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A review by goolsby
Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
4.5
Of all the books so far, this one has gotten better with distance.
You can see Kresley setting up pieces for the full series, and it's starting to feel like that. A series. One you need to read all of in order to get the players and the lore. The romance payoff, too.
I have to say, I love Conrad and Naomi. I think their situation is absolutely nuts--a ghost and the vampire who is the only person who can see her? Sign me up.
Naomi has the most agency of any of the IAD heroes so far. She's made a life out of her death—maybe it's not a great one, but it is one she crafted and has a degree of pride in. When it's insulted, she pulls away. When she tires of it, she finds a way tobecome alive.
Conrad is the classic type of romance hero that is incredibly fun and you should absolutely never date. Possessive and domineering and needs someone like Naomi to push back against him. He's single-minded and it is so so satisfying to see her pry her way in and open up his horizons. They really do work together
There is so much going on with this book, but it still could have been 50 pages shorter. Probably more. I know this is a lot of set up for the future, but their love story would have been better suited to a novella. That was where too much of the padding existed, and more than once I found myself thinking "we get it." It was still the best constructed romance so far. They got to me.
You can see Kresley setting up pieces for the full series, and it's starting to feel like that. A series. One you need to read all of in order to get the players and the lore. The romance payoff, too.
I have to say, I love Conrad and Naomi. I think their situation is absolutely nuts--a ghost and the vampire who is the only person who can see her? Sign me up.
Naomi has the most agency of any of the IAD heroes so far. She's made a life out of her death—maybe it's not a great one, but it is one she crafted and has a degree of pride in. When it's insulted, she pulls away. When she tires of it, she finds a way to
Conrad is the classic type of romance hero that is incredibly fun and you should absolutely never date. Possessive and domineering and needs someone like Naomi to push back against him. He's single-minded and it is so so satisfying to see her pry her way in and open up his horizons. They really do work together
There is so much going on with this book, but it still could have been 50 pages shorter. Probably more. I know this is a lot of set up for the future, but their love story would have been better suited to a novella. That was where too much of the padding existed, and more than once I found myself thinking "we get it." It was still the best constructed romance so far. They got to me.