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Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole

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meggiemine's review

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dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

Tonight Conrad had recalled what he’d once coveted, what he’d been filled with regret never to possess. 
I’d wanted a woman of my own.  One to claim and protect.  One to pleasure.
 
As a mortal, he’d longed for this constantly.  What if this female was his?  His arm injury ached under the spray of the water.  If the curse of that mark was true . . . Was this little ghost the one his life had been leading toward?  He recalled the chills he’d felt when Nikolai had merely uttered the name of her home.  Conrad had been forced here, sensing it was the first step on a doomed path.
   
His dream . . . her doom.
  
“You need to stay away from me.”  I have to escape this place.  “For your own good.”

Her brows drew together.  “Vampire, I don’t know if I can.”

I really loved the beginning to the first half (thereabouts) of this, but it gradually lost a little bit of my engagement.  It had strong spooky, Halloween-ish vibes that eventually dissipated.  And the romance and story lost some of the momentum it had in the beginning.  It’s a slow burn because she’s a ghost, so they can’t touch each other at all.  I grew impatient during the long stretch in the middle where the plot wasn’t really moving forward.

“You believe me?”

“I . . . don’t.”  Nikolai ran his hand over the back of his neck.  "I don’t know if I can accept everything you said.”

“Then why?”

“For whatever reason, you need this badly, and you came to me for it.” Nikolai cast him a stern look.  “Because I’m still your goddamned brother.” 

The Wroth brothers are so far my favorite immortals and I enjoyed seeing them all working together to bring Conrad back from the brink of insanity.  I thought Conrad’s journey from madness to lucidity was well-developed.  I really felt for him.  Overall, this is in my top 3 of the series so far, but I still have a long way to go! 
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Endnotes


Series: Immortals After Dark #4
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Setting: Autumn, present day (prologue is set in August 1927), Elancourt Manor  in New Orleans, LA
Hero: Conrad Wroth, assassin, vampire
Heroine: Néomi Laress, ballerina, ghost
Tropes: forced proximity, fated mates, secrets, virgin hero
Format: Kindle ebook borrowed from Libby (in ‘The Brothers Wroth’ bundle), May 2012 ebook edition, copyright 2008
Length: novel, 116k words, 429 pages
Read Date: January 2, 2022

Heat Index: 3.4 🌡️🌡️🌡️
Heat Notes:
4 full, explicit sex scenes and 1 brief, fade-to-black scene; slow burn, blood play (hero is a vampire), and dubious/non-consent.

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folkofthebook's review

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challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

KC did it again. In Dark Needs, we meet another Wroth brother; the rogue, blood-crazed Conrad, one of the Fallen. Even more enrapturing is the burlesque-star-turned-primadonna-ballerina-turned-ghost Néomi, trapped haunting her beautiful New Orleans estate. I never turn down a forced proximity trope. As usual, a steamy romance, slowly simmering political intrigue, and some laughs courtesy of Nucking Futs Nïx. An excellent journey even deeper into the world of Lore. I now refer to IAD and its like « high brow smut. »

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