Eternal Craving (Leisure Paranormal Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Nina Bangs (Author)

Book Description

Series: Leisure Paranormal Romance | Publication Date: May 2009

He's been promised a new life as the hunter he once was. But Al soon learns that all the rules have changed. Now he must control his most basic urges—the need to kill, to feed, to mate. And the woman he wants looks at him with both heat and fear in her eyes. Jenna Maloy doesn't buy this story that he's come to Philadelphia to save souls. She seems to see through the layers of deception to the primitive heart of him. With her beside him, Al stalks the dark forces that crouch in the city's night shadows. But the real battle rages in his heart. Love is a formidable opponent. How can he ask her to stay with him after she's seen the savagery of his beast? He only knows that if she turns from him he'll be cursed with an eternal craving.

 

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

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Reporter Jenna knows a story when she sees one, and her sister Kelly has cooked up a whopper to cover her whirlwind courtship and wedding to Ty. Joining Kelly in Philadelphia, Jenna is determined to uncover the truth about her new brother-in-law’s “missionary” work. Hanging with Ty and his partners, including the strangely attractive Al, proves that truth is stranger than fiction, when Jenna discovers that she’s in the middle of a fight between immortals over the end of time and that saving it runs in the family. More battle lines are drawn and allegiances formed in the second installment of the Gods of the Night series (Eternal Pleasure, 2008), which also delivers lots of sexy preternatural males. --Nina C. Davis

Review

"No one combines humor and sex in quite the way Nina Bangs does.”—Romantic Times

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books; Original edition (May 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 084395793X
• ISBN-13: 978-0843957938
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #915,893 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Book 2 of THE GODS OF THE NIGHT series, June 7, 2009

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Cynthia A. Frazer "so many books, so little time" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eternal Craving (Leisure Paranormal Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Great read - second book in the THE GODS OF THE NIGHT series.

The heroine of book 1 [Eternal Pleasure] sister's has come to visit - in truth she's there to check out the new husband and the guys he works with. She finds guys who are as gorgeous as they are dangerous... and discovers her experiences with tabloid journalism haven't even skimmed the highlights of the REAL supernatural world.

The hero is Al, a man with soul of an allosuarus and anger management issues. He and the heroine are pitchforked together by the leader of the group, a man whose visions say the heroine is the key to saving this piece of the world. She finds Al both terrifying and fascinating [she'd better, he's the hero] and her protection against the mean streets of supernatural Philadelphia.

Nina Bangs does a great job of mixing dinosaurs [keep the internet handy - you will want to look each of the guys up!], Mayan mythos, doomsday scenarios, along with the 'regular' supernaturals found in most paranormal romances [demons and shifters and vamps, OH MY!]

Eternal Pleasure(Gods of the Night, Book 1)
Eternal Craving (Gods of the Night, Book 2)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eternally Entertaining, May 17, 2009

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Gerry Bartlett "book addict" (League City, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eternal Craving (Leisure Paranormal Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Nina Bangs has a wicked imagination and her Gods of the Night series proves it once again. I mean, who else would come up with preditors with the souls of...dinosaurs? So this time around our hero's been celibate for millions of years. Talk about sexual tension! And the heroine who's called on to help him save the world from certain destruction is anything but kick-butt and eager. The two together though get sparks flying and manage to take on everything from a really creepy evil-doer to vampires in this action-packed story. Of course there's the classic Bangs' love story that will leave you sighing. Don't miss book 2 in the Gods of the Night series. Eternal Pleasure was book 1, but you don't have to read it first to enjoy this one. Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 stars - Bangs has hit her stride and has me Craving more of these Eternal protectors, May 26, 2009

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melindeeloo (sb,ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eternal Craving (Leisure Paranormal Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Eternal Craving is the second sortie in the battle to prevent the 2012 end of the world for humankind and another of the eleven gods of midnight, gorgeous lethal males with ancient predatory souls, finds his mate. If you are a Bangs fan new to The Gods of Midnight series, you should be warned that these books are missing Bangs' usual humorous tone - this series is definitely on the dark side of paranormal fantasy and there are some fairly gory scenes to show the magnitude of evil our unusual protectors of humanity are up against.

But darkness aside, Eternal Craving's appeal is in its bad boy goes good type of theme. And there isn't a badder a bad boy than leading man Al who has a human form but a soul of a dangerous terrifying primative beast, a beast that he has only grudgingly and only tenuously leashed. I loved watching heroine Jenna tame the raging primal Al as lust opens the door to the humanizing power of love. And it is the gradual humanizing of Al, and his struggle to cope with new human feelings along with Jenna's transition from a primal terror to love and trust of Al which makes Eternal Craving work so much better for me than the first book,Eternal Pleasure (Leisure Paranormal Romance).

If you haven't yet read Eternal Pleasure, the large cast may be daunting. Thankfully Bangs still isn't throwing all eleven of her large cast of hotter than hot dangerous males at us at once but is still parceling them out a few at a time. This time it's the terrifying triplets, lethal Lio, and Q who actually seems to have a sense of humor. Ty, Kelly, Sier and the vampire Jude are back as well. We also get more of the most dangerous of the bunch, leader Finn, still as enigmatic as ever but a bit worse for wear as we see some limits to his almost godlike powers, I wonder if he gets a book too.

For me I am happy that in Eternal Cravings Bangs has managed to move past the birthing pains of the series and I am really starting to enjoy watching as the beauties tame these savage beasts while saving the world and giving us more glimpses at the secrets still to be unveiled as the count down continues to the end of the world.