It’s purely coincidental that today’s posts are Kresley Cole-centric, but hopefully these sales will make up for my disappointing grade on The Master. I loved the Immortals After Dark paranormal romance series. It’s rather long, for me, it’s still got it fourteen books later. If you’re looking to try a new series and you like a big cast of supernatural characters, this series is a good place to start! I’m also happy to gush about my favorites in the comments. The first three books also have some fancy new cover designs, which I’m totally digging.
The Warlord Wants Forever
The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole is $1.99! There is some contention about whether this is the true first book of the series or if it’s more like 0.5 in the series because of its shorter length. If I remember correctly, the story was actually in an anthology first and, truthfully, you can read the other books without having read this one. Though readers loved the strong heroine, a few thought she bordered on bitchy territory.
The Warlord Wants Forever…the sensually charged novella that started it all, now with an exclusive excerpt from MacRieve!
In this scorching series opener, #1 New York Times bestseller Kresley Cole introduces the captivating Immortals After Dark Series. The ebook also includes an exclusive extended excerpt from MacRieve, the highly anticipated next installment in the series.
The Warlord
Nikolai Wroth, a ruthless vampire general, will stop at nothing to find his Bride, the one woman who can “blood” him, making his heart beat and filling him with strength. Coldly interested only in the power his Bride will bring, he can hardly believe when Myst the Coveted awakens him body—and soul.The Seductress
Famed throughout the world as the most beautiful Valkyrie, Myst has devoted her life to protecting a magical jewel and to fighting the vampires.Wroth provides her with the perfect opportunity to torment her sworn enemy—for with his new heartbeat comes a consuming sexual desire that can only be slaked by her. Denying him, she flees, struggling to forget his searing, possessive kiss.The Hunt is on…
She eludes him for five years, but he has finally chased her to ground and stolen her enchanted jewel, giving him absolute power over her. Now that she’s his for the taking, he intends to make her experience first-hand the agonizing, unending lust she subjected him to for half a decade. Yet when Nikolai realizes he wants far more than vengeance from Myst and frees her, will she come back to him?Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole is $1.99! This is the first full-length novel in the Immortals After Dark series. The series also operates on the “fated mate” trope, but I like how the books feature more than just your standard vamps and weres. The hero and heroine in this book are natural adversaries. He’s a Scottish (yum!) werewolf and she’s part vampire. There are some readers who felt the plot was a little weak, while others enjoyed the heroine’s vulnerability. It has a 4.2-star rating on Goodreads.
A mythic warrior who’ll stop at nothing to possess her…
After enduring years of torture from the vampire horde, Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan, is enraged to find the predestined mate he’s waited millennia for is a vampire. Or partly one. This Emmaline is a small, ethereal half Valkyrie/half vampire, who somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within him.
A vampire captured by her wildest fantasy…
Sheltered Emmaline Troy finally sets out to uncover the truth about her deceased parents—until a powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral Scottish castle. There, her fear of the Lykae—and their notorious dark desires—ebbs as he begins a slow, wicked seduction to sate her own dark cravings.
An all-consuming desire…
Yet when an ancient evil from her past resurfaces, will their desire deepen into a love that can bring a proud warrior to his knees and turn a gentle beauty into the fighter she was born to be?
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No Rest for the Wicked by Kresley Cole is $1.99! This is the next book in the Immortals After Dark series (the second or third, depending on how you label The Warlord Wants Forever). The hero and heroine are competing in what I like to think of as a supernatural version of Amazing Race. There are a few readers who preferred the audiobook way more than reading it and while there is a thread of insta-love, many thought the author handled it realistically.
A vampire soldier weary of life…
Centuries ago, Sebastian Wroth was turned into a vampire—a nightmare in his mind—against his will. Burdened with hatred and alone for ages, he sees little reason to live. Until an exquisite, fey creature comes to kill him, inadvertently saving him instead.
A valkyrie assassin dispatched to destroy him…
When Kaderin the Cold Hearted lost her two beloved sisters to a vampire attack long ago, a benevolent force deadened her sorrow—accidentally extinguishing all of her emotions. Yet whenever she encounters Sebastian, her feelings—particularly lust—emerge multiplied. For the first time, she’s unable to complete a kill.
