Dawnbreaker (Dark Days, #3) in Vampires, Weres and Fae!

Dec 04, 2010 Vannessa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-books, urban-fantasy, vampire-mostly

I like this series, but I do find it frustrating at times. Mira is a vampire or nightwalker as they are called in this book, but one with a special talent that no other vampire has - she has the ability to create and manipulate fire. She's back in Savannah to try and protect her people now that the naturi are determined to break open the door to their world and kill all humans and nightwalkers in the process.

Mira seemed to be constantly fighting for her life and loses many friends and allies in I like this series, but I do find it frustrating at times. Mira is a vampire or nightwalker as they are called in this book, but one with a special talent that no other vampire has - she has the ability to create and manipulate fire. She's back in Savannah to try and protect her people now that the naturi are determined to break open the door to their world and kill all humans and nightwalkers in the process.

Mira seemed to be constantly fighting for her life and loses many friends and allies in the process. The naturi are not an easy enemy to fight and Mira doesn't know if she will come out of this battle alive or not. But either way she has to try and stop them from opening the door which will destroy the world as she knows it, even if it does mean returning to Machu Picchu, the place of her nightmares.

Danaus makes a reappearance and luck sometimes happens to be on Mira side, but the battle to Machu Picchu is slow and painful for Mira. She's still not 100% trusting of Danaus, but he is someone she trusts and can rely on more than some of the nightwalkers who have come to help, especially Jabari.

Even though Mira lost the battle at the end, she did kind of win in that she didn't die! But the path has now been set and the on-coming fight is going to be a big one and I can feel that Mira's future is not going to be an easy one by any means.

My frustrations with this series are not with anything in particular. I just wish this whole naturi story would be over and Mira manages to defeat them all, but I know that's not going to happen just yet. I also wish other people, but other nightwalkers in particular would help her out a bit more. Mira seems to be fighting the naturi on her own, without the Coven really getting involved when I think it's really their problem and not solely Mira's. Yes they do send some reinforcements in this time, but they only help out when it suits them! I completely understand why Mira doesn't want to be part of the Coven at all.

I will read the rest of this series - I need to see the naturi being defeated once and for all, but I think I'll leave it for a while before jumping into the next book, so my frustrations die down a little hehe! ...more

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Oct 04, 2009 Melindeeloo marked it as dnf

Shelves: vampires, urban-fantasy

I made it about a third of the way through this one and just lost interest, even though I liked the last book. It might be that I don't actually find the lead Mira to be all that engaging and Danaus wasn't around that much for the beginning of the story. May finish later.

Well I tried again, and gave up and just flipped through the rest. ...more

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