Deeper Than the Night [Mass Market Paperback]

Amanda Ashley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2007

Laughing at local superstitions that the mesmerizing Alexander Claybourne is a centuries-old vampire, Kara Crawford befriends the handsome stranger and begins an otherworldy adventure of the heart.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Love Spell (July 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 050552113X
• ISBN-13: 978-0505521132
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #336,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A suprise......., March 20, 2000

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"eve0522" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deeper Than the Night (Mass Market Paperback)

Deeper than the night was the first book I ever read by Amanda Ashley, and I have been hooked ever since. While some of the other readers may have been disappointed I found her story refreshing to say the least. I will however admit that it was a bit misleading at first but once I started to get the real background I had to know the rest. A warning to those who have read other Ashley books. This book is not like anything else she has written so don't go in expecting to find a typical vampire story because you will come out of it feeling cheated. Instead get into it expecting to read something original and different to anything else she has out there.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Paranormal romance with a twist, or two., September 16, 2004

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deeper Than the Night (Mass Market Paperback)

Gail Crawford sneaks off in the middle of the night to pay a visit to Moulton Bay's most reclusive resident, Alexander Claybourne. She, and several other local children, believe that Claybourne is really a vampire in hiding. Gail hopes that Alexander will use his dark magic on her sister Kara, who has been injured in a car accident, to save her life. Alexander explains to the girl that he is not a vampire and turns her away. But he cannot stop thinking about the injured woman and visits her in the hospital. While there he succombs to the urge to give her some of his blood. Claybourne may not be a vampire, but he acts like one and is not human. I enjoyed this paranormal romance, despite it having a ludicrous suspense plot. Not great, but it held me in its spell until the end, which is all I ask from a book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What happened???, February 11, 2001

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Dana K. Wolcott (Monrovia, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deeper Than the Night (Mass Market Paperback)

Like many others who have reviewed this book, I am quite a fan of vampire romances. I started reading them when Linda Lael Miller came out with her Vampire series. I've read a few here and there since, and when I stumbled upon Amanda Ashley's "Deeper Than the Night," I thought I had another tasty treat.

Wrong. What's with "leading the reader along into making her think the hero's a vampire?" Look at the cover, for instance. There's the hero, looking tortured, wearing a cape. Now, I know that many heroes wear capes in many types of romance sub-genres, but on the cover of a novel being touted as a vampire story, it's automatically assumed the tortured-looking soul on the cover is the vampire in question.

I don't like being fooled into thinking the hero is one thing and then finding out 3/4 way through the book he's something altogether different. The spine thing was also a bit creepy for me, and didn't help with the otherworldly atmosphere the author was obviously heading toward. The scene at the cabin was dark and mysterious, but the creepy feeling came over me when his otherwordly side was slowly being revealed. I think it was at this point I was incredulous to what I was reading, and like a bad train wreck, I couldn't help but not finish the book. My books look brand new when I finish them, and there was no reason for me to keep the book, so off to the bookstore I marched to trade it in for something a little less devious.

If this story was going to be a sci-fi romance, then why didn't Amanda Ashley just come right out and say so? Instead, she had to disguise the sci-fi story with the vampire cover-up. It has been quite a while since I've read any of her other books, and each time I see one that remotely resembles "Deeper Than the Night," I steer clear. How do I know she's not doing the same exact thing with her other Vampire books? I don't like being fooled into thinking the book is supposed to be a genre I'm interested in, only to find it's not.