KISS OF NIGHT was fascinatingly fresh and surprisingly
stunning! From the first page, I was caught up in the grief
and soul searching that Susan was about to encounter. I was
swept away in the city of Prague attending a funeral for
the woman that raised me and watched as my every belief
seemed to crumble all around me. I thought that this new
outlook on vampires was very fresh and the story was told
through a new pair of eyes. The vampires story that Debbie
Viguie presented left some things the same,
but I was very happy with her tale and the truths about
vampires that were uncovered during the story.
Susan, our
heroine, was as real to life as it gets. Susan is a woman
coping with a tragic loss and left shaken in her beliefs. I
loved watching her struggle to trust, struggle to fight,
and struggle to find meaning in the chaos. As a vampire,
Raphael was about as good as it gets. He was full of
darkness, mystery, and had his own inner battles to wage.
Both characters greatly complimented each other.
The first
book in a new series, KISS OF NIGHT, opened up the playlist
for all the other actors as well. I really appreciated the
fact that Viguie did not let anyone get lost in the story.
She stayed with the characters and each played a
significant part. The next book cannot come soon enough for
this one left me wondering what could possibly happen next?
The sudden loss of her grandmother has brought Susan
Lambert's family to Prague. This is where her grandmother
wanted to be laid to rest and this would be the place that
Susan's life was about to be changed. When her cousin Wendy
disappears, Susan realizes that she must seek help from an
unusual source. The strange, yet eerily compelling, man
that she only met yesterday. Raphael is not like any man
she has known before. In a matter of days he has changed
her perception of the world and opened her eyes to the fact
that there are worse things than bad people in the world.
In fact, he has shown her that vampires exist and that they
are after her. Running to stay alive at every turn, Susan
soon realizes that the answers she seeks may be found in
her grandmother's will. The answers that she needs can only
be found in France at Bryas. Bryas would only be the
beginning of the struggle for Susan. As it is not just the
answers she needs, but to know the truth is to trust
herself and her heart.
Raphael has lived a long life of fighting and searching. If
he wasn't fighting in one man's war he was waging another.
If he wasn't searching for something he was searching for
someone. Raphael had to learn the hard way that no one
could be fully trusted. He has watched the Bryas women
through the centuries and he has guarded their secrets, but
now it is the time for action. The war has come to him and
the war has most definitely come to Susan. The strange
woman has found a place in Raphael's world and somehow she
has managed to find a place in his heart.
Centuries ago, Raphael was a blasphemous knight who fought
in the Crusades purely for his own mercenary benefit, and to
satisfy his taste for killing. Now, condemned for his evil
passions and hypocrisy, he wanders the earth a vampire,
cursed with first-hand knowledge of the supernatural world
he once denied existed. The powerful relic he still
possesses from his days as a Crusader has been stolen by a
rival vampire who has recruited an army of soulless
underlings to aid him in spreading evil. At the time he
learns this, Raphael has been hunting this vampire for
nearly a century, and it seems the final battle is destined
to take place in Prague. For help in this quest, Raphael
must enlist the aid of two humans, David and Susan, who
suddenly find themselves immersed in a world they never
imagined, entangled with supernatural forces they can't
control. Susan, in particular, finds herself conflicted as
she struggles with her inexplicable attraction to Raphael.
In the end, both Susan and Raphael will be called upon to
exercise courage and faith, and in the process, the question
What would happen if a vampire truly accepted God? is answered.
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