MacRieve (Immortals After Dark, #13) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Dec 11, 2012 namericanwordcat rated it really liked it

Shelves: self-esteem-issues, bootiful, 4-star-romance, child-abuse, low-self-esteem, abuse-sexual-or-physical, insane-mad-maybe, fated-mate, magic, wolf-shifter

Macrieve (Immortals After Dark) Review A Beast In TormentUilleam MacRieve believed he’d laid to rest the ghosts of his boyhood. But when a brutal torture revives those ancient agonies and destroys his Lykae instinct, the proud Scot craves the oblivion of death. Until he finds her—a young human so full of spirit and courage that she pulls him back from the brink.A Beauty In ChainsSeized for the auction block, Chloe Todd is forced to enter a terrifying new world of monsters and lore as a bound sla Macrieve (Immortals After Dark) Review A Beast In TormentUilleam MacRieve believed he’d laid to rest the ghosts of his boyhood. But when a brutal torture revives those ancient agonies and destroys his Lykae instinct, the proud Scot craves the oblivion of death. Until he finds her—a young human so full of spirit and courage that she pulls him back from the brink.A Beauty In ChainsSeized for the auction block, Chloe Todd is forced to enter a terrifying new world of monsters and lore as a bound slave. When offered up to creatures of the dark, she fears she won’t last the night. Until she’s claimed by him—a tormented immortal with heartbreaking eyes, whose touch sets her blood on fire.A Full Moon On The Rise With enemies circling, MacRieve spirits Chloe away to the isolated Highland keep of his youth. But once he takes her to his bed, his sensual mate becomes something more than human, evoking his savage past and testing his sanity. On the cusp of the full moon, can he conquer his worst nightmare to save Chloe . . . from himself?

Review

If ever there was a hero that could use some trauma therapy, its MacRieve. Cole needs a Lorean therapist character badly. It is hard to review the book without giving spoilers as to why one of the Hotter and Hot Twin is so messed up and why his Fated Mate brings out the worst in him. His worst is very bad.

I have empathy for him so even his most awful behavior I can forgive because he is just so unselfish aware and so earlier in the admission of what really happened to him. This book is very emotional touching in this way.

Chloe is the bomb. I love her. She is kickass and I adore being in her mind as she works through things. The father deal not so much but everything else is great.

Finding out about another Lorean culture is wonderful. I wish we had more time in that realm and culture. The sexy times (even when messed up by past issues) are some of the most erotic I have read by Coie. Will is a dirty talker and Chloe loves it.

The secondary character we have here are fun but much of the gang is missing and therefore the humor. Still, I don't mind a darker book once in a while and Chloe is going to be a great addition to the kickass girl squad.

This book is basically a shake and stir of IAD elements with a new Lorean popping in. This is not a bad thing but what keeps the book from being a five star is that we are missing some stuff (Chloe getting a girl gang, really getting to know the new culture, couple time that is just couple time as in a real HEA instead of a cliffhanger to the next book) and the time between Will's trauma behavior to new perspective is rushed. We should have hung out in Chloe's homeland for a while, I think. This isn't my favorite in the series but I am sure I will enjoy it more on the reread. ...more

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Jul 05, 2013 Mashara rated it really liked it

Shelves: mad-max-battle-warriors-of-the-book

Is that time of the year again!! Teh sexxxy timez.

Escapism at it's freaking most bestest.
This is a rommmmmmance book. And it has steamy sex scenes. It's not classic literature. What it is is funny as fuck and with flawed characters that read like real people.

Very good.

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Jul 22, 2012 Mariya rated it it was ok

Shelves: pnr-romance, shifters

You can't like them all and I found this one seriously pissed me off of MacRieve's treatment of Chloe. :/ ...more

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Oct 06, 2012 Rachel-RN rated it liked it

Shelves: read-2014

2.5* not a 3
This book did suck me in; however, it still had way too many eye-roll, anger inducing moments for me.

Will was too full of angst, disrespectful, downright mean, and rude. He has had centuries to get the fuck over it. "You speak of change as if it's easy. I'm nine centuries old." Nice excuse asshole. "There was clearly so much going on in his head, yet he'd rather let her dangle in the dark than share any of it."

The way Will treated Chloe was awful. I enjoyed it when Chloe stuck up for ...more

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Dec 07, 2012 Felicia (Ferishia) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: series, romance, finished-listening, fav-author, humor, pr-vampire, pr-werewolf, pr-shifter, pr-other, ebook

Audiobook Review - Robert Petkoff can do no wrong in my book. I LOVE his voice and could listen to him read the phone book. I especially love his Scottish Brogue and cannot get enough. If you have not gotten on IAD/Robert Petkoff train yet, something is SERIOUSLY wrong with you! HIGHLY Recommend listening!

Book Review - I thought Lothaire's book was very dark, but it does not compare to this. I think the series has reached a new level of darkness with this book. Sure the humor, snark and levity a ...more

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Oct 05, 2012 Lili rated it it was amazing

The Will in my head is so much hotter than the one in this cover.
Excellent book, I looooove Cole's writing and IAD is still my very favorite series, I find it very interesting that even with 13 books, the series is still absolutely amazing, very few authors can acomplish this.

I loved Will, even though he was an asshole to Chloe most of the time, I still found it in me to forgive him, what happened to him was awful and creepy but it was handled really well.
Chloe was awesome!, I really liked her, ...more

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