My rating 1.5 stars.
To start with I would like to say that I love the Midnight Breed series and I think that Lara Adrian is a great writer.But this book couldn't reach up to my expectations.In fact to say that it didn't reach to my expectations is an understatement.
My first question is....where was the story?!!! The book was so short that I actually finished it in 2.5 hours.But if it would have been a good story I would have ignored the fact.But the story was lacking in so many ways.
I liked the start of the story.It was good.Even though the slapping part wasn't original,it still was good and that time I knew that this story will have a great villain but I was wrong.The book was good till the part where Malcolm saves Danika and takes her to his castle.And then....DISASTER.Out of nowhere there are sparks between them and they start desiring each other.The only person unhappy with his feelings was Malcolm.Danika was perfectly fine with her desires for Malcolm even though she was still in mourning.
I was happy when I first found out that Danika will have second chance at love in this book but she was already in love with Conlan so falling in love with Malcolm would have taken some time.But everything happened all of a sudden.She started desiring him all of a sudden and then she was in love with Malcolm ALL OF A SUDDEN.
(Sigh)She had been with Conlan for centuries and loved him so much that she didn't want to part with her mourning sash even after 1.5 yrs yet she forgot Conlan in seconds when Malcolm was in front of her.
Then comes the middle part.It was okay.But I would have loved a little bonding time between Malcolm and Conner.But in the whole story either Conner was sleeping or crying.If Malcolm was going to become Conner's father then there should have been interaction between then in the story but that didn't happen.It would have been great if Malcolm would have interacted with Conner and Danika seeing this would have realised that 1)Malcolm would be a great father and 2)Conner needs a father.
But no such thing happened.
Then comes the ending part.The villain had captured Danika and Conner but i didn't panic at all.In fact I didn't care.This part should have made my heart beat at the speed of 200 beats per second (never mind the exaggeration)but no such thing happened. Then was the part where the villain had to die.......Oh apparently there was no scene related to his death in the book.In fact the only way we know that Mr Reiver is dead is because Malcolm says so.I am not a fan of violence but that part was important.Villain is an important part of the story so is his death.But no such scene was there.
So basically not only was the book lacking but also rushed.A book being fast-paced is good but this book was rushed.This book could have been so much better but it disappointed me.So at the end I am pretty sure Lara Adrian is suffering from writer's block because both Deeper than Midnight (2nd half of it) and A Taste of Midnight (almost the whole book) disappointed me because of the way things happened in the book.Now I have my fingers crossed that Darker than Midnight would be better.
The only thing I liked about this story is Thane and I definitely want to read more about him.
And for all those people who like this book,we all have different tastes.