Watch when a Nightwalker encounters the only woman who can
unleash his inner beast...
(read: 9/Dec/11)
The Beholder
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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