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April 6th 2008
by Pocket Star
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Mass Market Paperback, 368 pages
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New Orleans, LA
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141654707X
(isbn13: 9781416547075)
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Bestselling author Kresley Cole continues her seductive Immortals After Dark series with this tale of a vampire shunned even by his own kind and a bea...more
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Read in September, 2008
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Everyone!recommends it for: Paranormal fans; JR Ward fans
I have to rate this another 5 star read by Kresley Cole. Even though the plot was a lot different than the other books in the series, I still found this one hard to put down. It just felt so unusual to me, but in a good way. Mad vampire assassin meets lonely, beautiful ballerina ghost and falls in love against all odds--I just wasn't expecting that! I loved how Conrad and Neomi 'connected' over their long talks while each was a prisoner inside Neomi's estate. Loved their little game of blac...more
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Book 5 in the series was disappointing for me. Book 4 was so good I was expecting something along the same lines or better. I didn't feel much attraction between Néomi and Connor and when they did finally come together it was anticlimactic. It took so long for something to happen that when it did it fell flat. Something didn't click to make me believe that they really wanted each other the way the other couples in the previous books did. It was a strange kind of tension. I didn't like how sh...more
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Read in September, 2008
It's not often you get a book with a virgin hero. I think I've only read one other. I loved Conrad, he sure learned fast didn't he? And Neomi was an eager teacher. All these amazing alpha heroes are getting good reasons to fight together in the Accession and Nix is lining them all up on her side. Minor detail note: The reference to Nix stalking Mike Rowe was too funny - I wonder if she'll ever get a soul mate?
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Read in May, 2008
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Okay this one is not my favorite so far but I did like it.
Conrad was turned into a vampire by his brothers, Nickolai and Murdoch. Not wanting to be one, since he was a warrior at heart, fighting against the invading Russians in his native Estonia. He has turned into an assassin and is now suffering from bloodlust. His brothers capture him and imprison him in an Old New Orleans plantation mansion which has a history of it's own.
Neomi Laress, was a famous ballerina from the...more
Conrad was turned into a vampire by his brothers, Nickolai and Murdoch. Not wanting to be one, since he was a warrior at heart, fighting against the invading Russians in his native Estonia. He has turned into an assassin and is now suffering from bloodlust. His brothers capture him and imprison him in an Old New Orleans plantation mansion which has a history of it's own.
Neomi Laress, was a famous ballerina from the...more
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Read in February, 2009
3.5 stars
Apparently getting deathly ill and bedridden (I may exaggerate slightly) does have its up sides, because I read this book all in one day. In between blowing my nose and hacking up a lung and whining for my mommy, of course...
So, this is a Kresley Cole book and as such has a lot of great moments. But overall, I was disappointed. I just never connected to the characters. There was nothing wrong with them per se, they just didn't do anything for me. And therefore th...more
Apparently getting deathly ill and bedridden (I may exaggerate slightly) does have its up sides, because I read this book all in one day. In between blowing my nose and hacking up a lung and whining for my mommy, of course...
So, this is a Kresley Cole book and as such has a lot of great moments. But overall, I was disappointed. I just never connected to the characters. There was nothing wrong with them per se, they just didn't do anything for me. And therefore th...more
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Read in April, 2008
I so LOVE the "Immortals After Dark" series by Kresley Cole!
"Dark Needs at Night's Edge" is about Conrad, the third Wroth brother turned vampire. For three hundred years, since being turned unwillingly by his brother, Conrad has lived for revenge. Becoming the very thing he fought in life, he's a killer without conscious. In an effort to save him from the bloodlust, his brothers kidnap him and imprison him in an abandoned home outside New Orleans.
Ne...more
"Dark Needs at Night's Edge" is about Conrad, the third Wroth brother turned vampire. For three hundred years, since being turned unwillingly by his brother, Conrad has lived for revenge. Becoming the very thing he fought in life, he's a killer without conscious. In an effort to save him from the bloodlust, his brothers kidnap him and imprison him in an abandoned home outside New Orleans.
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Read in April, 2008
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Another superb book in the Immortals After Dark series! This one has the return of characters in earlier books: Mariketa & Bowen, Nix, Regin, the demons Cade and Rydstrom, and the other Wroth brothers: Sebastian, Nikolai and Murdock.
