Oh crimenies
I think I dared to compare Zsadist to Zarek in one of my recent posts. I dared mock the Z thing, the slave thing and the whole vampy fang thing.
I was wrong.
Mister Zarek is nothing like our vamp man Zsadist and his story doesn’t compare beyond the shallow.
In Dance with the Devil we get to tame the beast, be the one that melts the ice away from an angry, joyless heart and we get to do it as a nymph.
Our heroine this time around is Astrid. Don’t worry the name is old fashioned, but it works well with the plot. Albeit it lets our Zarek speak poetically.
I can’t tell you what I liked so much about this one. I liked it better than Night Embrace, not that Night Embrace was bad, but perhaps Zarek’s emo, trodden on life speaks more to me.
And of course, one often likes romance books better if they can relate to the chick and I could this time, though I don’t have to deal with her emotional or rather unemotional issues.
This book is also more self contained. The new characters are not crammed down you’re throat, but placed seamlessly into the story which takes place mostly in Alaska. Believe me though, this book is anything but cold. It sizzles, it makes you want to cry and man does it make you want to be smile, too.
Of course while Zarek is being judged for possible execution, we learn about more about Acheron. Acheron is the thread that ties all these books together. I have to say I like that.
In many of these books, you learn to love a character then he’s just a memory. Maybe he makes a call to the current focus character, but otherwise he’s practically forgotten. Stringing Acheron through these books has maintained a level of familiarity that I really like. Not to mention, he’s hot.
Again I leave you with buy it, read it. Trust me you will read happy with this one.
© 2008
I think I dared to compare Zsadist to Zarek in one of my recent posts. I dared mock the Z thing, the slave thing and the whole vampy fang thing.
I was wrong.
Mister Zarek is nothing like our vamp man Zsadist and his story doesn’t compare beyond the shallow.
In Dance with the Devil we get to tame the beast, be the one that melts the ice away from an angry, joyless heart and we get to do it as a nymph.
Our heroine this time around is Astrid. Don’t worry the name is old fashioned, but it works well with the plot. Albeit it lets our Zarek speak poetically.
I can’t tell you what I liked so much about this one. I liked it better than Night Embrace, not that Night Embrace was bad, but perhaps Zarek’s emo, trodden on life speaks more to me.
And of course, one often likes romance books better if they can relate to the chick and I could this time, though I don’t have to deal with her emotional or rather unemotional issues.
This book is also more self contained. The new characters are not crammed down you’re throat, but placed seamlessly into the story which takes place mostly in Alaska. Believe me though, this book is anything but cold. It sizzles, it makes you want to cry and man does it make you want to be smile, too.
Of course while Zarek is being judged for possible execution, we learn about more about Acheron. Acheron is the thread that ties all these books together. I have to say I like that.
In many of these books, you learn to love a character then he’s just a memory. Maybe he makes a call to the current focus character, but otherwise he’s practically forgotten. Stringing Acheron through these books has maintained a level of familiarity that I really like. Not to mention, he’s hot.
Again I leave you with buy it, read it. Trust me you will read happy with this one.
© 2008
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