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Summary: To Love is to Live Life to the fullest.
Review: 'Forever and the Night' brought clarity to 'For All Eternity' for me. Having experienced Ms. Millers writing for the first time with the 2nd. book first, I knew the 1st. book would take hold of me with the same desire and joy that 'For All Eternity' had done. The all consuming lovemaking between Aidan and Neely left you desiring a vampire lover more than the first one had. With the love and tenderness that wove through the deceptions, anger and pain, your heart felt the sorrow Aidan felt and the great desire to have his wish, dream and most difficult request fulfilled. This story also drew me closer to Maeve and Valerian and to an understanding of these beautiful creatures of the night. SC.SanDieg
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Summary: loved everything but the ending!
Review: A friend recommended the book to me, so I decided to read it. I Really loved the book but was disappointed at the ending. Everything was good but the ending, so I still recommend it.
Also check out Miller's other books
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Summary: Forever all right ...
Review: After reading through some of the other reviews of this book I felt I had to set the record straight. This is a wonderful, amazing, incredible book, along with the other three in the series. I wish so much that she had written more like it, and I hope the series wasn't discontinued because of uninformed negative reviews. Linda Lael Miller is a romance novelist and she does not pretend to be otherwise. Those persons looking for a horror story will not find it here. Just a touching story of what it might be like to be a vampire in love with a mortal. Her ability to tell a story with characters you almost feel you know, is one of a kind. She is by far the best romance novelist today. But as I said, she's a romance novelist. If you were looking for a horror story and bought this without doing your homework on the author, don't write in a negative review - it's not fair.
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Summary: I want to set something straight...
Review: After reading through some of the other reviews of this book I felt I had to set the record straight. This is a wonderful, amazing, incredible book, along with the other three in the series. I wish so much that she had written more like it, and I hope the series wasn't discontinued because of uninformed negative reviews. Linda Lael Miller is a romance novelist and she does not pretend to be otherwise. Those persons looking for a horror story will not find it here. Just a touching story of what it might be like to be a vampire in love with a mortal. Her ability to tell a story with characters you almost feel you know, is one of a kind. She is by far the best romance novelist today. But as I said, she's a romance novelist. If you were looking for a horror story and bought this without doing your homework on the author, don't write in a negative review - it's not fair.
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Summary: As entertaining as a soggy waffle
Review: I hated this book. It was awful. It's a good thing I read the very awsome For All Eternity first because if I hadn't I never would have picked up another book by Miller. Yes, it's that bad.
Enter our heroine. She's as interesting as a brick and twice as stupid. Not only that she's being chased by the mob. What does she do? Hides out with her brother and nephew, one of the first places the baddies look.
Neely meets Aidan, a standard issue moody, 'life is so painful' vampire. Aidan is an even worse character than she is. He whines dispairingly the whole novel. They lay eyes on each twice, speak maybe three sentences to each other and decide they are maddly in love. They spent maybe half the book at best in each others presence and the rest of they time they are lementing their forbidden love. Boo-hoo. The rest of the time Neely spends in hidding, and Aidan tries to become human again.
I can't believe soo many people liked it. They have no relationship at all, just seemed like a lot of sex to me. If you liked these, and even if you didn't, check out Charlaine Harris's "Dead Until Dark". The vampire and heroine actually have an honest-to-god relationship in that one.
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Summary: Vampires, Warlocks and Angels
Review: I was very disappointed after reading this book. The time-traveling vampires had me so intrigued, as did the back cover, that I jumped enthusiastically into FOREVER AND THE NIGHT. Unfortunately what I found there was trite, nothing new, and downright silly.
The heroine Neely is ridiculous, and stupid. The plotline about the bad senator was ludicrous.
Aidan is a pathetic protagonist. They fall in love immediately, gak, give me a break. A family of vamps with 2 little eerie girls a la Anne Rice, a warrior angel with such an original name, "Nemesis" oh lordy my eyes were rolling. Silly.Read the second one, FOR ALL ETERNITY - that was great! Five stars. Or read Christine Feehan's "DARK" series which draws you into its own reality and legend, you won't be able to stop reading those "DARK" books. Or find Charlaine Harris's "Dead Until Dark". Also superb.
