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I Hunger for You (Primes Series, Book 3)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(9)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

First of all, the type was not too large nor was the story too short. The type could have been half the size and the story twice the length and it still would not have worked. When Ms. Sizemore decided that Colin would be a Prime Vampire who was just 36 years old, she set the story up for failure. Just think about it. If you were in his situation knowing that you could live for five hundred years, would you want to find your bond mate at 36? How could anyone not understand Colin's reaction to Mia. He is young, has his expectations for what he wants in a mate, and is not at all ready to change or accept what fate has decided for him. He hasn't even lived long enough to experience the angst that older Prime vampires feel when they are searching for, and not able to find, their bond mate. No wonder Colin is always trying to ditch Mia. Mia on the other hand is a, I don't know exactly how old, virgin. Where has she been, living under a rock waiting for Colin, who is so young he doesn't even realize that Mia's virginity is still intact or experience the pleasure of being her first? How sad is that for a story line. The only good part of this book, and the reason I gave it three stars, is Laurent. There is great potential in his story. I assume he is supposed to be tribe, yet something is not quite right about his lineage. Tribe vampires are montsters hunted and destroyed by clan vampires and mortal hunters, so what is different about Laurent? We can only hope that Ms. Sizemore uses this great idea to its full potential. By the way Laurent is the reason you want to buy and read this book if you are hooked on this series.

this book was a very good vampire romance..but the characters were not as like able as the other books in this series. i found the hero a bit of a prig and the herione OK. the supporting characters in this book were very good. some old favorites and i will be looking forward to her next installment. as i said, it was very good but "I Burn for You & I Thirst for you" were better

Colin Foxe - 32, S.W.A.T. member, Clan vampire. Likes fast cars, fast women, and killing the occasional bad guy be they human or Tribe vamp.
Mia Luchese - unknown age, apparently an enthusiastic virgin, indepedantly wealthy. Likes a little o positive herself & thinks she's bad enough to become a wannabe vampire hunter.
Well it sounds exciting enough but this story fell a little flat. Colin can't even figure out on his own that the woman he's been in bed with was a virgin. I understand he's way young for a Vampire but come on! And Mia isn't a real hunter, & she's not a vampire, but she likes sucking blood and she can make Colin forget that she does it although she doesn't realize she's pshycic...yeah.
The real positives in this book are the reintroduction of the "I Burn for You" characters, the new vamp lore, and a brand new character Laurant who will be Ms. Sizemore's next hero although she hasn't given the release date. He made this book worth reading. Also sexy Tony Crowe is back and let's hope he also gets a book!
I was also disapointed that Marcus from her last novel wasn't included in this book considering that the Patron ( head evil guy) was his personnal nemesis.
Altogether this book is definitly worth reading and will be a great way to kill a Sunday afternoon, it won't be a permanent fixture by your pillow.

Colin Foxe is a prime we met in a previous book, I found him to be just as hunky this time around.. The only thing I didn't like was his fixation with bonding with a vampire female. If bonding is the greatest thing that can happen to a Prime, as long as she is his match and mate, I found him to be stuck on himself. Obviously his opinion of mortals is abit biased. The fact that he could go with a different female every night after leaving Mia, just made him a hound in my opinion. I think one of the other reviewers said he acted like he was 12 years old, and I agree strongly. I kept wishing Mia would tell him to go soak his head.

Mia is a mortal whose family have been vampire hunters for many generations. However, she doesn't believe in vamps and knows nothing about fighting them. After finding out Colin in a vamp she contacts her great-grandfather to find out more about them and how to fight them. Wouldn't you know her grandpa is the Patron, the very man the Clans are hunting. The manticore tribe is after him as well. It was very interesting to find out all the diffenences between the Clan, Tribes, and Purists.

When Colin and Mia are forced to bond because she bit him, (it's OK if he bites her during mating, but she wasn't supposed to bite him). I say more power to her. So against his will, (he still thinks he may be able to get rid of her and bond with a real Vampire Chick) they are bonded by the matri of his clan. Then the tribe contacts the clan to demand Mia because her grandpa stole their money.

Mia agrees to help them get their money if they will not kill her grandpa. So Colin, Mia and Laurent fly to grandpa's. Laurent pretending to be a captured vamp. Needless to say Laurent's Tribe can't be trusted, and the ensueing mess finally comes to a conclusion. Only after Mia is almost killed while being tortured by the leader of Laurent's tribe does Colin admit he loves her. I just wanted to smack him up side the head all through the book.

This was a short book. The type is very large to get in the number of pages needed. However, with someone as slow on the uptake, and determined to gain power when he bonded, I was just as ready to see the end of the book. I still feel someone should have knocked some sense into Colin.

I look forward to her next book, from the short start at the end of this book. I think Laurent is a very interesting new character.

A fan of the previous two books in this series I was extremely unhappy with this one.
The hero was totally unlikable. I could not find any redeeming qualities in him whatsoever. He spend the whole book finding fault with the heroine, complaining, belittling, you name it. He supposedly "bonded" with her but was able to sleep with a different woman every night. The last couple pages of the book where he decides that he "loves" her are supposed to redeem him and give it a happy ending.

Los Angeles SWAT leader Colin Foxe gets ready to lead his team on an assault to free hostages when he receives a mental message that one of the victims is angry. He telepathically tells her to stay calm; she replies that she is. As his team charges into the room, freelance writer Mia "Karate Kid" Luchese has already overcome the criminals. Colin and Mia argue over safety.

