Customer Reviews

Noah

5 star:		(19)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(17)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Did I miss the memo that said this is the last book in the series? After reading all the other reviews I guess I must have! Maybe, because I didn't go into this book thinking it was the last, I wasn't as disappointed with it. I'm used to the fact that once an author starts making big money on a series it never wraps-up. (Christine Feehan, Sherrilyn Kenyon, etc.) They just keep adding new demensions and aspects that can keep it going forever if they choose. The fact that she didn't even touch on the main conflict with Ruth and her band of evil-doers tells me she's not done with this thing by a long shot! It's no accident that so many loose ends were left. Believe me, She's by no means done with the vampires or lycanthropes. Those storylines were left wide open! I think through those series we'll be seeing a lot more of our demon friends! She may take a hiatus from these storylines to expound on the shadowdwellers story (which I'm looking forward to) but she'll be back!

That being said, I actually liked the book pretty well. I did take off one star for the repetitiveness of the love scenes. the first one was great but, like a previous reviewer, I found myself skimming through the rest of them. I also thought there were parts that could have moved a little faster. But I've come to expect that from this author. I don't think this book was any different from the rest in the series in that regard.

All in all, this was my favorite book of the demon series. (I think Damien was probably my overall favorite, and that was about vampires and lycanthropes, although she at least brought Ruth into it!) She did a great job touching on what was going on with our friends from past books but not letting it overwhelm Noah and Kestra's story. (i.e. J.R. Ward in Lover Enshrined.)So if you've been a fan of this series I don't have to tell you to read this book, I'm sure you already have or will!

And for those of you that are worried she's ending the series without tieing up those loose ends, never fear! This series will never end! Like the rest, She'll just keep adding new demensions until it gets populer enough to start releasing them in hardback!

Shortly after reading NOAH, I decided to check out Jacquelyn Frank's website as I was eager to see what the next book in the series was. To my astonishment, her blog mentioned that this was to be the last book in the Nightwalker series and she is continuing the saga with the Shadowdwellers. Whoa! Did I read that correctly? If this was to be the last in the series, I would have thought that the Nightwalkers would have gone out with a bang - literally. You know, blow up the bad guys and all that. Instead, this was a sappy read and not what I expected for the Demon King.

I have read the first four books and have always been intrigued by Noah. Reading about his struggles and constant fear for his people and knowing how forlorn he felt watching those closest to him find their Imprinted mate, it was almost an immense relief to see him finally meet his queen. I actually psyched myself up before I picked up this novel. I really thought I was going to be in for an amazing romance and some huge battle scenes based on the length of the book. Yet, shortly after the introduction of Kestra, I began to feel detached. Fair enough that the author wanted a strong female for Noah. And I could also appreciate Kestra's attitude in view of her past. However, Noah seemed weak in this novel and seemed almost like a shadow of his former self. I struggled with the central characters' relationship and found their conversations exasperating after a while. I get it, she's highly independent and he's trying his utmost to give her room to adjust to their ways, but do we have to be told about it over and over again?

What happened to the renegade Demon? I was expecting an explosive, earth shattering battle not several pages of sex scenes to be followed five pages later by more sex scenes. And why did everyone seemed so despondent? I felt disappointed by the time I finished the book. Not because it was a bad novel - indeed, there were some good moments - but because too many things were left unresolved. Perhaps answers will be found on the Shadowdweller series, but I was quite deflated by the ending of NOAH that I'm currently reluctant to pick up ECSTASY. As much as I enjoyed the Nightwalker series in general, I am moving on to another author for the meantime until the next two Shadowdweller books have been released so I can get an idea of what that series is like.

This book was just one long sex scene, with a few breaks
in between to continue the same empty repetitious conversation.

There was no plot, no story and just one sex scene after another. It reminded me of Kresley Cole's last book. I really love J. Frank and KC but their last books were strange. Lacking in plot and completely under-delivering
any type of story.

"Noah" mentions nothing of Ruth and really has no villians. And makes little mention of the other characters that had been written about in previous books in the Nightwalker series. So you will find out who Noah ends up with and that is it!!!

Also, each sex scene was about 20 pages long!!! It would end and then Noah and Kestra would talk about how much they wanted each other..."I can't believe you want me again!" and then we would have to go through 20 more pages of the same OLD THING!!!!!

It is hard to have invested in a whole series and not read one ,So you might as well read this,just get ready to SKIM!SKIM!SKIM!

