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4.0 out of 5 stars
A fulfilling completion to a very long running series, September 18, 2011
Brigit Poe and her twin James, are the only ones of their kind. Part mortal, part vampire both having powers with one being a healer, and the other a destroyer. Brigit has always accepted that she was the evil twin and that her brother would be the savior. So imagine her surprise when a twist of fate happens making her the only one who can save her people, what little are left. Fierce with determination, she sets out to destroy the first of their kind, Utana, to stop his bloody rampage and destroy him at all costs. Things get a little tricky when she finds her heart softening towards him. She'll have to make the choice no woman should ever have to make. Her heart or the lives of her family, as to lose either might just break her. I'll be honest that I was very skeptical at how realistic a relationship between Brigit and Utana could possibly be. There were so many things against them. The biggest being how unlikely it would be for Brigit to be able to forgive him for her family's deaths. How do you love someone that has taken so much from you. Another is that he is literally out of his mind from being captive in an unmovable state for thousands of years. I just wasn't sure how he could be capable of real love. However, after getting to see past the facade each of them wears on the surface, I realized there was so much more to both of them underneath than meets the eye. In fact they seemed to be the perfect complement to one another, making the romance very believable in the end. I cannot imagine being having to grow up as Brigit has. While she had love an affection from her parents and her twin, the only other one of their family who treated her as more than a destroyer was her "Aunt" Rhiannon. Instead of acting like she was evil, Rhiannon helped her to embrace herself. I'm not sure how Brigit would have held up if not for this, as it was she still had a pretty hard heart. Well that is until she started falling for Utana. Of course that doesn't help her complex of feeling she is evil, falling for the immortal that killed so many of their race. I was very happy to see her finally stand up to the other's perceptions of her tell them they are wrong about her being evil. I think in time she will throw off the "chains" of those perceptions and be finally able to grow. Twilight Fulfilled is to be the last installment in the Wings in the Night series. I feel things ended naturally and rather well. Of course I've only read the last two books in the series, so I am eager to go back to the beginning. I didn't have any problem jumping into the series with the 18th book, Twilight Prophecy, but I wouldn't recommend reading this one without reading that one first. While there was a focus change from one couple to the other, they still read like a continuation of the other rather than stand alone books. Twilight Fulfilled is a great finale to the series, that leaves you with a sense of completion, yet still leaves a little open for possibilities in the future. Perhaps someday Maggie Shayne will revisit this world, but for now I am very content with the way things have been left.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Engrossing conclusion! Brigit and Utana's love is Amazing!, January 1, 2012
The highly awaited conclusion to Maggie Shayne's Twilight Prophecy is the new novel, Twilight Fulfilled. The US Government's Department of Paranormal Investigations (DPI) has orchestrated both the unveiling of and the subsequent annihilation of the vampire race. Only a few remaining vampires exist due to the government's efforts and their own. In the previous novel, immortal healer and quarter-vampire twin, J.W. thought to find the vampire savior in the first immortal named Utana. After researching, locating, and resurrecting Utana, J.W. finds that the immortal has lived trapped in his ashes for hundreds of years and has gone insane. Utana's belief of being punished for sharing his immortality with others, that started the vampire race, prompts him to destroy vampires to appease his gods' wrath. Twilight Fulfilled starts with destructive twin, Brigit sent on a mission to destroy Utana before he kills all the remaining vampires left. Brigit is a spunky, powerful, quarter-vampire with more resourcefulness and cunning than most female leads. She starts on her hunt with only misgivings of whether she can kill this first powerful immortal as he has the same destructive power as her. However, as she observes Utana and feels his sorrow and confusion in this world she wonders if this being deserves to be sentenced again to a living death. Unexpectedly, she also discovers a sexual awareness and yearning for this powerful male but how to convince him that destroying the vampire race is not what his gods want! Utana is similarly torn and confused in this new world. He has no understanding of the customs in modern time but has the ability to touch an object to understand its function and purpose. He has the government aiding him and treating him as a king for his future service of destroying the vampires. Brigit is unexpected in his world with her warrior spirit, intelligent insight, and beautiful body. He is also feeling guilt and remorse for the lives he has taken and misgivings of whether his gods truly decree this genocide. Brigit and Utana are wonderful characters with depth and emotions with humor and humility. They make mistakes and acknowledge their culpability in their actions and words which is refreshing. Each struggles with their attraction to each other and betrayal of their family or gods in acting on this attraction. However, this reader keeps hoping for a miracle so these two star-crossed lovers will have a happily ever after. But to save the vampires and chosen (people that can become vampires) from the DPI's plot to destroy both may not allow a happily ever after. Read the book to find out more! http://obsessedreviews.blogspot.com/
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Couldn't put it down, November 9, 2011
I loved this book and thought it was a good end to the series. I am sad to see this series end. I have been a fan of this series since "Twilight Phantasies" when it first came out as part of the Silhouette Line. I couldn't put it down.
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