Kiss of a Demon King by Kresely Cole

Sabine, Sorceress of Illusions and Rydstrom Woede's book





Kiss of a Demon King (Immortals After Dark book 7)

By Kresley Cole

Book Blurb:HIS OBSESSION...Sabine, Sorceress of Illusions: the evil beauty who surrenders her body, but not her heart.

HER DOWNFALL...Rydstrom Woede: the ruthless warrior who vows to keep her at all costs.

THEY WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO WANT EACH OTHER THIS MUCH...With each smoldering encounter, their shared hunger only increases. If they can defeat the sinister enemy that stands between them, will Sabine make the ultimate sacrifice for her demon? Or will the proud king lay down his crown and arms to save his sorceress?

Just finished Kiss of a Demon King and although I enjoyed it, I didn't fall in love with it as much as the previous few. My issue was how mismatched the couple was. Sabine and Rydstrom were so very opposite, like night and day opposite, like good vs evil opposite and I never really did feel that they actually connected. Sabine had to get cleaner and Rydstrom had to get dirtier for this pairing to work. I think the author tried really hard to make it work out that they both bent a bit out of their comfort zone but it didn't really work for me. 

It was clear that Rydstrom had searched centuries for his mate. He was so sure that he needed a perfectly queenly proper woman for his mate and never found the one he truly desired. Turns out he likes a bit of kink & bondage mixed in with his fantasies and I think that was the author's attempt of him getting a bit "dirty". 

On the Sabine front, she had the worst kind of evil for a brother (who incestuously craved her) and she had been murdered and brought back to life more times than even an immortal should bear. For experiencing a wicked upbringing and having Sabine set in her selfish ways, she only thinks of herself and be damned on everyone else. She is thoughtless and has no qualms about how she gets what she wants. I wasn't quite sure how Kresley Cole was going to get me to like her. Eventually I did but I still didn't think she was a match for Rydstrom. 

I also liked that Kresley Cole made an effort to have Sabine appear differently (in a costume sense) since she was a Sorceress but all I kept picturing was a cross between a Vegas showgirl and Cirque du Soleil character. I don't know *shrugs* maybe it worked for a sorceress. 

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Nix once again had the best lines and I found I just wanted to read more about Nix. I had to laugh when Sabine thought she'd telepathically enter Nix's mind for a quick look around and promptly withdrew because it was so muddled. "Welcome to my world" was all Nix would say about that that little intrusion. I did laugh out loud. 

We do get introduced to Sabine's sister, Lanthe and I am certainly interested in learning more about her. She is a sorceress as well and she has the power to open portals and the very cool power of persuasion. She is the only person in Sabine's entire life that she could trust and I found I liked her very much. I hope there is more information about her in the next stories. 

Let me talk about the sex for a bit. Sabine was a 500 year old virgin. Hard to believe but she had been saving herself for her Demon future husband as an Oracle had predicted. She may have been a virgin but she didn't have a stitch of shyness and she apparently was gifted with her oral skills. What annoyed me so much about this story was how much initial hate there was with this couple at the beginning but they both burned so hot for each other. I don't think I liked how cruel Sabine was being to Rydstrom at the beginning when he was a prisoner and yet, for as much as he couldn't stand her, he wanted to have sex with her so badly. I get the whole finding your mate thing but I didn't like that chemistry at all. I just I just don't like angry hate sex. To each their own I guess. 

Teasers: uncomfortable shower for Rydstrom, turnabout is fun, lame spanking, vows

Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole

Cadeon Woede and Holly Askwin's book




Dark Desires After Dusk (Immortals After Dark book #6)

By Kresley Cole

Book Blurb:Cadeon Woede will stop at nothing to atone for the one wrong that will haunt him forever. But once he secures the key to his redemption, the halfling Holly Ashwin, Cade finds that the woman he thought he could use for his own ends and then forget haunts him as much as his past. A tormented warrior she should fear, but can't deny...

Raised as a human, Holly never knew that some frightening legends are real until she encounters a brutal demon who inexplicably guards her like a treasure. Thrust into a sensual new world of myth and power, with him as her protector, she begins to crave the demon's wicked touch.Surrender to dark desires...Yet just when he earns Holly's trust, will Cade be forced to betray the only woman who can sate his wildest needs -- and claim his heart?

