I stayed up until 2 a.m. last night finishing Kresley Cole’s latest, Pleasure of a Dark Prince, part of the Immortals After Dark Series.
I love this series. The heroines are strong, independent, with just the right amount of snark, and the heroes are completely drool worthy. On this, I was not disappointed.
The story follows Lykae prince, Garreth MacRieve as he chases after the mate that fate has chosen for him, the Valkyrie Lucia. Unfortunately for Garreth, Lucia’s powers as the most powerful archer-ever, are tied to her remaining chaste, and every five hundred years she is charged with returning Satan back to his prison, otherwise the world with fall under an evil that will destroy everything.
POADP begins at about the same time as A Hunger Like No Other, and covers the time period of all the other books. Do you need to read all of them to follow the story line? No, but I recommend it anyway just for enjoyment reasons. The two that tie directly into this one are AHLNO and Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night.
The only complaint I would have is the middle section. I understand that this is where Garreth and Lucia finally spend some real quality, get-to-know-each-other time together, but it goes on for a long time. The beginning clips along, the end motors as well, but the middle meanders as slowly as the Amazon River they’re sailing down. Page-wise it’s not really a huge chunk of the manuscript, it just feels like it.
The sexy parts are smokin’ hot, the violence only slightly gratuitous, and there’s danger around every bend. Lucia may be limited in her options, but she is never weak. I love it when it’s outside sources that keep the couple apart and not petty misunderstandings. They want to be together, and we want that for them too.
Lachlain from AHLNO and Conrad Wroth from Dark Needs at Night’s Edge were tied from my favorite Immortal hero, but that title now belongs to Garreth. He is a fantastic mix of honor, savagry, passion and confused male that had me reading almost the entire novel in one straight shot. Good thing it was a Friday night and was totally worth the late hours.