Imprisoned and starved in a bid to cause his to feed on human flesh, the hero is torutured by the presence of the heroine. To stop the craving to kill her, he sleeps with her and after she's turned and they exscape, he hunts her down to protect her. The heroine is an empathy but she really doesn't understand how many feel. She's heartless and cruel to the hero. Sure, he slept with her out of a bid to control his urges and he did make it clear that he'd kill her if they didn't escape, but he's just as much a prisoner in that mess ass she was. Instead, she's constantly throwing it in his face and when he absolutely guilt ridden and hurt, she turns around and forgives him. She played with his emotions and it wasn't cool. I really dislike it when being a werewolf is portrayed as a soulless killing machine, instead I like to think of them as shape shifters. As it happens I liked the hero's character and his strong will in face of all he has to deal with. I just wish the heroine wasn't such a bitch. ( )

The book starts out with Sebastian Santiago(a half-lycan breed called "dovenatu") being tortured by a pack of lycans. They are depriving him of food so that he is starving; then their sick plan includes throwing a human in his cell, where he will be unable to control his bloodlust. Ruby Deveraux is in Istanbul with a group of children waiting to be adopted. When two go missing, she takes it upon herself to find them before they come to harm. Unfortunately, she falls right into the hands of the lycan pack and they know just what to do with her. They throw her in to a cell with Sebastian and wait for him to break and devour her. Ruby is different too; she can read people's emotions. More than that, she can FEEL what other people are feeling (pain, anguish, joy, etc.). From the other lycans she felt a black void, immense hunger. She can feel the hunger that is consuming Sebastian, but she does not sense the black void, the darkness in him. There is more to Sebastian than meets the eye and she soon realizes that there is something else inside him that she can play off of to give her a better chance at surviving this ordeal: lust. As hungry as he is, she can sense that he craves her as well. Obviously they are going to have to work together if either of them are going to get out alive. If they can get past Sebastian's blood lust they might just have a chance...

1) Character Development: This book has excellent character development! I picked it up actually thinking that it was the first book in the series. WRONG! It's #3, and when I figured that out I was thinking "Ah man, should I wait to read this until I've read the other two books or just go for it and hope for the best?" I was not disappointed; the author does an excellent job of giving back story so that you know something of what happened in the previous books. Also, you get a lot of information about Ruby and Sebastian's pasts (especially Ruby) which really cements the connection you develop with the characters. It's really easy to relate and empathize with them.

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