Bound by Night: Riker and
(MoonBound Clan Vampires #1)
Summary:
From Goodreads.com
A WOMAN OUT FOR BLOOD
Nicole Martin was only eight years old when the vampire
slaves rose up in rebellion and killed her family. Now she devotes her life to
finding a vaccine against vampirism, hoping to wipe out her memories—along with
every bloodsucker on the planet. But there’s one thing she cannot destroy: her
searing, undeniable attraction for the one man she should hate and fear the
most . . .
A VAMPIRE OUT FOR
REVENGE
A member of the renegade vampire MoonBound Clan, Riker is
haunted by demons of his own. When he recognizes Nicole and remembers how her
family enslaved his loved ones, his heart burns for vengeance. But when he
kidnaps Nicole and holds her in a secret lair, his mortal enemy becomes his
soul obsession, his greatest temptation, and, perhaps, his only salvation—a
hot-blooded lover who could heal him with her touch . . . or bury him forever.
Review:
Bound by Night by Larissa Ione is the first in a brand new
series featuring vampires. This book was a good opening to this series, we get
a crash course into this world where the humans have taken vampires as slaves
and few vampires live in clans as free vampires. The worst of the humans to the
vampires are the Martin family. With their company they have killed and
oppressed more vampires than any other. Now on the brink of war with a
neighboring clan the MoonBound clan needs an insider and Nicole will have to
do. Riker kidnaps Nicole, so that she could release their vampire who had been
taken by her company.
The story and the world are interesting. The vampire clan’s
origins begin in Native American history which adds an interesting twist to
vampires as a genre. We get bits of legend and lore with how Vampires came to
exist and this is definitely a new version on the origins of vampires and I got
to say I like it. It brings an interesting element into the mix. All of the
characters are interesting and I quite enjoyed all of them. As individual
characters I liked both Riker and Nicole. Riker is a hard headed alpha male; he
holds a lot of guilt in how his mate died 20 years ago. For 20 years he’s been
holding onto his guilt and lusting for revenge against anything Martin. He’s in
turns angry and sexy, all brooding, but in turns sweet. Nicole is pretty
feisty, she’s intelligent, she makes her own decisions and she knows that
things are not adding up in her world and she wants answers as much as she
wants to get that vampire back. Each character is flawed in a good way. They
are likeable and go through their own personal journeys.
As a couple, for most of the book I wasn’t really buying the
romance. I don’t know what was missing, I really don’t, but for about 75% of
the book I wasn’t really feeling the love between these two. I felt the
attraction, which was obvious and real, but deeper than that I wasn’t feeling
it. It wasn’t until pretty much the end that it felt like there was some real
love going on and not just lust. While I wasn’t necessarily feeling the love, I
was feeling the story. It was interesting and action packed a lot goes on and
keeps everything moving fast paced. We get a loaded ending that promises to be
a doozy and really sets up the next book, which I have to admit I am already
looking forward to it.
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