Mencheres is not your typical powerful immortal who walks
around giving advice and lending a hand when the need
arises. After surviving for over 4,500 years old, he lives
by his own set of morals and even has some self-esteem
issues. Mencheres may be able to kill someone with a blink
of an eye, but this is a man who hurts and suffers for it.
The one woman he loved (his greedy Egyptian Princess wife
Patra) betrayed him and tried to destroy all that was good
inside of him. Instead of embracing that
darkness and ruling over all the weaker undead with an iron
fist, Mencheres surrounds himself with those who care for
him and has made his own close-knit family.
Kira Graceling has a crappy job working as a private
investigator in Chicago. She basically keeps an eye on
cheating husbands. As she's walking home late one night, she
comes across a man being attacked. She
tries to save him and is almost killed in the process. The
man is Mencheres, who was in the middle of battling a few
nasty ghouls sent by his old enemy, Radje, who hides behind
his role as a Vampire Law Guardian. Mencheres would love
nothing more than to get rid of Radje, but if he does, he'll
be marked for death and not even his own god-defying powers
can save him.
Mencheres saves Kira from death by giving her his blood to
drink and brings her to his home to recover. It seems Kira
is immune to Mencheres' power. As Mencheres gets to know
Kira better, he decides he can't keep her with him, even
though he feels at peace with her around. His next decision
regarding Kira starts an unfortunate chain of events.
ETERNAL KISS OF DARKNESS (Night Huntress World, Book #2) is
perfect for fans of smoldering, angsty vampire heroes and
the dangerous world they inhabit. Mencheres enjoys the
lifestyle to which he has grown accustomed. He is much like
a vampire dictator, but a very merciful one. Kira comes from
the school of hard knocks. Though she and Mencheres
are very different people, they mesh together perfectly.
The chemistry and sexual tension between Mencheres and Kira
is hot. Reading a Jeaniene Frost novel is like visiting old
friends. ETERNAL KISS OF DARKNESS is a solid read all
around and I look forward to the future adventures of
Mencheres and Kira.
ETERNAL KISS OF DARKNESS is the latest installment in the
Night Huntress series involving Master Vampire Mencheres
and fearless, beautiful Chicago investigator Kira
Graceling. Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling
should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty
refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from
inside a warehouse just before dawn. Suddenly she finds
herself in a world she's only imagined in her worst
nightmares. At the center is Mencheres, a breathtaking
Master vampire who thought he'd seen it all. Then Kira
appears - this fearless, beautiful human who braved death
to rescue him. Though her burns for her, keeping Kira in
his world means risking her life. Yet sending her away is
unthinkable.