The Vampire's Bride (Atlantis, Book 4)
by Gena Showalter
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Author: Gena ShowalterEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-03-01
ISBN: 0373773595
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: HQN Books
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Book Review: Just like an episode of supernatural "Survivor"
Summary: 3 Stars
Plot Summary: Layel is out killing dragons, so it's business as usual, when he meets an Amazon in the midst of battle. Delilah has cerulean blue hair, violet eyes, and a yen for violent men, so naturally she likes Layel on the spot. Too bad he's still carrying a torch for his human mate who was raped and murdered two hundred years ago by a small group of dragon soldiers. Before the battle is over, Layel, Delilah, and a host of other creatures are magically transported to an island, where a group of bored gods and goddesses have decided to hold a competition to see which creature is the best. The penalty of failure is death, and Layel does his best to channel his inner ice-man while Delilah makes it clear she's interested in some vampire loving.
We finally get Layel's story, the bad-boy of Atlantis, and king of the vampires. In an interesting twist, Showalter sets up this story just like an episode of "Survivor," except instead of nerdy accountants, clueless baristas, and heartless corporate types, the competitors are unwilling supernaturals from all the species in Atlantis. Poseidon and his cruelly indifferent chums have a petty argument over who gets to use Atlantis as his/her private playground. Showalter does a great job creating deities that I love to hate, and she succeeds here again.
To settle their dispute, the gods select the best warriors from Atlantis and strand them on the island, thereby setting up their own cock-fight, with each god backing different supes. The teams have to compete in challenges, with the winners getting a reward, and the losers facing a `tribal council' elimination. Except getting voted off the island means decapitation. It mirrors "Survivor" so closely that it's hard to take it all seriously, but I was a fan of the show for many years, so that's probably why I found it amusing.
Meanwhile, Delilah pursues Layel like a woman who knows her own mind (which I like), and Layel battles his conflicted heart for a couple hundred pages. The romance is stretched and drawn out like a taffy pulling machine working over a huge gob of sugary confection. Just when you think progress is being made, it folds in on itself, and Layel pulls back from Delilah. Sometimes I get impatient with this type of two-steps-forward, one-step-back romance, but it held my attention, and I enjoyed the ride.
While I think that the paranormal world in the Atlantis series is rich and vivid, it's also a bit light, fluffy, and cheesy at times. I definitely prefer Showalter's Lords of the Underworld series, which feels a lot grittier, with the heroes housing evil demons within their bodies.
Summary of The Vampire's Bride (Atlantis, Book 4)
Return to Gena Showalter s mythical world of immortals, magic and dark seduction...return to Atlantis...He is Layel, king of the vampires, a master seducer no woman can deny. But since a rogue horde of dragons killed his beloved over two centuries ago, Layel has existed only for vengeance...until he meets Delilah. Wary of love, the beautiful Amazon wants nothing to do with the tormented vampire. Yet there s no denying their consuming desire every time he nears her.
Neither trusts the other nor can they survive alone. For in an impossible game of the gods devising, they ve been trapped on an island, about to face the ultimate challenge: surrender to the passion that will bind them forever...or be doomed to an eternity apart.
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