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In this pulse-pounding Immortals After Dark tale, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole delves into the darkest mysteries and deepest passions of Clan MacRieve…
A BEAST IN TORMENT
Uilleam MacRieve believed he’d laid to rest the ghosts of his boyhood. But when a brutal torture revives those ancient agonies and destroys his Lykae instinct, the proud Scot craves the oblivion of death. Until he finds her—a young human so full of spirit and courage that she pulls him back from the brink.
A BEAUTY IN CHAINS
Seized for the auction block, Chloe Todd is forced to enter a terrifying new world of monsters and lore as a bound slave. When offered up to creatures of the dark, she fears she won’t last the night. Until she’s claimed by him—a wicked immortal with heartbreaking eyes, whose touch sets her blood on fire.
A FULL MOON ON THE RISE
With enemies circling, MacRieve spirits Chloe away to the isolated Highland keep of his youth. But once he takes her to his bed, his sensual mate becomes something more than human, evoking his savage past and testing his sanity. On the cusp of the full moon, can he conquer his worst nightmare to save Chloe…from himself?
- Sales Rank: #29822 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-07-02
- Released on: 2013-07-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Praise for Kresley Cole:
'Kresley Cole knows what paranormal romance readers crave and superbly delivers on every page...' Single Titles on Kiss of a Demon King
'Not just another romantic read . . . this is a powerful experience!' Reader to Reader Reviews on A Hunger Like No Other
About the Author
Kresley Cole is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the electrifying Immortals After Dark paranormal series, the young adult Arcana Chronicles series, the erotic Game Makers series, and five award-winning historical romances. A master’s grad and former athlete, she has traveled over much of the world and draws from those experiences to create her memorable characters and settings. You can learn more about her and her work at KresleyCole.com or Facebook.com/KresleyCole. Sign up for Kresley’s email newsletter to receive the latest book release updates, as well as info about contests and giveaways (KresleyCole.com/Newsletter).
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138 of 153 people found the following review helpful.
Emotional torture
By Emmie
First off, I LOVE Cole's IAD series and as a fan of her writing style, 'MacRieve' draws you in. The problem is that once you're drawn in, the experience is an angst-ridden mess you can't escape with much satisfaction. Too much internal torment, not enough external action, to the point the extreme angst causes the story to collapse in on itself.
***SPOILERS***
The prologue introduces the internal tension by revealing MacRieve's traumatic history as a child molested by a succubus, resulting in the deaths of his parents. Cue nine centuries of MacRieve suffering psychologically to the point that he can't have sex without his wolf taking over.
Now, you'd think this tragedy would result in a great drama, right? But the story fails to draw it out in a satisfactory way. There are no antagonists in the book, nothing external to distract -- or rather DRAW OUT -- this internal torture MacRieve carries around inside him. As a result, all that angst gets heaped down on his mate, Chloe, taking a strong, self-reliant badass to the breaking point after stripping her of her family, friends, her life's work as a professional Olympic hopeful, her self-respect and even stripping her of her most basic sense of self as a human being when she transforms into a succubus.
Basically, this is the plot: MacRieve's been self-flagellating for nine centuries until he's mated to a succubus who becomes the external target for his pain and rage. Cue his mate becoming the driving force to ~heal~ MacRieve by suffering his abuse until he wakes up and realizes he needs to let go and move past his trauma since torturing his mate to the point that she views suicide as a viable option... well, it goes against his Instinct when it comes to how a Lykae treats his fated love. So, one bad succubus damns MacRieve, one good succubus suffers until MacRieve is healed.
The middle section of the story collapses in on itself and just becomes painful to read. And it didn't have to be this way. The story didn't have to introduce other succubi, only to dismiss them. Nor did it have to isolate MacRieve and Chloe by sending them back to the site of MacRieve's trauma. It makes sense on an emotional level in dealing with MacRieve's past, but it's unfair to Chloe as she becomes this vessel for MacRieve to expel all his pain upon, focusing entirely on his own issues while failing to attend to hers.
