Review: What happens in Vegas...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2012
Whenever I throughly enjoy a first novel in a series - I'm worried the author won't be able to keep it up for the next book.That's not a worry I needed to have with regards to Carressed by Night. Amanda J. Greene has more than delivered with this second installment of the Rulers of Darkness.This book is different from most vampire novels in terms of timing. I've always wondered why vampires who often live up to thousands of years always find their soul mates within months of each other. They live forever - surely that doesn't make sense? But this book is set 173 years after the first book in the series. I loved that.Dimitri is everything I desire in a leading male - he's gorgeous (I pictured Eric Northman from True Blood), strong, intelligent, caring and all those other lovely adjectives that describe perfect men. After existing for over thirteen thousand years he's finally arrived in Vegas to meet his mate - the one that his visions of the future have shown him he'll finally meet.Kerstyn is gutsy and more than a match for the ancient vampire. Life will never be the same for her again - that's what you get for complaining of having a boring life...These characters were perfect for each other. There were times when either one (and occasionally both at the same time) irritated me slightly but it's more to do with their pasts that they both needed to overcome in order to be happy together. And their sex scenes? Whoa... very hot!There's a lot going on in this novel. There's Dimitri getting revenge on the vampire who double crossed him, the storyline of Gabriel and all his business, as well as an appearance by Victoria and Dorian from the first novel in the series Caressed by Moonlight.I can't wait to see what Amanda comes up with for the third book in the series (which I know she's working on as I follow her blog)!