt more like a fairytale (albeit a very grown-up one!). I missed that link to humanity as we rushed from ancient Lykae to a Russian castle full of vampires and on and on.
Every point in the story where the Valkyrie came in the feel of the book changed. It was so cutesy I was downright annoyed. In this genre you have to decide what kind of book you're writing. Either it's charming and quirky a la Charlaine Harris, or it's more serious. It can't be both.
The American expressions (such as `I could care less' - it's `COULDN'T care less') were out of place, grating. And outside of North America the `first floor' is known as the `ground floor' - the `first floor' is the first one up. Things like this should be researched. Non-Americans know the differences; there is no excuse for American writers not to know cultural differences. Additionally, the author generally worked hard to show us how it would be for a man who's had no exposure to society for a few hundred years, but there were times where she slipped up and had her hero too modernised.
I did not enjoy the way all of the characters seemed to have connections to real icons. Helen of Troy, Dracula's Mina...everybody seemed to be somebody else. Once or twice it might be amusing, but more than that and it's just stupid.
But, in the end, I did enjoy this book enough to keep reading in the series. It wasn't perfect, but there's something captivating about Kresley Cole's writing. She may not be up to the standard of Jeaniene Frost, but her books are a good choice for an entertaining read.
Spoiler warning!
Romance novels - of any kind - are notorious for their obsession with babies. This book annoyed me to no end, because it was PAINFULLY obvious from the first mention of Emma's infertility that she was going to find out by the end that she CAN have children. I hate this kind of thing. It's like in the horrendous Twilight series; Bella thinks she's sacrificing babies to be with Edward, but bang! - suddenly she has one. I hate a deus ex machina of any sort, and this certainly appears to be one.
Another deus ex machina favourite is the heroine suddenly developing one skill after the other - whatever she needs to save the day, that day. Emmaline goes from one strength to the next, She doesn't learn anything, quite simply `discovers' she can do these amazing things, at the exact moment she needs them for the plot to develop. It's frustrating to read.
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Summary: Excelente Historia
Comment: Es un libro con una historia bien contada y personajes complejos y profundos.
Me gustó como se desarrolló la trama, las sorpresas que daba la historia y como evolucionaron los personajes.
Aunque soy una mujer adulta de mente abierta, me pareció que no necesitaba ser tan explicita sexualmente; no soy mojigata, ni mucho menos; y sé que mucha gente disfruta estas explicaciones detalladas, pero siento que muchos autores recurren a esto cuando la historia "no da para más" y este no es el caso.
De todos modos la disfrute tanto. que buscaré m's libros de esta autora.
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