Review: book two - action, adventure and hot sex
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2013
Undying Embrace Jessica Lee.I enjoyed the first book in this series, Undying Destiny, and was pleased to get this one for review. We met Arran in book one as working partner to Marcus, who betrayed the Enclave. He feels he should have noticed something was wrong with Marcus, so has left the Enclave and spent the last two years trying to track down and kill him along with Marguerite, the Master who lured him away, and is frankly a real nasty piece of work. Oh I do love a good Bad female :)At the same time human Enclave employee Elle is in town searching for her sister, who has been missing for three weeks. Elle and Arran have a brief, shared history, a single kiss that reduced Elle to a quivering wreck, before Arran then left suddenly. They're really attracted to each other, a gritty, internal longing that won't be suppressed, though Elle still wants an explanation for his sudden disappearance. However Arran feels he's not good enough for her because of his past actions, that she deserves better and he won't give in...so far anyway. Elle meets him in her search for her sister, when he spots her at the club he's been told Marcus frequents and sparks fly - in all ways!There's some sultry, sensual, spicy sex between them, taking them two steps forward  forward then one step back in relationship terms, with Arran being domineering and protective, saying it's too dangerous for her to be involved and Elle standing up to him, and arguing for her place in the search for her sister. Of course that brings them into contact with Marcus and the dangerous and mad Marguerite, and their survival is on a knife edge... They need more help, but Arran doesn't want to get the Enclave involved.There's some good interludes with other vampires, extending the characters involved and when that happens I always wonder if some of these will show up in later books. I hope new vampire David does, given a second chance I think he'd make a good addition, as he seems a moral but practical person. Even big, tough vampires - in fact especially big, tough vampires need strong morals if they're to avoid going the Dark route and join the DEADs...and then of course there's Elle's sister - what's going to happen with her?So - plenty of action - of the vampire violence kind, and not just the sensual and erotic action between Arran and Elle, and a good though simple storyline. This novel is a great follow on to the first one, and I enjoyed reading it. I have a preference for longer novels, that really mean the story can go in depth in the plots and characters, but I know many people like these shorter books. It's priced at 3.57 for 175 pages.ARC provided via Netgalley.Stars: like book one I enjoyed the story, but a bit deeper and longer needed for my five stars, but this is a worthy four stars.