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After being bitten by two Romanian vampire brothers, not only does Riley Poe recover with tendencies she the brothers’ DNA running through her blood. Victorian gets inside her dreams and Valerian traps Riley inside his body while he makes human kills. Riley, her brother Seth, and the Dupré family return in this sequel. They are joined by a newly introduced family of Charleston vampires to try and stop the destruction of at least one brother. “Soon, it would be pitch black outside— EVERDARK.[…] It meant, pretty much, everlasting darkness. That is what it felt like, too— an endless night.” (page 64)
On returning from Da Island, Riley Poe knows things will never be the same for her and her brother Seth. Rehab on Da Island spares both from turning into full vampires. Now they are “mostly mortal” with tendencies. Riley knows the truth about her rare, sweet delicious scented blood; being attractive to vampires she will always be hunted. With her tendencies her blood is less noticeable but she still needs to drink her Gullah tea. Riley would die to be able to go back to a normal- running her business, tattooing her clients as normal. Even in her own home and shop she is not safe. Through out Everdark,the sequel in Elle Jasper’s The Dark Ink Chronicles, Riley is in constant danger and clearly has issues asking for help. This goes with her “badass”, stubborn, hard headed attitude. She states she has never been afraid of other people; this is now true for vampires as well. Fighting vampires can take the energy out of someone I think asking for help would be a necessity. Whether it’s her boyfriend Eli, his family, or her adapted Gullah grandparents she constantly refuses assistance. With her new tendencies growing she’s more powerful than before, her blood leaves her in danger. She is attacked multiple times by both vampires and newlings, those just turned. Never once calling for help, which she can do telepathically, Eli and his brothers Phin and Luc are constantly lecturing her and sending scowls her way. While I appreciate an independent woman by the end of the novel I was a bit tired of Riley having to constantly fight in ever battle. I’m not saying she should have cowered while she waited for the men to come storming in. Three vamps on one mostly mortal woman with tendencies and special blood can be a mountain for one person to handle. Trying to fight in the two battles where vampires attacked humans is also hard to not be angry with. If Eli and Victorian, who takes no shame in letting Riley know he loves her and sexually enjoys the company in the dreams they share, agree she should not be somewhere then she should probably not be there. The relationship between Riley and Eli I found boring and unbelievable in the sequel. During the first few sections of the book I felt no passion between the two even while they were in the throws of passion. The relationship seemed more like the two together before Riley had tendencies so they may as well stay together. Riley seems more like an object Eli needs to protect. I just wasn’t convinced that Riley really meant it when she said she needed him, or his kisses and his touch drugged her. The lust and passion between Victorian and Riley is what I really believed. In her dreams Victorian barely touched her and she was ready and willing to orgasm. The want and need he felt for Riley is greater in amount than what I saw Eli feel for her. Victorian has these almost erotic dreams with Riley. In the beginning she hates the dreams but as she realizes that Victorian isn’t as bad as the Duprés think he is she uses these encounters as a way to question Vick, as she begins to call him. What Valerian puts Ri, Riley’s much used nickname, is magnificently worse. Valerian traps Riley in his body while he goes on human kills. Seeing everything through life-like visions, the Romanian vampire tends to attack attracted, wasted, young women who believe they are going to have a quickie with this man. Sometimes he fondles the women before he goes for the gruesome kill. At one point I was reminded of Dracula by Bram Stoker. Having your blood sucked is a metaphor for an orgasm. Dracula’s female victims usually moan and groan while having her blood sucked much like they would during an orgasm. Unlike in Dracula, these experiences were definitely more sexually desirable to Valerian unlike. Lucy Westenra, Dracula’s first victim, clearly enjoys what Dracula does to her. With Valerian there is one instance when a particular woman, if the life was not being drained out of her, may have sexually enjoyed his blood sucking. “He’d paralyzed her, but her heart still thumped erratically, and with every wild beat, her warm blood pumped just as fiercely into his mouth, his throat, like an ejaculation. It was a sexual rush as well as a frenzied, necessary feed. It got him off, and, as he drained her blood, he came, hard, fast.” (page 152) For the sake of suspense I was hoping Noah, a Charleston vampire and old friend to the Dupré family, was going to turn out to be a double crosser. There was enough evidence. A scary tension lingered in the air once the