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Deep Kiss of Winter Immortals After Dark #8 Kresley Cole Gena Showalter 9781439159668 Books

There are two stories here. One is part of Kresley Coles's "Immortals After Dark" series and it is pleasant enough. As a stand alone it is nothing to recommend but it fits in with the longer narrative about the Wroth vampires and the Valkyries. I don't think I would reread it, but it wasn't bad. The second novella is by Gena Showalter and it is awful. I have enjoyed some of her books and this is part of her AIR series, but again, it seems to be something designed to fill up the half of a book that looks like a collaboration between two well known writers but which is actually two novellas they should have never published. The Showalter book is largely a drawn out rape. Why she believes this would be appealing to the reader I don't know but it involves a Rakan male and a woman who changes shapes and is pretending to be a human AIR agent. He spends most of the novel murmuring you are mine as he holds her prisoner, and she keeps trying to get away and he keeps mauling her, sexually and talking about actions Amazon would not let me describe, and we are supposed to believe she likes it and is aroused. I read two thirds and quit. Couldn't stomach anymore.


Tags : Deep Kiss of Winter (Immortals After Dark #8) [Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <I> Under the cover of wintry dark shadows, passion's magic ignites a fire too hot to touch -- and too wicked to die.... </i> <P> <P> <b><I><big> DEEP KISS OF WINTER </big></i></b> <P> <P> <b> Two never-before-published paranormal stories to delight the senses and tantalize the imagination! </b> <P> <P> <I> #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR </i> <P> <P> <b><I> KRESLEY COLE </i></b> <P> <P> delivers a breathtaking tale of a brutal vampire soldier about to know love for the first time...and a Valkyrie aching to be touched. <P> <P> Murdoch Wroth will stop at nothing to claim Daniela the Ice Maiden -- the delicate Valkyrie who makes his heart beat for the first time in three hundred years. Yet the exquisite Danii is part ice fey,Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter,Deep Kiss of Winter (Immortals After Dark #8),Pocket Books,1439159661,Christmas stories.,Love stories, American.,Paranormal fiction, American.,American Light Romantic Fiction,American Science Fiction And Fantasy,Christmas stories,Fiction,Fiction - Romance,Fiction General,Fiction Romance General,Fiction Romance Paranormal,Fiction Romance Paranormal General,Love stories, American,Paranormal fiction, American,Romance,Romance - Paranormal

Deep Kiss of Winter Immortals After Dark #8 Kresley Cole Gena Showalter 9781439159668 Books Reviews

Another interesting twist from Kresley Cole. Plus one of Gena's in there! I'll admit I havent read the series depicted in the book by showalter, but I am reading her Lords of the Underworld series which is very intriguing while maintaining its more light, fluffy, playful romantic tones.
I'll say this book along with a few others in the Immortals After Dark series strikes me as being almost too confined to the bedroom, but I get it with the characters involved in it. Ha! She writes so well I'm invested and now thinking "Well of course so-and-so would act this way, its just how they are!". I definitely prefer her books with more adventure, action, and excitement in the mix, but the romance is touching, sexy, and makes you root for the couple to the end!
DEEP KISS OF WINTER is a winter themed book composed of two novellas.

UNTOUCHABLE by Kresley Cole This novella is the eighth book in the Immortals After Dark series. Daniela the Ice Maiden is a Valkyrie and the Rightful Queen of the Icere the Fey of the Frozen North. She is a reluctant because the touch of any person other than those from her homeland create terrible pain for both her and the man. Murdoch Wroth is a vampire soldier who was a rake in his human life and is one vampire who doesn't want to find his Bride (the one woman who can make the vampire's heart beat again). Of course, Daniela is Murdoch's Bride and the two begin a contentious difficult on again off again relationship.

I thought this was a great holiday story. It begins at the beginning of the series and then follows the entirety of the series. It ends with the four vampire brothers and their brides. I enjoyed this replay of the series from a different viewpoint. The other part I really enjoyed was the difficult relationship between Daniela and Murdoch because of her touching issues. I liked that the book did not brush that issue aside. These two have a long difficult road to travel for their happiness and I appreciated the complexity and breadth of the story. Rating 4.25 stars.

TEMPT ME ETERNALLY by Gena Showalter The story of Aleaha Love a shapeshifter who has taken the identity of Macy Briggs, who is a cop with alien investigations. She ends up going out on a mission for the first time. She encounters Breean Nu, a golden skinned warrior who has come to planet with his men trying to find a new home. When he sees Aleaha, he has an attraction to her and decides that he doesn't want to let her go. He takes her captive.