Competitors in a legendary hunt…
The prize of the month-long contest is powerful enough to change history, and Kaderin will do anything to win it for her sisters. Wanting only to win her, forever, Sebastian competes as well, taking every opportunity—as they travel to ancient tombs and through catacombs, seeking relics around the world—to use her new feelings to seduce her. But when forced to choose between the vampire she’s falling for and reuniting her family, how can Kaderin live without either?
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This is absolutely one of the best PNR series out there. I love that her heroines can be borderline bitchy. Or just plain bitchy (OMG what Mari does to Bowen!!), as I’m often over the border bitchy. I like seeing myself in a book. Book 15 can’t come soon enough, cause as much as I love this series I loathed The Professional enough to never pick up another book in that series.
@DonnaMarrie: Mari and Bowen’s book was my favorite until Dark Skye came out, and I’m anxiously awaiting to see what couple makes it into book fifteen. Cole’s newest series hasn’t really compared with my love for IAD. Not even close. I think I may cry actual tears when the series ends.
I love the IAD series. Favorites are Demon from the Dark and Shadow’s Claim. Lothaire is also great, if you can stomach how he treats her for over half the book.
Eh, not the biggest Kresely Cole fan. A lot of her heroes are a bit…rape-y.
That “real-not that real” grid idea would work well for these. So for nerds like me who can’t handle much fluff, non-realism, cutesy stuff: I’ve read a couple of them (partially), and… they are both pretty well-done (Cole is a good prose stylist) and are just too unrealistic for me. I’m totally prepared to buy into “there is a secret world of supernatural figures and they bicker a lot”, but I’ve found the plots to not work that well for me after the initial setup. Tonally, it’s hard for my brain to handle that the books are simultaneously very Grand Guignol, bloody, Gothic, lots of dramatic torture and brutality, but then they are also often extremely fluffy. I recently tried “A Hunger Like No Other”, and it had a pretty promising start, but the fluffy notes were hard for me to mentally reconcile the stakes and the violence. The heroine’s family gets very angry about the werewolf-ish hero having sorta-kidnapped the heroine, and start railing (a lot – someone loved this phrase) about how they’re going hunting for “Celts’ pelts”, because they’re SCOTTISH and WEREWOLVES, get it? Cute, right? Books where “cute” exists immediately next to “brutal death” threaten some tonal whiplash issues for me.
(But like I said, I think Cole is a very competent writer, so if you don’t mind light and fluffy sketch comedy mixed in with your supernatural sturm und drang, these will probably work for you!)
@CP: I will say that they get less fluffy as the series goes on, but I totally don’t begrudge you for not wanting to read like five or six books into it before you get to the gritty stories.
@Amanda: interesting! Where would you say they start to de-fluff? Maybe skipping ahead plus googling for plots I’ve missed would help me out.
@CP: How far have you read? The fourth book (Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night) is my second favorite in the series so I’m a little biased. The book right (Dark Needs at Night’s Edge) after that might be my least favorite. Further in the series, a group of people out to capture, study, and ultimately kill IAD’s supernaturals become part of the plot, which I think is where the fluffiness drops off. Kiss of a Demon King (book eight) might be where you get some rumblings of that group and the de-fluffing begins. Though for full de-fluff, it’s probably two or so books after that.
Does that sound too confusing?
“a group of people out to capture, study, and ultimately kill IAD’s supernaturals become part of the plot”
SOLD! This is excellent. I am down. Thanks!
I love this series, and it’s even BETTER when listened to in audiobook format. The narrator (Robert Petkoff) does a great job with all the accents. I’m just waiting for Nix’s story…
Amanda, yes! Dark Skies!! Soooo good. Every time I hear someone say “I don’t know what that is.” I think of Dark Skies and smile. I loved how that changed from something that defined their differences to a term of endearment. And I don’t care what anyone says, Lothaire made me laugh my head off. LOVE that the love of the Big Bad Mr. High and Mighty’s life is a backwoods country girl.
What I really appreciate is that through out the series she hasn’t gotten lost. So many writers seem to lose their way (did J.R.Ward’s nose start itching?) There’s a path, we’re on it and she’s going to lead us home safe with a badass Valkyrie lighting the way.
An autobuy series for me. If only the next few could go on sale – my original e-copies were in PDF, aaaargh.