Instead of locking MacRieve and Chloe in a fortress of MACRIEVE'S PAIN, the story could've been greatly improved by incorporating external antagonists to push the plot and character development forward. Chloe's father, Webb, being absent from the majority of the book is nonsensical. All the Loreans just packing up and going home after standing outside the Lykae fortress? Extremely anticlimactic. The action started out great in the first third of the book only to reach its climax at the auction. After that, there just wasn't anything for Will and Chloe to DO besides stew in all their emotional torment. MacRieve's past sucked them back in so the couple could work through his childhood trauma, but to such an exponentially overwrought degree that it became a suffocating reading experience.
This is the part where Cole's talent at writing in an emotionally evocative style becomes a hindrance. The lack of external action and the inescapable angst between Will and Chloe made reading this story an emotional experience that I wanted to escape from, not to. This story desperately needed more characters and another driving plot beyond 'mating forces MacRieve to deal with his trauma'. As soon as Chloe's revealed to be a succubus, the story becomes claustrophobic, isolating the couple and forcing them to run the gauntlet of extreme sexual dysfunction (Chloe needs sex to live, yet MacRieve's traumatized and sickened from sex with a succubus). You'd think, considering how many enemies Chloe has throughout the Lore (EVERYONE wants to kill her since she's Webb's daughter) and her close ties to the Order that she'd have cause to interact with other characters besides Will in incredibly interesting ways. Yet the only enemy Chloe faces is MacRieve himself and his hatred and disdain for her kind. Chloe exists in this novel solely for MacRieve; even the scenes where Chloe finally meets other Succubi were utilized for MacRieve's benefit in order to teach him not all Succubi are evil. Meanwhile Chloe's barely conscious and nearly dead when she first meets her aunt and cousin, and she doesn't have any meaningful interaction with them after that.
Here's the real tragedy: the plot's half-baked and what little baking powder's been stirred into this tale has been devoted to tackling MacRieve's traumatic past, meanwhile Chloe's existential crises in the here and now serves as another means of drawing MacRieve outside his own head so he can heal from his past, leaving Chloe floundering in the present. The failure to really delve into Chloe's complex relationship with her father at the end was especially dissatisfying (Webb's absence from 90% of the story is baffling). The plot bends over backwards to cater to MacRieve's pain while lacksadasically addressing Chloe's existential angst with the 'rub dirt on it' philosophy the heroine herself espouses. Ultimately, this story lacks the complexity and care devoted to the Immortals After Dark series' more recent installments, i.e. 'Demon from the Dark' and 'Lothaire'.
212 of 246 people found the following review helpful.
I got a fever, and the only prescription is more werewolf sex!
By April M
I only wish my title was a joke, but sadly it is the actual "plot" device utilized in this story. Oh, how the mighty Kresley Cole has fallen!
Don't get me wrong; I have long been one of Ms. Cole's most ardent champions. I've turned many a friend and stranger onto her books because I believe (and still hold out hope) that she is unrivaled in the romance genre. I have read and re-read all of her books multiple times, but this one? One time through was too many for me.
You might think it is because I found the inclusion of Will's childhood abuse distasteful, or that I just didn't connect with the foul-mouthed, trash-talking Chloe, but no. It was the utter and absolute lack of identifiable plot and the same old I-hate-what-you-are-but-am-compelled-by-a-mystical-force-to-mate-with-you formula that Kresley Cole usually does so well. It has never struck me as formulaic before now because her other stories are carried by ACTION (aka "plot"), and not just the between-the-sheets kind. Sex has always been a part of her stories, but not the ONLY part. Will and Chloe's story read more like a badly acted skin flick screenplay than an IAD installment. Ms. Cole may have jumped the shark into Gena Showalter (pre-conversion) territory with this one. One wonders if it might not be time for her to put down the proverbial pen for a well-deserved hiatus so that she can find inspiration and joy in her craft again. It read just like a writer on deadline with a note from the editor: MOAR SEXXX!!!!.
Is there anything redeeming about the story? A few things. Besides the new characters, and our favorite recurring ones, we get a glimpse into Munro's future. (Fingers crossed on that one.) But all in all, it feels bereft of the signature charm and humor of Kresley Cole's other work. A moderate amount of angst in a tortured hero is to be expected, but 300 pages of capital letter ANGST, not so much. A ballbusting heroine with a quick wit and a sharp tongue is good, but not if she doesn't stay true to character and refuse to be bullied by the big bad wolf. Even timid little Emma Troy had Chloe Todd beat in that department, and she was afraid of her own shadow!
