Midnight Embrace
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The vampire rewrite of Pygmalion or My Fair Lady for those not into Greek mythology...
Lord Alesandro de Avallone has loathed his monstrous existance for 400 years. His only reason for living is to heal those his nemesis, Rodrigo, tries to kill. That was until he heard the deathbed pleas of Analisa Matthews.
Analisa is the last of her family. The rest have already succumbed to the plague and she's to be next...until Alesandro rescues her with a tiny bit of his magical blood. After a miraculous, overnight recovery, Analisa's doctor releases her from the hospital and sends her on her way with an envelope containing a large sum of money and an invitation to stay on at Blackbriar Hall for as long as she likes. Little does she know that the invitation is from Lord Avallone himself or of his alternate identity.
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Personally, I didn't care for this story as much as Amanda Ashley's previous vampire romances. Alesandro and Rodrigo's 400 year old feud seemed to be missing something, though I can't identify what that was. Aside from that, Alesandro was difficult for me to like. He came across as too dark and too brooding for my taste, like he needed a heavy dose of vampire prozac. He also had little feeling for his staff. His housekeeper, for instance, was the only human to know his secret aside from Analisa. She'd been with him for 50 years, had shared her blood with him, and had been crazy-in-love with him for her entire adult life and yet, he barely blinked an eye when Rodrigo attacked her.
On top of that, Analisa seemed just a bit too naive for a girl who supposedly grew up in a small, farming village in a crowded house with both parents and several siblings, certainly not someone who would have absolutely NO knowledge of male/female relations. I don't think so. It was difficult for me to swallow that patients with the plague would have gone to hospitals for treatment too. During this time period, hospitals were few and far between and they certainly wouldn't have brought in someone who could potentially kill every other patient with a known and highly contagious disease. I dunno, I just couldn't get into this one.
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NOTE: This is an e-book. If you're intested in reading or trading for this book, I'll be glad to send the hard copy that I printed for my own reading via snail mail, or the electronic version via email.
Lord Alesandro de Avallone has loathed his monstrous existance for 400 years. His only reason for living is to heal those his nemesis, Rodrigo, tries to kill. That was until he heard the deathbed pleas of Analisa Matthews.
Analisa is the last of her family. The rest have already succumbed to the plague and she's to be next...until Alesandro rescues her with a tiny bit of his magical blood. After a miraculous, overnight recovery, Analisa's doctor releases her from the hospital and sends her on her way with an envelope containing a large sum of money and an invitation to stay on at Blackbriar Hall for as long as she likes. Little does she know that the invitation is from Lord Avallone himself or of his alternate identity.
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Personally, I didn't care for this story as much as Amanda Ashley's previous vampire romances. Alesandro and Rodrigo's 400 year old feud seemed to be missing something, though I can't identify what that was. Aside from that, Alesandro was difficult for me to like. He came across as too dark and too brooding for my taste, like he needed a heavy dose of vampire prozac. He also had little feeling for his staff. His housekeeper, for instance, was the only human to know his secret aside from Analisa. She'd been with him for 50 years, had shared her blood with him, and had been crazy-in-love with him for her entire adult life and yet, he barely blinked an eye when Rodrigo attacked her.
On top of that, Analisa seemed just a bit too naive for a girl who supposedly grew up in a small, farming village in a crowded house with both parents and several siblings, certainly not someone who would have absolutely NO knowledge of male/female relations. I don't think so. It was difficult for me to swallow that patients with the plague would have gone to hospitals for treatment too. During this time period, hospitals were few and far between and they certainly wouldn't have brought in someone who could potentially kill every other patient with a known and highly contagious disease. I dunno, I just couldn't get into this one.
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NOTE: This is an e-book. If you're intested in reading or trading for this book, I'll be glad to send the hard copy that I printed for my own reading via snail mail, or the electronic version via email.
