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Love at First Bite (Dark-Hunter Universe #10.6)
by
Sherrilyn Kenyon ,
L.A. Banks , Susan Squires (Goodreads Author) , Ronda Thompson
Until Death Do Us Part
" by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Over five hundred years ago, Esperetta's soul was bound to her husband's by dark magic, and when Velkan became a Dark-Hunter, to her horror, she became immortal as well. Now, they must come together to fight an old enemy…and the passion that threatens to consume them once more.
"Ride the Night Wind" by L.A. Banks
Dark dreams haunt...more
Over five hundred years ago, Esperetta's soul was bound to her husband's by dark magic, and when Velkan became a Dark-Hunter, to her horror, she became immortal as well. Now, they must come together to fight an old enemy…and the passion that threatens to consume them once more.
"Ride the Night Wind" by L.A. Banks
Dark dreams haunt...more
ebook, 384 pages
Published
October 3rd 2006
by St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Apr 09, 2013
Julie (Mom2lnb)
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Until Death We Do Part by Sherrilyn Kenyon – Considering that the heroine of Until Death We Do Part is supposed to be the daughter of Vlad the Impaler aka Dracula, I thought this novella had some promise, but sadly, it didn't end up drawing me in as much as I believe it could have if there had been more depth in the plot and characters. I felt like the story was overburdened with mysticism and mythology. In addition to all the usual Dark-Hunter/Were-Hunter/Dream-Hunter m...more
Until Death We Do Part by Sherrilyn Kenyon – Considering that the heroine of Until Death We Do Part is supposed to be the daughter of Vlad the Impaler aka Dracula, I thought this novella had some promise, but sadly, it didn't end up drawing me in as much as I believe it could have if there had been more depth in the plot and characters. I felt like the story was overburdened with mysticism and mythology. In addition to all the usual Dark-Hunter/Were-Hunter/Dream-Hunter m...more
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I love Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series --and I'm on board to read just about anything she writes; which led me to the anthology Love at First Bite.
Kenyon's offering focuses on the Dark Hunter Velkan and his long estranged love Esperetta. Retta was the daughter of Vlad Tepesh (yes, Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula.) She fell in love with Velkan when he rescued her from a band of killers and rapists hundreds of years ago. They married, and Velkan tied their souls together for eternity with mag...more
Kenyon's offering focuses on the Dark Hunter Velkan and his long estranged love Esperetta. Retta was the daughter of Vlad Tepesh (yes, Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula.) She fell in love with Velkan when he rescued her from a band of killers and rapists hundreds of years ago. They married, and Velkan tied their souls together for eternity with mag...more
“Until Death do We Part” by Sherrilyn Kenyon is number 10.5B in her Dark-Hunter series (meaning that it comes in between “Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Dream Hunter,” but after the novella “A Hard Day’s Night-Searcher,” which is 10.5A, and before “Fear the Darkness,” which is 10.5C).
This is the only novella I read from this anthology. This was a Dark-Hunter novel about Valkan (was the illegitimate son of a Hungarian princess and a Moldavian prince) and Esperetta (Dracula's daughter) star-cros...more
This is the only novella I read from this anthology. This was a Dark-Hunter novel about Valkan (was the illegitimate son of a Hungarian princess and a Moldavian prince) and Esperetta (Dracula's daughter) star-cros...more
Picked this up as I am a huge fan of Sherrilyn Kenyon. Her story, Until Death Do We Part, was a really fun take on what Vlad (aka Dracula) Tepes' family might have been. Love that she pulls in the myth from her Dark Hunter stories too. Amazing read!
I have to admit that I did not like the story, Ride the Night Wind, by L.A. Banks at all. It isn't that I can't relate to the barrios, but I found the writing disjointed, and I utterly disliked the ending. Perhaps if this story was a novel instead of...more
I have to admit that I did not like the story, Ride the Night Wind, by L.A. Banks at all. It isn't that I can't relate to the barrios, but I found the writing disjointed, and I utterly disliked the ending. Perhaps if this story was a novel instead of...more
I mainly had to read this book because it had the lost Wulf brother (The Forgotten One). When reading the book The Cursed One it mentions Merrick and I had no idea who he was and considering I really loved the Wulfs; I had to know.
