Deep Kiss of Winter - Book Review

DEEP KISS OF WINTER

Two never-before-published paranormal stories to delight the senses and tantalize the imagination! #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR KRESLEY COLE  -    delivers a breathtaking tale of a brutal vampire soldier about to know love for the first time...and a Valkyrie aching to be touched.   -  Murdoch Wroth will stop at nothing to claim Daniela the Ice Maiden -- the delicate Valkyrie who makes his heart beat for the first time in three hundred years. Yet the exquisite Danii is part ice fey, and her freezing skin can't be touched by anyone but her own kind without inflicting pain beyond measure. Soon desperate for closeness, in an agony of frustration, Murdoch and Danii will do anything to have each other. Together, can they find the key that will finally allow them to slake the overwhelming desire burning between them? - Find out more at her site - http://kresleycole.com/

Review by Terry Kate

My Rating
For Paranormals - 5 out of 5
For a Kresley Cole - 4 out of 5
Well the woman sets a high standard for herself.  This was a great book within the Immortals After Dark Series.  We are reading about the last unsettled Wroth brother as he struggles to be with a less then warm partner.  While Daniela just wants to be loved.  The very essence of ever together, never to touch.

This is the first of the Wroth Brothers to really worm his way into my heart, but sadly the "business" of Deep Kiss of Winter spanning the time line of many of the other books in the series distracted from the intensity building between two delightfully tortured souls.  It did give me greater insight and appreciation for the eldest Wroth found in Playing Hard To Get, but I needed a little more angst and frustration from the heroine to match the level of intensity I have adored in previous books in the series.  I think the lack of time spent knowing her suffering at being untouchable would have made her stand out within the book.  Murdock - hunky vamp though he may be - drove more of the story.  I wanted to love them both, I just did not feel her as much.

Is it a great read?  Hells yeah.  It is honestly a re-reader that will get abused, have corners turned down, and favorite parts close to memorized.   What frustrates me about this book and a few others?  Characters who I want to have books never seem to come next!
Really I am excited about the 2010 release, but I read A Hunger Like No Other so long ago I am no longer intensely fascinated by the Brother's story.  Now who is this little fire demon our icy friend Jadian had locked away?  What is up with the new King of the Icere?  That is my current itch - oh and the other that still burns in my gut?  Kiss of a Demon King - the sister of our heroine and the now crippled demon king who follows her relentlessly - lordy lordy do I want to read that one!  Let it please have the exquisite tension I have come to expect from Kresley Cole.   



The long and short.  You can't go wrong with a single book in the series, plus with this one for the price they throw in a halfway decent Gena Showalter.  - You can find all the books in the Immortals After Dark Series on her site - http://kresleycole.com/


You lucky little readers will get to hear from me the next time a book catches my fancy.
Terry Kate 
The Unofficial RITBS Reviewer