Night's Touch [Mass Market Paperback]

Amanda Ashley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 26, 2007

Cara DeLongpre wandered into the mysterious Nocturne club looking for a fleeting diversion from her sheltered life. Instead she found a dark, seductive stranger whose touch entices her beyond the safety she's always known and into a heady carnal bliss.A year ago, Vincent Cordova believed that vampires existed only in bad movies and bogeyman stories. That was before a chance encounter left him with unimaginable powers, a hellish thirst, and an aching loneliness he's sure will never end--until the night he meets Cara DeLongpre. Cara's beauty and bewitching innocence call to his mind, his heart--his blood. For Vincent senses the Dark Gift shared by Cara's parents, and the lurking threat from an ancient and powerful foe. And he knows that the only thing more dangerous than the enemy waiting to seek its vengeance is the secret carried by those Cara trusts the most.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Zebra (June 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821778358
• ISBN-13: 978-0821778357
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Will the Real Amanda Ashley please stand up..., September 2, 2007

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delenor "Ravenous Reader" (TO, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Night's Touch (Mass Market Paperback)

I am a long time fan of A.A., and have read some excellent work in her other books. That is why this is so difficult for me... I absolutely did not enjoy this latest effort! It was so cliched and unexciting, that I give myself a huge pat on the back for finishing it (simply because I wanted to write this review). Cara, the 22-yr old adopted daughter of Brenna & Roshan DeLongpre, vampire/witch & vampire, acted & sounded more like a willful 12-yr old, than an adult. The dialogue was juvenile and so predictable that I found myself wondering why this book ever went to print, and if there was a way to get my money back! The characters, with the exception of Mara, Vince's mysterious maker, were uninteresting, underdeveloped, and just plain boring. In fact, the book itself was boring. I could not warm up to Cara or Vince. And HOW in the name of all that's un-holy, could there even be a remote possibility of Vince being able to father a child, and twins, no less! Further, I think Frank, the faithful bodyguard, was disposed of in a most callous & ungrateful manner. Further, the issue of Cara and the twins being human, and Vince being vampire, and the whole aging thing, was not addressed completely, and the reader was left hanging to draw her/his own conclusion(s). A very unsatisfactory & frustrating read. I found myself skipping parts of it. No exciting love scenes to spice it up, either. Flat, all the way! Miss Ashley is much more capable than this book suggests.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I cannot say that I was overwhelmed with this second venture into the world of the DeLongpre family, February 9, 2009

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Rachel P. Smith "BittenbyBooks.com" (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night's Touch (Mass Market Paperback)

In Amanda Ashley's second book in her DeLongpre Vampires series, we are introduced to the next generation. This book takes place 22 years after the finale of Night's Kiss, the first book in this series. As in the first book, we meet some vampires, some good witches, some worse witches, a couple crazy witches, and a damsel frequently in distress. The exposition is straight forward and early in this story, so if you have not read the first book, you will not be left in the cemetery dust.

Meet Vince Cordova. He's tall, dark, sexy, dangerous and a polite southern gentleman. Oh, and he's a vampire. He's new to the vampiric night life. He's new to town. He falls for the daughter of the only other vampires in town, Roshan and Brenna DeLongpre. He's overly protective; he seduces the leading lady, Cara DeLongpre, and he helps her face the demons of her father's past. Like Roshan, in the first book, he mutters vile oaths and he grunts under his breath frequently. Also like Roshan, he is the best realized character in this book. Ms. Ashley's love of her dark and mysterious vampires comes through quite clearly in her writing. Her love for her men is contagious, and you find yourself rooting for them, regardless of the situation. They are very easy to fall for, again and again.

Our damsel, Cara DeLongpre, however, is not nearly as alive on the pages. She is often presented as overly naive, vacillating between desires to be her own, grown up woman, or Vince's beloved. I find myself wishing for more depth in the females in this series, mostly because they have the potential to be just as likable as their male counterparts. Cara goes through many of the same issues and emotions as Brenna, in the first book. This repetition of emotion, confusion, motivation and resolution is somewhat disappointing.

In this second outing, Cara and Vince face the offspring of Roshan's enemy from Night's Kiss, Anthony Loken. While Anthony lays dead, his son, Anton, and lover, Serafina, live on, bent on achieving magical and maniacal revenge against Roshan and Brenna. The villains of the piece use many of the same plot devices against Cara and Vince, as Anthony used against Roshan. Malevolent magic is afoot, again and it is up to the vampires to put a stop to it, once and for all. After a couple repetitive attempts, this book does take a slightly different course than the first one.

It seems to me that the most interesting female Ms. Ashley has created is her Queen, Mara. Mara is the oldest living vampire, and is rumored to be the Queen of the vampires, born in Darkness during Cleopatra's reign. Mara is mysterious, moody, has quite an extensive past, and is definitely a pragmatic "shades of gray" character. I would enjoy reading her story some day. Mara meeting a man worthy of her age, beauty, and depth should make for an interesting, provocative tale.

All in all, while I cannot say that I was overwhelmed with this second venture into the world of the DeLongpre family, I am still enjoying the men and Mara enough to keep turning the pages, looking for them in the shadows in book three, Night's Master, which will be released in October, 2008.

Reviewed at Bitten by Books Paranormal Fiction Review Site by Justine
The Bitten by Books review score for this book was 2.5 Tombstones

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dialog undeveloped, July 27, 2007

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This review is from: Night's Touch (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the third Amanda Ashley book I've read and while I still enjoyed it, I found it to be less well written. The dialog was a bit undeveloped (seemed sort of forced at times) and the plot left a bit to be desired. Overall it was okay, but nothing special.