The touch promises ecstasy,
Their kiss...immortality
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Forsaken
Series: Wings in the Night, book 1 & 3
Pub: 2010, Harlequin
Author: Maggie Shayne
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback ominous (full); 493 pp w/
34 chapters
Whose: Eric & Tamara. Damien &
Shannon
Age Range: adults
Synopsis
Twilight Illusions
There
could be no doubt that the one called Damien was the master of shadows, the
greatest of his accursed kind. But now his ancient mantle of mystic power was
threatened by a terrible weakness – a fatal passion for a woman of mortal flesh
and blood...
Suspicion
had first drawn Shannon Mallory into the darkness, in search of the truth
behind the legends that swirled around this man – if man he was. But it was not
suspicion that kept her there or even fear – it was pure, stunning desire...
This book was originally published in 1994 by Silhouette
publishing, and FantasticFiction considers it Urban Fantasy.
Thoughts
First read review; Damien if the
first ever vampire created and he thought the only by that man. Only what he
doesn’t now might kill him.
Someone
is in town killing off woman and making it like a vampire attack in order to
get Damien to kill himself because little to all know, Damien is slowly losing
his touch on reality and all he ever wants to do is drink blood.
Then
he meets Shannon, a woman who wants to catch Damien, she thinks he killed her
best friend and she wants vengeance for that death. Only problem is that when
she meets him all she wants to do is leap into his arms.
Not
this story is very much along this line—she doesn’t want him, while lusting
after him to a point that he’s all she ever thinks about. Damien wants to
protect her but doesn’t want to get near her because all he wants to do is
drink her dry—though it’s not that easy for all vampires get a special bond
with a chosen and so he can’t help the protective side that comes up whenever
he thinks of her.
Still
there is a killer out there, one that is trying he’s hardest to frame Damien
and when he can’t he not only takes Shannon the newly changed vampire, but
Tamar, because they were together. Now not only is Damien after them but Eric
and Roland who happened to be staying with Eric at the time.
Now
we all know what happens, though this tale is smothered in the fact that
neither Damien nor Shannon talk to the other about how they feel.
This read: I actually really liked this book, though
there are a few things that I remembered that bugged me the first time, and
again this time, the end result and the way everything played out, made me fall
in love with both characters all over again.
Though
the whole, ‘I hate that I’m can’t not touch you’ thing that drives the majority
of the story, annoyed me the most, which sucks mostly because it is the story. but unlike a lot of
books that I have read with this line, this one works well with the maudlin
ways of Damian. It made sense and got us a better look into him then it did her—though
Shannon’s story isn’t something to be left behind.
I
liked it, like the twist at the end that really drove the story, especially when
you start to get that picture bit by bit so when the final battle comes it’s
not so much of a surprise but shocking in the whys.
It’s
also a look into the same crap we live threw now, but put in context with an
older time.
Series
Twilight Phantasies, Twilight
Memories, [tb], Born in Twilight, Twilight Hunger, Embrace the Twilight, Edge
of Twilight, Blue Twilight, Demon’s Kiss, Lover’s Bite, Angel’s Pain, Prince of
Twilight, Bloodline, Twilight Prophecy, Twilight fulfilled
☼☼☼
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