3 Stars
I am going to admit up front that I am probably being harder
on this book than I normally am. Three
stars = a good book, but not great (4 stars) and not
holy-moly-how-did-I-live-my-life-without-you (5 stars). I enjoyed the first 15% and the last 15% but
the middle was a bunch of blah. I
actually put it down many times and wasn’t excited about picking it back
up. The reason why I think I am being
hard on it is that I just read the first two books in the Night Prince series
by this same author and they were fantastical!
This book is a spin off book from the Night Huntress series
about Menchares and his lady fair, Kira.
Menchares has lost his visions and believes that he is not long for this
world. This is how Kira finds/meets
Menchares. He is being attacked by 4
ghouls and she walks in on this to try to save him. After that fiasco, Menchares finds he can’t
stop thinking about Kira. Kira learns
that Menchares is a vampire, but instead of being repulsed she tries to find
him after he takes her back to her life.
Of course, she lands herself into some more trouble that he must
extricate her from and this time she has some consequences she must deal with
afterwards. Radjedef, Menchares enemy,
is plotting to acquire Menchares powers and sets into motion some nasty frame jobs
to turn everyone against Menchares.
What I loved about this book was that we got to see
Menchares flex his vampire superpowers a lot more than in the other books. We got to see Bones and Vlad again which is
always nice.
Favorite quote:
“Bath toys are reserved only for the oldest, most lethal
vampires. I have a full century to age
and another thousand men to kill before I reach that hallowed landmark.” -Menchares
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