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

Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark Series

So here it is the nitty gritty - down and dirty - how I feel about the Immortals After Dark Series.
WRITE FASTER!  Umm... Not that I am obsessive or nothing.  I mean I only buy the books the minute they come out.  So now to the series.
As with all series it has its ups and its downs.  Ones I reread till my copy is dead.  And heck I lost my first copy of A Hunger Like No Other and bought ANOTHER!  If you knew what a cheapo I am you would understand.  One or two on the other hand I have not cracked open after the first reading.  Intensity is the word I would use to describe the writing, and based on personal preference some appeal more then others, but they all moved me at one moment or another.  

In A Hunger Like No Other Lachlain MacRieve our sexy werewolf hero is willing to break his own leg and crawl out of imprisonment at the scent of his mate.  Emmaline Troy, part Valkyrie part Vampire is quite the match, her insecurities and the intensity of the relationship building between the two grips my heart.  Vampires are not a much liked race in the world of the Lore - all things out of the ordinary - but he worries about her so much that he feeds her his blood while she is asleep to try and make her stronger, though it slows his own healing.  Heart ache.  You would think I asked my boyfriend for the moon when he can't reach the remote from where he is and has to get up to get it for me.

I am a sucker for destined mates.  And great big soul burning love.  All of which the books in the series have to varying degrees.  Certain heros just call to us, or in some of the books it has been the heroine.  In the very best of her books both called to me equally.  Now the stories tend to keep it all in the family, well on the Valkyrie side they are not exactly siblings but if you live in the same house you are family.  So we got a set of four Wroth Brothers all vamps, two Demon Brothers, all the Valkyrie in Val Hall, and the men of the Lykae Clan - Werewolves - The next book Pleasure a Dark Prince - due out in February - read forever - is my love from Hunger's younger brother.  Yippy skippy - a love a cuddly wolf story!

So which did not light my fire and which did?  Well I already told you one that warms my heart, so now the ones that did it for me less, which are the stories with the Vampire Wroth Brothers.  I liked No Rest for the Wicked, cause I liked our heroine Kaderin the Cold Hearted.  Dark Needs at Nights Edge?  Oh I liked this Wroth brother, tortured and burdened, is it getting hot in here?  Now his ghostly love I could take or leave.    Kiss of a Demon King - adore them both!  Oh the intensity between the two, the tension Kresley Cole builds gets me in the guts, which is the highest praise I can give an author.  


Authors walk this tight rope - and it is hard, I know it is hard - between getting books out fast and making them the best they can possibly be.  A few of the books in the series may have fallen prey to this.  I have moments in Wicked Deeds on a Winters Night where I say - I love it, it is one of the best out there, but I feel a bit rushed in the story.  That is why A Hunger Like No Other and Kiss of a Demon King stand out.  The pressure builds and builds and develops throughout the story until I feel like I will explode from everything the characters are going through.


In short, they are all great, and though I wait with baited breath and need to concentrate to suppress my excitement about the next book in the series, take your time Ms. Cole.  I can always read the others again and again while I wait. 
Find out all about Kresley Coles Books on her site. - http://kresleycole.com/