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Sweet Ruin – Immortals After Dark 16 – I think it’s safe to say that I’m in it for Nix at this point. And I did love her little cameos with her sidekick Bertil. Best part of the story was Nix tricking Rune into solving her little wraith problem for her.

So #16 is the story of Josephine – half vampire, half phantom hybrid and Rune – dark fey and Archer of the Morior – because life in the Lore isn’t complicated enough. Sweet Ruin is a quick, light, angst free read. I enjoyed re-visiting the Lore and of course Nix but this particular installment was lukewarm in the romance department. Josie is the long-lost sister of Thad. Thad was the teen aged boy locked in a cell with Regan the Radiant during Declan Chase’s immortal house of horrors/identity crisis phase. I like the rough around the edges Josie and her mix of tough yet vulnerable.

Rune I had a harder time with. Generally, I don’t appreciate the man-whore trope I don’t see where it’s at all desirable to covet something that everyone else has already had. However, there are certain circumstance that make the trope more appealing. The damaged, traumatized man-whore who doesn’t really enjoy his lifestyle is preferable to the arrogant, hedonistic, attention whore. Rune technically falls into the first category so I had some empathy for him but I just found him so…. tedious. First, he calls women “dove” as a term of endearment. Perhaps just my pet peeve but there are some words that once they come out of a man’s mouth – make him decidedly Unsexy. Dove is one of them. The big problem I have with Rune – and I feel guilty saying this – because he was victimized and traumatized – is that he simply gave up. He not only accepted his fate, he embraced it. He had no choice in becoming a whore; but he chose to stay one. He never fought against the constraints forced upon them. While Josie was out kicking ant hills at every opportunity; Rune just knuckled under.

Also worth mentioning – having not read an IAD book in a while – I’d forgotten how purple prosy the sex scenes are. All bare mons and rod, shafts and quivering pussies; engorged erections straining against pants and damp, swollen nipples. “If you prick me with those fangs again, I’ll penetrate you with this” He thrust, rubbing his d--k over her mound”. My penchant for double alpha m/m romance has ratcheted down my patience even further because all I can think is – Burnin’ daylight people, let’s get this show on the road and @#$% already!!!!

Oviously in the IAD world, Nix pulls the strings in the background bringing the couple du jour together. The Morior are new players in The Accession scene – looks like it’s building to be a complete free for all – if it ever comes.


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Sweet Ruin Immortals After Dark Kresley Cole 9781451649987 Books Reviews

Here we go again...
Once more, I caved and bought the book. However, this time I waited until the price dropped down to $7.99 (a blessing, still think it was too much for a book that had little-to-no plot, but a blessing none the less).
I like Kresley Cole's writing. I'm familiar with it and think she is probably one of the best paranormal romance authors I've ever come across, but sadly the IAD series has taken a nosedive and drowned itself. You know what made Kresley Cole's romance series unique? -the characters and plot. I've noticed that after MacRieve, the series lost both its unique characters and the plot that made me want to pick up the next book.
I started the IAD series when it was considered a paranormal romance series, but after reading Sweet Ruin, I think Kresley Cole is trying to turn this into a scifi-fantasy novel with the Bringers of Doom making a touchdown on Earth (What happened to the Ascension?) Quite frankly, their introduction was silly and a little cartoonish for my taste.
Basically the Bringers of Doom are the new bad guys (Vertas are of the past), but they're not really bad guys. They have their own way of doing things and Nix just threw a wrench in their plans, I guess. I still don't know anything about them (other than one guy can destroy a whole planet with the snap of his fingers) nor do I care to know. How exactly can the immortals fight against someone like that? Like I said, nosedive....

