Noah (Nightwalkers Series 5)

by Jacquelyn Frank (Goodreads author)

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published

September 1st 2008 by Zebra

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Mass Market Paperback, 471 pages

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http://www.jacquelynfrank.com/books/nigh...

characters

Noah Riggins, Kestra

setting

The United Kingdom

isbn

0821780697 (isbn13: 9780821780695)

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The Nightwalkers have lived in the shadows of our world for centuries, gifted with abilities few humans can comprehend. For Noah, duty is all—until he...more

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08/31/08

Julie (jjmachshev) rated it:

bookshelves: 2008-reads

Read in August, 2008

Oh, oh, oh. I'm still riding high after finishing "Noah" by Jacquelyn Frank, book five of her 'Nightwalkers' series. This series has everything I want in a paranormal romance/urban fantasy: mega-hot heroes, strong heroines, vampires, demons, and weres (Oh, my).

Kestra is a successful mercenary who uses her intelligence, agility, and highly trained body. She's also a woman who has suffered horrible loss and lives with survivor guilt every day. Until one evening, on a mis...more

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08/31/08

Gina rated it:

bookshelves: erotic, fantasy, mystery, own, paranormal-supernatural, romantic-suspense, suspense

Read in August, 2008

Terrific! Sensual and erotic with mystery and suspense combined!

Noah is coming to the edge of his sanity. As a demon, he feels deeply, and during the moon phase of Sahmain and Beltane, if the needs of a male demon aren’t met, his insanity grips the better part of him, making him do things he doesn’t want to do. Noah struggles with this more and more as the centuries go on, and for the past six months, he’s been dreaming of a wild woman who pushes him right to the brink of his s...more Terrific! Sensual and erotic with mystery and suspense combined!

Noah is coming to the edge of his sanity. As a demon, he feels deeply, and during the moon phase of Sahmain and Beltane, if the needs of a male demon aren’t met, his insanity grips the better part of him, making him do things he doesn’t want to do. Noah struggles with this more and more as the centuries go on, and for the past six months, he’s been dreaming of a wild woman who pushes him right to the brink of his sanity. He wants her, badly, and it has to be soon.

Kestra is a strong woman who endured so much as a teen and grew up refusing to become a victim again. She pushes herself on a physical level, making herself tough in mind as well as body. The dreams she has with Noah are sensual, erotic, pleasing, but then again, are just that… Dreams. Figments of her imagination, or so she believes.

Yet, their dreams hold power to each other, and it takes Noah a while to come to the understanding of who Kestra is to him - his Imprinted mate. But suddenly, the dreams stop, for a week, but it doesn’t really dawn on him why. Until he goes to Bella’s sister, Corrine, for help to find his Imprinted mate. He becomes shocked when he finds out why he hasn’t been dreaming of her.

Kestra met one of the men she did something for, looking for payment. Usually she meets the pay-offs in a public place to avoid any confrontations or anything else of that matter. This time, she went to him, and it cost her her life. Shot in the head after her payment, she dies, and that’s when the dreams stop.

However, to go back a week in time to see what happened was with help from Corrine, but of Bella and Jacob’s daughter, Leah. Even at the tender age of two, her power is growing, and one of them is that she can manipulate time. When Noah finds out his Imprinted is dead, his sanity comes to the breaking point, and almost kidnaps Corrine and Leah to manipulate time back a week to save Kestra.

That works, but it costs him as well as others. Kestra is finally with him, in his arms, and becomes his mate. But Kestra doesn’t believe in it, and leaves, only to be drained of her life bit by bit. But Noah gets her back, and slowly, Kestra comes to believe in what Noah is telling her is now her life, and is adjusting well through everything - except between her and Noah. She doesn’t believe in love. She did once, and it cost her her parents lives and nearly her own. But with a lot of work, Noah convinces her, and finally she manages to admit that love really does exist.

