Included with Sherrilyn Kenyon’s “Until Death Do Us Part” from the Dark-Hunter series, three novellas by well known paranormal authors:
Ride the Night Wind: L.A. Banks
”Dark dreams haunt Jose Ciponte, dreams of a woman so beautiful he aches for her – and a deadly enemy who stalks them in the night. And now those dreams have become a reality…” Review: When Jose meets his dream girl, Juanita, the sparks really fly. As it turns out, they’re both having the same dreams of demons and vampires. Mixed with legend and Native American mysticism, this is by far the best of this collection and the only thing saving this anthology from my trashcan.
The Gift: Susan Squires
All Major Davis Ware wants to do is propose to the beautiful Emma Fairchild. Instead, he is called back into battle, and a desperate fate. And Emma will venture into hell itself to save him.” Review: She does too, because Major Davie gets himself into a real fix with a hauntingly lovely vampiress who commands an army for the enemy. The plot is thin, the sex scenes are graphic...but not between the fair Emma and Davie. So much for romance, eh? Perhaps I should read the author’s other works, because maybe this isn't a true representation of her talent. I doubt it, though.
The Forgotten One: Ronda Thompson
Lady Anne Baldwin longs to break free from her proper bonds. When she meets the mysterious Merrick, whose eyes glow like a wolf’s, she may have found more than she bargained for. Review: novella based on Thompson’s Wild Wulfs series. There isn’t much mystery here. He’s a bastard son of the Wild Wulf family, desperately fighting his werewolf side and his unloved, unhappy past. She’s a prim and proper virgin that gets on my very last nerve. Nothing annoys me more than a badly written first time:
”He moved, and he moved in such a way that stimulated her, just as he had done with his fingers earlier. It wasn’t unpleasant.”
I don’t know what the hell they were thinking when they came up with the title of this collection. Love at First Bite? Hello? Cheesy movie starring the overly tanned George Hamilton shaking his groove thing to “I Love the Nightlife.” Umhm. I’m sure that’s not the image the publisher was shooting for with the misty blue cover art.
Other than the contribution from L.A. Banks, this was one big farce. Don’t waste your money.
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Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; 4 Bks in 1 edition (October 3, 2006)
ISBN: 0312349297
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