Divine Madness [Mass Market Paperback]

Melanie Jackson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2006

Ninon de L'Enclos's immortality is in danger, and the only way to survive is in the arms of a dark and mysterious vampire.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 323 pages
• Publisher: Love Spell (September 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0505526905
• ISBN-13: 978-0505526908
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,226,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #49 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Dark Fantasy

More About the Author

Melanie Jackson is the award-winning author of more than fifty novels, novellas and poems published in various languages. She lives with her writer husband, her bossy cat and spoiled dog in the Sierra foothills where it is almost impossible to grow pumpkins (or anything else the deer like). Besides gardening, she is involved with animal charities.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully dark and horrific!!!, September 16, 2006

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M. H. Fayad "Mideast/Midwest" (Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Divine Madness (Mass Market Paperback)

This is not your standard romance novel with the standard romance plot. This is a book that is a horrific s/f novel with romantic elements. After reading Harriet's review, you know know a bit about what the story line is. I am going to tell you WHO would like this book. The person that would like this book (and the previous book in this series) is a person who loves to read dark science fiction and horror. A person that likes to read books about people on the run from supernatural beings that have no qualms about killing anyone that gets in their way. A person who reads Ann Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Stephen King.

This is NOT a light hearted tramp through the poppies. This is a dark run through the deserts of Mexico with madmen and demons on your tail. After this book, I slept with the lights on for 2 days. Whoa!!! I really loved this book!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful romantic horror thriller, September 2, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Divine Madness (Mass Market Paperback)

To remain an immortal Ninon must bathe in Saint Elmo's Fire every fifty years. As the semi-century event approaches, Ninon is concerned. If she fails to bathe she will die, but if she goes to Saint Elmo's Fire she knows her enemy Comte de Saint Germain awaits for her there to ambush and kill her. Still she heads to Mexico.

Ninon also learns that her deadly adversary plans to release devastating evil on an unsuspecting world. She needs an ally, but has doubts whether to trust the vampire Miguel Stuart, the offspring of a malevolence that his late Scottish father feared, whom she has just met in Mexico. As he battles to control his inner demon craving for blood and she considers how to renew her existence, they begin to fall in love. However, both knows that first they must save a world from Saint Germain's repugnant minion especially his "Xeroxing" machine before they can begin considering a lifetime, in this case eternity, together.

DIVINE MADNESS is a wonderful romantic horror thriller with the love subplot for the most part taking a back seat to the supernatural spin as the story line cleverly intertwines the paranormal elements into the mundane world. Ninon and Miguel are a wonderful pair of champions who together might succeed, but apart will die. Though reading the previous tale (see DIVINE FIRE) enhances this novel, fans of dark thrillers will appreciate Melanie Jackson's divine hell on earth book.

Harriet Klausner

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was expecting., November 13, 2006

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Manda "pinksweetheart21" (WI, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Divine Madness (Mass Market Paperback)

I guess when I purchased this novel I was expecting a paranormal romance. But it was more of a horror novel with the romance thrown in as an after thought. Another thing that bothered me was the book started out in third person and then half way through it went to first person, I guess I like my book to stay in one POV. There was alot of random violence, I don't think was really necessary. I was expecting something alot different when I picked up this novel. I enjoyed her pervious works. But this one I didn't care for.