book review (the Beholder)

Watch when a Nightwalker encounters the only woman who can unleash his inner beast...

 (read: 9/Dec/11)

      The Beholder

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A Nightwalker book

Pub: 2011, (Mills & Boon) Harlequin

Author: Connie Hall

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (s); 283 pp w/ 19 chapters

Whose: Nina & Kane

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis

When murders occur at the hands of a mutant shifter start occurring in a rural community, Nina Rainwalker knows she must put an end to it. But tell that her arrogant abductor who will stop at nothing to protect his family.

For Kane, a seniph, believes the killer is his estranged brother. And though his quest could mean his own demise, he must first stop a prying beauty capable of destroying more than his composer...

     my Thoughts (review)

This book started out well, until the two meet and then it just became page after page of a re-writing of the last book in the series, though the characters where very different—sorta.

They ended up being in a cabin, her a kidnap victim that can’t quite leave him to die. Which, really, Nina is a sweet hearted girl with an inability to watch animals suffer—and yeah, not only is he an animal but he’s acting like one to.

Then it goes into their back stories and the whole ‘I want you but I can’t, because....’ just like the last book, except, well, it’s more heartbreaking on both their parts rather than just one.

Then it gets to the interesting point, which is pretty much the end of the book, the climax of the was...the point of the whole book. Okay, so that’s wasn’t what I meant by that, but it really was, the end half was the only reason that this book was worth anything. It made it different and interesting and the twist in the whole thing was only predictable when it was happening around you and not so much—really, even the full ending, after you find out some interesting facts was a shock.

From that alone this book hit the top shelf. It was a great book, there is something about Hall that makes her stories come to life, even when she over explains things to a point that you just can’t be bothered caring anymore.

I think it also help because I read the Guardian first so I already knew a little about the personality of Nina so she wasn’t something new to me. but still, it wouldn’t have mattered all that much, it became clear early in the book (like the first chap or so) that she was to sweet hearted and that the burden she held was rightly given to her.

Okay, now onto something else. This book has a novella at the end of it.

Seducing The Vampire by Bonnie Vanak.

This is about a half vamp, half werewolf who is in love with a vampire he can never have and even though he was banished from the vamp clan he still thinks about her every day....

Really this one had a very simple and sweet story line that was mostly about the woman he loved and the fact that she loved him to and the half-brother who was more his full.

It’s was a great way to end my night, with this little snipped of Vanak’s writing style and though I though she mentioned the fact that he was a half breed to a point that it’s the main thing that I remember about the story. I would have to say that it was a great, light story to read that was heartfelt and yet not enough that made you so into the story, the line that you wanted to read more.

Not it was Vanak’s writing style that makes your mind drool for something full length just to see if it’s as good.

Series

The guardian, [tb], Nightwalker, 

     should try the Nocturne Draicon Werewolves seres for Vanak's 

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