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WOW!! what can i say? It certainly wasn't the ending i had expected. I loved Infinite days, i honestly didn't know if Stolen nights could or would life up to it. Boy was i wrong. so very wrong.

I had wrongly accused Tracy of being the spy in the camp, it was totally unexpected to find out who it was. I love Rhode & Vicken, they are very believable characters. Lenah & Rhode as totally in love, its an all encompassing love, Vicken is hilarious, you can't help but love him. I have laughed, cried & gasped through out this book.

There is so many unanswered questions, Have the Aeris kept their promise? are all the souls of Lenah & her coven's victims all freed? Why does Rhode remember Lenah? even though he can't remember her name. Is Tony, Kate, Claudia & Ms Tate alive? do they remember anything.

Roll on book 3, i can not wait

Vampire queen, Lenah Beaudonte once yearned to be human again. With Rhode’s help, she finally got the chance. Rhode’s sacrifice enabled her to experience the life she miss out back a hundred years ago, when Rhode claimed her and turned her into a vampire. But everything comes with a price... In the events of Infinite Days, Lenah sacrifices herself to turn one of her strongest vampires, Vicken, back into a human. Just like what Rhode did. Expecting the ritual would be the end of her, Lenah is surprised to find herself alive – and human again, once more. This occurrence made her think that if she survived this, then so did Rhode. Maybe. But where is he?When Rhode finally makes his appearance, Lenah is torn between Justin, the boy who had reminded her of what it feels like to be human, and Rhode, who has loved her all these years, vampire or not. But things are more complicated than she realizes... a new vampire queen is at large, more powerful than Lenah once was. And the Aeris, beings that are the essence of nature itself, have appeared to warn Lenah of something more... I can’t believe how bad this book turned out. It’s not enough that Lenah stooped down from a cute, soul-searching teenager from Infinite Days to an annoying, stupid, and over-emo girl in Stolen Night. I think a lot of those who read this book already stressed out how awful Lenah was but I can’t help but add my two cents. I hated how Lenah threw Justin off just as she saw Rhode, and how she used Justin’s emotions to comfort herself just because she couldn’t have Rhode. I was incredibly annoyed with her when Odette, the new vampire queen, wreaked havoc around, and she made stupid decisions: one time she is so scared that she tries to keep the people she cares about safe, then she’s all “Let’s go to the party off campus, even though it’s dangerous. Odette won’t cause harm around a lot of people.” Ha! She’s done it once, what’s to say she won’t do it again, huh? The most annoying thought she gave out was this: [this was probably around page 280-something] “Weapons... There it was - our last and only hope.” – Uhm... nah-uh! They were your first and utmost choice if you hoped to survive from a vampire. It wasn’t even an option to begin with. Seriously, the first time a deadly being appears and makes you its target; your instincts kick in about how you’ll be able to defend yourself – hence using weapons... duh?! Plus, I know Lenah’s human now but she has spent centuries as a vampire, and she didn’t figure that out? What is wrong with this picture???Another thing I found bothersome was the Aeris. Okay, so they’re the most powerful beings (big whoop), but they’re completely useless for the most parts of this book. I don’t even get why they didn’t want Rhode and Lenah to be together? The reason they gave off just wasn’t enough to make me believe whatever danger there is if they did. Meh! From my review of Infinite Days, I mentioned that the “Three Piece” were kind of unnecessary to begin with, because with or without them, the story would still progress. But now I see they actually have a purpose after all – they’re bait. Wow! Talk about even more uselessness.Most of this book just focused on Lenah pining for Rhode and yet spending nights and all with Justin. Then her annoying “planning” on how to rid of Odette and her near death encounters with Odette, which I thought would be more action packed but was all talk and threats. Booooring!I only found two things that I liked about reading Stolen Night – Vicken and the ending. Vicken is awesome now that he’s not trying to kill Lenah. He came out to be a true friend, and he has his funny moments. He handled being human again very well, even with the slight panic mode over his ESP. The ending caught me off guard. As hard to believe as it is, this would actually have another book in the series [even though I still think, you can only do so much over how bad the rest of this book was]. And yet that ending gave readers something new to look forward to. I just hope it would be better than this one.For more of my reviews, please visit my blog: The Blair Book Project @ www.theblairbookproject.blogspot.com

I remember how awe-struck I was by Infinite Days, peeps.