Most of the time a anthology is only half good. Usually I dislike 2 of 4 stories but I have to say that wasn't the case here, which is why I plan on keeping this anthology.
Until Death Do Us Part was my second favorite of all the stories. I am a big fan of Sherrilyn Ken...more
Most of the time a anthology is only half good. Usually I dislike 2 of 4 stories but I have to say that wasn't the case here, which is why I plan on keeping this anthology.
Until Death Do Us Part was my second favorite of all the stories. I am a big fan of Sherrilyn Ken...more
OVERALL - I'm going to round up to 4 stars overall - the average comes out to 3.65 stars.
Story 1 - Until Death Do We Part by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Well I'mnot really sure about this one. Having not read anything by Kenyon before maybe she writes exceedingly hard-headed vampires. Seems to me 500 years is a long time, even for a vampire, to sit and wait for what you want.
3 stars
Story 2 - Ride The Night Wind by L.A. Banks
Okay - the problem with anthologies is that you'll come across a story that is part...more
Story 1 - Until Death Do We Part by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Well I'mnot really sure about this one. Having not read anything by Kenyon before maybe she writes exceedingly hard-headed vampires. Seems to me 500 years is a long time, even for a vampire, to sit and wait for what you want.
3 stars
Story 2 - Ride The Night Wind by L.A. Banks
Okay - the problem with anthologies is that you'll come across a story that is part...more
This is another anthology I bought for just one story - Sherrilyn Kenyon's. And though I enjoyed the Dark-Hunter story included here, it wasn't as good as D-H stories in other anthologies (oh, how I wish they would put them all in one book!). On the night Velkan was murdered, he made a familiar pact with Artemis. But because his soul was bound to his wife's, Retta became immortal as well. Only, she believes he was the one who killed her and will have nothing to do with him. When she learns the t...more
I picked up this book because one of the short stories was written by one of my favorite authors Sherrilyn Kenyon.
Sherrilyn Kenyon's "Until Death Do Us Part' short story was great. Vampires and lost love...great plot and a fun read.
Didn't like L.A. Banks short story 'Ride the Night Wind' about two very young teens that would probably attract a very young reader. Not me.
'The Gift' by Susan Squires another vampire story. I love this author. A vampire story with wealthy Emma wanting to marry Dav...more
Sherrilyn Kenyon's "Until Death Do Us Part' short story was great. Vampires and lost love...great plot and a fun read.
Didn't like L.A. Banks short story 'Ride the Night Wind' about two very young teens that would probably attract a very young reader. Not me.
'The Gift' by Susan Squires another vampire story. I love this author. A vampire story with wealthy Emma wanting to marry Dav...more
Velkan and Retta's story. *meh*. Retta is the daughter of the real count dracula. Velkan is a dark hunter, she is his wife who is also immortal. The story was ok--it's a nice little side dish to go with the dark-hunters of the world. It does not have anything to with the ongoing story with Ash, Stryker, etc.
I had read this a long time ago, but had forgotten until I began reading it again. It was a good collection of stories, a nice way of introducing people who were unfamiliar with the four series to the works of the four authors.
Sherrilyn Kenyon's story was about a 2.5 star rating. I liked the descriptions of Vlad, Velkan and Esperetta. However, the heroine Esperetta is one of the too-stupid-to-live brigade. I found her annoying. She refuses to listen to the truth about the man she claimed to lov...more
Sherrilyn Kenyon's story was about a 2.5 star rating. I liked the descriptions of Vlad, Velkan and Esperetta. However, the heroine Esperetta is one of the too-stupid-to-live brigade. I found her annoying. She refuses to listen to the truth about the man she claimed to lov...more
Well, I enjoyed the Wild Wulfs story, just as I enjoyed the Wild Wulfs novels. The werewolf genre has really gotten my interest since I started reading the Keri Arthur Riley Jenson series.
