*Book
source ~ A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
Title ~ Night Unbound
Series ~ Immortal Guardians, #5
Author ~ Dianne Duvall
Publisher ~ Zebra
Published ~ 2 September 2014
Genre ~ Paranormal | Romance
Pages ~ 432
My Rating ~ 5 bites Nom nom nom!
Lisette
D’Alençon is an Immortal Guardian. Young compared to many Guardians, she is a
kickass French hottie that has been around a couple centuries killing vampires.
Her twin brothers, also Guardians, have found love and she’s feeling down.
She’s lonely and wonders if she even deserves love after accidentally turning
her brothers into Guardians all those years ago. And then Zach comes into their
lives. Mysterious, powerful, secretive and, also, apparently not on good terms
with Seth, the leader of the Immortal Guardians. Seth has told her Zach is
off-limits. Stay away or risk his displeasure. But Lisette can’t stay away and
Zach is drawn to Lisette. Is it just lust or is it more? And is Zach the one
who betrayed Seth or is it someone else?
Darkness Dawns (book 1) was one of the first books I reviewed for
Kensington. I read it and was enthralled. I love this series. I mean, I really
do. For realz! I have said it before and I’ll say it again and not give a fuck
that I’m repeating myself, it has everything I love in a book. Humor,
paranormal elements, sexy steaminess, action, multiple POVs, twisty plot, sexy
steaminess (did I say that already?), a wonderful cast of characters and a
great world. Plus, it’s set in my own backyard here in North Carolina
The
gang is back in Lisette and Zach’s romance. There are even a few new guys. I
went into this book with trepidation because these two characters have had very
little page time. I had no feel for them and didn’t know if I could connect. I
was right to be worried because I didn’t connect as well as I have in the past
with the main love story characters, but this book is plenty long enough and I
came to love both of them once I got to know them. Now, I’m sitting here
impatient for the next book. Who finds love next? Seth? David? Ethan? Or will
it be new guy Aidan? My vote goes for Aidan even though he’s new. I need Seth
to be alone a bit longer though I know that’s cruel. And I really want Chris to
find someone to love. He may be human, but he deserves someone who’ll take care
of him since he’s too busy taking care of the Guardians and the Network to take
care of himself. Make that happen! *ahem* If that’s ok with you, Ms. Duvall.
Plus, we still need to find the person responsible for creating the super
vampires, discover what the hell the Others are and how Marcus and Ami’s baby is doing. Plenty of fodder for many books to come, I hope!
So
many good quotes in this book that I have to add a few. The whole scene with
Zach in bad shape at Lisette’s is quote worthy, but I’ll just add this one...
“Bastien
nodded to Ethan, then stared down at Zach. After a few moments he looked
around. “Where’s the shovel?”
Ethan
coughed to cover a laugh.
“I
didn’t kill him!” Lisette nearly shouted.
Bastien
shifted his gaze to Ethan.
Ethan
held up his hands. “Don’t look at me. I didn’t kill him.”
“He
isn’t dead,” Lisette snapped. “And I’m not into rough sex!”
Bastien
stared at her. “Ooookay.””
Chris
to Bastien:
“”And
you are supposed to be serving as
guard. Seven vampires live across the hallway. What are you going to do if a
couple of them have psychotic breaks and try to escape while you two are having
a quickie?”
“Chase
them down bare-ass naked and give the human guards an eyeful.”
“I
don’t know about you,” one of the vamps said in his room, “but I’m pretty sure
even total mind-fuck madness wouldn’t make me risk that guy chasing me down and
tackling me while he’s naked and has a hard-on.”
“Seth
glanced at him out of the corner of his eye. “Now what’s wrong. You’re scowling again.”
“I
don’t know,” Zach said, puzzled. “For a moment I just felt this peculiar…I
don’t know…non-murderous connection
to you or something.”
“It’s
called kinship, asshole.”
“Ah.””
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