What a disappointment. We follow this whole series to get to the story about Noah and he is reduced to a whining sniveling brat. His heroine is no better. I wanted to smack her upside the head so many times it wasn't funny. I found myself reading, just to finish the book.

There wasn't any real chemistry between them. He wasn't the controlled Fire Demon that we all know and love. He was a mess. I could have done without the whole love story and focused on the plot to find Ruth and her band of witches.

I would say, get this from the used book store because it does tie up some loose ends but read on a rainy day. Don't waste gorgeous weather reading it.

I am a big fan of the Nightwalker series, but was disappointed in this ending of that part of the series. I gave the previous books, Jacob (5) Gideon (4) Elijah (4) and Damien (5) my favorite. Noah was a wus, Kestra was too much and please leave Isabelle out of a book, kind of tired of her. Jacob and Corinne, Gideon and Legna shined in this book. Disappointed in where the old characters were in their lives when they were revisited, is no one even remotely Happy. If you are a fan of the series you should still read it, even though it left more questions than it answered.

I liked the beginning of this book because it promised to be action packed and Noah was going to extremes to make sure he got his mate. Kestra is the mate Noah fought so hard for and to be honest I think he got the raw end of that deal. She's got issues to say the least, and with her background it's understandable, but she was so hard to like. At first I thought ok she's adjusting to the Nightwalker world so she's treating Noah like crap because she's scared. She adjusts amazingly fast to her new world but she's still treating Noah like crap...even after she sees through his memories what he went through to keep her alive. I also did not know that this was the last in the series until I read the reviews here so I'm extremely disappointed in all the loose strings. Ruth didn't get what was coming to her, poor Damian and Syreena seem to be on the brink of a civil war because of their love for one another, Jasmin still hates Syreena, the Demons aren't finding their mates, the vampires are killing everyone for power, Noah didn't resolve his fear of his powers nor was his relationship with Gideon patched up, and none of the other Nightwalkers were explored. The first book was still my favorite the formula was great and the mood of the book wasn't so gloom and doom like all that followed. All in all a dissapointing ending to a very promising beginning. Wait for it to hit the used store.

JF has written 3 great books. One lousy book and one alright book. Unfortunately, Noah was just alright. I wanted so much more for the king! I did not want his mate to be infertile (that is not HEA). I did not want him to be vilified. I did not want him to have a mate who was so unlikeable. I never liked the heroine. She bit#hed and yelled and griped and complained and shouted but that was all we learned about her. Enough already. We never saw any likeable side to her. She had a really bad thing happened to her. Got it, but lets make her more than that. She was not. She was bitter. I loved Bella, Sienna and Syreena, this heroine - whose name I cannot even recall less than 1 week after reading the book - she was not someone you rooted for, you sort of hoped Noah got free. The book had no cohesion with the other 4. Bella...she behaved so out of character. I was shocked and sure I read it wrong. And I could not believe the Ruth issue was not resolved. If it was not resolved to give Noah the story he deserved then that would be worth it, but it was not. I just don't know what JF was thinking here.

This book was absolutely terrible, out of the five Nightwalker books this is the one that should have been the best. The story of Noah-the Demon King should have been so many things...powerful, explosive with loads of action. Unfortunately it was a 471 page disappointment. If it were possible to lift the scenes between Noah and Kestra out and fuse them together the story would be a good 3 and a 1/2 stars, but we can't and the result is a story riddled with the points of views of every character pair from books past with the exception of Elijah and his mate.

The worst thing is it feels choppy, as if Frank simply snatched a scene out of the lives of Damien and Syreena, Gideon and Legna and Jacob and Bella and just tossed it in at random. She REALLY dropped the ball on trying to weave the plot lines together. The villans were weak and insolent, a far cry form the organized venom of Ruth.

An overall disappointment. I really hate that such a good series had to end on such a horrible note. Frank should not try to juggle so many points of view in the future. The fact that this is the last book in the series made her want to drag everybody in so we could see what was going on with them, but what it ended up doing was taking away from what should have been the grand finale of the series.

2 Stars---Would not recommend, since it doesn't add to the series in any way.

Longer than the previous Nightwalker books, "Noah" was a bit slow to get going with dream sequences, a background fairy tale (which did have a significant tie-in later in the story), and one incident that is repeated three times. But hang in there, when we finally get past that point Noah himself, though a bit frazzled by the Imprinting, is every thing we could have hoped for from having seen him in previous books. His mate Kestra, a determined strategist and mercenary warrior who has cultivated extreme bravery in the face of any non-heart related danger, is a great match for Noah. Having watched the patient, logical, and controlled Noah throughout the Nightwalker series it was great to see his struggle and vulnerability as he tries to win the acceptance of his mate-to-be all while fearing the consequences of alienating her especially with the impending loss of control that Samhain promises until he finally acheives the pairing that he has always dreamt of.

