REVIEW (dark desire after dark)

A tale of ancient guilt and immortal passion—and a soul desperate for redemption at any cost. 

 (first read: 26/June/11)

      Dark Desire after Dusk

    Prod dets

Immortal After Dark series, book 5

Pub: 2008, Simon & Schuster

Author: Kresley Cole

Cat: Paranormal Romance

Format: paperback (mid); 368 pp w/ 51 chapters

Whose: Cadeon & Holly

Age Range: Adult

                Synopsis

Nine hundred years ago, one careless act by Cadeon of the Rage Demons killed his entire family and destroyed a kingdom. Now nothing will stop him from atoning for the wrong that eternally haunts him. but the key to his redemption is the halfling Holly Ashwin, and once he captures her, Cadeon finds that the woman he thought he could use for his own ends haunts him as much as his dark past.

      

Raised as a human, Holly doesn’t know that some legends are real until she encounters a brutal demon who kidnaps her and then inexplicably guards her like a treasure. Thrust into a sensual new world of myth and power, she begins to crave Cadeon’s wicked touch, even as she knows she should fear him.

    

Yet just when he earns Holly’s trust, will Cadeon be forced to betray the only woman who can sate his wildest needs – and claim his heart?

      my Thoughts (review) 

Okay, so... I’m still not sure about this book. Though in a way it was good, in another kinda boring, maybe I have read to many of these... fuck me while we travel types that it’s just... yeah, there all the same, though this one, really showed it.

    

Anyone, though Holly wasn’t a bad character...hell she made everything a little more showy on how much he liked her, respected her and all that, but I don’t know, there was just something about this book, something very repetitive, and yet it was a great story.

    

Cadeon, an awesome character, one that needs so much to be seen as something that he is without lifting his finger. If only he could see it. And his love for Holly, he’s need for her is something and yeah... I don’t know what it is, maybe my being sick has tainted this my view. But it’s one of those books that... you would only really rush out and buy if you happen to be a fan. I only got it ‘cause it was the only one there. But it wasn’t unworthy the money, I think, just... others are better.

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Second read threw: yeah, I’m doing it this way, because I feel that I was right above, with both facts—the book and that I was sick while reading it, so I didn’t have all that much energy for bullshitting around. 

first I'd like to say something about the background, for those who haven't read the series before. it's quite easy to pick up, mostly everything that is a myth is in there lore. no humans' are meant to now about it, and all that normal crap. I'm telling you that it's very easy to get yourself into the middle of everything, this one makes it even more so because it's about someone who hasn't been in it, and there are more of the groups involved. 

The two main characters (you know the ones that fall in love) were actually one of my favourite couples (the first being from book 4) they were certainly meant to be and the way that Cadeon was so supportive of Holly was sweet and yet it wasn’t in the fact that he’d only been so....excepting, in that field because he’d been stalking her for, what, a year, creepy. And yet, you could understand it, making it uncreepy, which just sorta creeped me out all the more (really, no one should understand the idea of stalking).

Cadeon is the guy that was blamed for everything, and really, I just can’t understand this, honestly, even when we first meet him, way back in book 3, or 2 maybe, I didn’t understand how he put up with his brother saying he was the reason everything in their lives went to shit—not a fan of the brother though—and still, it makes him who he is, and makes his decisions all the more heartfelt because of this guilt he had laying under him.

Holly, is a serious OCD with a need to stay in control and have everything the way it always was, so it’s safe to say that meeting Cadeon and turning into a immortal isn’t in any way on her to do list, but saying that it was a great ride to watch Cadoen constantly push her buttons, or put her in situations that she just wouldn’t have ever gone into as well as making her feel safe while there.

I still aren’t sure about the books, though I loved the relationship as it built with them—really, great—but the rest of the book, the underlying shit, the crap that makes it a book, was so repetitive that it almost ruined it to me. But then I’m not a fan of road trip books, they have to be ultra original to have me be able to like them with all my heart. Or the whole road trip thing not be its only aspect.

But in the end the woman wasn’t saved by the man, more so the other way round, ha, thinking about that, it seems that Holly was the hero throughout most of the book, Cadeon was really only there to bring her out of her shell, and he’s personality is perfect for that. You saw it back in that previous book.

Series

A Hunger like no other, No rest for the Wicked, Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night, Dark Needs at Night’s Edge, [this book], Kiss of a Demon King, Pleasureof a Dark Prince, Demon from the Dark, dream of a dark warrior, Lothaire,

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