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A Hunger Like No Other (Immortals After Dark, #1)

Kresley Cole

Start date: April 1, 2011

Finish date: May 1, 2011

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Oct 17, 2008 Danielle The Book Huntress rated it it was amazing

Shelves: part-of-a-series, paranormal-romance, desert-island-keepers, favorite-or-autobuy-author, dangerous-hero-challenge-2013, captive-kidnapped, owned-copy, royalty, yearly-reading-challenge-2013, scottish

Third Reread Completed in September 2020.

I listened to this on Audio, and I think I finished in a few days. That's just how fantastic this book is. This book helped get me into paranormal romance, and I haven't looked back since. The narrator, Robert Petkoff's work is a thing of beauty. His Scottish accent is flawless. His Eastern European accents are excellent. I found his accent for Emmaline interesting, almost like an 19th Century, highly educated Southern accent. That makes sense, she is chr ...more

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Jan 16, 2009 Cindy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: keepers

Re-reading...
What do you do when those who know you best call you "Emma the Timid"; and they're right! Emma is half Vampire and half Valkyrie and raised by the Valkyries. She is on her own for the first time only to have it all go wrong - first she can't find the information she's looking for, the blood dealer she's using disappears, and then she's kidnapped by an immortal, half-insane Lykae [werewolf:] who says she's his lifemate... Captured by vampires and tortured for years has driven Lachlai ...more

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Apr 05, 2009 Netanella rated it liked it

Shelves: paranormal-romance, author-kresley-cole

Continuing the story of the New Orleans coven of Valkyrie sisters, this one finds our new heroine Emmaline Troy in Paris, researching her parentage. Emma is a rare half-breed, the daughter of a vampire (one of the most despised race in the Lore, the mystical population of demons, elves, werewolves, etc.) and a Valkyrie mommy who died when she was three. Despite such awesome parentage, Emma is a wilting flower, scared of her shadow and cowardly. She flinches, she weeps, she cries pink tears. Desp ...more

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May 03, 2008 Ally rated it it was amazing

Shelves: re-read, 2012, 2008, 2010, 5-stars

Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan has been tortured for years by the Vampire Horde while enduring his torture he smells his predestined mate after waiting a millennia for her. Lachlain manages to escape only to find his mate Emmaline, is a vampire.
Emmaline is half Valkyrie and half Vampire, she’s been sheltered by her Valkyrie aunts all of her life but decides to try and find the truth about her deceased Mother and who her Father might be by going to Paris where they met. Instead Emma Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan has been tortured for years by the Vampire Horde while enduring his torture he smells his predestined mate after waiting a millennia for her. Lachlain manages to escape only to find his mate Emmaline, is a vampire.
Emmaline is half Valkyrie and half Vampire, she’s been sheltered by her Valkyrie aunts all of her life but decides to try and find the truth about her deceased Mother and who her Father might be by going to Paris where they met. Instead Emmaline is forced to help Lachlain return to his home in Scotland, where Lachlain plans to keep her.
Somehow the Vampire Horde has found out about Emmaline and plan to make her there Queen.

I really love, love, love this book! I loved Emmaline I thought she was an amazing heroine and I loved the part with Nix when she leaves Emma a note saying ‘Emma who? Emma who? Emma Who?’ Because Emma has yet to become the person she needs to be. And that’s what A Hunger Like No Other is about and Emma really wouldn’t become who she needs to be without Lachlain being the ‘bad guy’ so to speak. I really loved Lachlain, he’d spent his entire life searching for his mate but never finding her and fighting the Vampire Horde, only to be taken and tortured for 100 plus years. Finally he smells her and in breaking free losses part of his leg, but then he losses her smell and can’t find her. Several days later he finds Emma and you then see how damaged Lachlain has become due to his torture.

The rest of the story is about Emma and Lachlain making there way from Paris to Scotland and dealing with each other. Lachlain tells Emma that she is not his mate and that he just needs her to get to his home in Scotland. Sadly, because Emma can’t lie she tends to believe the best of people and goes along with Lachlain to his home. I thought this was an amazing book, it’s so well written and it’s extremely humorous in places. I loved the growing relationship with Emma and Lachlain and how Emma deals with Lachlain’s anger and violence towards her as a Vampire and how he seems to unleash his anger on his surroundings.

This is a must read book to me and you should read the rest of the series too!

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Feb 10, 2009 Sarah thomas rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal-adult

i liked it but then again i already knew what storyline i was walking into because i had read previous ones. i think it could get confusing for those who don't know about the LORE but still amazing book very creative ...more

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May 02, 2008 Jen rated it really liked it

Shelves: cole, audio

Emma and Lachlain

This was an audio reread. I would lower it to 3 stars after my reread. I found Emma to be a judgmental witch this time. And a weakling. I wonder what changed....

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Feb 24, 2009 Shannon rated it it was amazing

Shelves: paranormal-romance, immortals-after-dark, favorites

The only thing that kept this from being a 5 star for me was Emma and her Indecisiveness. I kept thinking COME ON!! make a decision and stick with it!

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