Master of Darkness

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Not a bad vampire romance. Eden Faveau is a great character and laurent is quite interesting. Largely predictable but still kept my interest and i enjoyed it.

The two main characters, particularly Eden Faveau were great fun. I found her to be quite a strong female character who, while being caught up with a certain lust for the male lead, Laurent, was still questioning her and his motives for everything.

A series I wouldn't mind reading more of! ( )

This is one of those books I've been tossing around for a while and have decided to finally give it a fighting chance. Why? Because lots of people seem to recommend Sizemore and her blurbs are all over the place. Plus, a series about vampires and werewolves? Of course, I had to try it on.

But first, let's take a moment to rant. The whole vampire/werewolf thing... done to death, am I right? I mean, I get that in a world where vampires exists it seems only fitting to allow for werewolves and what have you. But aren't we getting just a little tired of the pairing? Everywhere you've got sucker-scratcher wars, vamps enslaving weres (and what was That Woman thinking when she coined 'animal to call' anyway?), weres engaging in mafiosi dealings with vamps in Gucci... enough already! Points to authors who use a multitude of supernatural subjects: Briggs, Vaughn, Harrison, Kenyon, Andrews. They are--in general--exempt from my displeasure, especially the ones that pioneered the paranormal/urban fantasy/fang fetish genre. What really tickles me lately, though, are the ones who specialize or get really creative, like J.R. Ward, who portrays vamps as a whole separate race and society. Or McKinley who gives us something other than the uber-sexy, jaded, independently wealthy vamps. And don't get me started on the hair. Unless there's some cultural reason as to why, men with silky long hair are not sexy. Especially if it's any other color than ink black, platinum white, or some funky blue a la anime/comic books. Okay, maybe it's acceptable if they keep it appropriately bundled up so as not to cascade down his rippling back like a vanilla-scented waterfall. Ranger's stubby ponytail, Daegus's wrapped braid--this is sexy. This is acceptable. Others not so much.

Which, at last, leads me to to book. Aside from Laurent's silvery-blond glitter rock do, I'm just not digging the story. Nearly halfway through and I'm still bored. I accept partial blame for jumping in mid-series (MoD is #4) but unless you've had the bad luck to pull a filler from the pile, usually the middle stuff is the best anyway. So I consider this a lost cause. So I'm not even going to bother telling you what the story's about. Go read something else. ( )

Even though I'm tired of vampires, Susan Sizemore can still pull me in. This was a decent enough read. Not a keeper but not a wall banger either. I liked the interaction between the hero and heroine. ( )