(first read: 17/June/11)
A story of unquenchable
desire that will redeem the heart and restore the body of a desperate Lykae
warrior....
A Hunger Like No Other
Series: Immortal After Dark series, book 1
Pub: 2006, Simon & Schuster
Author: Kresley Cole
Cat: Paranormal Romance
Format: paperback (mid); 356 pp w/ 37
chapters
Whose: Lachlain & Emmaline
Age Range: Adult
Synopsis
After enduring years of torture by
the vampire horde, Lahlain MasRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan, is engaged to
find the soulmate he’s waited a millennia for is half vampire. Sheltered
Emmaline Troy sets out to uncover the truth about her parents, but when the
powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral
Scottis castle, her fear of the Lykae – and their notorious dark desires – ebbs
as he begins a slow, wicked seduction that sates her own dark cravings.
Ethereal half Valkyria/half vampire
Emmaline somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within Lachlain, but when an
ancient evil from her past resurfaces their desire must deepen into a binding
love that can give the warrior peace, and turn a gentle beauty into the fighter
she was born to be...
Alright,
First read Thoughts: Okay so this is book number for
and a lovely birthday present from my brother and his misses (said in the not
quite wife way). And let’s just say, I wasn’t expecting it to be this... good.
Since the first are never really as good as the later book (grown as people, as
authors, I feel) this book was just as good. The characters, from the somewhat
shy Emma, and her growing the woman she needed to be. To the male tortured for
longer than one lives, to find his mate is something that takes him a long
while to realise how much of a gift she really was. But by then the damage is
done, and the work for the Lykae has only just begun because his Valkyrie has
only just come out.
And what a great read it is. Really,
the struggles the characters go through. Though there was times when I couldn’t
logically understand why she was like that and had to pull myself back and
think, ‘hang on, what would I think if I hadn’t been in his head too,’ so other
than that it was great and made you wish the story never ended.
The....we’ll say, this
last read: I will say
this for the book, right off the bat, and it sitting on my shelf. Out of all
the books in this series, this one is the most read. It’s got that beloved crease
in the spin and the bottom corner of the front and back covers are all spider-webbed
with love.
It’s a great book, and even now,
that surprises me. Though her whole series is alright, the repetitive in the
way they sit annoys me. it’s a series annoyance and makes it difficult for me
not to want to put books down before I already started, really, why did they
all find love in the same two weeks? It’s a bitch I have a lot over the last
couple of books I’ve read, because of that point, and my whys. Really, why???
So maybe that’s why I like this one
the most. But it’s probably because of the fact that it’s just that great, and
really, what a surprise—I’ve never read a first book in a series, especially one
that’s like all the others out there, that I have loved so wholeheartedly as
this one. There’s just something about the fact that they had him tortured and
so he’s in this whole new world, which he can’t quite get, and his put with a
female that’s from that said age.
The way he goes threw his own
personal struggles along with the facts that he can’t stop liking and person
that should make him sick. It’s actually really great to watch his mind settle
and his perceptions change while she stays the same as she was. it’s like when
his story settles and all that’s left is the I do’s, there’s her, and her
struggle’s with not knowing who she is, and not understanding, not getting him,
because all she has is what he showed her, and what he showed her wasn’t
pretty.
I like that there’s the two completely
different parts of the books and yet you can see them swinging together and
becoming one, while they thinks things are looking down.
It’s a great start to a series that
is well written and interesting, in each couple she puts together and even more
so for the fact that wars are fought and the world around them is setting
itself up. The outta characters are there, sitting waiting, you get to see them
all. Get to know them in outsiders chunks so that you can’t start wanting to
know what’s going on, want to read their story.
Series
[this
book], no rest for the wicked, wicked deeds on a winter’s night, dark needs atnight’s edge, 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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