Here she was, a 600-year old vampire Queen, driven mad by her inability to feel anything but hunger for blood and torturous memories of her love for Rhode, a vampire who turned her and left her, because he couldn't bear to see the monster she became...

Suddenly this monster is turned into a sixteen year old human girl by a magical ritual and she has to unlearn being a monster and slowly regain her humanity. Infinite Days might have been a slow, lyrical and bittersweet Gothic read, but it was utterly gorgeous.

Stolen Night starts with a bang and continues its relentless, torturous drive among blood, tears and oceans of turmoil. O_o_o. It was so worth the 2-year-old wait for this book's release!

Lenah regains an old friendship and tries to continue her relationship with Justin when she discovers a shocking truth about the ritual she underwent. I can not give you details without major spoilers, but let's just say that one thing she wants most is at her arm's reach but forbidden to her by higher forces.

Not only that, the ritual has attracted an evil vampire who hungers for power. She can not be allowed to get her hands onto it because it will bring major destruction to the world. The ritual can only be used with pure intentions and you have to mean to sacrifice your life for it to work. If it's twisted in the wrong hands... Let's just say, a lot of innocent people will die.

Humanly weak Lenah has to fight evil with all her heart and soul while her friends and acquintances are slowly dying at the hands of a monster. There are a lot of deaths in these books, so do not expect happy endings for everyone. In fact don't expect happy endings at all.

This is a book about major sacrifices in the name of love, - sad, painful and utterly gorgeous. The ending is by no means a cliffhanger, but a clever, clever hint on a major plot twist to come although how the hell the author is gonna pull it off I've no clue!


Love from ever the loyal fan, highly recommended series!

After a really long wait for this to come out I had this book really hyped up for myself. And I think that is what spoled it for me. I am not sure I liked where the story went and how the characters reacted with each other. I do however liked how the book ended and I am intrigued to find out where the story will go.

Twenty years ago, Tess DeGraff's older sister, Phoebe, was kidnapped from her tent, raped and brutally murdered. The only witness, Tess, recognized the man who snatched her sister, and Lazarus Abbott was sentenced to death.

Now, the DNA tests of the samples found on Phoebe's body reveal it wasn't Lazarus who murdered her and Tess is faced with the shocking realization she'd sent an innocent man to die...


Yes, judging from the back-cover blurb Patricia MacDonald should be a wonderful author, but trust me, the heiress-apparent to Mary Higgins Clark she is not.

Why?

Because the blurb is one thing and the book another. While the initial premise offers so may different angles to the story, the author chooses the most slow-moving plot of them all.

The so-called plot twists are botched up and laughable at best, the perp is evident from the first time we meet him and the main character, the one females are supposed to identify with and feel compassion for comes off too one-dimensional to make us even bother to care what happens to her.

Tess seems to be stuck at the emotional level of when her sister was kidnapped - the emotional level of a nine-year-old. She's judgmental, stubborn, prone to tantrums, draws (wrong) conclusions on a drop of a dime and never thinks before speaking. Which makes her ten-year-old adopted son the more mature of the two.

The male "lead" is a bit too of a second character to be noticed, although I suspect the author chose him in a feeble attempt at creating a romantic-subplot, that unfortunately fell through. I though the tidbit about his dead wife was completely unnecessary and just another plot-stopper more.

There are two things that made me absolutely cringe, though. One was the author's shameless exploitation of the small-town stereotypes.
But the worst one was the fact every single character with a "speaking role" at least once in the story appeared hysterical - I absolutely abhorred the ruthless and REPETITIVE abuse of the word "cry" (as in " to speak so as to be heard at a distance").


If you're looking for a thriller fix, search elsewhere. If you're only looking for something to help you sleep (a substitute for a sleeping pill), this is the stuff for you.