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Author: L. A. Banks
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: 2004-12-28
ISBN-10: 0312987021
ISBN-13: 9780312987022
List Price: $7.99
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A battle is brewing in the underworld, and at the center of it all is Damali Richards, spoken word artist and vampire huntress. But she is not just any huntress; she is the millennium Neteru, a woman so powerful that the vampire world is about to start a war-one that threatens to spread onto her streets-in order to possess her...
Fallon Nuit, a rogue vampire who is one of the most powerful Damali has ever encountered, has allied himself with the deadly Amanthra demons in order to claim her. But the Vampire Council has plans for her as well. And now an unlikely variable has entered the equation: an ex-lover turned master vampire with an agenda of his own. Damali must risk trusting him once more if they are to survive.
Has Potential but Falls Short
| Customer Rating: | | I started reading this because I thought it was going to be part of the continuing growth in Paranormal Romance. But I was really disappointed. The idea of the story was OK, a vampire hunter after the bad guy, has feelings for a guy that get turned into a vampire, etc. But I get tired of the "Yo Homey" slang and the rapping. That took away from anything that was good. I, for one, and not going to waste any more money on this series, even if the other reviews say that it gets better. |
Good entertainment value...
| Customer Rating: | I read this book directly after reading the previous book, Minion, as the last book left off halfway during the story & this book finishes the storyline.
The night of Damali's awakening is swiftly approaching, yet she's still relatively unaware of everything that's going on. Carlos has been making several deals in an attempt to not only save Damali's virtue, but also his own life (such as it is). Meanwhile, her team is still shaken by the idea of a new race of vamps unlike any they've ever met.
The story is still improving & despite a few flaws (and they are small ones), the book flows nicely & is easy to read. Some may argue that the books aren't very deep, & they would be right for the most part. Still, the books were never written to be the next Wuthering Heights, they were written to be entertaining, and they succeed. |
Super Reader
| Customer Rating: | More Blade than Buffy.
Or, the Vampire Huntress series is a lot less whitebread than the overwhelming majority of the other 'headless chick and arse' book cover type series.
Not as good as the first book, however.
This revolves around the fact that the 'chosen one' Neteru has a vampire 'ponn farr' every seven years, where, if she gets pregnant to the right father she can produce either another nifty powerful vampire hunter, or a daywalker vampire (speaking of Blade).
Her hunter-group friends and their Knights Templar with Ninjas cannon fodder assistants prefer the former, to the latter.
Her vampire master gangster ex-boyfriend and Vampire Council, and a large number of denizens of Hell have other ideas.
Discussions of wandering around through the levels of hell are one of the amusing bits of this book, certainly.
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still going!
| Customer Rating: | | so far i'm half way through the series and i'm still hooked on Damali and her crew. The missions are getting more and more complicated. Rivera and Damali's love story is another thing that keeps me hooked. i love nothing more than a good romance to cushion this book of damnation. |
Author is just flat wrong for this
| Customer Rating: | Apparently the sales are high for this series to be continuing, I just know I'm not going to invest neither money nor my time reading any further into this absolutely horrid writing and unorginal storyline. As in my review for book one, I received this book as a gift a couple of Christmases back and had trouble getting past chapter one of Minion, but Carlos is who saved book one for me-unfortunately he wasn't able to do the same for book two. All anyone does in this book is sit around or stand around pontificating what they think is going on. One chapter was 28 pages long with Damali team just repeating themselves. Of course this followed a 25 page scene when Carlos came and stood around telling said team what was going on. Then those chapters were followed by 25 pages of Carlos and Nuit recapping the previous 53 pages as if you didn't read it all (or if you were trying to cheat and skim).
The fact that they were standing there and listening to his man and believing he was just Joe Citizen tells you the level of intelligence of this crew. Or even Nuit for this matter. It made no sense how Carlos was able to fool anyone. He knew things he absolutely shouldn't have known. But everyone bought the story simply because the author failed to give anyone common sense. In fact, it look eerily like Chapter One of Minion when everyone stands around getting to walk out the door for 25 pages. Instead of: Chill. Don't go there, being repeated ad nausium in book 1-this time around it's: Oh, this deep. Deep. Oh, this is deep. The good guys talk like characters from Superfly while the bad guys at least sound like they went to college. And can some please tell me why Carlos had to wait to the night of the concert to handle his business with Nuit? Couldn't he had done it during THEIR 25 page chapter of just standing around and talking? And Damali is going to rock this concert with some truth-knowledge, but all they were singing about was how baaad she was. Did I miss something?
It was just soooo contrived and I felt insulted by how the author sounded like she was making stuff up on the fly. Whatever. Oh someone please tell me how dead people (the vampires) are walking around with beating hearts and with blood pumping through their veins? Isn't that the opposite of being dead? Note to author: if you're dead your heart ISN'T beating. Stakes through the heart was meant to pinned bodies to the graves so they don't rise again. Not that the sucker was still beating. This is Vampire 101 stuff here. Maybe she was thinking of highlanders. Whatever, I'm over it. |
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