Stephy Reading Challenge - Book 7

 

(pictured with Wicket, the reluctant book stand)

Seduce the Darkness by Gena Showalter

An Alien Huntress Novel

Bride is a vampire, and as far as she knows, she's the only one on Earth.

Devyn is the King of the Targons, an alien race, who after discovering space travel decided they wanted to rule themselves. They let him keep the title though.

Bride just wants to survive and find her friend Aleaha.

Devyn just wants to have sex with pretty much every woman he comes across. 

Then they meet each other.

Bride was a good character. Smart, witty, and stubborn. I didn't get annoyed by her at all. And I empathized with her choice. 

Devyn... Devyn is a lovable asshole. He was a womanizer, but he was upfront about just being in it for sex and only sex. I liked that. Yeah, he sleeps with any woman that he wants, but he doesn't lie to do so. Respect. 

I loved the banter between Devyn and Dallas. Give me more dudes being friends and acting like a married couple at points. 

Bride and Devyn's relationship went from "eeeehhhhh" to "fuck they're adorable" pretty quickly for me. Their banter and inside jokes, y'all *heart eyes*

I was almost crying at the end because there were only a few pages left and shit was not looking good. But happy ending for Bride and Devyn! So yay!

Stephy Reading Challenge - Book 4

 

Deep Kiss of Winter

featuring "Untouchable" by Kresley Cole and "Tempt Me Eternally" by Gena Showalter

Sooo... I might have climbed a stack of books to reach the top shelf of one of my bookcases so I could read this one so I didn't have to leave the Immortals After Dark universe quite yet. No regrets.

Untouchable is about Murdoch Wroth and Daniela. Murdoch is a vampire, Daniela is a Valkyrie that is part ice fey. Murdoch was a... Well... he was a manwhore back in his mortal days. Daniela cannot have skin-to-skin contact due to her ice fey heritage. So... Match made in heaven? 

There is a lot of conflict in their relationship, but in the end it all works out. 

The story takes place in the background of some of the other books in the series, so there is quite a lot of mentions of what happens in those books. Which just made me want to read the series more.

Highly recommend the entire series, and highly recommend this short story. But, if you're particular about spoilers, read this where it belongs in the series. 

Tempt Me Eternally is about Aleaha Love and Breean Nu. Aleaha can change her appearance after she has skin-to-skin contact with someone. Breean is an alien. 

I've read some other books that go with this series and enjoyed them. I enjoyed this story. Though, there were a couple non-consensual bits that made me cringe a bit. Other than that, solid story and characters. Made me want to read the books I've read before again.