Will I stop reading Kresley Cole's work because of this dud? No, of course not. Even on her worst day, her skill is still superior to most of the other romance writers out there, and there remains so much promise in where this series is heading. I'm still holding out major hope for Thronos and Lanthe's story. I'm chalking this one up to the anomalous blip that it is and looking forward (albeit with some newfound trepidation) to the next in the series.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
This is like an IAD short story went on for 300+ pages :(
By ❤sls❤
First off, it's 3.5 stars but being a huge Cole/IAD fan I can't help but round up instead of down. That said, I just finished reading this and I'm wicked conflicted. Kresley Cole is my favorite author. She writes angst and hot sex like no other. Her voice, her style, really appeals to me and draws me in like no other author. After the many IAD books I felt like I knew her strengths, and her weaknesses, and knew what to expect from her.
This book was different. Not sure I can pinpoint it exactly but here goes: It felt like a really, really *long* short story. The beginning set it up and we saw a little Nix, which was good but right from the start the pace felt *off* to me. I couldn't figure out why or what was missing or how exactly it was different. It just was. Then the story was very focused on the couple, Will and Chloe, in a way you might expect from a short story, intensely focused on them and little else. That , in and of itself, isn't a bad thing. It's just a bit different than the focus of the previous books. Sometimes in past books I have found myself dying for some more one and one time and less time with other characters, or running around, or fleeing, or being attacked by various creatures, etc.
I saw other reviews say this had no plot. I don't agree with that exactly but more that the plot was not that of a novel-length book. All of the world building that we usually get with IAD books was missing until the very end. I'm not sure if this was an attempt at drawing the series out or possibly a new approach or style (I hope not). But something is definitely off with this book.
For the diehard Cole fans there are still things to enjoy here. Yes, Will was angsty and had a lot to work through but you get a great glimpse of his true nature when he and Chloe first get together. And though some reviewers don't agree, I really really like Chloe. She is strong, tough, and scrappy and yet isn't overbearing or b*tchy and still has an innocent, vulnerable side. Loved her a lot. She also didn't act stupid and try to escape (though she considered it) when clearly she would be raped, tortured, and killed if she did. She may have thought about it (which would be a normal response) but she didn't act a fool (which drives me crazy in romance novels).
The soccer references...I have to agree with other reviewers...they were a bit heavy-handed. I think they were meant to convey the idea that Chloe really didn't have a life outside of soccer. So she thought of everything in terms of the one thing she knew. I think that concept could have been conveyed with a lot less of the references. It was meant to be a somewhat subtle underlying theme between the couple but it was way way over done for no real reason.
I also feel that the pace of Will and Chloe's relationship was *off* too. Maybe some other reviewer will be able to capture the reasons better than I can. But the pace somehow kept me from really connecting with them even though I really liked both characters and there were some moments that actually brought me to tears.
***side rant***
An odd thing I noticed was she made a reference to Will and Chloe "knocking teeth" during one of the sex scenes or romantic scenes and I can't help but wonder if this was not a *shout-out* to Gena Showalter as that is something Gena likes to put it in her books. If you're fans of both authors then you know they like to put each others characters in their books or make some reference to the other's characters. Normally I like this but that particular concept of being so in the throes of passion that you and your partner "knock teeth" is so unsexy to me. Every time I read it in Gena's books I cringe and I cringed here. Not to mention, I'm not loving the direction Gena's books seem to be going. I'm all for life changes and spiritual growth but don't change your beloved series. Just start writing something new for a different audience and don't take advantage of your fan base by giving them something they wouldn't have purchased had they known what they were getting into. And on that note, Kresely Cole is doing herself no favors by reminding us she and Gena are buddies. If that's what this even was. It's probably just me though :)
***end of side rant***
Bottomline: If you are an IAD fan you have to read each and every book no matter what. And you will find things you really enjoy here, for sure. But this probably won't be your favorite IAD book and, odds are, you will be a bit conflicted when you're done. Still better than almost any other author, or romance novel, still worth your time and the glimpse into Munro's story looks promising, though we only get that glimpse in the end.
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