When Darkness Comes
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- ISBN13: 9780821779354
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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It’s been a hell of a day for Abby Barlow. In just a few hours, she’s survived an explosion, watched her employer die, had a startling dream, and now she finds herself in a seedy Chicago hotel with the sexy, unearthly Dante, a man she both desires and fears. For 341 years, Dante has stood as guardian to The Chalice, a mortal woman chosen to hold back the darkness. A terrible twist of fate has now made Abby that woman. Three hours ago, Dante would have used all his charms to seduce her. Now she is his to protect. And he will do so until his very death. A terrifying plot has been set in motion, one that will plunge Dante and Abby into an epic battle between excellent and evil – and a desperate race to save their like…
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This book is horrendously dreadful. The clues are there from the very first page.
First clue. The copyright is owned not by Alexandra Ivy, but by Debbie Raleigh. Which probably means Debbie who lives in Raleigh NC. A whole different ballgame from Alexandra Ivy.
Second clue. On page 13 the heroine says she’s an idiot ‘when it comes to choosing men.’ That means she’s had a lot of relationships. That many of them have gone terrible. And that she’s chosen to blame herself entirely. In additional words…a doormat tenement ho’. Well. If you make your partner choices based entirely on looks no marvel things can go a small incorrect.
The heroine says she’s ’sufficiently average’ in the looks department. Sufficiently? Does that mean she is plug-hideous? But all the handsome vampire warriors reflect she’s lovely. Are they blind or just stupid?
Both Dante and Viper talk about the heroine Abby’s ‘innocence and purity.’ Ha, ha, haaa. On nearly every page she’s using a axiom like ‘Holy hell, holy crap, freaking this, freaking that.’ She’s a D.O.G. (with capitals) I know some romance readers get very excited when a no-class dog has a handsome guy fall for her. I’m not one of persons readers. I tend to feel sorry for the guy. Saddled with a hag as a partner. Or in Dante’s case; a nag hag. Because, boy, does Abby whine and like to have the last word. Which is usually a curse. So really, Dante ends up with a potty-mouthed nag hag.
And who on planet still eats pancakes, eggs and bacon for breakfast?? Apart from our heroine Abby that is. She will be a 20-plus size before she is 30-years ancient.
Just why does Abby find it so hard to get proper work? Her cultural references seem to be TV soaps, Buffy, Dawn of the Dead and shopping in malls. So obviously she’s not had an education. Why is she so convinced she’ll end up as a bag-lady pushing a shopping cart around? Ok, her parents were not the greatest but it’s not as though either they or her six siblings are still around to weigh down her life. At one point Abby says she’s worried of apt ‘a cheap hooker servicing drunks in a grubby motel.’ But that is exactly how she talks and behaves for the whole of the novel. This is not a heroine who has any excellent aspirations of what she is going to do with her life. I thought Buffy was a middle-class teenager not a no-class loser.
Later there is a petty quarrel between the main couple about whether he thinks she is stupid. The poor guy has to spend time stroking her horrible, shallow ego. How is that of any weight to the plot?
There is a mystery in this tale. Why did Selena, the supposed all powerful previous Chalice, die? But this question is dragged out for the whole of the book. The hero, Dante, who’s mission is to protect the Chalice, hasn’t a clue. Or a clue about getting a clue. He confesses that he spent his time lusting after Abby as a replacement for of carrying out his job. Jerk.
This novel has everything in it. Witches, zombies, lightning-bolt shooting wizards, onion (?) demons, and vampires who are not worried to sink their fangs into their enemies. None of it amounts to anything like a coherent plot. Just one lightweight TV episode after another. Suddenly in chapter 12 the chief baddie, up til that point known as ‘The Master’ changes into a name called ‘Rafael.’ So he promptly loses all his charisma and mystique, apt just another superfluous bozo in the process. And around this point it also becomes clear that a name changed their mind about who was going to be the chief baddie in the tale. The focus becomes the witches not the wizard.
Like I said. Dreadful.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Tried to read it. Glad i paid 1/2 fee so I wasn’t so mad about failing to get past the first chapter. Skip this one. It will only make you mad.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I also could not get past the first 40 pages. There really isn’t much of a plot. Dull….
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Bottom Line: Try before you buy
Okay, I finished the book so that says something. The tale was just okay, and the characters were excellent, not fantastic…but it didn’t make me want to read the rest of the series.
It felt a small, predictable, and a small corny. The book didn’t make me laugh out loud or weep or cheer on the main characters. It was just okay. There was nothing incredibly unique or fascinating.
Perhaps because I just didn’t connect enough with either the characters or the tale? Or maybe it was the style of writing?
I’d recommend Laurell K. Hamilton, Keri Arthur (Riley series), Sunny (Monere series), J.R. Ward, Patricia Briggs (Mercy series), Kim Harrison, for hot vampires.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Alexandra Ivy continues her brilliant series in The Guardians of Eternity. I establish this one even better than her last one and can hardly wait for more. She has been able to keep my attention and go a excellent tale with speed and substance. I painstakingly loved this tale.
Conde Cezar is a vampire, who serves the Oracles, the essential rulers and dispensers of justice in the immortal world. He has served them for 200 years since he tasted a woman destined to join their ranks. They have forced impotence on him and seperated him from the regular world. Now he has been allowed to entice the woman he seduced to come to Chicago.
Anna Randel has come to meet Cezar and get some questions answered. She allowed him to seduce her 200 yrs ago. When she awakened and rushed home her home had been ruined and she was alone. She has been alone for all persons years and has establish that she is immortal. Now she wants to question Cezar what he did to her.
When they meet again, Cezar finds his body very willing to seduce her again and Anna finds herself in a ton of distress. A name is trying to kill her. There are secrets and there are revelations. Just when life is getting appealing for both they must face a final parting.
I loved this book and recommend anyone who likes this type of tale to not miss it. This leader has a surprisingly light and intriqing instinct for this type of literature. She is going to be around for a long time.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5