Review: OMG! how can it end like that!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2012
This story just keep getting better and better as it goes on. I love the relationship between Peter and Ava as they struggle with the Claiming bond. They need to figure out how to break Peter's promise with Di, who is Peter's 'mother' in the way that she created him into a Noctalis (what this book calls a vampire). This book features more character point of view swapping than it did in the first of the series. That being said, it's also easier to tell whose point of view it is. When a chapter starts from the POV of Peter or Ava, mid-way through the chapter it will switch to the opposite's name to continue with their POV. I like this because I like getting both characters POV.The setting in this book still takes place in Maine, but they do go down to Florida to visit a old friend of Peter's who might know something about how to break the bind to his maker Di.The plot in this book again centers this time around both Ava and Peter. They learn that there is more effects of the Claiming then they originally thought. They can't stay away from each other over long distances or it will cause pain. Ava is also beginning to like the smell of blood from those close to her. You also learn that the person Peter calls an old friend isn't all that he seems to be.Telling your mom that your boyfriend is a Noctalis makes your brave. Ava had to tell her mom about Peter because she hated lying to her. I can understand how Ava wanted to tell her friend, but to tell her mom is bold. Naturally, her mother doesn't want the two of them together.Ava is still strong and wants to protect Peter. She wants to kiss him and hug him and do what she feels in her heart to do because she loves him, but she has to stop herself. If she causes him to fall for her then he will die. She starts to notice things like how she starts to react to human blood. To her it smells good, an effect of the claiming bond that Peter put on her in the first book.Peter seems to talk more in this book then in the last, which interests me. The connection he has with Ava really has changed him. Though he can't love her he does adore her and tells her that. I think it's sweet either way. It's a different type of love even if it's not true love. He still keeps Ava in the dark about a few things, which is understandable considering his pas,t but he does tell her few things about his pre-Ava eras.I found that Tex has become more annoying in this book then in the last. She wants to meet up with Peter's brother even though Ava keeps telling her "no". She doesn't listen and just keeps bugging causing Ava to get more then annoyed with her. Jamie's role in this book has slid back, but he does talk to Ava and listen to her when she finally tells him about her parents. This book also tells you more about Ivan's past. You also meet Cal, an old friend of Peter's. I found Cal to be creepy, even though he lives in a house unlike most Noctalis and wears nice clothes.