Dark Needs at Night's Edge (Immortals After Dark, #4)
Kresley Cole
Bestselling author Kresley Cole continues her seductive Immortals After Dark series with this tale of a vampire shunned even by his own kind and a beautiful phantom, bound together by a passion they cannot resist. A RAVEN-HAIRED TEMPTRESS OF THE DARK... Néomi Laress, a famous ballerina from a past century, became a phantom the night she was murdered. Imbued with otherworldly powers but invisible to the living, she haunts her beloved home, scaring away trespassers -- until she encounters a ruthless immortal even more terrifying than Néomi herself. A VAMPIRE WARRIOR CONSUMED BY MADNESS... To prevent him from harming others, Conrad Wroth's brothers imprison him in an abandoned manor. But there, a female only he can see seems determined to drive him further into madness. The exquisite creature torments him with desire, leaving his body racked with lust and his soul torn as he finds himself coveting her for his own. HOW FAR WILL HE GO TO CLAIM HER? Yet even if Conrad can win Néomi, evil still surrounds her. Once he returns to the brutality of his past to protect her, will he succumb to the dark needs seething inside him?
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OVERALL: Loved the steam between our characters as he battles for his sanity and she fights for a change in her circumstances: to gain a body or life again. Lots of good tension and desperation in this book, with numerous close calls to keep you hooked and turning pages!
Content warnings: mental health issues, ghosts, murder, violence, kidnapping, hostage, blood, hallucinations, sexually explicit scenes, language
I really enjoyed this story between Neomi and Conrad. Despite her being a ghost without a body and him being an almost-insane vampire, there still managed to be connection and sexy times. I liked that Conrad was struggling to determine whether or not Neomi was real or another of his memories/hallucinations--this was a realistic element of internal conflict that increased the tension and showed his suffering in a sympathetic way. I felt like I should have considered Conrad evil, from his past actions that we catch glimpses of with his memories/problems, plus his red eyes and what they signal. But he's also our hero and because we see him trying so hard to be and get better, he's a sympathetic character too. Nice and complex.
The second half had a lot of plot, we finally leave the mansion and have some action. I'd been wondering about how Neomi would get a body, and was happy to see the return of Mari from book 3. Duh, magic.
I liked this story and the resolution of their problems, plus we hear a bit more from Nix--she seems to be becoming more involved with each book and consulting/helping/guiding the characters, which is really cool to see!
I will say I found it a little confusing as to who exactly was after Conrad (and for what reasons) and also who he was hunting? I felt like I missed something early on.
Plus the dream demon plotline... I guess it did have a through-line and resolution, but I felt like that was kind of weak, or at least unexplained to my satisfaction.
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