Review: Raw passion from page one!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2012
Night Sighs follow Tristan and Alex two lovers that are drawn to one another despite challenges between individual beliefs and outside forces.Tristan is a vampire, handsome, enigmatic and extremely talented; he is a musician/lead vocalist, who is able to mesmerize his entire audiences with just his voice.Tristan accepts who he is, as a vampire he hunts and fully relishes all that makes up his nature. Alex, human and at the start of the book, she is torn between her humanity and being in love with Tristan and accepting the parts of his nature that disturbs her, the parts that is difficult to reconcile on how humans are to be treated....basically not as food...Also, Alex, enjoys the benefits of her humanity, sunlight and other such sources that Tristan is unable to partake of, but there lies such a passion between the two, a drawing to Tristan that she cannot deny. But deny she must try...and she leaves him...The next story(There are five stories that make up the book) ...time has passed and Alex is drawn to a concert where Tristan is performing, she doesn't know why, but she is...and it is as if time had stopped and their feelings had never changed. Alex, although living life, seemed to live it under the shadow of the passion and love for Tristan and vice versa, so when they meet in person again, and it is confirmed that Alex is back... Tristan makes a shocking move!REVIEWI was taken into the story at the very beginning. There was such raw passion from page one, that there was absolutely no way I was going to put down that book...I read it in one sitting! Just the way Ms. Meade describes Tristan, of course undeniably handsome...beautiful as Alex calls him. That is what he is...and in his own way, although he is a fully grown man, he has an innocence that belies his age and his vampire nature; Tristan has two great loves...Music and Alex...and it appears as the story goes, he's subject to losing one or the other at various times...Although the passion drew me in, the connection between the two characters kept me enthralled...I believe the most shocking...and the most apparent part of the book for me...(SPOILER ALERT!!!!)...was when upon meeting again...Tristan, part in anger and retaliation of Alex leaving him...and part in assuring she will never do so again...he instantly kills and turns her...literally, my mouth hung open and I was surprised to say the least...It inhabited such brutality, the way he left her to make the transition into her new life on her own...and it showed the amount of pain he obviously suffered at losing her...As if he had died...(again)But the book, was beautifully written, moving...funny at times...I loved the references to music and artists...(such as the Boss...Bruce Springsteen!)I believe anyone that is a fan of the genre, has found a new voice to celebrate in that of Emma Meade...I look forward to what she has in store for us in the future!