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The Hunger

The Hunger, October 2005
Regency Vampire series
by Susan Squires

St. Martin's Press
Featuring: Beatrix Lisse; John Staunton
384 pages
ISBN: 0312998546
Paperback
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Fresh Fiction Review

The Hunger
Susan Squires

Reviewed by Barbara Boehler
Posted December 30, 2005

Romance Paranormal | Romance Historical

Beatrix Lesse, Countess of Lente, has grown bored of her life. The men who surround her no longer hold any appeal, and the nights just seem to pass by. The games, the parties, and politics just are the same as they were the last century and the one before that. The only thing that she stays interested in is art. Poems and paintings are her only interest until she meets John Staunton. John, The Earl of Langley, thought he knew all about secrets. That's what his whole life has been about. While keeping the country safe from invasion, he learns the truth of what runs in the night. Between the nightmares and the harsh reality he has come to know, can he accept what Beatrix is and the thing he has turned into? I have heard a lot about Susan Squires, but this is the first time I have read one of her books. I am disappointed in what I found. With the reviews that I have read about her past books, I was looking forward to reading The Hunger, but it wasn't close to what I expected. I had a hard time getting into the book in the first place. Nothing really grabbed my attention in the first two chapters. Then the story line takes you between London in the late 1800's and then to Beatrix in the 1100's. The way the story line kept switching between the present and past, it felt more like bouncing around and trying to fill in holes to me than building the character. I also found the book to be a little slow at least until chapter thirteen, but by then it seemed just a little to late for me to start enjoying it. Hopefully, I will like the next one better.

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SUMMARY

Discover a realm where anything is possible. Where peril and passion collide. Where a woman is tempted by a man she wants but can never have. A man she could destroy with just one kiss. Discover THE HUNGER... An Undeniable Desire... The year is 1811, and vampire Beatrix Lisse has spent six hundred years trying to atone for her sins.Yet she can’t forget the one man she loved many centuries ago—until she meets John Staunton, the Earl of Langley. John is London’s most notorious rogue, but he sees an innocence in Beatrix that she no longer believed existed. But Beatrix can’t bring herself to reveal her true nature to John, even after they surrender to their fierce passion. It’s only after John abandons Beatrix that she learns he has a secret of his own... Leads to Love that Burns Eternal... An undercover spy for England, John’s mission is to find out who is behind the sudden shift in power in the French government. If he allows himself to get too close to Beatrix, John knows he’ll put her life in danger. But as John gets closer to completing his mission, the very person he seeks is none other than Beatrix’s centuries-old rival. With the world unraveling around them, John and Beatrix unite to fight a nemesis whose fury has no limit—even as their unquenchable passion grows more dangerous by the day...


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