Ashes of Midnight (Midnight Breed, #6) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Dec 14, 2008 Shawna rated it it was amazing

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4 ½-5 stars – Vampire Romance

I really enjoyed this sixth installment in Lara Adrian’s awesome Midnight Breed series, but found myself feeling a little confused at first because it’s been a while since I’ve read the previous books and there is an ongoing story arc that’s central to the story.

For those of you who haven’t yet read this series, there are similarities often drawn with J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood and Ward herself gives an author endorsement, but Adrian’s take on the origins a 4 ½-5 stars – Vampire Romance

I really enjoyed this sixth installment in Lara Adrian’s awesome Midnight Breed series, but found myself feeling a little confused at first because it’s been a while since I’ve read the previous books and there is an ongoing story arc that’s central to the story.

For those of you who haven’t yet read this series, there are similarities often drawn with J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood and Ward herself gives an author endorsement, but Adrian’s take on the origins and life of vampires and Breed Warriors has some unique and creative aspects to it as well. The vampire ‘Breed’ race originates from otherworldly beings that landed on Earth and over time found certain human females, referred to as Breedmates, with the proper genetic make-up to breed and produce offspring. The original alien vampires, Ancients, were too feral and volatile and subsequently taken out by their first generation vampire offspring, Gen Ones. There is a class of Breed Warriors led by Gen One vampire Lucan, known as The Order, who now fight to protect the Breed race and humanity from bad vampires, Rogues, who have been lost to bloodlust and their Minions, humans who are controlled by the Rogues, and to keep their existence secret from humankind. Of course, there is a continuing, evolving plot throughout the books involving the evil Breed mastermind Dragos’s attempt to bring down The Order and rule the world.

Ashes of Midnight picks up a few weeks after the events of Veil of Midnight and focuses on Andreas Reichen’s quest for vengeance against Dragos and his power hungry subordinate Wilhelm Roth, even if it means using his former lover Claire, who is now bloodmated to Roth, in his violent pursuit of his archenemy. Andreas has been an intriguing side character in the previous books, and I’ve looked forward to his story and it didn’t disappoint. His special Breed ability is pyrokinesis and the whole ‘Phoenix rising from the ashes of hell’ to inflect retribution element adds a thrilling edge to the plot and lots of fiery, intense action. The romance between Andreas and Claire is scorching hot, and their love against all odds relationship is really emotional and moving.

This is another electrifying read in an extraordinary vampire paranormal romance series! I’m looking forward to Kade’s story in the next installment, Shades of Midnight, slated for release at the end of December’09! 4 ½-5 stars! ...more

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May 03, 2014 D.G. rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I have a love-hate relationship with this series. For some reason, I keep reading it hoping the romances would get better but they really don't. This isn't the worst of the lot - with a prior relationship, there was a reason for them to have feelings for each other - but it still wasn't the breakthrough book for me.

What I found out though is that the narrator detracts from the book. Her book is too raspy, she sounds too old and her accents are not good enough. For the first time, I switched to p ...more

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Apr 18, 2010 Paula Phillips rated it really liked it

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Ashes of Midnight by Lara Adrian
Andreas Reichen is back from the dead, and he’s out to get vengeance on all those involved in the destroying of his kin at his Darkhaven estate. Going through his list of enforcement agents and getting rid of them one by one, he comes to the guy on the top rung – Wilhelm Roth. Unfortunately unknown to him, attached to Wilhelm Roth is Claire his mate. Andreas and Claire have been in love with each other since the first day they met 30 years ago. Claire ...more

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Mar 20, 2009 DarkHeart "Vehngeance" rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires, paranormal-romance, 2009

Another great Midnight Breed novel and a quick and entertaining read. Reichen has been an interesting character since he was first introduced - was it back in Tegan and Elise's book? After the devestating conclusion to Veil of Midnight, we knew that Reichen was going to be looking for vengeance. His Breed power of pyrokinesis is an interesting one, which leads to some pretty devestating conclusions. Claire was a great breedmate for him. Discovering their past and experiencing their reunion was a ...more

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Jun 21, 2009 Kimberly rated it really liked it

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Well, at least these two have known each other for a while as opposed to the week it took the others to meet, fall in love and then decide they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with each other.
And why did the author always have to refer to Brock as the black warrior? Okay, he's black. I got that the first 10 times she mentioned it. It will be interesting to see how she refers to him when he gets his own book, granted he gets a book.
Enough ranting.
I liked this one. Not the best of the bunc ...more

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