I didn't like the Anita Blake off-shoot story. Probably because I stopped reading the Anita Blake novels after about the 3rd book. The way the characters speak is odd, just as, the things they say. I just don't like the dialogue (both inner and external). Unfortunately, I am not able to describe what it is that...more
I didn't like the Anita Blake off-shoot story. Probably because I stopped reading the Anita Blake novels after about the 3rd book. The way the characters speak is odd, just as, the things they say. I just don't like the dialogue (both inner and external). Unfortunately, I am not able to describe what it is that...more
THE STORIES
Until Death Do Us Part by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Over five hundred years ago, Esperetta’s soul was bound to her husband’s by dark magic, and when Velkan became a Dark-Hunter, to her horror, she became immortal as well. Now, they must come together to fight an old enemy…and the passion that threatens to consume them once more.
Ride the Night Wind by L.A. Banks
Dark dreams haunt Jose Ciponte, dreams of a woman so beautiful he aches for her-and a deadly enemy who stalks them in the night. And n...more
Until Death Do Us Part by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Over five hundred years ago, Esperetta’s soul was bound to her husband’s by dark magic, and when Velkan became a Dark-Hunter, to her horror, she became immortal as well. Now, they must come together to fight an old enemy…and the passion that threatens to consume them once more.
Ride the Night Wind by L.A. Banks
Dark dreams haunt Jose Ciponte, dreams of a woman so beautiful he aches for her-and a deadly enemy who stalks them in the night. And n...more
Nov 04, 2010
Kerste
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
DH fans looking to complete their collection
This review is based only on Sherrilyn Kenyon's short story...and I have to say, as a whole, I'm not all that fond of SK's short stories. I can think of several that I really haven't liked and very few, read as none, that I enjoyed. This one was no different. A DH who can turn into a bat??? Huh? Tired plotline where folks all hate each other until someone's life is in danger and wait, that device is used twice actually - someone may be killed by enemies, then someone is so damaged it takes days...more
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Until Death Do Us Part: With her soul bound to her husband Velkan's, when he becomes a Dark-Hunter Esperetta is made immortal as well. But a misunderstanding has kept them estranged for 500 years. Now they are thrown back together amid a deadly enemy.
Definitely the best of the anthology, although it was a weirder take on the Dark-Hunters with a wife unwittingly dragged into it and the Romeo and Juliet story mixed with Dracula. A bit odd, but fun to read.
Ride the Night Wind: Two teens dream of ea...more
Definitely the best of the anthology, although it was a weirder take on the Dark-Hunters with a wife unwittingly dragged into it and the Romeo and Juliet story mixed with Dracula. A bit odd, but fun to read.
Ride the Night Wind: Two teens dream of ea...more
My "initial" rating was confirmed in this reread. It's Sherrilyn Kenyon's contribution that shines in this anthology.
Though quite similar to her novella in Dead After Dark - the hero loves the heroine, but she's a real bitch and doesn't want anything to do with him - Retta quickly learns the error of her ways and in the end it's Velkan's turn to suffer from "cold feet". I wouldn't mind keeping him warm though. ;)
This is a love story for the ages, literally lasting through the ages. Loved the pro...more
Though quite similar to her novella in Dead After Dark - the hero loves the heroine, but she's a real bitch and doesn't want anything to do with him - Retta quickly learns the error of her ways and in the end it's Velkan's turn to suffer from "cold feet". I wouldn't mind keeping him warm though. ;)
This is a love story for the ages, literally lasting through the ages. Loved the pro...more
This was a book I picked up because I've been on a bit of an Urban Fantasy-Romance binge lately, and it could have been really wonderful. Four female authors with the common theme of love and things that go bump in the night! Sweet, right? Well, not so much.
