Kiss of Midnight (The Midnight Breed, Book 1)
by Lara Adrian
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Author: Lara AdrianEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: 0553589377
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Dell
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- ISBN13: 9780553589375
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Kiss of Midnight (The Midnight Breed, Book 1)
Book Review: Great Start to New Vampire Series
Summary: 4 Stars
After Gabrielle Maxwell witnesses a brutal attack by a pack of Rogue Vampires outside a nightclub, she is plunged into a war that most humans don't realize is happening. A war where Breed Warriors fight to keep the world safe from vampires who have succumbed to the lure of bloodlust and turned rogue. Little does she know, this is a world that has touched her before, and this time it's a world she won't be able to leave.
Lara Adrian's vampires are the progeny of aliens who crash landed on Earth centuries ago. The original aliens were voracious predators, eventually wiped out by their children. But something of the monster still lurks within, and the vampires fight against a bloodlust which if they give into, will see them marked for death by the Breed Warriors.
Kiss of Midnight introduces us to this world through the eyes of Gabrielle Maxwell and Lucan Thorne. Unbeknownst to Gabrielle she is a Breedmate - a human female genetically compatible with the Breed (all vampire children are male). Lucan Thorne is a Gen 1, (the first generation of alien children who rose up to kill their fathers) as such, he struggles harder against the bloodlust than his compatriots. But that doesn't stop him from being drawn to Gabrielle, even though he feels she would be better suited to a pairing with another vampire.
I really enjoyed this story. Maybe because I went into it with the expectation of being underwhelmed. Instead I was racing through it wanting to know what happened next. The plot moves along at a cracking pace, characters are well drawn and believable. And I ended this story happy I could move onto book 2 straight away.
Lara Adrian's world is well thought out. There are a couple of very nice touches, not necessarily part of the main storyline, but they serve to make the world more real. For instance, I like that Dante has to wait for Lucan to finish before he can feed - it illustrates the animalistic hierarchical nature of the vampires without beating us over the head with it.
Although most of her bad guys are rogues, consumed with the need for blood, sex and death. The head guy is a very well written anti-hero. I'm interested to see where Lara Adrian goes with him. She leaves you with the feeling that though he's committed heinous acts, there's a possibility he could go either way. He could be redeemed. It's the fact that there's thought and calculation behind his every action, and we don't yet know if there's only cold intellect there, or something more.
I believed the relationship between Gabrielle and Lucan and liked how it developed as Gabrielle was drawn into the world of the Breed. The love scenes between them are hot. :)
It does have some problems. It's almost bound to be compared to Dark Lover (J.R.Ward). There are a couple of scenes reminiscent of that book - when Lucan breaks into Gabrielle's apartment for example. And Lara Adrian does use what readers might have come to consider as the vampire group sterotypes. Lucan - the oldest and in charge, Gideon - the computer expert, Tegan - the loner, and later in the story one of the warriors is horrifically scarred. Hopefully LA will be able to take these characters and make them her own.
One inconsistency for me - at the end a character is told to jump off a roof but we never see her die, though later Gabrielle says she is dead. Did I miss it? I don't know if this is intentional or not. The vampire master and Gabrielle go up to the roof and whilst they're fighting we never see the other character take her leap. I don't know if we're meant to assume she jumped from a different part of the roof or that she got away?
Despite these minor niggles, this is a fantastic start to a new vampire urban fantasy series. I think if the stories remain this strong, any comparisons between Lara Adrian's series and others will pretty soon be inconsequential. I'm hooked.
Summary of Kiss of Midnight (The Midnight Breed, Book 1)
He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell?s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night?or this man?is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed?a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind?and the unwitting humans existing alongside them?from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.
Here, in the arms of the Breed?s formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . .
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