Dark Desires After Dusk (Immortals After Dark, Bk 6)
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Genre: Romance
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Author:
Genre: Romance
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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What's with the cheesy 1980s style romance cover?
I get really tired of the virginal or nearly virginal heroine with the man-whore hero. It's an over used cliche. This story has a hero and heroine in those molds. That aside, I enjoyed the story. Parts of it reminded me of Cole's other book "A Hunger Like No Other". Both heroines are very innocent, born in the current era but still so unaware of all that life has to offer them and they both find their Lorekind abilities very late in the story. Dark Desires has good dialog, humor and smoking hot love scenes. I never complain about the latter. The hero is likable even though he is a rogue, a liar a lot of the time. The heroine isn't as likable. She's got a stick up her you know what most of the time. There were too many scenes with pearl clutching and gasping because the hero used profanity. Yet the heroine teaches college math to football players. Really? She hasn't heard any "bad" words from them. She seemed like she was 80 years old instead of in her 20s. I realize the character is supposed to be a prude at the start of the book, but her characterization felt like caricature. She should have made the hero beg and grovel more at the end. I would have and would have enjoyed very minute of it too, but that's how I roll.
I get really tired of the virginal or nearly virginal heroine with the man-whore hero. It's an over used cliche. This story has a hero and heroine in those molds. That aside, I enjoyed the story. Parts of it reminded me of Cole's other book "A Hunger Like No Other". Both heroines are very innocent, born in the current era but still so unaware of all that life has to offer them and they both find their Lorekind abilities very late in the story. Dark Desires has good dialog, humor and smoking hot love scenes. I never complain about the latter. The hero is likable even though he is a rogue, a liar a lot of the time. The heroine isn't as likable. She's got a stick up her you know what most of the time. There were too many scenes with pearl clutching and gasping because the hero used profanity. Yet the heroine teaches college math to football players. Really? She hasn't heard any "bad" words from them. She seemed like she was 80 years old instead of in her 20s. I realize the character is supposed to be a prude at the start of the book, but her characterization felt like caricature. She should have made the hero beg and grovel more at the end. I would have and would have enjoyed very minute of it too, but that's how I roll.
