review (the vampire dimitri)

 (read: 02/Nov/11)

      The Vampire Dimitri

Regency Rake.

Valiant Guardian.

And the devil’s disciple.

    Prod dets

Regency Draculia trilogy, book 2

Pub: 2001, (MIRA) Harlequin

Author: Colleen Gleason

Cat: historical paranormal romance

Format: paperback (mid); 374 pp w/ 24 chapters

Whose: Dimitri & Maia

Age Range: adult

                Synopsis

Regency London loves society wedding—even if there are vampires on the guest list.

Dimitri, also known as the Earl of Corvindale, should be delighted that the headstrong Maia Woodmore is getting married. His mortal ward and house guest has annoyed—and bewitched—the Dracula nobleman for too long, and denying his animal cravings grows more excruciating by the day.

Marriage will give Miss Woodmore safety, respectability and everything else a proper young lady could with for. Everything, that is, except passion.

In the looming battle between Dracule factions, all pretences will shatter as Maia and Dimitri come together in an unholy union of danger, desperation and fiercest desire.

      my Thoughts (review)

First thought: (page 154) I’m getting over this, it’s honestly been, so far, a retelling of the first book, and I mean, where like, what ‘bout halfway and still it’s all we already know, in slightly different ways. Still, it’s come to the kidnapping of Angelica, so we get onto the real second story—aren’t we? Aren’t we?

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Yes it does, like the next page.

So this story is obviously off the last one, and holding the thing together until we get to the next, because (and you really shouldn’t read on if you haven’t read the first one) it’s really all about Chas and Narcise, or maybe more so Narcise, and her brothers self made hatred to anyone more powerful than him (isn’t it).

Anyway, it’s about two people that are alike realising that it’s what they really wanted even if it’s not clear at all, really I see it, saw it as soon as they first spoke. And I love that type of couple, they are entertaining to see them get to the place where they realise what the hell’s been happening right from the start. It’s also something of a great thing when the rest of the book is so plan. And this one’s problem.

Actually no, this one’s problem was that half the book was the first book, and that was annoying, I think it was only the fact that I’m forcing myself to read it—that I want to read the next and need this one to add to the story, that I read more than me actually like the read. Up until that half way point, then...everything changed and it became a story.

Or more so it becomes the story you expected when you first thought of reading the book, it becomes its own, filled with love, lust and something so passionate you’re sure the rooms heated up. (Nah, that’s a little over excaudate, though compared to the first book, the heat in this one went up.) It’s more of a heart throbbing book than anything else. And man did I have to wipe my eyes as it neared the end.

It was also full of surprises some not as surprising as others and yet the way it all plays out makes you not as annoyed at the first half of it as you were while reading it. it’s just that it was very annoying—more so because she put in the same parts from the first book as there were in this one, and...yeah, but the end...the end was beautiful.

Series

The vampire Voss, [this book], the vampire Narcise