Helpful Score: 2
This book was so sugary sweet, my teeth hurt.
Okay, so let me get the scary stuff out of the way. There is a vampire in the book.
Ok, done. Thats all.
Now for the amazing coincidences. This very handsome vampire happens to live isolated on a mountain and happens to come across a very beautiful young woman. They (the aforementioned beautiful vampire and beautiful girl) happen to both love literary classics, playing the piano and happen to both work in the field of medicine (actually, both happened to have previously worked in the field of medicine- again amazing coincidences). You couldnt find a better match if you searched them out on match.com.
If you want a sweet and tender romance, this is your book. If you want an urban fantasy, run away.
I didnt mind the end especially since I read the authors note.
Overall, I liked it enough to finish it but it just was too sweet, and simple for my taste.
Okay, so let me get the scary stuff out of the way. There is a vampire in the book.
Ok, done. Thats all.
Now for the amazing coincidences. This very handsome vampire happens to live isolated on a mountain and happens to come across a very beautiful young woman. They (the aforementioned beautiful vampire and beautiful girl) happen to both love literary classics, playing the piano and happen to both work in the field of medicine (actually, both happened to have previously worked in the field of medicine- again amazing coincidences). You couldnt find a better match if you searched them out on match.com.
If you want a sweet and tender romance, this is your book. If you want an urban fantasy, run away.
I didnt mind the end especially since I read the authors note.
Overall, I liked it enough to finish it but it just was too sweet, and simple for my taste.
Helpful Score: 1
When Nicole Whitcomb's car runs off the road in the middle of a blizzard, she is saved by a handsome hermit. At times, Michael Tyler is rude, but when he smiles, it invokes something within Nicole. Nicole has been running from something tragic in her own past, so she relishes the beauty and privacy of Michael's home.
Michael guards his secrets with everything he has, but Nicole makes him feel things he never thought he could. As Nicole begins to unravel what makes Michael who he is, things begin to heat up. There love for one another blossoms as they begin to know each other. But when Nicole realizes she is in danger, she risks her own life to get away from Michael. He brings her back and she realizes what he has been covering up.
A beautiful love story, Nocturne will stay with you long after the last page has been read. The character development is top-notch and the writing haunting, yet riveting. A very emotional and satisfying read!
Michael guards his secrets with everything he has, but Nicole makes him feel things he never thought he could. As Nicole begins to unravel what makes Michael who he is, things begin to heat up. There love for one another blossoms as they begin to know each other. But when Nicole realizes she is in danger, she risks her own life to get away from Michael. He brings her back and she realizes what he has been covering up.
A beautiful love story, Nocturne will stay with you long after the last page has been read. The character development is top-notch and the writing haunting, yet riveting. A very emotional and satisfying read!
I got a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Previously I had read Dracula, My Love by Syrie James and enjoyed it. I was really looking forward to this book; it sounded like a sweet dark romance. In the end it was that, but the romance got a bit cheesy and the writing wasn't as beautiful and smooth as James other books.
Nicole runs her car off the road during a snowstorm in Colorado and finds herself with a concussion, freezing in the cold. She wakes up in a strange house, having been rescued by a handsome and mysterious stranger named Michael. She ends up snowbound in his house as the snowstorm renders the mountain pass impassible. Although Michale is sweet to Nicole at times and Nicole is very attracted to him, there are things that just aren't right about Michael. For example he doesn't seem to eat and he doesn't feel the cold. Nicole will have to unravel the mystery of this man and decide if she is safe here or if she should risk the cold.
I truly enjoyed the beginning of this book. Some of James's writing is quite beautiful. I loved watching Nicole unravel the mystery around Michael, and loved how tentative they were around each other. Michale has a number of hobbies and I enjoyed the detail that James put in describing these things. By reading this book I learned some about wood-working, about raising horses, horticulture, and some interesting medical history.
As the book went on the story got more and more contrived. Michael was just such the perfect man that it became laughable and eye-rolling ensued. Some of the tender moments between Michael and Nicole were awkward and stiff. The relationship they developed (if you can call a two day fling that) was just...well...improbable. Then there were the steamy scenes between the two characters; these were just flat out poorly written. They were semi-explicit but were written in such a way that they didn't make sense...for example at one point Nicole and Michael are standing and kissing, then Michale lays his body on Nicole's...I was confused. Are they standing? Are they laying on the floor? Where are they? What is going on? I reread it a few times but just couldn't figure it out. The scenes were hard to visualize and clumsily written.
Another thing I did like about this book was the ending. I thought it was realistic and the most probable part of the story. I like how Nicole was able to use her time with Michael as a catalyst for other life changes.
So, overall there was some good here and some bad. It is a sweet little fluffy cabin romance; it is very light on the paranormal elements. I enjoyed the little technical details of Michael's hobby's and the beautiful descriptions in the beginning of the book. I did not enjoy how contrived the story got towards the middle, the clumsy steamy scenes, and the occasions where the dialogue between Nicole and Michael sounded awkward and unnatural. Still it was a quick read. I may pick up Syrie Jame's books in the future but I will probably be more discriminating about which books of hers I read.
Nicole runs her car off the road during a snowstorm in Colorado and finds herself with a concussion, freezing in the cold. She wakes up in a strange house, having been rescued by a handsome and mysterious stranger named Michael. She ends up snowbound in his house as the snowstorm renders the mountain pass impassible. Although Michale is sweet to Nicole at times and Nicole is very attracted to him, there are things that just aren't right about Michael. For example he doesn't seem to eat and he doesn't feel the cold. Nicole will have to unravel the mystery of this man and decide if she is safe here or if she should risk the cold.
I truly enjoyed the beginning of this book. Some of James's writing is quite beautiful. I loved watching Nicole unravel the mystery around Michael, and loved how tentative they were around each other. Michale has a number of hobbies and I enjoyed the detail that James put in describing these things. By reading this book I learned some about wood-working, about raising horses, horticulture, and some interesting medical history.
As the book went on the story got more and more contrived. Michael was just such the perfect man that it became laughable and eye-rolling ensued. Some of the tender moments between Michael and Nicole were awkward and stiff. The relationship they developed (if you can call a two day fling that) was just...well...improbable. Then there were the steamy scenes between the two characters; these were just flat out poorly written. They were semi-explicit but were written in such a way that they didn't make sense...for example at one point Nicole and Michael are standing and kissing, then Michale lays his body on Nicole's...I was confused. Are they standing? Are they laying on the floor? Where are they? What is going on? I reread it a few times but just couldn't figure it out. The scenes were hard to visualize and clumsily written.
Another thing I did like about this book was the ending. I thought it was realistic and the most probable part of the story. I like how Nicole was able to use her time with Michael as a catalyst for other life changes.
So, overall there was some good here and some bad. It is a sweet little fluffy cabin romance; it is very light on the paranormal elements. I enjoyed the little technical details of Michael's hobby's and the beautiful descriptions in the beginning of the book. I did not enjoy how contrived the story got towards the middle, the clumsy steamy scenes, and the occasions where the dialogue between Nicole and Michael sounded awkward and unnatural. Still it was a quick read. I may pick up Syrie Jame's books in the future but I will probably be more discriminating about which books of hers I read.
Loved this book, I don't read a lot of Vampire stories, but this one really grabbed and didn't let go.Am hoping for another book to finish this story,for I felt that there is more to tell. I ordered a second copy for my daughter, who lives out of state.
Reading this story made realize that I really do like a happy ending. I enjoyed this book, but would not read it again.
