Kiss of Midnight (Midnight Breed, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Jun 01, 2010 Desperado rated it liked it · review of another edition

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This novel was remarkably unremarkable. Don't get me wrong, it didn't suck but I'm not exactly about to clean out the Lara Adrian section at the local bookstore. The set up is pretty generic, like Adrian got tips from "Vampire Romance 101". You've got the big baddies (Rogues) & the group of men fighting to annihilate the big baddies. There personalities are even generic(at least on the surface). There's the leader, the badass, the geek, the smartass, & the suicidal loner. The hero of My Thoughts:

This novel was remarkably unremarkable. Don't get me wrong, it didn't suck but I'm not exactly about to clean out the Lara Adrian section at the local bookstore. The set up is pretty generic, like Adrian got tips from "Vampire Romance 101". You've got the big baddies (Rogues) & the group of men fighting to annihilate the big baddies. There personalities are even generic(at least on the surface). There's the leader, the badass, the geek, the smartass, & the suicidal loner. The hero of the first novel is Lucan the Leader aka Emo Vampenis. Seriously, he's like Angel/Angelus from Buffy the Vampire Slayer only not nearly as hot enough to get away with that shit. Apparently he's emo because of some tragic things that happened, oh, 500 years ago? Get the hell over it Emo Vamp!

The heroine Gabrielle is one of those women who claim to be unable to trust anyone yet practically gives her social security number to the first guy who bats his lashes at her (in this case, Emo Vampenis). Not to mention that she is super gullible. Only in fantasylandia do women trust guys who say "Hey baby, let me go bareback cause I can't impregnant you with my demon spawn". Unless your that stupid in real life. In which case, I'm sorry. Gabrielle professes to love Lucan with all of her slutty heart & soul which makes me think she has no backbone as all he does is boink her & snarl & act like a douche. When he's not being especially Emo anyway. This novel & many others will have men thinking the way to a woman's heart is through her coochie. And they would be right about some women (Gabrielle).

This novel didn't have much of a plot other than going after the big baddies. There was a big betrayal scene towards the end but it lasted like half a page before cutting back to Emo Vamp & his slutty breedmate. Oh, & they announce who King Big Baddie is, which I figured out like 200 pages ago. Other than that, nothing.

As for those who claim this novel is like BDB lite, I didn't really see it. I mean yeah there were similarities but those similarities run rampant in many PNR novels, lots which came out before BDB. IMHO, comparing this novel to BDB is like comparing Shiver to Blood & Chocolate because they both involve werewolves. I will say that my "copycat" meter went off when I read about the dermaglyphs. Larissa Ione's Demonica series has heroes with dermaglyphs & it's not exactly something you read about alot in romancelandia. Alas, I found out that this book came out before the first Demonica book so who knows?

Overall, this was an easy yet boring read but then again I'm sure urine goes down easy if you mix it in beer. I probably will read the 2nd novel,Kiss of Crimson because I do see a potential for kickassness in Adrian's writing.

On a side note, I love (& by love I mean laugh at in a snarky way) how one of the numerous sex scenes between Emo Vampenis & Slutty Breedmate had the hero "screaming out harsh words". You throw the f-bomb out every other page but you've gotta be all cryptic about what the hero is saying? Let me guess: "I'm *grunt grunt* ready to fill you with my vampy seed. *grunt grunt groan deflate*"? Was I close? ...more

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Jul 07, 2010 Monique rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I wanted to say 4 1/2 stars, but, I couldn't get this thing to do that...This was very good...I'm glad that I gave this series a second chance and started it from the beginning because I really didn't love the latest book, "Taken by Midnight," it was ok, but, I thought this one was a bit better....Again the heroine and her whining, over-curiousity, stubborness, and more really irritated me...Almost always walking herself into bad situations throughout the whole book...But, maybe that's what the I wanted to say 4 1/2 stars, but, I couldn't get this thing to do that...This was very good...I'm glad that I gave this series a second chance and started it from the beginning because I really didn't love the latest book, "Taken by Midnight," it was ok, but, I thought this one was a bit better....Again the heroine and her whining, over-curiousity, stubborness, and more really irritated me...Almost always walking herself into bad situations throughout the whole book...But, maybe that's what the author wants to do, frustrate the reader with her heroines...And then our male lead Lucan, loved him in the beginning...But, as I got near the end of the book he was really pissing me off with his stubborness and brooding...They both made me want to scream, both Gabrielle and Lucan throughout the last seven chapters of the book...However, the sex scenes were very steamy, loved them:) And it was nice to be introduced to all of the breed warriors...It felt like she was setting us up for the stories to come within the context of the series...

I listened to this entire book on audio...So the narrator irritated me with her interpretation of Gabrielle and her friends...However, she was pretty good with the males....I think that's why I went ahead and got the book from the book store so I can re-read again and picture my own versions of the characters if you know what I mean...I will say Ms. Adrian has won me over with this debut in the series and I am anxious to continue on and read about all of the other breed warrior's stories...

I have book two on deck to actually read, they didn't have the audiobook in the library for this one, but, they did have Rio's story on audio so I've started that one...I will try to read the second book as soon as I can, but, it's hard right now with the holiday right around the corner...

Verdict...If you love vamps, very hot and sexy ones...than this story is for you...I can't say that I love the female lead, but, one out of two ain't bad...Special thanks to Francesca on here for encouraging me to read this from the beginning if it weren't for her, I don't think I would have gave this series a second chance;) ...more

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Jun 17, 2010 Gus marked it as to-read · review of another edition

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I couldn't get into this after 50 pages...and I have so many other good books to read, I'm going to have to put it on hold! ...more

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Jun 12, 2010 Missyb rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Picked up this series as a recommendation if you liked the JR Ward, BDB series,which I did. I liked this series. It is similiar to BDB, in that it is about a group that acts like brothers even if they are not related and fight together while each finding their mates, otherwise it is very different then BDB in many aspects. Great characters, and even though each book is about a different person, the characters carry over, and so does some of the main story.

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