The story made me laugh and cry. At first, when Kestra admits that she’d been hurt before, that someone she trusted had hurt her, you figure the usual. Only, it’s not the usual. She’d been through a complete horror, and I can’t imagine a woman being able to survive that, let alone push herself to what and where she is now. An incredibly strong woman, she builds a wall around herself as protection, and comes unglued when Noah shatters it.

Noah learns a few lessons himself - surprising himself with his indecisions, he does the best that he can. He hurts her indirectly, and it takes everything in him to repair it.

It’s awesome to watch Kestra change, to become someone who truly makes herself shine, regardless of her past. To see her push past it was superb.

Erotic love scenes leaves the reader panting, the suspense leaves the reader holding their breath, and the action has you cheering the good guys on. Incredible, and I can’t wait for the next!(less)

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02/19/09

McKayla rated it:

Noah was a good addition to the Nightwalkers series, but it was not my favorite out of the five books Jacquelyn Frank has published so far. She usually does a great job at having the two main characters fall in love slowly with reason yet keeps the rest of the story flowing in the background. I have long awaited for Noah to find his partner, but I thought that the way they fell in love was a tad bit sketchy. She does mention a long background between the two for 6 months (you will have to read i...more

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10/07/08

Lisa rated it:

bookshelves: booksireadoverandover, fantasy, fiction, paranormal, paranormalromance

Read in October, 2008

Finally Noah gets an imprinted mate! The demon king has needed one for a long while now and I was so relieved for him that he finally found Kestra. However, Noah became a smaller version of himself because of his fear of losing her. Noah, for me, has always been larger than life - even more so than the others. By seeing Kestra's death - which he then circumvents to save her - he sort of folded in on himself to me. He withheld so many facets of his personality to not scare Kestra off that I wante...more Finally Noah gets an imprinted mate! The demon king has needed one for a long while now and I was so relieved for him that he finally found Kestra. However, Noah became a smaller version of himself because of his fear of losing her. Noah, for me, has always been larger than life - even more so than the others. By seeing Kestra's death - which he then circumvents to save her - he sort of folded in on himself to me. He withheld so many facets of his personality to not scare Kestra off that I wanted to scream in frustration. When Legna and Bella both told him to just be himself - and that anyone he has ever loved has never turned away from him he finally became NOAH again. Even more frustrating was to then realize that Kestra was aware of how Noah was holding himself back the entire time. I felt it wasted a lot of time that could have been put to better use. Damn Noah and his stubborn spirit. Nice little twist to have the fairy tale be the story of his parents.

I think what happened to Kestra was horrible, but I also think the story of how what happened to her turned her into a marine then a merc was never really fleshed out. So she is tactician and a warrior and displays incredible abilities once she begins emerging as a druid... like we had any doubt Noah's mate would have these qualities? I wish we knew more about the why instead of just getting the deets. Still there was no denying the chemistry between Kestra and Noah was red hot as is should be for the Fire Demon King.

The side stories were a little distracting at first because they weren't picking up from where Ruth and Nico left off their rebellion. The "threat" this time was from rebelling factions displeased over the marriage of Damien and Syreena. I like how we get to see characters from previous books but in this case it felt a little disconnected. Damien's fears are well founded that his people are not eager to accept what was previously taboo - his marriage to Syreena. The leap for rebelling vampires to try absorbing other Nightwalker powers wasn't a big one as of course there will be corrupt Nightwalkers. Hello - RUTH - why hasn't she figured this out and where was she throughout this book?

I realize a lot of the "side stories" in this book were to set up the next story arc but I felt it jumped around a little more than previous books. I'm curious to see where it goes from here, although it will be a while and it will be with a Nightwalker species not really talked about much - Shadowdwellers. We'll see. I know I'll keep reading and I hope Noah and Kestra's story gets a little more play in the future.

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10/01/08

Kelly rated it:

bookshelves: demons

Read in October, 2008

I loved all of these books and will add this series to one of my favs. It was a nice combination of everything.

I do have a few cons...It did have a tendency to be repetative with regards to Kestra's struggle to love Noah. Also, her background story with regards to her tragedy wasn't carried out well. For something so tragic as it was suppose to be, was not well served with a summary.

