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sup3r_xn0va_maya's review
dark
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
💬: "Perhaps the moths knew what he didn’t, that the joy of the flame was worth the price of destruction. He intended to find out.
Frost, Jeaniene. Eternal Kiss of Darkness (Night Huntress World Book 2) (p. 199). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
📖Genres: romance, paranormal romance, paranormal, supernatural, urban fantasy
📚Page Count: 375
🎧Audiobook Length: 10h 24min
👩🏾🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 - 4.5/5
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Eternal Kiss of Darkness is the second book in the "Night Huntress" spin-off series, "Night Huntress World" both by Jeaniene Frost. Kira Graceling, a private investigator, hears sounds of pain coming from around the corner while she was walking home from work. Kira does what any upstanding citizen would do and she checks on the person who's been hurt. Mencheres is a master vampire and he isn't sure what to do about the human who just risked her life to save him. He finds himself drawn to her. In the end, Mencheres must choose the woman he's fascinated by or the darkest magic that he needs to defeat an enemy that threatens to eternally damn him.
At first I was apprehensive because I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy a book about Mencheres but this book only disappointed me once (more on that below). Mencheres' and Kira's relationship really worked for me. There was a little miscommunication and that usually bothers me in books but the book was so good that I just let it play out and I ended up liking the book overall.
I really don't like the constant threat of sexual assault that the female characters have to endure every book, it seems. For some reason Frost keeps adding elements of sexual assault and misogyny in her stories and that really ruins parts of the book for me. To further explain this specific example,in this instance there is a young 16 year old girl and a vampire "pimp" has forced her to do sex work and start stripping. This could have been left out or changed to something else, we don't need to see female characters threated with sexual assault by the people who are supposed to be the bad guys. We get it, they're bad guys.
I really enjoyed the spicy scenes in this book, they were so good. I think I just really enjoy the way Frost writes intimate scenes. I'm giving the spicy scenes four chilies 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of five chilies
Overall, "Eternal Kiss of Darkness" was really entertaining just like the first book in the "Night Huntress World" series, "First Drop of Crimson". I liked this book's female protagonist way more than I liked the female protagonist in the first book so this was even more fun to read than the first book in the series. Mencheres and Kira really worked together as a couple for me and reading about them was thrilling, heart wrenching, and just amazing. I'm giving this 4.5 out of 5 stars.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 - 4.5/5 Stars
I listened to this audiobook for free on [Libbyapp.com]
Frost, Jeaniene. Eternal Kiss of Darkness (Night Huntress World Book 2) (p. 199). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
📖Genres: romance, paranormal romance, paranormal, supernatural, urban fantasy
📚Page Count: 375
🎧Audiobook Length: 10h 24min
👩🏾🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 - 4.5/5
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Eternal Kiss of Darkness is the second book in the "Night Huntress" spin-off series, "Night Huntress World" both by Jeaniene Frost. Kira Graceling, a private investigator, hears sounds of pain coming from around the corner while she was walking home from work. Kira does what any upstanding citizen would do and she checks on the person who's been hurt. Mencheres is a master vampire and he isn't sure what to do about the human who just risked her life to save him. He finds himself drawn to her. In the end, Mencheres must choose the woman he's fascinated by or the darkest magic that he needs to defeat an enemy that threatens to eternally damn him.
At first I was apprehensive because I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy a book about Mencheres but this book only disappointed me once (more on that below). Mencheres' and Kira's relationship really worked for me. There was a little miscommunication and that usually bothers me in books but the book was so good that I just let it play out and I ended up liking the book overall.
I really don't like the constant threat of sexual assault that the female characters have to endure every book, it seems. For some reason Frost keeps adding elements of sexual assault and misogyny in her stories and that really ruins parts of the book for me. To further explain this specific example,
I really enjoyed the spicy scenes in this book, they were so good. I think I just really enjoy the way Frost writes intimate scenes. I'm giving the spicy scenes four chilies 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of five chilies
Overall, "Eternal Kiss of Darkness" was really entertaining just like the first book in the "Night Huntress World" series, "First Drop of Crimson". I liked this book's female protagonist way more than I liked the female protagonist in the first book so this was even more fun to read than the first book in the series. Mencheres and Kira really worked together as a couple for me and reading about them was thrilling, heart wrenching, and just amazing. I'm giving this 4.5 out of 5 stars.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 - 4.5/5 Stars
I listened to this audiobook for free on [Libbyapp.com]
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
bear_ridge_tarot's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Kira Graceling is in possession of a sense of duty too strong to ignore the things she knows she should walk away from. Walking home from the private investigator office she works at, just before dawn, Kira hears the sounds of pain and violence coming from a warehouse. She rushes headlong into the building to discover Mencheres. A Master vampire of deep magic and mystery has decided to let himself die after his power to see the future shows him only a vast blackness. Kira "rescues" Mencheres and falls into a hidden world of corruption, power, and danger.
This is the second spin-off novel set in the Night Hunter world. This one was much better than the previous, though both novels can be read as stand-alones. The story made sense, flowed well and fit into the overall world's story arches in a way that I found pleasing. I particularly liked that Kira was not the fainting-rescue-me type and could hold her own beside a vampire with the depth and breadth of power that Mencheres possesses.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Gore, Violence, Blood, and Trafficking
kloughlin's review against another edition
3.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Trafficking