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Summary: At least give it a try
Review: As other reviewers have said, this book starts off very very slow. But if you can make it past the first 120 pages it starts to pick up. Squires definitely presents a different set of rules for vampires!!! There is also a good set of secondary characters to add to the book. This is one to check out of the local library.
Rating:
Summary: At least give it a try
Review: As other reviewers have said, this book starts off very very slow. But if you can make it past the first 120 pages it starts to pick up. Squires definitely presents a different set of rules for vampires!!! There is also a good set of secondary characters to add to the book. This is one to check out of the local library.
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Summary: MyShelf.com Book Reviewer
Review: Behind every dark tunnel there is a light at the end...Sarah Aston, Lady Clevancy, stumbles upon a gruesome murder scene. There she also finds the mysterious Julien 'Davinoff' as a bystander near the horrific crime scene. His dark enchanting eyes seem to entrance her as she first gazes upon them. Those same mystic eyes follow her thoughts as she continues on her journey to Bath for the season. Once she arrives at Bath she is surprised to see her path once again is to meet with Davinoff. She finds he is able to invoke feelings that are both intriguing and frightening. What secrets does this mysterious man hold? Will she be able to uncover the darkness that surrounds him? Or will she be placing herself in harms way by allowing her self to get close to him? Julien Davinoff is the optimum of all that is dark and unholy. He hides the secret that he walks with the undead as a Vampire. He is unmoved at the acquisitions that suggests he is responsible or the growing numbers of serial murders. Upon meeting Sarah Ashton, he knows she has the power to have him seek out the light that has been denied from him for centuries. Her smile radiates a beam that penetrates his hardened heart. Will it be fair to drag her into the madness that he calls his world? With dark emotional passages, Susan Squires writes a very compelling paranormal romance. Her writing style will not only delight you, it will shock you at what unspeakable limitations she has had her characters face. She has definitely made her mark in the paranormal gene - one that will not easily be forgotten!
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Summary: Not what I was expecting
Review: Being an avid romance reader (of the supernatural), I picked this book up thinking it sounded good. I was fooled into thinking this would be a good romance when, in fact, it seemed far from it! While reading, I was disappointed in Davenoff as a vampire. The entire time he was in trouble, I kept expecting him to somehow regain strength and escape. I was sorely disappointed. I was also frustrated with Sarah and Corrine. I couldn't understand why Sarah was friends with Corrine since they were so different. And Corrine's involvement in the whole affair just ruined the desirable image I had at first about Davenoff. After somehow managing to read this book, I realized the whole romance aspect toward the end was cold. Sarah didn't fall for Davinoff for himself. She was pitied into loving him. I think everything she felt for him was just pity. To all the readers out there looking for something new in the romance genre, don't look here!
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Summary: Blah, Blah, Blah
Review: Frankly, I hated this book. It's bad when you start skimming a book just to get through it to find out how it ends (before moving to another book). Save your time and read something else.
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Summary: Blah, Blah, Blah
Review: Frankly, I hated this book. It's bad when you start skimming a book just to get through it to find out how it ends (before moving to another book). Save your time and read something else.
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Summary: Unappealing Characters...
Review: Have you ever read a book that you felt started off somewhat decently but ended up having so many unlikable characters that you just wanted to throw it across the room? Well, that's how I felt about Susan Squires' novel Sacrament. The story starts off with our plain Jane heroine Sarah, traveling to London to solve a land dispute. There she meets up with her immoral friend Corina, whose past-times include rape, torture and S&M. Not exactly my cup of tea. The worst part is Sarah has SOME idea of Corina's past times and she ignores it. Not exactly heroine material in my book. Enter the vampire Davinoff. Davinoff is tall dark and dull. He wanders around uttering cryptic comments, and for some reason Sarah's friend Corina becomes obsessed with him. What follows is an endless series of jaunts across the country in a carriage as Corina chases after Davinoff and drags protesting limp Sarah along. Yawn. I just simply did NOT care about the characters and was alternately annoyed and repelled by them. Sarah is spineless, plain and boring, Corina a psychopath and Davinoff seemed more like a caricature. I know he's a vampire, but he had the warmth of cold pudding. This novel became a wallbanger during a very disturbing flashback scene about halfway through. Yech. If the author spent as much time developing the relationship between the two main characters, as she spent in establishing the fact that the character Corina is eeeevillll, this novel might actually have been halfway decent.
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Summary: Unusual and engrossing
Review: I did not like this book, on my second attempt; I still had to force myself to finish it. I still cannot figure out what genre it is suppose to be-paranormal, gothic, romance? The cover states "Gothic Romance", where is the romance, was that the part where Sarah rescues Julien and helps him get over his drug addiction. There was not enough focus on the Sarah & Julien so-called relationship. In fact they didn't have one, just a few carriage rides to parties and a one-night stand. Author had too much unfinished business with too many different and irrelevant subplots. Sarah is weak. She allows herself to be manipulated by her "best friend", Corina. Corina is a psycho, the extent that she went to get back at Julien for ignoring her too much. This book went from bad to worse with Sarah's suicide attempt on the grounds of the monastery, that was too drastic. Even though Julien finally comes to her rescue, Sarah's intent was to die because she felt she was "nothing" without him. No man/vampire/whatever is worth killing yourself over! I recommend Shades of Gray by Amanda Ashley and Dark Magic by Christine Feehan, if you are interested in paranormal romance.
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Summary: Needless to say....
Review: I did not like this book, on my second attempt; I still had to force myself to finish it. I still cannot figure out what genre it is suppose to be-paranormal, gothic, romance? The cover states "Gothic Romance", where is the romance, was that the part where Sarah rescues Julien and helps him get over his drug addiction. There was not enough focus on the Sarah & Julien so-called relationship. In fact they didn't have one, just a few carriage rides to parties and a one-night stand. Author had too much unfinished business with too many different and irrelevant subplots. Sarah is weak. She allows herself to be manipulated by her "best friend", Corina. Corina is a psycho, the extent that she went to get back at Julien for ignoring her too much. This book went from bad to worse with Sarah's suicide attempt on the grounds of the monastery, that was too drastic. Even though Julien finally comes to her rescue, Sarah's intent was to die because she felt she was "nothing" without him. No man/vampire/whatever is worth killing yourself over! I recommend Shades of Gray by Amanda Ashley and Dark Magic by Christine Feehan, if you are interested in paranormal romance.
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Summary: Enjoyable Vampire Romance
Review: I liked this very gothic romance- the hero and heroine are appealing. Set in regency Bath , England we meet Sara and Julien. He is a dark lord and she a not too well off gentlewoman with a dark passionate side she keeps in check. He releases her inner beast while she gentles his own. Has many of the elements of good gothic fiction- steamy romance, a horrid villainess, extravagant surroundings and a fresh and imaginative take on the vampire and how they come to be and live. Read the follow up by Squires set in modern times with more of Sarah and Julien and the first vampire he made....Magda and her tormented ture at redemption. This novella is in the anthology MY ONE AND ONLY which also contains tales by Christine Feehan and Susan Grant.
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