Review: Caressed By Night
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2012
With Amanda being a fresh face in the published book world, I as a seasoned reader hoped her first amazing book Caressed by Moonlight was not an anomaly.  I am truly excited to say Amanda does not disappoint!  Her new addition to the Rulers of Darkness series Caressed by Night is as captivating as the first book.Amanda has such talent when it comes to her character development. Her characters have histories and have experienced joy, pain, struggle and everything that goes along with living. You feel as if you know these characters and you can relate to them. Basically you get sucked right in. Add to all of that a delicious dash of paranormal with Amanda's unique twist on vampires and you have a great new series.Keep in mind, Caressed by Night has a very different setting than Caressed by moon light. I read these books fairly close together and it threw me off for a second. The first book is in 1800's London and this book is modern Las Vegas. So be prepared for that. Dimitri the new super swoon worthy main character has been pretending to be dead for about 400 years, you will find out why. One of Dimitri's powers is seeing the future. He has a vision that he will find his mate and that she is in Las VegasWith Caressed by Night Amanda treats us to the history of how vampires came to be.  It is very refreshing to read a new version of how vampires were first created. Don't get me wrong it is not a stale history lesson. Amanda has a talent for entwining the information to build this vampiric (is that a word) world with an entrancing story.  This is a fun ride of humor, love, passion, war.....you know, all the good stuff.There is so much chemistry and such a balance in this dynamic pairing. Dimitri and Kerstyn really fit for me. They complement each other without all of the inner (I hate him ....I love him...) stuff you get in some books.Yes there is a steamy chemistry between Kerstyn and Dimitri and you will be treated to many hot smexy love scenes. Do not despair within the incredible story you will find the heat.Yes you will see Falcon and Dorian again in this book but you will also meet yummy new characters to make you swoon.Kerstyn -  She was raised a rich girl without loving parents and this made her into the strong independent woman that she is.  She has such empathy for everyone (even when they don't deserve it).  And of course she has red hair.Dimitri -  King of the Arsov Clan. A blond Viking like bombshell and  WOW is he old!  He struggles to maintain control over his vampire demon. He is what I call an onion character with a lot of layers to peel back and secrets within those layers. This very apt description of Dimitri was written by the reviewer at WildAbout Bones on Goodreads. "If you like Zsadist from J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series, Zarek from Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series and the guys from Gena Showalter's Lord of the Underworld series, you will love Dimitri and his friends. "Silvie - Best friend of Kerstyn and secretly a witch and high priestess.Gabriel - A VERY swoon worthy vampire.  I foresee a book in his future *grin*. He was a former blood slave who was saved by Dimitri . He proclaims to despise humans due to their weakness. His past makes him feel unworthy. I just wanted to hug him and make him all better.Hadrian - Another ruler who was lost to vampire society and hidden away but now returnsGannon  - He is a bit of a unexpected kind of dry comic sidekick.  American Indian &  witchI t is fabulous the way Amanda writes the characters and story so there is a definite main couple but the other characters are so strong that they are more sub-main characters than weak secondary characters.Several side stories are running throughout, this creates interest andcomplements the main story rather than cause confusion. There are so many ways she can take this series with the next book.  I can't pin point who the main characters will actually be.There are few books or series that I choose to own as a physical book but this would be one of them.  Amanda when this is available in print please let us know. [...]