Also...the largest complaint is that I've heard that this was suppose to be the last bo...more

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09/05/08

Gypsie rated it:

bookshelves: paranormal-romance, sep-08

Read in September, 2008

I have waited to read this since Jacob. There is still nothing better than Jacob. This was really good, although at times I felt like it seemed long and too detailed. Or maybe my mind kept going other places, distractions over riding my concentration. There were a few questions that were left unanswered or cleared up with Kestra. Nothing wrong with Noah's character and I feel for him. I was happy to see all other characters from other books in there and sad at some of the ways things left and ...more

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08/09/08

Elisa rated it:

Read in September, 2008

recommends it for: All paranormal romance fans.

Noah, the true monarch and patriarch of the Nightwalker world, is definitely a favourite character of mine. I loved this book, and I loved watching Noah learn about himself and others, and grow as an individual. As the fifth instalment, I was a little taken aback by the different style in which it was written as compared to the other Nightwalker novels, but I quickly got over it. I loved the updates of "old" characters (which is no doubt why I really love series novels) and the introdu...more

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01/15/09

Kaleigha rated it:

I read this one second, after Jacob, since I could get my hands on it before the others. I was very much looking forward to his story, and for the most part was not disappointed. I found that it lacked a little spark that had been there in the first book of the series, Jacob. I think the problem I had, such as it was, was that I did not feel that Kestra was equal to Noah. I did not dislike her as a character, but I did not find she was enough for the Demon king. She did come into her own tow...more

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01/20/09

Alathea rated it:

bookshelves: a-t-f, demons, gr-author, high-sensuality, jacquelyn-frank, nightwalkers, own, paranormal-romance, series

Read in February, 2009

recommends it for: everyone who's looking for a great read

For the past six months, Noah, the Demon King, has had difficulty keeping his darker and "baser" instincts under control, plagued by tantalizing and incredibly real dreams of the woman clearly destined to be his mate. But if she fights him even in his dreams, he can only suspect the fight she'll put up in real life.

Kestra Irons is living her life on the edge, trying to purge her deep-rooted fears with deadly stunts. Yet one day, the Grim Reaper is waiting and her life is ex...more

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06/10/09

Lisa rated it:

Read in July, 2009

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Where to begin? I was so disappointed in this book. I liked 1/2 of it. Unfortunately, the half I liked was interrupted by a lot of garbage. In other words, I was forced to wade through a lot of irrelevant and insignificant details to get to the good parts throughout. There was no continuity to the pace of the story.

Perhaps I was under the misconception that these books were being written and published as a serial. My understanding going in was that N...more Warning: Some Spoilers

Where to begin? I was so disappointed in this book. I liked 1/2 of it. Unfortunately, the half I liked was interrupted by a lot of garbage. In other words, I was forced to wade through a lot of irrelevant and insignificant details to get to the good parts throughout. There was no continuity to the pace of the story.

Perhaps I was under the misconception that these books were being written and published as a serial. My understanding going in was that Noah would be the final book in the Nightwalker series. If that's the case, then I feel cheated. Where was the resolution to so many of the conflicts and revelations between and about these characters? The previous books intimated that there would be a final showdown between the currently allied Nightwalkers and Ruth, Nico and their band of renegades. Ruth's name was barely mentioned in this book after she was written about, ad nauseum, in the previous books. Perhaps I read too much into that storyline. And the cliffhanger at the finale of Damien certainly prophesied great things for Jasmine but there was only the barest hint of what those great things would entail. The inter-species Library that was such a significant find??? It was a contrivance of limited necessity. Perhaps Jacquelyn Frank became so bogged down in all the minutiae and side plots in her series that she couldn't remember which needed to be resolved.

And, speaking of prophesies....talk about a build up leading to a dead end. The new Demons, those who would have the power to control and manipulate Time and Space and bring new hope to the Demon race, are still toddlers and we only got the barest hint of what Leah's power will be. Seth was non-existent. What was the point of introducing these side stories only to leave them hanging? Perhaps the author plans to pick up Seth and Leah's stories in a later series.