I desperately struggled through the first story by headlining author Sherilyn Kenyon... I read it yesterday, but I have NO recollection about what it concerned. Something about Gypsies and Dracula and... well, I don't quite recall, but it wa...more
I desperately struggled through the first story by headlining author Sherilyn Kenyon... I read it yesterday, but I have NO recollection about what it concerned. Something about Gypsies and Dracula and... well, I don't quite recall, but it wa...more
Another anthology, this one is focused on creatures of the night.
The Dark-Hunter contribution is a tale of Dracula's daughter and her long-estranged Dark-Hunter husband. Sherrilyn Kenyon does a great job of weaving "fact" (or in this case, the Dracula legend) throughout her stories and really makes it interesting.
L.A. Banks's Ride the Night Wind is better than other short stories by the same author. It works as a standalone quite nicely and is fairly interesting too.
The Gift by Susan Squires i...more
The Dark-Hunter contribution is a tale of Dracula's daughter and her long-estranged Dark-Hunter husband. Sherrilyn Kenyon does a great job of weaving "fact" (or in this case, the Dracula legend) throughout her stories and really makes it interesting.
L.A. Banks's Ride the Night Wind is better than other short stories by the same author. It works as a standalone quite nicely and is fairly interesting too.
The Gift by Susan Squires i...more
Not bad for an anthology. The Forgotten One was very good. I will have to read Thompson's Wild Wulf's of London series. About a family that has been cursed to be werewolves, however, they do not become werewolves until they fall in love. Try explaining that one to your beloved. In the case of this story Merrick had no idea of the family curse because he was the love child of his father and mother. He doesn't even know who his father was. Midnight Pleasures (another anthology) also includes a sho...more
This had one of SK's dark hunter stories in it, and it fits right in there with all the others. Retta and Velkan feel destined to bet together, her father intervenes and they use drastic measures to be together which back fire and cause Retta to run from Velkan for over 5 hundred years. Unitl they are thrown together and she has to decide if she wants him in her life or not. Another excellent story x
Until Death We Do Part by Sherrilyn Kenyon (9/10)
Paranormal Romance. Short story in Love at First Bite Anothology. It was actually a good little story; deliberately Romeo and Juliet based on Dracula's daughter and her star crossed lover. Both "survived" their untimely deaths and are still fighting about it today, but need to make up.
[Copied across from Library Thing; 3 December 2012]
Paranormal Romance. Short story in Love at First Bite Anothology. It was actually a good little story; deliberately Romeo and Juliet based on Dracula's daughter and her star crossed lover. Both "survived" their untimely deaths and are still fighting about it today, but need to make up.
[Copied across from Library Thing; 3 December 2012]
May 09, 2009
penelopewanders
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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rings-rays-loans-traded
Another paranormal anthology travelling in a ring. As always with anthologies, you win some and you lose some. I liked the last two stories best. In this, as in Stroke of Midnight, I found Banks' story irritatingly confusing at times. Kenyon was pretty fun, and I realize I miss the Dark Hunters. I was pleasantly surprised by the Susan Squires as I hadn't thought much of the novel I read by her.
A very mixed bag of stories, two contemporary and two modern, all of which are paranormal romances.
Sherrilyn Kenyon brings Dracula into her reality, in this story his daughter has to deal with her husband that she believes ill of from a long time ago. He bound her soul to his and when he took Artemis' offer she became immortal too. Pretty typical of her stuff.
The second is LA Banks'. Two teenagers find themselves dealing with abilities and evil, they find themselves attracted to each other.
Susan...more
Sherrilyn Kenyon brings Dracula into her reality, in this story his daughter has to deal with her husband that she believes ill of from a long time ago. He bound her soul to his and when he took Artemis' offer she became immortal too. Pretty typical of her stuff.
The second is LA Banks'. Two teenagers find themselves dealing with abilities and evil, they find themselves attracted to each other.
Susan...more
I only read the L.A. Banks one. I can't get into Kenyon and I didn't try the Spires one or Thompson.( Her Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel books are great) I was really looking for more Banks.
Awesome and insightful into the characters in the series. Banks writes like a movie. There is clarity and function in each of her word choices. She will be missed.