I didn't think I was going to like this as much as I did. Seemed the beginning took awhile to get the main characters where they needed to be for a romance to ensue, but it was well worth the wait because when things got going the steam was shooting ...more
I didn't think I was going to like this as much as I did. Seemed the beginning took awhile to get the main characters where they needed to be for a romance to ensue, but it was well worth the wait because when things got going the steam was shooting ...more
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Read in April, 2009
Not Cole's best, and the first minor letdown in the series. The book garners 3 1/2 stars from me. The first part was a bit painful. It was slow and unengaging. I just don't get into ghosts very much. The situation is too impossible. The first half of the book just reinforced the impossibility of the relationship, over and over again. It would have been MUCH better if they could have been working on their relationship a quarter (or less) of the way in. The last half of the book picked up in true ...more
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Read in June, 2009
I think this book would have been a 5 stars if I'd read the series in order. It was a Mother's Day gift and unfortunately it was number 5 in the seres, I didn't think it would matter and so I started reading it. I've been reading it very slowly until today, when I read 230 pages in a couple of hours. The reason I was reading it slowly is because it was quiet difficult to understand. There are so many supernatural beings in it. I'm sure if I'd read the earlier books I would have a better understa...more
Read in January, 2008
This is the 4th book in the Immortals after Dark Series. The book introduces Neomi who lost her life on one of the biggest nights of her career as a ballerina. During the celebration she is stabbed and dies and becomes a ghost in her home. One night a vampire who is pretty much insane is brought in by his brothers, He is going through bloodlust and they are trying to basically detox him. Conrad sees neomi and she can't believe it. He actually sees her. She is a ghost and he is a vampire so you a...more
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Read in January, 2009
Not my favorite book in the series, due to not liking the hero as well as some - Emo Vampires aren't my favorite. I *do* like the fact that in all of the books I've read in this series, when the heroine changes over the course of the book it's always clear that her decision to improve her life is independent of whether she thinks the hero is going to end up with her.
There were several pages of references to the hero and heroine of another book in the series, which might confuse reade...more
There were several pages of references to the hero and heroine of another book in the series, which might confuse reade...more
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Read in April, 2009
I loved this book! It is my favorite so far in the Immortals After Dark Series!
Conrad Wroth spent his life killing rogue vampires. When he and his family were left for dead his brother Nikolai turned him into a vampire, in order to save him. He hates his brother for turning him into the one thing he despises and he lives his vampire days in blood lust killing anyone who gets in his way. Centuries later Nikolai, along with his 2 other brothers, capture Conrad and imprison him in a man...more
Conrad Wroth spent his life killing rogue vampires. When he and his family were left for dead his brother Nikolai turned him into a vampire, in order to save him. He hates his brother for turning him into the one thing he despises and he lives his vampire days in blood lust killing anyone who gets in his way. Centuries later Nikolai, along with his 2 other brothers, capture Conrad and imprison him in a man...more
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Read in June, 2008
Because the titles in this series are so similar and the covers very similar as well, I had to hit up a review to remember which book this was. This is the Ghost and Mr. Crazy Vampire story. So, the heroine is a ghost. Yes. A ghost. The hero is a vampire who's gone so far into insanity (there's a special name for it in this story universe, but I can't remember what it is) that he's pretty sure he can't come back. See, every time a vamp drinks blood from the source, and drinks enough to kill the ...more
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Read in June, 2008
The next in the series, I think. I devoured this book as I was hoping for the vamp's redemption as much as Naomi. He's not cured by the end of the book, but he's happy and that's a huge improvement. I was annoyed that his brothers didn't believe him but given the storyline I understand why.
Conrad is tormented enough by his own personal demons between the blood of victims and his own problem in accepting his history that it takes a while for him to really believe Naomi exists. He does...more
Conrad is tormented enough by his own personal demons between the blood of victims and his own problem in accepting his history that it takes a while for him to really believe Naomi exists. He does...more
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Read in July, 2008
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Read in April, 2008
I liked this one better than the other Cole book I read. I was drawn into the premise of the book, which was a romance between a Roaring 20s ballerina/former burlesque dancer ghost and a crazy vampire assassin. I am normally skeptical of romance being treated as a magical bullet that's supposed to cure personal trauma, but I was having too much fun to let it bother me too much.
I have a fondness for anything out of the Roaring Twenties era. Neomi was mischievous, flippant, and fun to...more
I have a fondness for anything out of the Roaring Twenties era. Neomi was mischievous, flippant, and fun to...more
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Read in April, 2008
When Néomi Laress, a prima ballerina in the 1920s, was murdered by her jilted ex-fiance, her spirit remained fused with her New Orleans home, Elancourt. For 80 years, Néomi wandered the rooms of Elancourt, lonely, bored, and with only the newspaper for reliable entertainment. Néomi doesn't cherish her existence as a ghost, but rather accepts it and all that comes with it--including being forced to relive her brutal death every month on the night of the sliver moon. When the Wroth brothers, fe...more
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Dark Needs at Night’s Edge is the fourth book in the Immortals After Dark series. One thing I really like about this series is how different all the paranormal creatures are. This one features a virgin vampire hero who has been crazy for a couple of centuries. The heroine is a ghost who was a ballerina and a burlesque dancer when she was alive. This character combination worked really well for me. I think I’m turning into a Kresley Cole fan.
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Read in September, 2008
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This is my second Kresley Cole book. I really enjoyed this book. Conrad is a vampire "haunted", and driven almost insane, by the memories of those whose blood he has drunk to death, which makes him one of "The Fallen" vampires. Neomi is a ghost trapped in the house she loves, and where she tragically and painfully died 80 years ago. When Conrad is entrapped in Neomi's house, the two meet. The attraction between Conrad and Neomi is electrifying and filled with sizzling longing...more
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