This was the first thing I have read by Showalter and I thought the story was strange and interesting, but I didn't feel the connection between the characters. I believe the story is part of a series and perhaps it would be better if I had read those books first. I did find the shifting heroine to be intriguing and I wish I knew more about her. Rating 2 stars.
There are many writers of paranormal romance out there, but only a few truly excellent writers. Kresley Cole is one of those rare gems. She excels at witty dialogue, character development, and complicated plots. Each book occurs in a time frame that overlaps the others, and the mad Valkyrie soothsayer, Nix the Ever Knowing (not All Knowing), often machinates outcomes she desires. Oftentimes, that happy ending requires pain on the part of the main characters, but it is all worth it in the end.

Out of the 17 of her novels that I have devoured so far, this is one of the slightly weaker ones, though still enjoyable.

SPOILER ALERT! If you have not read the book yet, then read no further. It is worth the purchase price, so read it and then come back to my review.

OK, if you're still with me, then there were a few issues that I've had with this installment. One of the aspects of Cole's writing that I most enjoy is that she creates a fantasy world that is still believable. It follows its own natural laws, and she does not usually create paradoxes. For example, her explanation of the Lore is that they evolved in other, harsher dimensions, and find our own world to be absurdly easy to live in. Their adaptations to their own harsh real of origin seem to be super powers to us. Thus, their powers make a sort of sense.

That said, the Ice Fey are said to have evolved from the Feodal (Fey) of Draiksulia, after they arrived in Gaia (Earth). Since they split off and acquired their unique icy physiology after they arrived here, what was the environmental driver? How does it make sense that the Ice Fey would require temperatures so freezing cold that contact with a 98.6 F human skin would cause a blistering third degree burn, and that they would develop this need on Earth? Even penguins who live in the Arctic Circle do not get third degree burns from being touched. And if a mere 98.6 was equivalent to a hot flame to us, then how does Daniela exist in Louisiana, where the ambient temperature was often above 100? I've been to LA, and it's hot and muggy and lush. That would be like her existing in a fire, so why would skin give her a higher burn than the ambient temperature? I'm sorry, but wearing skimpy clothes would not cool her off enough. If 98.6 was an open flame to her, then even 0F would be excruciatingly hot. So in this case, I felt the author got a bit tangled up in the mythology she created.

The Valkyrie do not eat, but the fey do. So...what do they eat underneath their ice dome in the Arctic Circle? There is one single sentence where she said a few plants grew from the ice. Do they produce enough oxygen to fill the dome? Is that what they eat? She usually fleshes out the background quite a bit more, but this one seemed kind of glossed over. And the background is usually so well done that it's a pleasure to immerse yourself in this world.

Also, the entire race of Ice Fey live in one single city underneath a dome? A tiny population of people? That's their "realm?" It's more like just a hidden city than a realm. And it would be doomed to be the most boring place in the world, which Danii herself does comment on. There is literally nothing to do but sit there, in a white on white on white color scheme. Maybe make some ice sculptures, but that's it. They would be literally house bound in a bio dome, because venturing outside would be like traveling into flame. So I suppose it would be like living on Mars eternally, where the entire planet was inhospitable except for one teeny tiny little dome.

My other issue is that the Valkyrie are described as being able to throw trains. Literally. Human beings are laughably no match for their strength. They are the most awesome fighters in small sexy packages. And yet Danii was kidnapped by a mortal Roman emperor, who took her out of a cage and burned her. She is treated like an everyday, weak, girl. Even when she fights the Icere at the beginning, the fight is heard but not seen, and then she is thrown, shot in the chest, and begs for mercy. She seems to be more like Emma, but with no explanation. Overheating doesn't explain it, because she describes herself as being just as good a fighter as her sisters. So how did a human being capture her, hold her, and torture her if she would have been strong enough to rip the bars of her cage apart?

That said, I loved her persistent hope, vulnerability, but ultimately strength of character which meant she didn't tolerate Murdoch's shit. Which is why he respected her. As is often the case in Cole's books, her male lead is such a jack ass in the beginning that most of us are rooting for Danii to get over him and find someone better. But he wins us over in the end.
There are two stories here. One is part of Kresley Coles's "Immortals After Dark" series and it is pleasant enough. As a stand alone it is nothing to recommend but it fits in with the longer narrative about the Wroth vampires and the Valkyries. I don't think I would reread it, but it wasn't bad. The second novella is by Gena Showalter and it is awful. I have enjoyed some of her books and this is part of her AIR series, but again, it seems to be something designed to fill up the half of a book that looks like a collaboration between two well known writers but which is actually two novellas they should have never published. The Showalter book is largely a drawn out rape. Why she believes this would be appealing to the reader I don't know but it involves a Rakan male and a woman who changes shapes and is pretending to be a human AIR agent. He spends most of the novel murmuring you are mine as he holds her prisoner, and she keeps trying to get away and he keeps mauling her, sexually and talking about actions would not let me describe, and we are supposed to believe she likes it and is aroused. I read two thirds and quit. Couldn't stomach anymore.