Kiss of Crimson - Book Review

Kiss of Crimson - (Midnight Breed Series) - Book Review

This book is book 2 of The Midnight Breed Series by Lara Adrian. Here are the books in order for the series: Kiss of Midnight, Kiss of Crimson, Midnight Awakening, Midnight Rising, Veil of Midnight, Ashes of Midnight, Shades of Midnight, Taken by Midnight, Deeper than Midnight. I will not be able to review the first book, Kiss of Midnight, for a while because the library for some reason doesn't have that book to check out. Kiss of Crimson, however, is an action filled romance with detailed intimate scenes and much to my dismay, foul language. I try to look beyond the graphic nature of the book, however, to give you my honest and uncensored opinion so you will know if it's something that would interest you or not. I enjoy reading Young Adult novels and could do without the foul language and graphic intimate details! I try to keep an open mind, and without any further ramblings, here's the summary and my review:


Summary:

Veterinarian Tess Culver is dedicated to her job and works long hours at the clinic. One night she is surprised to see a man bleeding to death in her clinic and she comes to his aid. Dante is a warrior, part of the Breed, part human and part vampire he needs blood to live. In his desperation to live, he feeds off of Tess to save his life. Tess doesn't know that she's a breedmate (human woman meant to be a mate for one of the Breed). Because Dante drinks from Tess, and Tess is a breedmate, he has forged an unbreakable blood bond with her. Dante has enough going on with being a warrior because he has to fight off rogue vampires (vampires who viscously attack humans and kill them) to save the Breed from becoming extinct. Dante and Tess both cannot deny the bond that links them. They save one anothers life in an action filled change of events throughout this book. They have to chose to either accept the bond or deny the bond - but what will it be?


Review: Less Than Stellar

I give this book a 3 out of 5 star rating because of its foul language, detailed intimate scenes, and graphic violence. I think that Lara Adrian could have told the story without writing such foul language, without such graphic detail in the intimate scenes, and she could have written an action book without so much violent details and still made it a good story. Besides that, I enjoyed the book. I have to admit it was hard for me to read and I had to read it sometimes in small doses, but the story line is rather romantic and heartfelt. She did a good job capturing the true love and attraction (emphasis on attraction) of her two main characters.


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