A Hunger Like No Other (The Immortals After Dark Series, Book 1)
Pocket Star - Pocket Star
Release date: 2006-03-28
Mass Market Paperback
Author: Kresley Cole
Fantasy, Romance, Vampires, American Light Romantic Fiction, Fiction, Fiction - Romance, Romance: Modern, Fiction / General, Fiction / Romance / Adult, Fiction / Romance / General, Romance - Adult, Romance - Fantasy, Horror, Vampire, Romance - General, Romance & Sagas
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A Hunger Like No Other (The Immortals After Dark Series, Book 1)
Date undefinedThis was a good book read it in 1.5 days. Couldn't seem to put it down. I have already order the 2nd book in the series. At the end of the books Emma is strong and knows what she wants. Lacklain (werewolf) all he knows is he must have Emma no matter what it takes. Over all great book.
A Hunger Like No Other (The Immortals After Dark Series, Book 1)
Date undefinedI have only 2 complaints. First my book is defective with parts of the printing missing and two, the glossary should have been in the front instead of the back of the book.
If the people who only gave this book 1 or 2 stars had read the glossary, they would understand why they were having problems with this book. They were reading it with the wrong prescription glasses.
I LOVED the characters. Different, new and interesting. It is a whole new fun paranormal world and with all the wild battles and illicit love affairs between the different kingdoms, vampires, werewolves, valkeries, demons, shapeshifters, wraiths and humans around, there is bound to be combustion and lots of fun fire and smoke.
Some of the complaints made me feel they did not really read the book.
Of course, our hero, is a crass, brutish bully in the beginning. Lachlain MacRieve is the king of the Lykae who are a race of Warrior werewolves. His father and brother are kidnapped by an evil Vampire King and are murdered, he is jumped and imprisoned in a catacombs where fire burns him to death every day for 150 years. The daily deaths, suffering and endless agony, who make a person a bit testy. The only thing that helps him escape, is his need to find his mate, whose scent he picks up above ground. In desperation, he has to saw off his leg in order to escape. I think that little bit of torture, might make him less than a gentleman when he crawls out and see his "mate" tiny Emmaline Troy, who is half vampire and half valkyrie. Yeah, she is a frightened little thing who is completely thrown off by Lachlain. Who wouldn't be? This tiny creature has been loved and loathed and babied by her "coven" of Valkyrie aunts who haven't told her much about her background except to yell epithets and curses about vampires right in front of her. So yeah, Emmaline she has a lot of self loathing, fear and confusion to get over. Goodness, critics, cut our hero and heroine a little slack here.
I loved how this unlikely pair, figure out their place in this deadly, terrifying universe and fall in love. They both "grow" up and grow in love with each other despite the fact that they are supposed to be mortal enemies. The scenes at the Castle Kinevane are great. Delicate political balances have to be made to explain how a halfling non Lykae will be the Queen. On top of all this, the evil vampire HORDE is plotting world domination and strange kidnappings and deaths have been going on all over, which has all the different "worlds" on edge that there is going to be a big battle bubbling up soon. Finally, when our heroine Emmaline comes into her own, knowing who she really is, what her family was and is going to be in the future, she shows herself worthy of the best of romance heroines. She is no longer Emma the Timid, but Emma the .... don't want to spoil the ending.
What is not to like about the book? Great fantasy world created. Fun side characters. Wonderful alpha male and a blossoming alpha female causing the sky to light up with multiple lightening flashes for their lovemaking. Yikes, grabbing the next book as soon as I can.
A Hunger Like No Other (The Immortals After Dark Series, Book 1)
Date undefinedI started with the second installment, read through a few and had to go back to the original, worth it even if I already knew many of the developments. Cole writes great heroines, developing them along with their Alpha heroes. I really like how the interaction pits strong personalities and with great situations that help them develop both their relationship and their persons. And its definitely the series where I laugh out loud the most, just LOVE the women in these series.
