Review (dark needs at nights edge)

(read: 04/Nov/11)

          Dark Needs at Night’s Edge

A tale of a vampire shunned by his own kind and a beautiful phantom. Bound together by a passion they cannot resist...

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Immortal After Dark series, book 4

Pub: 2008, Simon & Schuster

Author: Kresley Cole

Cat: Paranormal Romance

Format: paperback (mid); 359 pp w/ 46 chapters

Whose: Néomi & Conrad

Age Range: Adult

                Synopsis

Néomi Laress, a famous ballerina from a past century, became a phantom the night she was murdered. Imbued with otherworldly powers but invisible to the living, she haunts her beloved house, scaring away trespassers – until she encounters a ruthless immortal even more terrifying than Néomi herself. 

     

To prevent him from harming others, Conrad Wroth’s brothers imprisoned him in what they believed was an abandoned manor. But there, a woman only he can see appears determined to drive him further into madness. Conrad discovers that exquisite apparition is a ghost, and their connection grows, but even if Conrad can win Néomi, evil still surrounds her.

     

Conrad must become the killer he used to be to protect her, but in doing so will he succumb to the dark impulses inside him?

      my Thoughts (review)

This is one of those books that leave you wanting more even if you had a reluctance to read it. It’s beautiful when you finally get into the swing of it (and by that I mean the second chapter).

It’s about a man, Conrad who hated vampire and then got turned into one, only to become one of the worst vampires out there. So much so that all his brothers fear him, and his death if there king ever found him.

But Conrad has that many enemies one of which has cursed him to getting his wildest dreams and the losing it. So of course he’s a little reluctant in his mad rages to go to a house that’s been to told to give him this.

And that’s what I love the most about this love story. A mad man not sure if what he is seeing is real of a figment of his rage, his memory addled brain. He can’t give in to the beauty even though he seeks the sight of her whenever she’s not there. But he can’t give in. not if it would mean he was truly insane.

Until she realises this. A woman locked in a house not seen by anyone has a chance at communicating with a man who sparks a fire in her. She’s not as cooperative with him and gets him to admit to seeing her—to hearing her (it’s my favourite scene in the book).

Though this book isn’t as big on action as all her others (that I have read) it’s more about him become sain again. About him falling in love with the woman that he believes is his Bride, but isn’t because she isn’t actually alive. And I love it.

Néomi is a woman who loves life, attention, the spotlight. She knows him better than he knows himself and is more than happy to settle with leaving when he needs the space, and to come back later. She knows his mad and trying not to be. And she also knows he needs help, even if helping him is heartbreaking. I love all the scenes when they get together (mostly before she’s got a body)

The way that it’s all set, the idea behind and Cole execution of a love story staring a ghost is great, the way they fall in love is so much more than lust like most books, its more about connection and friendship—though the lust is there, but what the hell can you do about that when your lover is a ghost and can’t be touched?

Also Conrad hasn’t had all that much experience and she allows that great vulnerability into him, the fact that he’s well aware of it, and though prideful and doesn’t like that she’s knows this, he isn’t one to hide or pretend to be more...well, actually maybe it was because he had—yeah, I think I shouldn’t go there, too many spoilers and this book has a few twists that if you hadn’t read a look written after this one (which I have, and the one was actually the next book down, so I kinda had more info than I wish I had to read this one)

I liked the fact that you couldn’t help but like Néomi, and I felt that if I meet her on the street, at a party I would like her, she was just one of those types of chicks that’s just likable and with Conrad, she’s even more so, the way she is with him. She’s the first female character that I have liked off the bat and have grown to like her even more, she’s not a smart ass that makes you laugh but the friend you could sit with for hours and talk about nothing and everything. And because of that fact she makes the seemingly boring (on action) book something that you would pimp off to anyone that would listen.

Series

A hunger like no other, no rest for the wicked, wicked deeds on a winter’s night, [this book], dark desire after dark, kiss of a demon king, pleasure of a dark prince, demon from the dark, dreams of a dark warrior, Lothaire,

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