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Lothaire (Immortals After Dark, #11)

Kresley Cole

Start date: August 1, 2012

Finish date: August 31, 2012

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Apr 28, 2012 Shera (Book Whispers) rated it really liked it

Shelves: ebook, paranormal-romance, vampire, valkyrie, 2012

In my mind, Lothaire has been the ultimate bad boy for the IAD. He’s clearly 100% evil villain and no matter what nefarious plots he's carried out I'm always metaphorical swooning on my feet for him. So to say the wait for this book has been unbearable is a terrible understatement. After finishing it I can clearly state that Cole is still my poison of choice! However, this book wasn't what I expected. For a character like Lothaire though, it would be tough to get it (him) just right. However, st In my mind, Lothaire has been the ultimate bad boy for the IAD. He’s clearly 100% evil villain and no matter what nefarious plots he's carried out I'm always metaphorical swooning on my feet for him. So to say the wait for this book has been unbearable is a terrible understatement. After finishing it I can clearly state that Cole is still my poison of choice! However, this book wasn't what I expected. For a character like Lothaire though, it would be tough to get it (him) just right. However, stating all that I will say this book surpassed my expectations, while also underwhelming them. (Yeah, I know I'm confused too.)

Elizabeth is the perfect soul mate for Lothaire. She's a standard redneck Hill-billy, but she's got all the smarts and wits to balance it out. Sure she eat squirrels, but she can still out wit La Dorada. It bothers me that—yet again—another Cole leading lady is a virgin. (Girls can have fun too!!) However, unlike some of the other IMA virgins she falls in the category of very sexual. Her reasons for saving it are, thankfully, not a mystical crisis. She was easy to relate too as she's not wealthy, but she's happy with the life she's lived. Elizabeth's strong will is perfectly shown as she battles the evil vampire goddess Saroya who inhabited her body at 18 years of age. Saroya ruined her life as her serial killer tendencies took over when ever the goddess took over Ellie's body.

Lothaire was just as devious as I had originally thought. He refuses to accept that Ellie is his Bride because of his ever present hatred for mortals. Instead he fixes on Saroya. It's interesting watching his arrogance, madness, and plots fall into place as he discovers Ellie as his mate and finally excepts her. He's completely evil to her. In fact, I actually started to become annoyed with him. When the couple finally put aside they're differences I felt like Lothaire really didn't change that much. I did not feel like he truly accepted Ellie as a human, and he conceded a bit to her family. What annoyed me more is that Ellie came off with better one liners then Lothaire. All of his truly good dialogue seemed to be reminiscing from other characters telling Ellie about what Lothaire had done in the past.

Still I felt like this book held it's own considering how many expectations I had riding on it. Thad the half vampire, half shade is pretty steady character in the book and I love him more. This book builds up the Dacian realm well enough that I'm looking forward to the spinoff series. Nix gets page time and it's really nice seeing some of the dynamics that Lothaire and her share. I'm desperately awaiting Nix's book, as much as I fear it. In the end this is another solid IAD entry to the series. While I feel like Cole is depending way too much on her formalistic plot that makes up EVERY book in the IAD series, I'm a sucker for it.

Sexual Content: This is a Cole book, you have to know by now!

4/5- Great! Really enjoyed it.

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Jan 25, 2012 Sarouel rated it it was amazing

I really like bad heroes,really bad ones..Lothaire is a son of a bi**** a real one,but so difficult to hate..

This series keeps on interesting me, not like others, Kresley Cole gives us in every book a different story and another side of the big story..every book is related and different at once, which is great and very hard to do (i guess,seeing how other series loose their thing along the way,you know,the books seem the same over and over...not this one, for me at least).

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Jan 14, 2012 Mariya rated it liked it

Shelves: pnr-romance, scarred-and-broken, prince-or-king, badass-hero, possessive-hero, huge-disappointment, vampires, virgin-heroine

I was so freaking excited going into LOTHAIRE, because I had heard such good things about this book and it's Lothaire. He is so hot and the bad boy. So, I was all, "Let's get this party started!" But instead of this book being all awesome and epic, it was so not.

The plot was interesting enough, it's just that I didn't like it. I didn't like that there was this goddess, Saroya inside of Ellie, the heroine and Lothaire thinks that this Saroya is his bride instead of Ellie, even though Nix has pred I was so freaking excited going into LOTHAIRE, because I had heard such good things about this book and it's Lothaire. He is so hot and the bad boy. So, I was all, "Let's get this party started!" But instead of this book being all awesome and epic, it was so not.

The plot was interesting enough, it's just that I didn't like it. I didn't like that there was this goddess, Saroya inside of Ellie, the heroine and Lothaire thinks that this Saroya is his bride instead of Ellie, even though Nix has predicted that it was Ellie. He thought since he visited Ellie when she was fourteen and had no connection or nothing happened that it was a fluke. She's still a kid, of course not, dimwit. And Lothaire wants to cast Ellie's soul out of her body.

Oh.my.god. there are so many things wrong with that plot. I haven't really read a Kresley Cole book where the plot was just so ridiculous, I think I was caught off guard. I hated that Lothiare is in complete denial, because he is prejudice against humans and I think he didn't want his bride to be human so much that he wanted Saroya to be it for him, because she is a goddess and worthy of a vampire such as him.

Her lips parted. She was now a vampire, and he was still treating her like shit. It’s never gonna end. An eternity of living with this arrogant ass?

I think that Lothiare treated Ellie so bad that it is beyond forgiveness. And when they finally are together. He still controls and takes away her will. Turns her against her will, without even being able to talk it out with her. I understand why he wanted to turn her, but he could've talked to her. And, also him always saying he will make all and every decision for Ellie and that Ellie and him will never be equals. That pissed me off beyond words.

All I saw through the whole book was that Lothaire was a complete jackass. Thus, I couldn't enjoy the book fully. I mean he was so arrogant that he thought he was better than her in all ways. But I did enjoy this book a tiny bit. The love scenes and I loved Ellie cussing Lothaire out for controlling her, and also the ending, And that Lothaire gave Ellie the gift of sunlight. There were some good things, but this definitely was not a favorite. Hopefully, the next will be better. ...more

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Jun 28, 2011 Lakeisha rated it it was amazing

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