In the end, I felt that the author left Noah emasculated. There's a significant difference between showing us that this great and powerful Demon King is capable of certain vulnerabilities. It's another thing altogether to leave the reader with the sense that both he and his reign have been left weakened and fractured because he and his closest and strongest councilors have mated. My interpretation of the message of these books is that love/imprinting/mating/bonding; whatever name it's given, is a liability to the fortitude of these species.
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02/14/09

Cindyg rated it:

Read in March, 2009

I am so sorry that this is the end of the series. I totally loved reading each book. Maybe we'll get lucky and Ms Frank will change her mind. The end left so many unanswered questions.

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07/07/08

Anita rated it:

bookshelves: contemporary-urban-fantasy, paranormal-romance

Read in November, 2008

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06/01/08

Heather rated it:

bookshelves: kindle, paranormal-romance

Read in September, 2008

recommends it for: Fans of Jacquelyn Frank, Keri Arthur, and Alexis Morgan.

I thoroughly enjoyed Noah, the latest Nightwalker installment from Jacquelyn Frank.

Noah is the king of the Demons, and as those of us know who have read the previous books, maybe most in need of finding a mate. He is a Fire Demon, so therefore has the most volatile emotions of all the classification of Demon. Noah has been dreaming of a woman for months. He doesnt know who she is, only that he feels like he cant be without her.

Kestra is a mercenary. When a job suddenly ...more

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03/25/09

Dorri rated it:

bookshelves: fantasy, magic-ties, sexuality, shape-shifters, vampire

Read in April, 2009

Noah, the demon king, has been so broken by his loneliness that he does a single dreadful act to have what he's watched other's gain through the previous Nightwalker books. His true love, Kestra, is a delightful surprise. She is witty, stubborn and quite adept at rousing Noah's passions, along with being a great tactician and an even better survivor, this coming after she dies in the first act. Noah's love for Kestra is also one of his greatest guilts. She wants to be independent, so he lets...more

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11/21/08

Sharon rated it:

bookshelves: erotica-paranormal

Read in December, 2008

I love this series. I was sad and scared thinking this is the last one, but alas she has started a book 6. The sex scenes are great and she goes into character details so that is great. She keeps all the original characters from books 1-4 in this book as well so it can get a little confusing on who is who. For that reason I do recommend reading them in order, but it's not a necessity. This book has it all - demons, gods, vampires, lycanthropes, etc. The characters are lovable. This story ...more

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02/24/09

Gardavson rated it:

bookshelves: paranormal

Read in March, 2009

For some reason I am having trouble with many of Frank's heroines. I love the men. Their characters are great. The plots are also quite compelling. I just don't get into many of the matches. Noah's mate is no exception. I just don't care much for her. She has potential, but is missing some crucial element to her likeability factor. Franks created a character who lacks the ability to form meaningful relationships. Then she sets this person up to be the monarch's mate? It doesn't match up for me. ...more

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06/25/08

Mariana rated it:

Read in September, 2008

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04/16/09

Lisa marked it as to-read

bookshelves: to-read

I don't really understand what's going on, because I haven't read any of the other books in this series, and at this point I doubt I will read any of them... I'm still giving it a try because I'm attempting to go outside my chaste comfort-level and read something a little more racy. I'll never be ready for flat out romance novels; but this at least eases me into whatever ends up happening b/c it has the sci-fi/fantasy angle going for it. So, we'll see if I make it any further with this one. I do...more

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09/11/08

Leslie rated it:

bookshelves: paranormalromance

Read in February, 2009

Wow! What a great conclusion to a wonderful series! Noah has been one of my favorite characters throughout the books and in this one he finally has found his Imprinted mate. I agree with other reviewers that it would be best to start at the beginning of the series since there are plot threads that were woven earlier that might confuse a new reader.

Here is the series order:
Jacob
Gideon
Elijah
Damien
Noah

The Nightwalkers series has everything a ...more