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Catching Midnight (Midnight #2)
by
Emma Holly (Goodreads Author)
In the Scottish wood, a clan of immortal shape-shifting wolves takes in an orphan girl, Gillian, as one of their own. But when she matures into a beautiful woman and falls for a mere mortal, her forest family and new lover are plunged into a fiery, passionate struggle to claim Gillian's heart, body, and soul...
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
April 29th 2003
by Jove
(first published 1998)
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I would like to start by saying that I love the cover on this book, it beautifully reflects Gillian and her "familiar". So many book publishers in romance, romantica, erotica, paranormal and urban fantasy genres really treat the readers with disrespect with the covers they slap on books.
Gillian is a lovely, free spirited Upyr, changed from human as a young girl by the elder Auriculus during plague torn England. She is raised by shapeshifting Upyrs led by Ulric after initally being sought by bot...more
Gillian is a lovely, free spirited Upyr, changed from human as a young girl by the elder Auriculus during plague torn England. She is raised by shapeshifting Upyrs led by Ulric after initally being sought by bot...more
Emma HollyParticularly Powerful ProsePg. 46 -- It was a memory, rather, as if time were a ribbon looped upon itself.
Pg. 146 -- Not an easy man, she thought, either to know or to be
Pg 283 -- You owe it to him to live the life he gave you with honor. It is up to you, however, to decide what honor mean.
Vivid Vocabulary
Aventail a flap of mail attached to a coif [kinght's helmet:] and fastened across the lower part of the face during combat.
Prescience [presh-uhn:] knowledge of things before they e...more
SYNOPSIS: It’s the early 1300’s and a plague is sweeping through England. Gillian, orphaned due to the sickness, is forced to flee the city and fend for her self. A scared child, she manages to stumble into the forest. It’s here that she meets one man and one woman; angels. No, not angels…Upyrs. Shape-shifting immortals-the children of the night.
One offers her the beauty of nature, to live free among the wild. The other, chances to live every childhood girl’s dream, to live like a Princess. The...more
One offers her the beauty of nature, to live free among the wild. The other, chances to live every childhood girl’s dream, to live like a Princess. The...more
Part historical, part paranormal with shapeshifting vampires, or upyrs, Catching Midnight is a worthy addition to Holly's series. Gillian survives a plague-ridden, medieval London only to be changed at the hands of Auriculus, an ancient vampire who quickly abandons her to a pack of wolf-shifting vampires. Gillian's desire for freedom from their simple life in the woods causes her to flee this new life and discover her own.
Gillian's sire, however, is in competition for the vampire world with ano...more
Gillian's sire, however, is in competition for the vampire world with ano...more
This book was a pick-up from the book-store when someone was silly enough to let me in the store to pick up a book for him. I've enjoyed Holly in the past and so finding a historical fantasy romance paranormal... I just had to buy it. I enjoyed this book, which featured a female vampire (umpyr) heroine who was sexually experienced and a human male. There was a lot of good world building here as well as a good romance story and it was "spicy" aka erotic. I liked it and will likely buy the next bo...more
Emma Holly is an erotica writer, but having read and liked her "Demon's daughter" I thought I'd try another one of her paranormals. I found this book very interesting and her worldbuilding as intrguing as in her Demon's world. As to the erotica part it's totally free of the ick factor as some of my GR would say. All in all a very nice book. I believe I will buy the next one in the series too
This book was pretty cool. I like the author's "world". It was pretty interesting seeing how everything worked. I liked also that it was set in 1370 inside a castle in England. I always enjoy books set in the past as well as books set in the present. I'm interested to see how the next in the series is.
I had read another paranormal book by this author The Demon's Daughter and didn't care for it (didn't like world building and the way the hero treated the heroine). So I was really surprised how much I enjoyed this book. In the first bit of it, I started worrying it was going to be a heavy sex book without much plot. But then once she ran away from the Upyr pack she had been living with, the storyline really took off. The author did a good job world building using Upyr legends(ie, vampires and s...more
I am loving the Upry series! This is the first book in the series. Emma writes with such detail you can picture yourself there watching what is happening.
Read the first half and just couldn't get into the whole shifting thing. I just wasn't feeling the genre and theme.
This was definitely not my favorite book by Emma Holly. It was very slow and was lacking the strong conflict I'm used to from her other books.
Actually, it's part of the FitzClare Chronicles series, #2. History + the paranormal.
Pretty good book if you like PNR. I must admit, it was a little slow at the beginning, but once you get past that, Catching Midnight was very entertaining.
Sep 20, 2012
Jenny Lynn
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Great book
Definitely worth continuing the series...I liked Gillian and Aimery.
Didn't finish. Got bored with it.
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Second in the upyr series. I've read two short stories in the series which led me to seek out this book. Mostly, I loved it. I did think it dragged a bit near the end, and parts of the world building confused me, but I liked the characters so much I can overlook that stuff.
Sigh. I would like vampire books so much better if the vampires could go out in the sun. I always get so depressed on their behalf that they're stuck in the dark all the time....
I love Emma holly! Her erotica is explicitly hot. Love her fitzclaire chronicals and wish she would write another. There is room for more story line.
Jan 08, 2011
♆ BookAddict ~ La Crimson Femme
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Shelves:
paranormal-romance,
werewolf
Ms. Holly is a good read pretty much every time. I enjoyed book two of this series. I found this book to be nice and sensual.
Apr 17, 2010
Mollie *scoutrmom*
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
fans of erotic paranormal romances
Shelves:
erotic-romance,
read-in-2010
The sequel was better, but this was fine.
read 03.26.07
May 14, 2013
Tina Lane
marked it as to-read
May 12, 2013
Ebony Morton
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