Setting: Primus chambers below Capitol Building, Washington DC; Maiden’s Chamber, palace gardens, Atlantis; Reflecting Pool, Washington Monument, PA; Sedona, Arizona – Montezuma’s Castle national Park, caverns, Nicholas’ mansion; Theme: love that was not forgotten, a guilt carried over; reunion; a love that conquers; bad guys who aren’t so bad; Characters:Daniel: ex-Primator, Ruler of the Primus (3rd house of US Congress);11,000 years ago an apprentice to a metal worker/vampire, and met Serai, whocame to their shop – some flirting – and then the town attacked, he hid her under the floor, fought well and appeared dead – vampire woke up, freed Serai, and offered her the choice to her of whether to save Daniel by making him vampire – she says yes, her dad shows up, taking her back to Atlantis – he wakes, tries to deal with bloodlust, and when comes to self, Atlantis is sunk and he is told Serai is dead - she is told Daniel is dead, and forced to stasis to be a future bride (after trying to kill herself by jumping from a tower – Daniel gives free reign to blood passions for a couple hundred years, until a young woman who reminds him of Serai stands up to him… reunites with his master, he tries to redeem self and do good… master gets tired of the futility, and ‘walks out into the sun’ and Daniel sleeps for 9,000 years; Awake a few hundred, trying to do good and counter the bad vampires, recently joining up with the Atlanteans; feels futility – not even major changes withhim as Primator, so he decides to walk out into the sun…and awakens in a cave with Serai…Serai: in stasis, in the Maidens’ Chamber (pristine Atlantean maidens, intended as brides for future rulers of Atlantis) in Atlantis, for 11,000 years; The Emperor stone, of Poseidon’s trident, controls the stasis pods; intended of Conlon, who avoided it until he fell in love with Reilly – and though he and Reilly ordered their freedom, no one knew how to release them; a dark witch, with a vampire and greedy banker, have found the Emperor, and in trying to manipulate its power, Serai freed… and she knows she must find that stone to save her sisters, and she must not stay in Atlantis where they may imprison her again; she calls a portal, and ends in a cavern with Daniel;Alaric / Quinn / Jack: High Priest of Atlantis/ freedom fighter/ tiger shifter; when Jack mortally wounded in battle with vampires, Serai uses her powers to save him, but only his tiger side (his human side is partly with one of Atlantean portals?); Quinn walks away from the rebels to heal Jack, and Alaric makes a vow to never leave Quinn’s side ? ! ? Now? Hmmmm – the three go off the map together;Ivy Khetta: high priestess of the Crescent Moon coven; husband killed by vampires; she has turned to the dark arts to be strong enough to protect her son; trying to access the power of the stone, even though it hurts her to do so; stone can seek out other gems – why they want it, to finance their plans;Ian Khetta: her 14 year old son; brave; smart; banker kidnaps him and threatens his safety to coerce Ivy to continue when she knows it is too dangerous; he and Nicholas become friends;Nicholas: vampire ruler of southwest; though power hungry, he protects his humans, and won’t hurt children; by the end, he, Ivy and Ian are making a good team; Smithson: banker; thief; working with Nicholas to fund his campaign, in anticipation of being turned vampire; head of worldwide consortium; the most evil of the 3 of them; Nicholas puts his hands through his stomach when he finds him after Smithson tried to double cross him;Reisen: once challenged Conlon, lost his hand, exiled himself; trying to redeem self by fighting with the rebels; takes up with Melody to lead the rebels when Quinn takes off;Melody: hacker extraordinaire and occasional thief; a bit gothic; breaks into Smithson’s office to steal his list of investors… we get a hint of attack, and then later that they are okay… another book?Summary:As they track the Emperor Stone, Nicholas and Serai rekindle the love that they both carried … getting to know one another again, making forays into lovemaking denied them so long, while the stone both called and caused Serai pain… in the end, they recover the stone, face Serai’s death – but Poseidon intervenes, and instructs Daniel to make her vampire – and the two of them become a new kind of vampire – who can walk out in the sun…Memorable Scenes:Daniel of Serai, who had shifted into a saber tooth tiger, again challenging danger: “He was going to slaughter anyone – vampire or otherwise – who dared to get anywhere near her. And when this was over, he was going to throw her over his shoulder, take her somewhere safe, lock her up, and maybe invest in some catnip.” I didn't hate this installment like I have the last few. In fact, I rather enjoyed reading about Daniel and Serai! (I even got my wish and was pleasantly surprised by the intellectual dialogue found here!!!!!) Daniel being the 11,000 year old vampire ally to the Atlantians and Serai being one of the maidens trapped in crystal stasis for 11,000 years waiting to be married off to a prince for breeding. I'm glad that the story finally came back to some of these characters, I was really starting to wonder if they would ever let those poor girls out of their cages. I did find the way Serai and the other 'maidens'(virgins) were fed information over all the years they were frozen to be a bit too convenient for my taste, but I'm not going to dwell on it.I do have some strong sympathy feels for Daniel and they just grew with this book. He's a vampire and has had to do SOOOOO many bad things to get to the point where he could do some good, but everyone around him forgets all that and snubs him for being a blood drinking individual. People sure are racists....I sort of loved the romance going on between the two, probably because it wasn't insta-love like EVERYONE else in these books. It lasted through 11,000 years and they had to sort of fall back into love with each other again after so long apart, it was a bit touching. I really liked how Serai trusted Daniel with her life from the moment she saw him again. It was refreshing to read about total trust in the person they love instead of the "this person could never love me" bullshit. Don't get me wrong, Daniel still suffered some of that, but on a much smaller scale then the Atlantean jack-holes, and in a more realistic way.So, of all the things that I liked in this story, there were a few things that I really didn't enjoy at all. First was the name of the stone, The Emperor. It took me 1/3 of the book to realize people were talking about a ROCK and not a PERSON. I don't like feeling as though I'm an idiot, and that right there definitely did it for me. Second, after the fourth or fifth time someone got all pissy over Serai's 'honor' I was pretty fed up. Because an 11,000 year old woman can't make her own mind and bed who she wants, right? Third, trying to form TWO more relationships in this book was a bit much to undertake considering this installment is less than 350 pages. I wasn't really drawn to either of them and sort of felt like it was just some filler she needed to make the book a bit longer... Which leads me to my next point.I didn't think that the point of view of the soldiers from P-Ops was necessary whatsoever. I felt like it wasted a couple scenes and took me out of the story.Finally, while I enjoy a happy ending I was not at all pleased with how this book ended. It was incredibly rushed and a bit too convenient... Maybe if she hadn't put in so many useless chapters she would have been about to tie things up more elegantly....
What do You think about Vampire In Atlantis (2011)?
I really enjoyed finally reading Daniel's story. Serai was a woman totally worthy of him.
—John
J'ai eu du mal avec l'héroïne, alors que Daniel est vraiment super
—ginny
Not finishing this series. I didn't like the last book at all.
—Kylie