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Summary: Good book but bad ending
Review: My friend recommended this book to me, so I decided to read it. I really loved it but was disappointed in the ending. It was a good book despite the ending, so I still recommend it.
Check out Miller's other books.
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Summary: Vampire romance
Review: This is the first in a trilogy of vampire romace. Sounds a bit morbid, but they are wonderful romances. The others are Time Without End, and For All Eternity. Be sure to read them in order for the best read.
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Summary: Sincerely Disappointing
Review: This isn't the first time that I've read anything by Miller. Unfortunately, it is the first time I've read one of her full length works and frankly, was not impressed or entertained in the slightest. First off, the characterization in this book was appalling. My biggest problem there was with the heroine. There was nothing very noteworthy at all about her, and I don't mean that she was a "Plain-Jane" heroine--she had no character whatsoever. There was absolutely nothing to explain why she did things. Why did she even love the hero? Why didn't she want to sacrifice everything to be with him? And how could they possibly be in love if they hadn't had one serious conversation with each other? In fact, they didn't have any conversations at all. There was absolutely no connection between these two as characters. They "fell in love" without knowing a thing about each other. There were no philosical discussions or even little tiny ones where they share little things with each other. There were almost NO conversing between them at ALL before they both mentally decided they were in love with each other. One reviewer gave this book five stars and claimed that many of the reviwers who disliked it were challenging the fact it had no horror in it - since it is loosely a vampire/paranormal/romance mix. I'm not complaining about the lack of horror. I'm complaining about the lack of romance and about how detached both the author seemed to be from the story, the characters were from each other and how the reader is made to feel throughout the book. Romance is more than a concept and adventures twirled into some semblance of a plot, the involvement, spirit, and personalities of the characters are neccessary to weave romance or ANY story for that matter. Forever and the Night - the story of Neely and Aidan--I'm sorry to say--wasn't romantic in the slightest.
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Summary: Uninteresting, unromantic... why bother?
Review: [...]Aidan is a 200-year-old vampire who hates what he is - well, similar theme to all of Amanda Ashley's books so far, but Forever And The Night had the saving grace of not being Gothic, it seemed. But I couldn't come to like Aidan, because he was incredibly selfish and self-obsessed. For example, his friend Valerian, whom I did like, risked his own life on several occasions to save Aidan from the consequences of his own stupidity, and how does Aidan repay him? He refuses even to acknowledge that Valerian is a friend. He's extremely ungrateful and rejects all overtures of friendship and good advice. Aidan doesn't want to be a vampire any more. He tells Valerian and Maeve that he can't see a single good thing about his vampiric state. I wanted to scream at him and tell him to wake up and stop lying to himself! Because of his vampire powers, and only because of those powers, he saved Neely's life several times. If he hadn't been a vampire, Neely would have been killed in chapter 3 of the book - end of story. He can travel through time and space, exercise mind control, has incredible strength: because of these things, Neely stayed alive. And Aidan claims that there's nothing good about being a vampire?? And then there's Neely - the ultimate thick-as-a-brick heroine. Other reviews have already commented on her behaviour. One thing to add: in the course of the book, she meets three vampires - Aidan, Valerian and Maeve - all of whom are kind to her and take steps to help her. And yet she's still terrified of all vampires?? And where's the romance? Aidan and Neely spend far more time apart than together, and much of the togetherness is in any case mental rather than physical. Aidan claims that he loves Neely and that he wants to protect her, both from the drug dealers and from rogue vampires - so what does he do? He leaves her alone and heads off on his crazy quest to become human again. He spends most of the book on that quest, which I found simply boring. I can't say that I'm interested in reading any more of this series. As the other reviewer said, I too was looking for a vampire *romance* - not a horror novel. I don't read horror. But there was most definitely very little romance in Forever And The Night, and the vampire hero was tedious, to say the least. I just wish that Maggie Shayne would write more vampire romances!
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