vampires and Riley arrived in Charleston whenever Noah was present. Perhaps in the third installment we’ll learn he’s working with Valerian. What a good twist that will make. In the last pages of the novel, a battle breaks out in a club when vampires attack mortals. Our vampire avengers show up. Eli wants Riley gone and physically pushes her away. Mean while Victorian has been trying to drag her out. Riley lets him, willing getting in Vick’s car and driving off with him. Eli and Riley are now separated and she is the hands of Eli’s enemy. When Pia steals from Dracos Cuelebre's ancient hoard he spares her life. Captivated by Pia she quickly goes from his possession to his mate. A glorious love story begins when a young woman half-breed steals a penny from an ancient dragon’s hoard. He spares her life because she excites him. In an Earth filled with humans and all types of mystical creatures ranging from dragons, unicorns, goblins, gryphons and fae there is bound to be some drama. Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison is one of those novels I picked up and didn’t want to stop reading. The novel was just so addicting. Maybe it was the love story happening between the main characters or maybe it was the rancid smell of the goblins that trap Pia and Dracos Cuelebre. There were so many dips and turns through out the story I didn’t know if someone was going to be beheaded or if Pia and Dracos would be torn apart; either from Pia choosing to leave Dracos or because the Evil Fae King, Urien, succeeds in killing Dracos. Pia is a woman who is taught by her mother to always hide her true nonhuman identity and is taught to pick up and run when necessary. She guards herself with tons of protection spells and has a hiding spell to keep her glowing skin looking like regular human skin. From an early age she is taught not to trust. After her mother’s death she feels so alone that she puts her faith in the wrong hands; her ex-boyfriend Keith’s. He blackmails her in order to get rid of his gambling debts. Pia is to steal anything she wants from Dracos’ well hidden “treasure chest”. When Dracos finds a penny missing he is set on revenge and killing who committed the act. Pia leaves enough evidence to be found. Dracos knows this thief is someone special and decides well before finding her he will spare her life if she tells him the truth. Dracos is an ancient dragon, he is the unofficial king of New York City and king of everything on this side of our realm. He becomes so stunned by her beauty and on first sight he can’t help to wonder what creature she really is. The fact that Pia isn’t boring and has the nerve to stand up to him captivates him. In deciding to spare her life she is now his, turning from a possession into a mate, and their adventure together begins. This novel is equivalent to the adult version of Beauty and the Beast. The beauty, Pia, some how gets trapped in the castle of the beast, Dracos. From being so confined they fall in love. This time around there is already an insane sexual attraction between Dracos and Pia. Pia decides to hold out with Dracos because she is not sure if she can trust him and she is still scorned and hurt by the consequences of trusting Keith. With Dracos’ easy temper Pia is the one person who can calm him down. She even convinces him to not kill his right hand man An opposing force also threatens the two love birds’ relationship. Urien, just like Gaston, wants "the beast” dead. Urien doesn’t want Pia for himself or to harm her. In thinking Pia is Dracos’ prisoner Urien believes he is doing Pia a favor keeping her safe and believes she will lead the King to the dragon. Two men have been sworn enemies for centuries and each wants the other dead. On several occasions the Urien almost succeeds. With the help of Pia and her magical healing powers he is able to help Dracos regain his ability to morph into his dragon self enabling the two to beat the goblin forces. Pia eventually learns to trust Dracos and lets him in far enough that she is able to disarm her protection spells. With the help of her lover and the magic in an Other Land she is able to shift into the mystical being she really is. She is a creature that is highly hunted and she is one of the few that exist. When she shifts into her mythical form she panics; she is surrounded by Dracos in his human form and four of his closest generals who are gryphons, and eagle with a lion’s body. It is now Dracos turn to calm Pia. What I loved about this novel is that I could feel the love between Dracos and Pia. She was not his prisoner and she never was afraid of him. They belonged to each other and nothing and no one was going to come between them. There is a strong sexual attraction between them but it doesn’t define their relationship. Great sex is not the reason why they are together. The fact that despite the description of what Pia and Dracos look like I was able to define my own image of what they look like. That was a new experience for me; I always tended to follow the description that was given to me. I have to love a work that gives me a new experience. |
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