Shadow's Bane (Dorina Basarab #4)
by
Karen Chance
616 pages
Published
July 31st 2018
by Berkeley
ISBN: 0451419065
(ISBN13: 9780451419064)
Edition Language: English
Series: Dorina Basarab #4
BLURB: Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. As one of the Vampire Senate’s newest members, Dory already has a lot on her plate. But then a relative of one of Dory’s fey friends goes missing. They fear he’s been sold to a slaver who arranges fights—sometimes to the death—between different types of fey.
As Dory investigates, she and her friends learn the slavers are into something much bigger than a fight club. With the Vampire Senate gearing up for war with Faerie, it’ll take everything she has to defeat the slavers—and deal with the entirely too attractive master vampire Louis-Cesare....
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
That was GREAT!!
In real life, Prince Charming took a knife in the eye, because he fought fair when nobody else did, and the bad guys won.
That was my reality. Hell, that was everyone’s reality, because that was actual fucking reality, and yet here he was, acting like none of that was true, none of that could touch him. But it was, and it could; I could. Not only wasn’t I a Disney hero, part of me wouldn’t even have been cast as the villain because she’d scare the crap out of the kiddies.
But I feel that I like Dorina a lot more than Dory after reading it.
A rollercoaster of story, with plenty of non-stop action. And emotions.
The plot? The vampiric senate continues in disarray. Dory must face more than one headache because of it. Meanwhile, Olga looks for a nephew kidnapped by slavers who shows us a sordid world where they perform clandestine fights like gladiators and children have the worst part. This forms part of a network of smugglers with a very dark secret.
I confess that all this Dory affair, distressing to keep L-C from his life to 'protect it' is really annoying. For a woman with 500 years of age, her feelings become too teenager-like when it comes to L-C and their relationship. All that 'get away from me so as not to hurt you', that deep down is 'I chase you out before you leave me' is uf, so tiring.
THE BEST: Louis-Cesare. He is so awww.
And Dorina. She totally kick-a**
I really liked the way everything was linked to the story of Mircea , and the Fae.
Claire has an attitude as the proverbial ostrich as Dory. Everything is a huge redoubt to say: embrace all yourself, or something like that.
The house of Claire and Dory is attacked, despite Caedmon's guards. And it seems that fae and vampires have more than one thing in common.
I don't know who is the major manipulative bastard: Mircea or Caedmon (well the last one is way older). But the King is plainly playing a long game.
Through flashbacks, Dorina teaches Dory things from Mircea's past in his time in Venice, when he was a new vampire, it seems that it is in principle her only way of communicating VERY important things to her alter ego or rather it seems that was his twin. All my sympathy goes to Dorina, I feel bad for her to be cut off from life in this dichotomy. I can not understand why Mircea has hidden this for so many years from his daughter.
There is humor and sad moments. A good read.
Oh , Karen Chance has a deleted scene of this book in her site: Fluff and nice about little guys.
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Romance? SÍ :)
Sexo? SI
Malas palabras? Sí
Recomendado? SI
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It has a cover and release date : august!
Update march 2018
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There is not a release date yet?
(january 2016)
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