The second in what is shaping up to be a fantastic series for me. I have been off the paranormal kick for a few weeks.... kickstarted again this month with Covet and now have read this one. I have stayed away from reading both this and the BDB series at the same time because of all the negative comparisons from other reviewers. So I wanted to be able to give this series a chance to stand on its' own merits. So I will read this series first then the BDB. I loved this one! Both Dante and Tess were great. They had just the right balance of vulnerability and strength, angst and kicka**ness (is that is even a word). The sex was hot, hot, hot! The relationship built at just the right momentum even though I thought I may be put off by how fast Dante 'latched' on to Tess - it didn't put me off in the slightest. Loved all the other characters and like other reviewers I sincerely hope Sterling Chase gets his own story (although looking at the blurbs for all up to Breeds #8 he hasn't so far :( )My only slight grumble is that the climax of the story seemed to be a bit rushed and Tess accepting Dante and his world just a wee bit too slick. I don't know, I guess I'm just a sucker for the hero having to work a bit harder to be accepted and the heroine being a bit more reluctant.Overall, though IMO, it well deserves its' 5 stars from me cos, I finished the book smiling.

Okay, I'll get some heat for this, but though I'm not particularly fond of Kiss of Midnight (the first book in this series), this one was worse. It was slow, extremely déjà vu-ish in parts, I disliked the heroine, could never really warm up to the hero, it was slightly repetitive, etc. I could go on and on, but I'll be concise. It lacked substance to me for some reason, it was generic, and bland, while I expected more from the second book in a series, after the whole world-building is done. Unfortunately, I ended up disappointed. I have high hopes for Tegan's story, though. Keeping my fingers crossed.

This book was a dud. It was boring, there is tons and tons of filler that detracts from the "romance", there are too many clichés and stereotypical romance story moments and it's still too similar in my opinion to JR Ward's Black Dagger Brother Hood series--the difference there being that Ward's is top notch. The love story between Dante and Tess is not well developed and the vampire world story takes up too much "space" between the brief times the couple make it back together again. Nothing really happens between them until a good 150 pages into the story even. This is more a paranormal story than a paranormal romance. The story outline on the back cover is very misleading--it's like a movie preview that looks really good but those are the best parts of the 2 hour movie and everything in between is a waste of time. I didn't particularly enjoy Book 1 in the series but Book 2 is certainly worse. I like a good paranormal but not when it copies off every other book out there and rolls it into a weak story.