Review: LITERAL ADDICTION's Review of A Taste of Midnight
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2012
A Taste of Midnight, Book #9.5 of the Midnight Breed seriesAuthor:  Lara AdrianSynopsis:A shimmering holiday gala lights up an ancient castle in the Scottish Highlands, but beautiful widowed Breedmate Danika MacConn feels alone in the crowd. Even among the friends and festivity of the Darkhaven celebration, she can't forget her lost love, a fallen warrior of the Order. Her brief return to her mate's homeland has become treacherous after rejecting the advances of a dangerous Edinburgh crime boss with a taste for blood sport. As Danika seeks to expose the vampire and his dark trade, she discovers an unexpected ally in his forbidding, enigmatic henchman, Brannoc, a man who exudes heat, danger, and dark menace--and seems somehow achingly familiar. Bran has his own reasons for wanting to keep Dani out of his employer's business . . . and his own secrets he means to keep buried. The last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a woman who tempts the wildest part of his Breed nature--especially when that woman is Danika MacConn, the one woman capable of bringing him to his knees.Our Review [by Michelle L. Olson - LITERAL ADDICTION's Pack Alpha]:While Taste of Midnight is a novella, it felt robust like a full novel and I was fully captivated from the first page to the last.A Taste of Midnight is the story of Danika, Conlan's Breedmate widow and Malcolm, Conlan's old best friend from Scotland.Under very unusual circumstances the two are brought together again and realize that the love that Mal had for Dani all those years ago never died, and while Dani loved Con very much, she always wondered what it might have been like if she had married the other guy.The romance was steamy, the action intense, the dialogue engaging... and all of this in a Short, not a full length novel.I will make a bold statement and say that I actually enjoyed A Taste of Midnight more than Hunter's entire book, and I cannot wait for Chase's book in Darker after Midnight.LITERAL ADDICTION gives A Taste of Midnight 4 1/2 skulls and would recommend it to everyone, especially Midnight Breed fans and followers.  While this novella can be read as a stand alone, we highly suggest reading the 9 books before A Taste of Midnight to get the full impact of the story.