Review: Die for Love
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
"DIE FOR LOVE is an intense, amazing, captivating, heart-warming, suspenseful story that I could not put down! These books from Caridad Pineiro's Reborn Vampire series just keep getting better and better!! Die for Love is my favorite of them all and hopefully not the last! It is a standalone that can be read and enjoyed all on it's own, but for full impact I recommend you also read For Love or Vengeance, To Love and Serve, and Born to Love.The main storyline in Die For Love is about the Dhampir Slayer, Michaela Ramirez. It explains her parentage, how she lost her mother, why she fought so hard to become a Slayer, and the need for vengeance that drives her. We also get a closer look at her lover, FBI Assistant Director in Charge, Jesus Hernandez and their relationship. Michaela believes being with Jesus and forming a relationship with his friends is dangerous for her, weakens her emotionally, and is keeping her from staying focused on her life mission. To find and destroy the cruel and powerful, rogue vampire that raped and left her mother for dead only to come back for her ten years later to rape her again, and killing her before Michaela's eyes. She is looking for her father, Connall Burk. She does her best to deny her feeling for Jesus and walk away, believing she is best handling things on her own without the emotional complications a lover and friends bring. Jesus is having none of it. He loves Michaela and he is willing to respect her need for space at times, but he is not about to let her face these dangers alone when he and his friends care about her and are able to help. I have to say the way Ms. Pineiro writes the internal struggles Michaela has throughout this story was brilliant and really drew me in as I rooted for it all to work out. Jesus was wonderful. Patient, understanding, supportive, tender, loving, sexy, and a bad ass ready to defend and fight by his woman's side whether she wanted him there or not.The secondary plot gives us more of Diana and Ryder's love story. The time for their child to be born is near which means time is running out for Diana as her human body fails her under the strain. Ms. Pineiro has written these scenes so well the intensity of the love Ryder has for her and their unborn child is palpable as is Diana's love for Ryder and her desire to be with him forever. All of their friends are there to offer their love and support as Diana prepares for her change and for the birth of their child knowing they could lose one or both of them at any time. It was all very touching and tears were streaming down my face as I read it.Of course, the story would not have been as captivating and impossible to put down without the danger and suspense aspect of the story. Connall is cruel, vicious, and heartless. When he realizes it's Michaela (and that she is his daughter) who is chasing him down to destroy him he turns the tables and is on the hunt for her and anyone important to her. When Michaela becomes the prey then all her newfound friends are also in danger including Diana as she is about to give birth. But saying anymore would mean spoilers, so I won't.I will repeat I liked this book best so far and eagerly wait for more from this incredible series.~Complimentary copy received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.