Shadow of the Vampire
Even vampires should never sleep with the enemy.Vampire princess Alexia Feodorovna has been undead for 125 years, so it's been a while since any man has made her pulse race. Until Declan Black. One look at his bronzed body and a fire like no other consumes her. Then she discovers that he's a...
show more
Even vampires should never sleep with the enemy.Vampire princess Alexia Feodorovna has been undead for 125 years, so it's been a while since any man has made her pulse race. Until Declan Black. One look at his bronzed body and a fire like no other consumes her. Then she discovers that he's a dragon lord come to take revenge on the vamps who killed his parents. And claim a crystal said to imbue its owner with incredible powers.Alexia is ordered to torture and kill the dragon lord. Yet with each reckless encounter, she finds herself consumed by his fiery passion. A passion Declan battles, as well. Will he be able to resist the fire of lust she kindles within him and keep revenge in his heart? Or will he risk everything to quench the burning desire and claim the vampire as his own?
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780373775002 (0373775008)
Publish date: July 1st 2010
Publisher: HQN Books
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Romance,
Shapeshifters,
Paranormal Romance,
Adult,
Category Romance,
Harlequin,
Dragons,
Supernatural,
Vampires
Now this looked like a book for me, Dragons are a weak point. However this one didn't really do it for me. There are a lot of books about vampires and shapeshifters and this isn't a bad example of the genre. This time, fairly unusually, the shapeshifters are Dragons. This story started with an a...
I liked it. Some aspects in the book could've been better. Good dragon-shifter/vampire book though. It read like a series, but I picked it up thinking it was a stand-alone. If there are continuous books, I hope that this is one of those series where it just gets better and better :0) I certainly wou...
Shadow Of The Vampire begins with the King of Dragon, Declan Black, but then he gets captured by the princess of the Vampires, Alexia Feodorovna, when she discovers he has come out for revenge for his parents deaths. But Alexia knows after Declan's capture that he knows the location to a certain cry...
And then he began telling her the story of them. How this beautiful, sexy woman, this little vampire, had managed to cage him when no one else could. How the first time he'd seen her, his body had reacted with a want his mind told him repeatedly he could not recognize. But that every time she came n...
I'm in the minority on this book. Excellent reviews from Goodreads, but I am only giving it a 2. I thought Alexia's reactions re: sex were unrealistic given she was a victim of rape. I also was a bit surprised at both Alexia and Declan's reaction(s) when they are alone together for the first time...