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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
I love Dorina!
I was exited to learn that there was a new series based on the Cassie Palmer series world. As usual with this author, the action starts immediately and the book continues to be fast paced. Dorina is a damphir and the daughter of a high ranking senate member. Damphir are not accepted in the vampire world, they are feared. She is trying to locate her missing roommate when her father approaches her for help with a family matter. They do not have a good relationship but, she ends up agreeing anyway. He even sends another high ranking senate member from the European court with her. They immediately start fighting and sparks fly. To capture the renegade she has to overcome debilitating fears from a time long ago. All the while falling in lust with a vampire. A big no no.
I highly recommend the Cassie Palmer series and the Dorina Basarab series. I have reread them both many times.
I was exited to learn that there was a new series based on the Cassie Palmer series world. As usual with this author, the action starts immediately and the book continues to be fast paced. Dorina is a damphir and the daughter of a high ranking senate member. Damphir are not accepted in the vampire world, they are feared. She is trying to locate her missing roommate when her father approaches her for help with a family matter. They do not have a good relationship but, she ends up agreeing anyway. He even sends another high ranking senate member from the European court with her. They immediately start fighting and sparks fly. To capture the renegade she has to overcome debilitating fears from a time long ago. All the while falling in lust with a vampire. A big no no.
I highly recommend the Cassie Palmer series and the Dorina Basarab series. I have reread them both many times.
Great to see a cross over of characters from Cassie's world
Re-read. I love this series. I especially love that it's gotten better over time.
CW: violence, consensual sexual situations (M/F) and references to rape/torture, use of the r-word
CW: violence, consensual sexual situations (M/F) and references to rape/torture, use of the r-word
This was a fun book from the Cassandra Palmer world. I liked Dory, the main character. She had spunk. I just wish the author let her be strong. She talks big then spends the whole book being helpless. Still it was fun and kept moving!
A really good book that i am happy to read again and again. With many a twist and turn to keep you guessing.
I don’t know how I stumbled upon this book, but I’m glad I did. That was a fun read.
I have to say I really enjoyed this book!! It was much better than the books in her first series, Cassie Palmer. Even though there are characters in this series that are in the Cassie series, I just like Dory much better than Cassie. I just found this book much more action packed and a lot funnier.
Action packed book that links in to a wonderful series. I hope the book doesn't stop with just this one. I can't get enough of Dory and Louis-Cesar.
Love, Love, Loved it! Dorina is a strong female kick butt ask questions later type of woman! She fights anything and everything that is thrown at her, including her Uncle Drac and his followers. I loved the relationship between the character of Dorina and Louis-Cesare that is initially open animosity and then gradually once she has seen him also fighting and learns more about his past she has respect for him too.
There's lots of action in the book, lots of different "species" from vampires like Louis-Cesare, Mircea (Dorina's father) Radu and Drac (Dorina's Uncle's)to Caedemon (Fey) and Olga and Benny (Trolls) and of course her human friend with a secret Claire! There's plenty of scope for future novels which is great, and I want to know more about Dorina and her various relationships with the "people" around her. There's plenty of Vampire politic's too and of course the impending war with the Mages.
I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it as a great read, if you like the Kelley Armstrong Women Of The Otherworld Series then this is for you!
* I would say also due to the violence and mild sexual references that this is a more adult themed book *
Also a special thanks to Karen Chance for sending me this signed copy of her book to read!
There's lots of action in the book, lots of different "species" from vampires like Louis-Cesare, Mircea (Dorina's father) Radu and Drac (Dorina's Uncle's)to Caedemon (Fey) and Olga and Benny (Trolls) and of course her human friend with a secret Claire! There's plenty of scope for future novels which is great, and I want to know more about Dorina and her various relationships with the "people" around her. There's plenty of Vampire politic's too and of course the impending war with the Mages.
I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it as a great read, if you like the Kelley Armstrong Women Of The Otherworld Series then this is for you!
* I would say also due to the violence and mild sexual references that this is a more adult themed book *
Also a special thanks to Karen Chance for sending me this signed copy of her book to read!
2.5
I've got to be honest and say I didn't love this. It felt all over the place, Dory randomly running from one fight to the next and meeting characters who play no further role in the book. Ironically, I also felt like there were fights we should have seen (because they were more relevant to the plot) and we were only told she blacked out and woke up having killed everyone. In the end, she didn't even fight Dracula, as the blurb suggests, but some other random villain, while someone else took Drac. (Actually that's a perfect example of the book, the focus slipping off somewhere else with the important stuff happening in the background.)
Further, the way the book set up the evil family and then tried to redeem them didn't work for me and I was bitter that the whole thing basically came down to an "Oops sorry."
I did appreciate that men were sexualized and victimized. I know that seems an odd thing to praise, but usually it's ONLY WOMEN who get this treatment and it was nice to see a little parity. And I can also imagine some of the problems of this book being because it's the first in a series and had to set everything else up. Despite not liking it much, I might be willing to give book two a chance to see if the things that annoyed me so much don't carry over.
I've got to be honest and say I didn't love this. It felt all over the place, Dory randomly running from one fight to the next and meeting characters who play no further role in the book. Ironically, I also felt like there were fights we should have seen (because they were more relevant to the plot) and we were only told she blacked out and woke up having killed everyone. In the end, she didn't even fight Dracula, as the blurb suggests, but some other random villain, while someone else took Drac. (Actually that's a perfect example of the book, the focus slipping off somewhere else with the important stuff happening in the background.)
Further, the way the book set up the evil family and then tried to redeem them didn't work for me and I was bitter that the whole thing basically came down to an "Oops sorry."
I did appreciate that men were sexualized and victimized. I know that seems an odd thing to praise, but usually it's ONLY WOMEN who get this treatment and it was nice to see a little parity. And I can also imagine some of the problems of this book being because it's the first in a series and had to set everything else up. Despite not liking it much, I might be willing to give book two a chance to see if the things that annoyed me so much don't carry over.