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Eden's Latest Suspenseful 'Midnight' Romance is Steamy Yet Satisfying, December 18, 2008
This review is from: Midnight Sins (Paperback)
Midnight Sins takes Eden's wonderful mix of suspense, steamy romance and a world filled with paranomal entities, and gives it even more depth. Capitalizing on the cast Eden started developing in Midnight Sins, she add some new faces but it is really the additional 'fleshing' out of old her characters that bring this world and the story to life.
This time our hero is Todd Brooks, the human police detective in Hotter After Midnight, who was kept in the dark about the paranormal overtones of his last case by his truth-shy werewolf partner Colin and his Captain, McNeal, who is also more than human. But Todd got an eye opening glimpse of Colin shifting at the end of the last story, so that when they try to keep the supernatural details pertaing to their the latest serial killer case from him yet again, Todd demands the truth.
Our heroine is luscious Cara Maloan, a succubus who has sworn off sex until she meets Todd. Somehow she can't resist him, especially when she discovers that Todd is immune to her 'demon' mind control and she realises that what she has with Todd will not be another meaningless romp with a 'sexual puppet'. So, though Todd is drawn by lure of Cara's addictive scent, he is fully able to hold his own against a woman he desires like none he's met before. So what's the problem? The killer's victims are men found naked and bound and drained of their life force with a sex-demon's mark on their chest and Cara's the only succubus in town.
I loved Todd as he adjusts to the discovery that there is so much more to the world, it something he's always sensed and it turns out that Todd also has 'a little extra'. His relationship with Cara sizzles, even as he struggles to try to fit what he knows in his heart about Cara with the evidence that keeps popping up to cast suspiscion on the lovely demoness.
It was great to have the supporting cast back - really that's half the fun of reading a series. And though the starring pair Colin and Emily only have minor roles and we get more of the back story and a bit of resolution for McNeal and the Medical Examiner Smith - who also had her own traumatizing paranormal eye-opener in the last book- to reward us for our return journey to Eden's world. But the most enticing encore was for powerful, dark and sexy Niol. Eden does a great job of setting Niol up as the bad boy star for the final book in this trilogy. I can hardly wait for his story, Midnight's Master.
Eden's Midnight series and shorts set in the same world
Hotter After Midnight (book 1)
Midnight Sin's (book 2)
Midnight's Master (book 3)
When He Was Bad "Wicked Ways" - shapeshifter
Everlasting Bad Boys "Spellbound" - witch & demon justice dealer
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Better than the first book, January 11, 2010
This review is from: Midnight Sins (Paperback)
Detective Todd Brooks just got a rude awakening on his last case about the existence of monsters. He saw his partner turn into a werewolf and fight another monster to save a woman who had been kidnapped. In that case, his captain and partner had been keeping secrets, and his guess is that it was about the monsters.
He's working a new set of grisly murders, and it looks like a sex demon is doing the killings. Cara, a night club singer is a prime suspect since she is a succubus. But as he's working the case, he's fighting his attraction for her.
Cara had sworn off sex, feeding from the energy from her shows. But that was until she met Todd. He's like nobody she has met before. After her alibis clear her, she helps the detectives find the murderers.
I read the first book in the series as well as an anthology by Eden, and this was her best work to date. It was an engrossing mix of fast action, suspense, mystery and romance. I liked the characters and the book pulled me in.
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Succubus meets policeman, February 19, 2009
This review is from: Midnight Sins (Paperback)
When Atlanta detective Todd Brooks meets beautiful Cara Firon, suspect in three murders, she doesn't look like a monster to him; quite the reverse. However Cara knows that, as a Succubus, she would be considered a monster by most humans, including her former lover who tried to kill her. But Todd's world is beginning to open now he's seen his partner turn into a wolf, something Todd has tried to push to the back of his mind since that event.
Cara's alibis check out but Todd can't leave her alone and it soon becomes clear that someone is trying to frame her for the murders. What is the motive? Who is doing it? As Todd learns about the dangerous underworld of the 'Others' and of the power that his succubus demon has, he has to start re-evaluating much of what he used to know about the world and about the people with whom he worked.
This was an enjoyable story with the murderer not clear until almost the end of the book. I liked the way that the author described Todd's gradual learning of a new side to the world in which he lives and the glimpses into the relationships and lives of some of the other characters. The central romance was rather more a love-at-first-sight story with both characters having to learn to trust but it was still an enjoyable journey with them.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2009
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