With a decent amount of action, the background plot was good, showing the consequences of Damien's discovery in the last book as rogue vampires scheme to collect as many Nightwalker powers as possible, their plots targeting some very significant victims. Also fun and effective were the curtain call performances by past pairs from the previous books, all of our old favorites, Bella, Jacob, Legna, Gideon, Damien and Syreena were back in the action. If you like the steamy stuff there was lots, but for me, Noah and Kes' many love scenes got repetitious. Even though I do like romance in my stories, I found myself skimming after the first few joinings - as sacrilegious as that is for a romance reader to say. This and the slow start dropped my rating a bit.

Noah's book completes the Nightwalker series, but even with the final bows from the continuing cast there was still enough stirred up in the Frank's world that it didn't really feel like the end. Add to that Ruth's absence and the lack of resolution with Jasmine and I suspect the larger story arc will continue as Frank switches from Demons to the Shadowdwellers when her new series starts with Ecstasy: The Shadowdwellers.

***synopsis***
Since Noah's sister left his house taking with her the calming influence that had allowed the demon King to face the heightened emotion and stresses that Beltane and Samhain pose to unmated demons, Noah finds it harder and harder to maintain his control, his honor and his very sanity. And should the powerful Fire Demon lose the battle, the price to those around him would be astronomical. Now his his sleep is haunted by sensual images of a women who smells of cotton candy and has hair like white silk. The dreams of his hidden druid mate stoke his desire and his frustration, leading him closer and closer to breaking his increasingly tenuous control, as another Samhain looms. But even as he finally overcomes his fears and pride to approach the former human who can help him to search out his mate, it may be already too late and when a demon as powerful as Noah caught in the grips of grief and madness it is a fearsome thing indeed.

To start off, I loved Jacob. I thought it was a fresh idea, the characters were likeable, the world building was good, etc. Gideon I liked as well. After that, things just went down hill culimating in Noah, a book that should have been the best but was the worst.

First off, since Gideon the books have been getting more and more erotically tinged. Meaning in Damien the vampires are having orgies. In Elijah the werewolves are always half-naked or naked. Noah added swearing and one of the first truly unlikeable characters I've read in this series-and she was supposed to be Noah's mate!

Kestra was so unlikeable from the start that I had to struggle to keep reading. She was aggressive, arrogant, crude, ill-mannered, violent...the list goes on. There wasn't ONE thing I liked about her for the first 100 pages and even after that it was pretty thin. And Noah, inexplicably, finds her 'amusing' and 'enthralling'. Huh?

I've never understood why authors create two characters who fight and hate each other-somehow finding underneath it all some sudden, great love. Dr. Phil where are you??? There was No romance between them. One minute she's fighting him, calling him names, holding a gun to his head and the next their in bed-they don't know each other and she just learned his name for Pete's sake! I personally, prefer the characters in a book to have the romance first, lovemaking later Otherwise it doesn't mean a thing and totally demeans it. You shouldn't be sleeping with someone you just tried to kill.

And Noah...well, the Noah we've grown to love and admire is missing here. He gets struck by the 'madness', manhandles the women around him roughly, puts Leah in danger...the list goes on. I was really upset by it. Noah was the rock of the books, the fearless leader trying to save his people and lead them into the future. With this book, she pulverized that image. He became weak, dangerous and actually made me uncertain about his character. It was difficult to cheer for his 'romance' when he'd acted so much the villain. Actually, with this change of character, maybe Noah deserves Kestra.

I also didn't like the fact that the main villain-Ruth-just kept going and going and going. I wish she'd been wrapped up in one of the earlier books so that we could have had some closure and moved on to another aspect of the nightwalker world. As powerful as all the other main characters were they never could seem to defeat one woman and her band of magic-users.

As for the good...well, I liked the glimpses into past characters lives. They all interact and are involved in the story. I always like it when an author re-visits characters we loved in other books. That was about it. So....I'd skip this one. At least if you want to have a good lasting memory of this series. Read Jacob and Gideon again to try and wash the taste of this book out of your mouth. I am.