Dark Desires After Dusk wins for the worst cover so far in this series. The dude on the cover, even though he is handsome, in no way resembles Cadeon. Cadeon is blondish, with blond stubble and oh yeah, has horns. Even if the art department tossed horns on that cover model, it still doesn't resemble Cadeon in my opinion. 

Another exciting adventure and journey in  Dark Desires After Dusk . From practically the first page the reader is thrown into a battle scene with chaos amuck. 

The prologue at the beginning finally provided the back story on why Cadeon was blamed for making his king brother, Rydstrom lose his crown and kingdom to Omort the Deathless. The thing about even having that information now is that I still felt it was a really weak reason for hundreds of years of guilt to be pushed onto Cadeon's shoulders. Perhaps that was the intent? 

By far Cadeon is the coolest of the Lore creatures we have met yet. He swears, talks in slang and makes no apologies for his behaviour. He was very mismatched to the prudish Holly...at first. Holly with her incredibly annoying OCD habits drove me crazy. I couldn't get over how patient Cadeon was with her disorder. 

What a hard situation Cadeon was put in. To chose between his mate that he had been searching for for about 900 years and then to his loyalty to getting his brother's crown back. By having to deceive and jeopardize Holly was heartbreaking as well as heartpounding. I felt for him all the way through the journey. 

Favourite line from Cadeon:
"Holls, I'm a demon; I'm not a tool."

Nix continues to crack me up and she just adds so much to the story line. I wonder if she'll ever get her own book? You definitely don't want to read these books out of order or you'd totally miss all the connecting dots. I love how this series keeps progressing forward and how each book is a new adventure that ties each character together. 

Teasers:  useless glasses, getting drunk at the Sandbar bar, North West Territories winter cabin of love, Wendigo gone

Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole

Neomi Laress and Conrad Wroth's book




Dark Needs at Night's Edge (Immortals After Dark book 5)

by Kresley Cole

Book Blurb:HAIRED TEMPTRESS OF THE DARK... Néomi Laress, a famous ballerina from a past century, became a phantom the night she was murdered. Imbued with otherworldly powers but invisible to the living, she haunts her beloved home, scaring away trespassers -- until she encounters a ruthless immortal even more terrifying than Néomi herself.

A VAMPIRE WARRIOR CONSUMED BY MADNESS... To prevent him from harming others, Conrad Wroth's brothers imprison him in an abandoned manor. But there, a female only he can see seems determined to drive him further into madness. The exquisite creature torments him with desire, leaving his body racked with lust and his soul torn as he finds himself coveting her for his own.

HOW FAR WILL HE GO TO CLAIM HER? Yet even if Conrad can win Néomi, evil still surrounds her. Once he returns to the brutality of his past to protect her, will he succumb to the dark needs seething inside him?

Just loving this series and I adored Dark Needs at Night's Edge. I swear each story gets more and more creative. This time around the protagonists are a vampire and a ghost. What a combo. 

The elusive vampire Wroth brother is found and Conrad is not to happy about it. He is a crazed bloodlust vampire with the deep dirty red eyes. The three Wroth brothers capture him and using the mystical manacles from one of the previous books, then cuff and lock him away in an old New Orleans mansion. They hope to reverse the effects of his crazed bloodlust and right from the get go, it sure didn't look promising. 

While the brothers subdue Conrad, he gets a glimpse of a beautiful ghost. From there the story of how Neomi helps cure Conrad of his madness is just amazing. I was so drawn into this couple's situation. Neomi is a complete doll and so opposite of Conrad. I felt sad that someone like Neomi who had such a lust for life; ultimately had it cruelly taken away from her when she was just reaching her prime when she was a mortal.  

Dark Needs at Night's Edge had lots of flirting and temptation because Neomi is a ghost. They could not even touch each other in the ways the other couples could in the previous books in this series. I think all that teasing and talking really helped Conrad more so than if Neomi was corporeal. I sure didn't know how their story was going to progress along in that state though. Leave it to Kresley Cole to write an interesting and creative way to make their relationship a go. 

I need to add just how much I adore Nix the Valkyrie. I think it is super awesome that she thinks her lover should be Mike Rowe. I'm also thinking a certain author just may have a wee crush on him herself. 

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Teasers: electric shower scene, eerie dance, not a cheap witch, future twins