Darker After Midnight
Midnight Breed Series Book Ten
Delacorte Press
January 24, 2012
Synopsis (www.LaraAdrian.com)
The climactic novel in Lara Adrian’s New York Times bestselling Midnight Breed series--and her hardcover debut--Darker After Midnight invites readers to enter a thrillingly sensual world where danger meets desire.
In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret for many long centuries, maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order--a cadre of Breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind alike--to stop Dragos, the power-mad vampire at the center of the conflict, before his push for domination can explode into catastrophe.
At the center of the Order’s quest is Sterling Chase, once a morally rigid enforcer of Breed law, now a warrior fallen from grace, whose biggest battle is the one he wages against his own savage nature. With addiction beckoning him toward eternal darkness, Chase’s path to redemption has never seemed more out of reach--until he finds himself drawn to a beautiful young woman who may be something much more than she seems ...
You know how the TV series LOST strung you out every week for years, never giving a real answer and never letting you believe that anything you learned was true? Darker After Midnight, the tenth book in Lara Adrian's newest Midnight Breed Series (released yesterday) does NOT do that. It gives you satisfying truths, conclusions and still leaves room for the series to grow.
That has been the strength of the series as a whole. Lara keeps it fresh. There is a format of a sort, a member of the Order or a high ranking "good" Breed falls in love, almost always with a breedmate. Some kind of conflict ensues that causes danger. The story doesn't always happen in Boston, We've been to Alaska, Germany, New York, and other locations. New things that add a nuanced layer to the series world are brought in: Things the Order members never believed they would see come to pass in each new entry in the series. This is Sterling Chase's, AKA "Harvard's" story and it's a very sexy story. The rest is shocking!
When Chase's future looks like he has thrown it away in a belated attempt to save the Order in the last book it may open up again. What won't open again, as we have seen in the many previews that Lara has afforded us, is the Boston complex which Dragos purposefully and Chase unwittingly compromised.
So, if I saw a bunch of fast SUVs screaming down the Maine Turnpike, or Route 295 recently I would have known the Order was on the way to its newest safe house borrowed from a Gen Two-ish Breed male Lazlo Archer. I actually invited Lara to let them stop here if necessary on the way to the great forests of Northern Maine.
So, if I saw a bunch of fast SUVs screaming down the Maine Turnpike, or Route 295 recently I would have known the Order was on the way to its newest safe house borrowed from a Gen Two-ish Breed male Lazlo Archer. I actually invited Lara to let them stop here if necessary on the way to the great forests of Northern Maine.
This book is about forgiving, hope, betrayal, truth, and the power of love to save the world. All powerful tropes. Lara makes you believe it. We have a new character come up, Tavia Fairchild. She is the PA to a Senator. It was the Senator's party that Chase infiltrated in an attempt to assasinate Dragos, one of the senator's biggest campaign contributors, masquerading as businessman, Drake Masters.
If you like this series, this new addition is worth the price. The series was not getting stale, but all the same this book breathes new life into it. I am trying to think of an analogy but I am fresh out. Maybe its like another layer on an already delish cake, more pixels added to your digital camera, the Red Sox win the World Series, the Bruins win the Stanley Cup and the Pats win the Superbowl all in one year and they cure a horrible disease too? Whatever! You get the idea, right? It's something good!
It's about half and half UF and PNR with a bunch of action and violence. You will be really, really surprised by what happens. THIS IS A MUST READ!
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