Review: I enjoyed reading the book, it never touched my heart as other books of Annie Nicholas have.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2013
Written by Dolce AmoreOriginally posted on confessionsfromromaholics dot comARC provided kindly by Bewitching Tours  for reviewing purposesAlthough his job training Vasi shifters to fight has ended, Daedalus stays in Chicago because of Sugar. However, she has started to avoid him since she has become paralyzed on her left side as a result of an attack that happened a year ago.He couldn't spend another night staring at her back, wanting to hold her yet knowing any of his advances would be turned away with a sharp word.Then Pallas, one of the clan brothers, shows up at the pack's door to inform Daedalus that the council wants him back to straighten things out at Pal Robi Inc., his private security company, and return to his post as Prime. The Prime kept the peace among vampire kind in his area. Sort of like a sheriff, Daedalus was a Prime of Northeastern America. Pallas also informed him that if he doesn't go back, the council will make him kill everyone at Pal Robi Inc. as well as the Vali pack.After the stroke, Sugar's self-esteem hit bottom. So she tried to push Daedalus away, thinking that that might save him from heartbreak. But when she hears that he was leaving the Vali Pack without any of the pack, she makes up her mind. She won't let him get killed, so she decides to go with him and take enough shifters with her to help him while guarding her.Why had it taken Daedalus's life to be endangered for the veil of self-pity to vanish from her eyes? Somehow she'd make it up to him.Daedalus narrows the traitors to five houses and he decides to scan their thoughts and see if they are guilty or not and kill them if they are. The first four are good but the vampires from the fifth are missing. They are attacking Daedalus' home and by the time Daedalus goes home to save Sugar it is too late. One of the attackers has bled her to death. His only chance of saving her is turning her into a vampire, exactly what she never wanted to happen.Although I enjoyed reading the book, it never touched my heart as other books of Annie Nicholas have. However, it might do that for another reader.I'll start talking about the characters, and I'll do that starting with Daedalus.He is such a wonderful hero! He loves Sugar so much that he stands by her side although she has lost her faith in him; although she is ready to cast him aside; although she starts to seem as if she hates him, because ... if she can't love herself, how could he love her?Yes, she made me want to punch her and take Daedalus for myself. How DARE she behave like a bitch when her sister offered to turn her into a shifter and Daedalus into a vampire? But no, she had to reject their offerings and their kindness over and over again. That broke Daedalus heart.A broken heart was a difficult thing to mend when no wound actually cut through its flesh.She didn't see the same courageous and determined woman he saw.Where he perceived strength and spirit, she spotted weakness and deformity. So her left side was feeble? He was bald and sported pointy ears. No one was perfect. Flaws made people interesting.So who wouldn't want Daedalus? I'll call liar the person who says I wouldn't.There are also some funny scenes, like the one where Clementine, a vampire, teaches her how to bite using a watermelon, but this book is basically the struggle of Daedalus: first to keep her safe and make her realize he still loves her and then to make her forgive him for his unforgivable sin of saving her life. 4 couples