Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel was a great read. I loved her world of vampire, which held an
almost gothic romanticism of authors such as Anne Rice. To be frank it was a breath of fresh air from
the cookie cutter vampire stories out now, not that I don’t love those
too. After receiving Stolen
Nights (Vampire Queen #2) from NetGalley.com it took me about 4 hours
to read. I was not planning to read it
but I missed the world of Lenah and frankly after the end of the first book I
knew that if Lenah had survived the ritual so had Rhodes. This led to the question, where the hell is
Rhodes?
Stolen Nights tells you where the hell Rhodes has gone to and
if you are patient enough Maizel does a beautiful job of unfolding all the intricacies
it took to get to book one for the characters.
There was of course no easy way of unfolding their story, that of Rhodes
and Lenah. At times it was difficult to decipher
if Rhodes was the wonderful partner Lenah had painted a picture of in book
one. Lenah also seemed to be having difficulty
maintaining her faith on Rhodes and their love for each other.
What about that lovely fellow Justin, you might ask. Well he is around as well, but there is
clearly a change in him. Whether it is
about Rhodes showing up or because he is unsure of Lenah, it is hard to
tell. Okay not really, there are clues
as to why Justin is a little different in the sequel but still it is
shocking. There are some, um, nice
scenes with Lenah and Justin.
The book is centered on discovering the truth. What was once thought of each character is
tested and strained to better understand how the characters set out on their
course during the first book. With interesting
new players, that are potentially harmful and scary, along with the multitude
of sacrifices each character has to face Stolen Nights gives the same thrill
as Infinite
Days.
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