Awesome and insightful into the characters in the series. Banks writes like a movie. There is clarity and function in each of her word choices. She will be missed.
I really enjoyed these 4 paranormal short stories/novellas.
My favorite: Until Death Do Us Part by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
Second: The Forgotten One by Ronda Thompson.
Third: The Gift by Susan Squires.
Last: Ride The Night Wind by L.A. Banks.
I will definitley be reading more books and series by these wonderful authors now that I got a taste of their writting.
My favorite: Until Death Do Us Part by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
Second: The Forgotten One by Ronda Thompson.
Third: The Gift by Susan Squires.
Last: Ride The Night Wind by L.A. Banks.
I will definitley be reading more books and series by these wonderful authors now that I got a taste of their writting.
UNTIL DEATH DO US PART: Velkan and Esperetta... Worth reading, but not as good as most of the D-H stories and novels. Retta is the daughter of the real count Dracula which was awesome! Loved how she combined the Dracula mythology into the story. Velkan is a Dark Hunter and obviously as bad as they come. Interesting read!
Again the Sherrilyn Kenyon story was well written and entertaining. I really liked her take on how the Dracula story was perpetuated. The characters were funny and the romance was steamy!
I had a huge problem with the L.A. Banks story. The dialogue was hard to relate to and was thoroughly distracting.
I had a huge problem with the L.A. Banks story. The dialogue was hard to relate to and was thoroughly distracting.
May 12, 2009
Janet
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
short-stories,
paranormal-fictional
I’ve been going back and ferreting out all of Kenyon’s short stories (thanks for hooking me on this stuff, Penny), whether or not the characters are from her Dark-Hunter series. The stories were pretty straight forward, not so much explicit sex scenes as suggested images.
I only read "Till Death Do Us Part" I enjoyed just as much as most of the other Dark Hunter series. I can't remember if any of these characters were mentioned in previous books but it didn't require any background to enjoy the read.
* * * 3/4
--This book in 6 words:
really loved characters and historical changes
--Why did I read this? And am I glad I did?
While I have been reading all the novellas in order along with the full-length books, I haven’t been taking the time to review them since some of them are so short that I’m not even counting them in my book lists. This one, however, deserves its own mini-review. I LOVED the twist in Dracula’s story! It was insanely creative. The relationship was extremely sad, and unlike the p...more
--This book in 6 words:
really loved characters and historical changes
--Why did I read this? And am I glad I did?
While I have been reading all the novellas in order along with the full-length books, I haven’t been taking the time to review them since some of them are so short that I’m not even counting them in my book lists. This one, however, deserves its own mini-review. I LOVED the twist in Dracula’s story! It was insanely creative. The relationship was extremely sad, and unlike the p...more
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Sherrilyn Kenyon lives a life of extraordinary danger... as does any woman with three sons, a husband, a menagerie of pets and a collection of swords that all of the above have a fixation on. But when not running interference (or dashing off to the emergency room), she's found chained to her computer where she likes to play with all her imaginary friends. With more than ten million copies of her b...more
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“Keeping pushing, Andrei, and you and I are going to play a game. (Esperetta)
And what game is that, Princess? (Andrei)
Find the Ball in My Hand. (Esperetta)
I don’t see a ball, Princess. (Andrei)
Oh, you will, just as soon as I snap it off your body. (Esperetta)”
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And what game is that, Princess? (Andrei)
Find the Ball in My Hand. (Esperetta)
I don’t see a ball, Princess. (Andrei)
Oh, you will, just as soon as I snap it off your body. (Esperetta)”
“Would you like tickets for tonight’s tour? (Andrei)
Like another hole in my head. (Esperetta)
That’s American slang for ‘no thank you. (Francesca)
Strange. When I was in New York it was slang for ‘no fucking way.' (Andrei)”
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Like another hole in my head. (Esperetta)
That’s American slang for ‘no thank you. (Francesca)
Strange. When I was in New York it was slang for ‘no fucking way.' (Andrei)”
