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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780553589399
ISBN: 0553589393
Label: Dell
Manufacturer: Dell
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: November 27, 2007
Publisher: Dell
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Studio: Dell
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With a dagger in her hand and vengeance on her mind, Darkhaven beauty Elise Chase prowls Boston’s streets in search of retribution against the Rogue vampires who took from her everything she cherished. Using an extraordinary psychic gift, she tracks her prey, well aware that the power she possesses is destroying her. She must learn to harness this gift, and for that she can turn to only one man—the deadliest of the Breed warriors, Tegan.
No stranger to loss, Tegan knows Elise’s pain. He knows fury, but when he slays his enemies it is with ice in his veins. He is perfect in his self-control, until Elise seeks his aid in her personal war. An unholy alliance is forged—a bond that will link them by blood and vow—and plunge them into a tempest of danger, desire, and the darkest passions of the heart. . . .
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Mr. Too Tightly Torn-up Terror meets Mrs Too Tightly Torn up Tidy Pants and the story grips the reader from chapter one until the exciting end. The end portends greater evils to fight and more adventures to face. Woo Hoo! This is why anybody reads fiction. The author Lara Adrian has delivered a great story, great protagonists, great romance and great action.
The first chapter was fabulous. We follow a tiny woman, using her dead son's IPOD's rock music to fight the flood of thoughts swarming into her head. She sorts through them all before she drowns in the waves of incoming thoughts. Finally she hears the vicious murderous thoughts of a human who is a slave to a vampire (Minion) and she follows him. Concentrating on the Minion, she follows him to a FED EX store and jack-pot. She finds out not only the Minion she is going to kill, but that he is serving the vampire that was responsible for her beloved son's death. It is getting close to sundown and she knows she has to kill the Minion and get back to her soundproofed flophouse room before she is easy prey for predatory creatures. She kills the Minion. But it is after sundown and soon she is being followed. Tegan, the ancient Breed warrior, is out hunting for Rogue vampires. He has been doing this for centuries. Rogue vampires are ones that have fallen to the disease of Bloodlust and spend all their time wantonly killing humans. The Breed vampires have been protecting humans from Rogues so that humans can blissfully live unaware that they share earth with vampires.
Tegan recognizes the tiny woman to be Elise, a woman, readers of the series met in the previous book, Kiss of Crimson. Tegan is a warrior of few words. All he cares about is killing Rogue vampires. He is the member of the Breed Order operating in the Boston area. To his utter surprise, Elise, who had been the privileged, coddled, protected widow of one of the richest and most well respected families in the Dark Haven of Boston (community of well bred and well mannered vampires) has dropped out of her polite Dark Haven society and become a vigilante, roaming the Boston streets to kill as many Minions as she can. It was Minions who lured her only son out of the protected walls of Dark Haven to taste the highs of drugs and the drug Crimson turned her son into a Rogue who had to be killed.
The double loss of her husband and her son, unhinges Elise and Tegan finds her with Minion blood on her ragged clothes, a bloody Titanium blade in her pocket and a drawer full of Minion owned cell phones as trophies of her kills in her shabby room.
The author gives us a delightful love story between these two most unlikely of lovers. Tegan is the most tightly controlled of the Breed Order. Tegan had to use his prodigious control to survive the losses he suffered centuries before to fight off his grief, anger and guilt that almost had him fall victim of becoming a Rogue vampire. Elise, the high society Breedmate had to be tightly wound up to be the perfect wife, perfect society hostess, the perfect mother. She was tightly controlled so that her natural gift of mind reading would not drive her insane. In the tightly controlled Dark Haven society, Breed Warriors like Tegan are considered nothing more than uncouth, unrefined, uneducated barbarians to be tolerated. Tight Ass Badass Tegan loses control and falls in love with Tight Ass Society Beauty Elise and she falls in love with Tegan.
The fun of this series is that Elise is full of courage, talents, strength of character and often "saves the day." The author lets the female characters be full partners in the mission of the Breed Order. Elise, Tess and Gabrielle are more than ornamental bedmates. Elise pulls off some amazing kills and show Tegan that his life before her was nothing compared to what it will be with her.
OK, no more spoilers. This book is a keeper. This book is why we read fiction. Keep on keeping on Lara Adrian.
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I have been looking for another series that could compare to the Black Dagger Brotherhood Series. This is right up there. I have enjoyed this series and have not been able to put it down. Both series are excellent to read for anyone looking to fill the twilight void.
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I have just recently been introduced to Lara Adrian and I am in love. The book just made me want more! I have read them all and none have disappointed!
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I'm fairly new to Lara Adrian - I really enjoyed her first two books of the MB series, very much so. I had to just write a quickie about this third installment of the series though, because it totally blew me away! I loved the hero of course (Tegan), but it is our heroine Elise that really stood out to me. She has been the best heroine of the MB series so far! She was so completely involved and pro-active that I was cheering the whole way through the book. Elise was introduced to us in the last book (maybe in the first book too, but I don't think so), and the transformation that she goes through is intense. Tegan sure goes through a strong transformation as well, but he couldn't have done it without Elise, and her worth to the Order in general became critical as the story developed.
That aside, the romance between her and tough-guy Tegan is magnificent and passionate. The plot and the action added and exciting dimension to the story, and a suspenseful set-up for the next book. Fun!!
Lara Adrian's writing style reminds me a bit of Kresley Cole, who I adore. Lara is definitely on my list of favorites now. She's not over-wordy. All the characters are believable, and interesting. Good, good reading.
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This is third in the Midnight Breed Series by Lara Adrian. Finally! The first two books didn't impress me. This one did. I loved Tegan. I loved he plot, the characters and just about everything else in this book. It was a great story that kept my interest. Glad I decided to plod along and try a couple more of this authors books. This one is a winner! Good paranormal Read.
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