Six months later, Colin, a Prime of Clan Reynard vampire, thirsts for Mia and even follows her at night. This evening he intercedes when the rival Tribe vampire attacks her. Afterward, he admits he is a vampire and she confesses that she comes from a long line of vampire hunters. As they fall in love, they must overcome their respective heritages and a deadly threat from the brazen Tribe vampire colony.

Susan Sizemore will make readers believe that colonies of vampires thrive amongst us mortals with her delightful supernatural romance I HUNGER FOR YOU. The relationship between Colin and Mia is wonderful to follow as the alpha vampiric male struggles with his feelings for the independent mortal female. There ancestry adds a Romeo and Juliet twist to the mix. Vampire romance readers will hunger for more works like this one and the previous thrillers like I THIRST FOR YOU and I BURN FOR YOU from Ms. Sizemore.

Harriet Klausner

Instead of being called "I Hunger for You," it probably should have been called "I Hunger to Get the Heck Away from You." It annoyed me that for most of the book Colin was trying to avoid being "stuck" with Mia, and whining about how having a vampire woman for a mate would be so much better.

Colin Foxe is a young Prime from the Clan Reynald - yes, he's the cousin of the hero from the first book. As a SWAT team leader, he has been thrown into real dangerous situations and has always come on top. Yet for all his strength and preternatural skills, there is one thing that he finds himself useless at - staying away from the beautiful Mia Luchese.

After being rescued by the hunky SWAT leader, Mia Luchese embarked on an affair with him that lasted for three months. When he left, she never thought she'd see him again. Until the night a vampire attacked her.

Thrown back together by fate, Colin and Mia realize that the initial spark from six months ago has never died. But as they fight together to find those who hunted Mia, it is not only their feelings, which they must deal with, but also their real identity. Can love prove strong enough to overcome the ancient battle that threatens to tear them apart?

Well I must say that I'm in the minority here. I actually preferred this to the second book. I liked the humor injected to the story, and enjoyed the participation of the characters from the first book. I felt the spark between Colin and Mia and the chemistry was undeniable. Sure, Colin's initial disdain about bonding with a human was irritating and made me feel like smacking him, but cut him some slack! He is a young Prime, and even his clan thought it was astounding that he already found his bond mate at such an early age. But why is it hard to accept the fact that fate, or whatever the vampires might like to call it, has decided to send him his partner early? I say good for him to find his true happiness right now rather than waiting two hundred years or so.

I must say though that I was disappointed that Marcus Cage wasn't included considering he was once the "lab rat" of the villains here. But overall, I thought this was a fun book. It's not exactly the best vampire book I have read, but it was entertaining enough.

With apologies to Ms. Sizemore---this book "sucked". I was so disasppointed in it. I loved the first two and waited, it seemed like forever, for this one to come out. (I was actually at the bookstore watching it be unpacked.--Silly me.) The plot line was weak--although how she got the Patron involved this time was fairly clever--but predictable, and the secondary character of Laurent has GOOD possibilities (book 4 I think)

The hero, Colin Foxe, a Clan Prime vampire, acted like a spoiled, little boy and was so caught up in "having to bond with a female vampire" that his thoughts on the subject got incredibly boring and old. (God forbid that his bondmate might be mortal) The heroine, Caramia Luchese, a "wannabe" slayer/hunter, had some very good points, but dwelled way to much on the "woe is me--I'm bonded to a vampire". The book was way to short (BIG print) and no sex to speak of. All in all-- a BIG disapointment.

This is the third of Susan Sizemore's vampire stories and it mentions some of the characters from her previous books, I Burn For You and I Thirst For You. It also introduces a couple of new characters and I have a strong suspicion there might be books about them in the offing.

There are good things about this series - the worldbuilding is interesting: vampires live alongside mortals and have jobs (the hero of this book, Colin Foxe, is a SWAT police officer), they can go about in daylight if they take particular drugs and they sometimes have relationships with mortals.

The heroine of this book is Caramia Luchese, a fit young woman who finds herself involved in a hostage situation to which Colin Foxe is called. After they meet they have a three month affair which Foxe eventually breaks off - he is a vampire and doesn't want anything long term with a mortal.

However neither of them are able to forget about the other and Colin finds himself virtually stalking Mia and comes to her rescue when other vampires of the Tribe (who treat mortals as lunch) try to attack her. It's not entirely clear initially why the Tribe are so interested in Mia and she and Colin don't ever seem to get much opportunity to actually discuss anything as they are always jumping into bed.

Like in the previous two books, the main thing that seems to bind heroine and hero together is sex. In this book, however, Colin doesn't want to even consider Mia as a long-term partner as he is dismissive of mortals. Over the course of the book he learns that some things are more powerful than his preconceived ideas. Mia is from a family of vampire hunters whose mission is to rid the world of all vampires, even those from the Clan (who work to protect mortals), such as Colin. There is the tension between the two of them, an antagonism, that is there when they aren't having sex; fortunately for them they seem to spend most of their time having sex so get along quite well.

This book revisits the case of the Patron who escaped Colin at the end of the last book (I Thirst For You). Colin is focused on finding the Patron and stopping him but he finds Mia is both a spanner in the works and an aid to his mission. But can either of them trust each other?

I found parts of this book rather slow and, like the other two novels, the characterisation seemed rather one-dimensional. The author evidently likes her Alpha Males (or "Primes") in these books and the vampires tend to seem rather caveman-like over their women. This book did improve and get more exciting towards the end but the plot always felt rather like something to hang the sex part of the book around, rather than the major point of the novel.

It's an OK read but, like the other two books, nothing very special. There are many significantly better vampire books out there which have a plot and some characters alongside the worldbuilding that is important in these stories.