Kiss of Midnight (Midnight Breed, #1) in Dangerous Hero Addict Support Group

May 24, 2010 Suzanne (Under the Covers Book blog) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: genre-paranormal-romance, va-va-voom-vampires

I read this as I have seen Lara Adrians book in all the bookshops and heard that it had a similar vibe as the Black Dagger Brotherhood. However although I wasn't exactly disappointed I didn't think it was anywhere as good as say "Dark Lover" by J R Ward.

This book was about Lucan Thorne the leader of the Breed warriors who protect humanity and other members of the Breed from Rogues, who are members of the Breed that have descended in to bloodlust and are deranged, constantly hungry psychopaths. T I read this as I have seen Lara Adrians book in all the bookshops and heard that it had a similar vibe as the Black Dagger Brotherhood. However although I wasn't exactly disappointed I didn't think it was anywhere as good as say "Dark Lover" by J R Ward.

This book was about Lucan Thorne the leader of the Breed warriors who protect humanity and other members of the Breed from Rogues, who are members of the Breed that have descended in to bloodlust and are deranged, constantly hungry psychopaths. The Breed are basically vampires, they have an aversion to sunlight and need blood to survive, but the diffence in Adrians book is that the vampires have extra-terrestrial origins. The female protagnist is Gabrielle, she is a Breedmate, which is a rare human woman who is able to bloodbond with the Breed (who incidently comprises soley of males) and bare their children. Gabrielle is unaware of this and the vampires in general at the beginning of the book, and she is only brought to the Breed and more importantly Lucans attention when she witnesses a group of Rogues tearing apart a human in an alley outside a club. This brings Lucan and Gabrielle in to contact and everything else begins from there.

What I liked about this the original take on the vampire myth, I honestly never expected vampires to basically be aliens; however, she never makes it seem ridculous, mainly I believe becuase she downplayed the idea. I also liked though didn't particually enjoyed the attitude the Breed warriors had to human victims of the Rogues, I liked it because after so many years of slaying Rogues you would have to become immune to such deaths otherwise you would never last long as a warrior; however, that doesn't necessarily make it easier to read. I also liked the other warriors in the book, all though not in it very much they all had ditinct personalities and I would like to see there characters fleshed out a bit more.

Now, the romance between the two main characters I didn't find entirely believable, I know in PNR characters tend to fall in love very quickly and this book makes no exception, but I don't think it worked that well, in the BDB books the relationship between the two characters tends to be really intense and instinctual, which is someting that I think Adrian was striving for, but didn't really get. To me it felt like they feel in lust not love. Also as well as romantic relationships I would have liked to see the friendships of the warriors aswell and it didn't really show it, it felt like there were just a lot of strangers living in the same house.

I also would have preferred it if there was more world building as well in the books, for example it mentions the Darkhavens, but you don't know anything about them and I was curious and also apart from the warriors you don't know how else Breed society was structured.

But I did like the ideas in the book and I will read the next one, but I won't rush out to get it. For me there was something missing in these books that stops making it as brilliant, in my opnion, as BDB and I think what was missing was depth.

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