scorchingnix's review
5.0
Really 4.5 Stars
Published http://scorchingbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/a-nix-mm-review-bring-me-to-life-by.html
Could you carry on in a relationship with a person that took something from you for their own selfish gains? Nathan couldn’t, which is why he would prefer that Adam Locke doesn’t know that he is alive, that he thinks that his attempt to turn him into a vampire against his will failed in a very permanent way. Now Adam could be back and the questions remain. Can you love someone even though the trust between you has been ripped away?
Nathan alone wasn’t my favourite character. An ex-officer, he lived alone in a tower block with his human best-friend close by to service his blood needs. In this time, vampires are known about and I liked the way that his friend treated him as a person, albeit a person with particular eating habits that made her rather tired and anaemic J Nathan was far too eaten up with his own angst and I struggled with him. Of course then Adam turns up and I got HOOKED!
Adam was awesome. A cocky, swaggering, no-fear Vampire in the flash-back scenes, when he reappears he is a little broken. Flashes of the old Adam appear, but there is a vulnerability there which you don’t get from the previous scenes. Here is my conflict; I loved Adam but I hated what Adam had done. Was he redeemable? He managed to redeem himself a little in my eyes but I still couldn’t forget what he had done...he was most irritating!
What I liked the most was the interactions between Adam and Nathan. It wasn’t nice, it wasn’t pleasant but damn it was hot. There was too much baggage, too much anger and guilt from both sides for it to work long-term but in the short term it was damn smexy. I like that Scarlett Parrish doesn’t romanticise MM sex too much; in some MM I have read recently, the sex is so romanticised that it feels like it shouldn’t be a scene between two men. These are men who act and feel like men and it makes any tenderness they show each other that much sweeter when it isn’t over-egged.
There was a humour underpinning this story that gave it more depth and took it from good to great. I did wonder how much of the humour was a Brit only enjoyment, but then I realised I actually didn’t care because, with the amount of stuff I have to look up in US books, it was nice to be in the know for once!
Overall, another winner from Scarlett. It’s hot and dirty with enough emotional conflicting characters to keep me guessing what was going to happen all the way to the end.
Published http://scorchingbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/a-nix-mm-review-bring-me-to-life-by.html
Could you carry on in a relationship with a person that took something from you for their own selfish gains? Nathan couldn’t, which is why he would prefer that Adam Locke doesn’t know that he is alive, that he thinks that his attempt to turn him into a vampire against his will failed in a very permanent way. Now Adam could be back and the questions remain. Can you love someone even though the trust between you has been ripped away?
Nathan alone wasn’t my favourite character. An ex-officer, he lived alone in a tower block with his human best-friend close by to service his blood needs. In this time, vampires are known about and I liked the way that his friend treated him as a person, albeit a person with particular eating habits that made her rather tired and anaemic J Nathan was far too eaten up with his own angst and I struggled with him. Of course then Adam turns up and I got HOOKED!
Adam was awesome. A cocky, swaggering, no-fear Vampire in the flash-back scenes, when he reappears he is a little broken. Flashes of the old Adam appear, but there is a vulnerability there which you don’t get from the previous scenes. Here is my conflict; I loved Adam but I hated what Adam had done. Was he redeemable? He managed to redeem himself a little in my eyes but I still couldn’t forget what he had done...he was most irritating!
What I liked the most was the interactions between Adam and Nathan. It wasn’t nice, it wasn’t pleasant but damn it was hot. There was too much baggage, too much anger and guilt from both sides for it to work long-term but in the short term it was damn smexy. I like that Scarlett Parrish doesn’t romanticise MM sex too much; in some MM I have read recently, the sex is so romanticised that it feels like it shouldn’t be a scene between two men. These are men who act and feel like men and it makes any tenderness they show each other that much sweeter when it isn’t over-egged.
There was a humour underpinning this story that gave it more depth and took it from good to great. I did wonder how much of the humour was a Brit only enjoyment, but then I realised I actually didn’t care because, with the amount of stuff I have to look up in US books, it was nice to be in the know for once!
“It’s bad enough being gay and not knowing where a random homophobe will pop up. Being a vampire, as well? I’m sure I saw a headline in the Daily Mail the other day, blaming the undead for rising house prices”
Overall, another winner from Scarlett. It’s hot and dirty with enough emotional conflicting characters to keep me guessing what was going to happen all the way to the end.
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