This book is absolutely horrible. I don't think it deserves any stars. I got this through Audible because I love the Narrator Ryan West. I had just finished listening to Fight for Flight where Ryan was a Narrator and Holy cow was he amazing and sexy. Unfortunately he was the only good thing about the book and it wasn't enough to save it. The main character Sydney was extremely unlikable and couldn't have been more annoying - I was actually hoping a bad guy would kill her or at least shut her up. She non-stop bitched and whined about how she didn't need a man protecting her, she could do everything herself. Then the second she got hurt (because she of course didn't listen when they told her how dangerous things were) she would immediately ask "where are you Kade? please help me". Then she would have to get saved by him, then yell at him for treating her like a child, then she would get into trouble again and yada yada yada into an endless circle of hell. Then to top it all off Grosso wrote the most NON sexy sex I've ever heard-I was seriously cringing the whole time. Every word she used was a huge turn off! When an author calls not only a woman's privately parts but a guys parts their "sex" It takes me out of the moment and I find it weird and creepy. I don't know how to describe the rest of Grosso's sex scenes - a bizarre mix of clinical descriptions, words like "mounds", "nub" and "pink tipped peaks" and flowery garbage words that just didn't work. It didn't help that the author has Sydney & Kade literally falling madly in love within 3 freaking days! Kade's been alive for centuries and has met and dated a million ladies but somehow this annoying, whiney, God awful woman (who he hasn't had a decent conversation with mind you) is "the one" and he's never known anyone like her. - I think he could have done much better. I could go on and on but the point is I wouldn't recommend this book - I couldn't even finish it. DNFI'm sorry. I really wanted to like this since the premise was something different. I like dual POV, but when the speaker changes between paragraphs it becomes a little hard to follow. Plus, being from the Philadelphia area I had a hard time with some of the stereotypical descriptions. Please stop mentioning Santa Claus, it was 30 years ago. . . and we don't call cheesesteaks sandwiches. It's a cheesesteak. Not a steak sandwich. It may sound petty, but for me it was distracting.
What do You think about Kade's Dark Embrace (2012)?
loved the book can not wait to read the rest of Immortals of New Orleans
—gstar
I liked it but I don't like the way Kade was controlling.
—sarard
