Wait for Dusk
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There is no sanctuary in the night . . .
Feared even by her own kind for her mastery of fire, the nightwalker Mira is summoned by the coven to take her rightful place as Elder. But with this honor comes grave responsibility—a commitment to the annihilation of the unleashed naturi. For now the foul creatures walk the planet—and neither vampire nor human will survive their horrific attack.
A tide of blood is sweeping relentlessly across the European continent, as Mira is dispatched to Budapest for the most devastating test yet of her astonishing powers—and falls into a well-laid trap. With the dark secrets that haunt her growing darker by the hour, she must confront the terrible truth of her past and protect her fragile sanity in the face of unanticipated treachery—a treachery by her trusted ally, her beloved enemy, the vampire slayer Danaus.
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This book beckoned many different feelings from me the further I read. It was had a riveting storyline and at no point in this book was I bored. There were twists, suspicions, like, rage, hurt and frustration running rampant throughout the tale, and the ending was phenomenal . This series was getting tiresome before I read this book; but, this book has renewed my interest in the series…I cannot wait for the next book in the Dark Days Series!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Okay, I can’t help it. I have to start with this dreadful take in art. Not only do Mira and Danaus have no legs, the take in isn’t an accurate representation of the contents. Yes, there’s sex in _Wait for Dusk_. No, it’s not as leading as this take in would imply. A more fitting take in would have shown Mira with a fireball in one hand and a huge bloody knife in the additional.
Having read the first four DARK DAYS novels, I was expecting _Wait for Dusk_ to follow the pattern of books two, three, and four: namely, a slow-erect start with lots of politics and posturing, leading up to an action-filled end. To my surprise (and pleasure), there’s not a slow moment in _Wait for Dusk_. There are a few scenes of politicking, but they’re fleeting and have immediate, tangible consequences.
_Wait for Dusk_ starts just a few minutes after the cliffhanger ending of Pray for Dawn (Dark Days, Book 4). We’re back in Mira’s head, and she has just been whisked away from the scene of the battle by a powerful entity. We learn that this entity is really Mira’s real father, a really grave fellow, who gives her a task she doesn’t reflect she can refuse, then returns her to her home. Later, Mira is summoned to Venice to officially take her seat on the vampire coven. Her enemy Macaire assigns her to clean up a mess in Budapest, so she travels there with Danaus and with vampires Stefan and Valerio, who each have agendas of their own. Mira is pretty sure that this is a trap, but she’s determined to make it an opportunity as a replacement for.
Mira opens up a huge can of Machiavelli as she cuts a swath through Budapest’s supernatural community, showing us just how she’s managed to survive 600 years as a nightwalker. Her actions don’t automatically make her more sympathetic per se, but they’re realistic and they’re terrific character development. We keep rooting for her because the alternatives are worse. Mira may be a “B”, but she’s *our* “B”.
At the same time, Mira’s actions help drive a lock between her and Danaus, throwing a heartbreaking conflict into Mira’s life just when she least has time for it. As you might have guessed from the clinch take in, Wait for Dusk is the make-or-break book for the Mira/Danaus relationship. Jocelynn Drake has built up this relationship from the very first scene of Nightwalker (Dark Days, Book 1), with some books advancing it and others retreating from it, and here we learn whether they “will” or “won’t.”
The book is filled with action and violence, and every fight is consequential to the main plot in addition to being exciting. Jocelynn Drake builds to a huge ending and then delivers it. No cliffhangers here. There’s plenty of distress yet to be for Mira and friends, but _Wait for Dusk_ ends on a satisfying note. This is the first DARK DAYS book that’s really recaptured the explosive energy that defined _Nightwalker_, and to my mind it’s even better than that first installment. Snub the take in and snap this one up.
Only one tiny caveat: There have permanently been a few copy editing mistakes in these books, but this is the first time it’s really been distracting. There’s a sentence that talks about the death of Character A, who is really still alive at that point in the book. I thought maybe I’d missed something, but no, Character A appears, still kicking, a few scenes later. It’s Character B who’s dead and who I reflect was supposed to be mentioned in that sentence.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
He hammered her in the jaw cursing Mira for being a nightwalker as if that is the most sinful abomination in creation. Still recovering from her successful but upsetting triumph that has kept the perilous Bori from conquering humanity (see Pray for Dawn; better yet the entire Dark Days saga), Mira is further stunned when the man battering her claims to be her father. In between the vicious beating, she insists her dad is dead, but he proclaims otherwise and demands she use her paranormal power of being the only nightwalker who brings the fire for his profit or she and her loved ones and allies will suffer the consequences.
The coven makes her an Elder and sends her to Budapest to repel the deadly attack of the Naturi incursion. Mira fears a set-up as she knows few if any trust her because her skills make her unique by placing her with a foot in each camp. She turns to Danaus the vampire slayer for back-up. But, in Hungary, as she learns who her dearest so called dad is, Mira is right about treachery, but incorrect as to the source.
As dark and bloody as its four predecessors, Wait for Dusk is a terrific entry in which this round Mira tells the tale. The tale line continues the overarching theme of back stabling treachery with the mantra trust no one especially family tree and loved ones. Readers will appreciate this urban fantasy as the European vampire and human communities are being overrun by the insidious bellicose Naturi.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Mira and Danaus establish themselves in Budapest by the coven’s orders to neutralized the Naturi threat and they find a different kind of ruling when there’s no obvious keeper of the city’s domain, two very ancient vampires came with them voluntarily with unclear reasons, so Mira and Danaus have to battle between mistrust of their company and the unadorned risks in their mission, besides a new villain that has a strong grip on Mira.
I have to say that this series was getting tedious; all the books in the Dark Days are basically the same, just with slight differences. Danaus is tortured by his way of thinking about vampires, he’s a hunter and can’t possibly accept there are some excellent vampires, he wants to protect humans not vampires; Mira is a danger for every race out there; the Naturi wants to get rid of everyone to save the planet and Rowe wants to kidnap Mira; the coven is more distress than help for the greater excellent; there’s the tension between Mira and Danaus about their attraction and sometimes her or him keeping things from each additional. Well this is no exception, it is still the same thing over again, but I don’t know what is it that it draw me once again maybe it’s that finally Danaus and Mira go forwards (It’s not spoiler since you can easily guess by the take in), or perhaps is that she was a terrible-a s s at the end (she permanently wins her fights but the last one was fantastic), or it might be that the main menace wasn’t the Naturi (finally!) or could possible be that the end was not a cliffhanger (yes, there is a danger for the next book, but it didn’t end with the risk at their heels) or all of the above.
The point is that even when it’s repetitive is a excellent read and a page turner, this is my favorite in the series, I don’t know why I thought it was the last but obviously not, so yes I’ll read the next one, maybe now with the relationship it will change dynamics.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5