Review: Niko & Amelie
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2013
Amelie is settling a debt to save her drunk gambling father & turns herself into Nikolai. Niko runs a high end brothel but he knows right away that he can't force Amelie into working for him because she is a virgin. When Amelie first comes to him Niko is incredibly dark & evil, bored, angry, frustrated with sex. He is self-destructing, numb inside from alcohol, drugs, & sex. He feels the supernatural power within her as she is a descendant of the voodoo queen of New Orleans & yet she was saved at a young age by the Light. Ever since Niko has come to her in her dreams, although it sounds like he was mostly evil & dark in her dreams, sleeping with tons of different women while she watched. Niko has never felt so much peace as when Amelie is with him. The love they feel for each other is completely out of character for Niko but in the end he cannot save her - he actually has a hand in her demise. I don't always need a happy ending, especially in these types of books that are just fillers with side characters, but Niko has piqued my interest for a long time & I was left wanting so much more. So many questions - will Nikolai be darker & more dangerous because of losing love, or will he be forever changed now that he's experienced it? Will he be depressed & feel responsible? Why couldn't Amelie become a vampire or some other kind of paranormal creature? Another reason for the lower rating is due to my biggest pet peeves - a book that ends unexpectedly & instead there are two new book excerpts at the end. These were new books from two of my most favorite authors but still, I feel short changed or something.