(read: 02/Nov/11)
The Vampire Dimitri
Regency Rake.
Valiant Guardian.
And the devil’s
disciple.
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?
ÔÕÖ×Ø×ÖÕÔ
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
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