Now, on to the characters...
Josephine She's a punk rock chick, Thad's sister (the vampire/ phantom halfling introduced in Dreams of a Dark Warrior) and that is about it. She is the only tie we have to the former IAD plot (being Thad's sister) and even then, it wasn't enough.
Ruin A dark fey with poisonous fluid running through his body, one of the Bringer of Doom members, and uses his bedroom manners to get information for the team. Basically he whores himself off to anybody willing (You couldn't just torture info out of them?).
Their romance was the plot. They jet off around the world on a scavenger hunt trying to find dear ole Nixxy Poo. They were too dumb to realize that Nix was just biding time and sending them around the world with hints and clues sprinkled for them to find. I realized it halfway through the book. Idiots. How am I supposed to consider them a formidable foe for Nix when they are dancing like puppets? I think Lothaire was the last book of hers that had a plot and it hasn't been the same ever since. This, like MacRieve and Dark Skye, could have been a novella, but Kresley Cole just has to put her name on a book and it will sell. Unfortunately, this will be the last time I purchase a book of hers.
I am tired of the over priced ebooks, the new characters, the forced romance, and the disappearing plot to what was a very good series. I just saw she has another IAD book coming out with, once again, different characters. What happened to Kristoff, Furie, Hag, Cara, Micheal, and Munro? Maybe when Nix's story is out and the series is nearing its end, I will pick up where I left off (If I'm not dead).
Until then, I am calling it quits.
Let me say that I love the earlier books in this series, so much so that I've read them several times. Things started to drag around Lothaire (with a brief reprieve with Dark Skye, which I loved) and then there's this book. While it does set up the series end, if somewhat tangentially, my rating is for the characters themselves. I couldn't stand the heroine. I think she was supposed to be confident, naive, and badass, with a secret vulnerability. However, she came off as selfish, far too naive, and annoying. The way she talked alone made me think she was a lot younger than she actually is, not to mention she had quite a few temper tantrums that most people stop having around age five. Jo is probably one of my least favorite, if not THE least favorite, heroines in the entire series.

As for the story, the first half was good and then the second half really dragged. I read the first half in less than a week, but it took me months to force myself to finish the second half. Even the ending was thrown together with far more dangling threads than normal for this series. Not to mention some events from earlier books were brought up without any kind of refresher. I sort of forgot that one heroine had married this one guy, which would've been nice to know when that story arc was brought up again. (Sorry, if that makes sense? I just don't remember everything since I started this series in 2007 or so.)

I'll probably keep reading these when they get to paperback prices just to see how the series ends. However, I get the sense that KC is getting tired of this series and that the books have lost a lot of heart and humor that made the early ones special. Here's to hoping she finds it again.
Sweet Ruin – Immortals After Dark 16 – I think it’s safe to say that I’m in it for Nix at this point. And I did love her little cameos with her sidekick Bertil. Best part of the story was Nix tricking Rune into solving her little wraith problem for her.

So #16 is the story of Josephine – half vampire, half phantom hybrid and Rune – dark fey and Archer of the Morior – because life in the Lore isn’t complicated enough. Sweet Ruin is a quick, light, angst free read. I enjoyed re-visiting the Lore and of course Nix but this particular installment was lukewarm in the romance department. Josie is the long-lost sister of Thad. Thad was the teen aged boy locked in a cell with Regan the Radiant during Declan Chase’s immortal house of horrors/identity crisis phase. I like the rough around the edges Josie and her mix of tough yet vulnerable.

Rune I had a harder time with. Generally, I don’t appreciate the man-whore trope I don’t see where it’s at all desirable to covet something that everyone else has already had. However, there are certain circumstance that make the trope more appealing. The damaged, traumatized man-whore who doesn’t really enjoy his lifestyle is preferable to the arrogant, hedonistic, attention whore. Rune technically falls into the first category so I had some empathy for him but I just found him so…. tedious. First, he calls women “dove” as a term of endearment. Perhaps just my pet peeve but there are some words that once they come out of a man’s mouth – make him decidedly Unsexy. Dove is one of them. The big problem I have with Rune – and I feel guilty saying this – because he was victimized and traumatized – is that he simply gave up. He not only accepted his fate, he embraced it. He had no choice in becoming a whore; but he chose to stay one. He never fought against the constraints forced upon them. While Josie was out kicking ant hills at every opportunity; Rune just knuckled under.

Also worth mentioning – having not read an IAD book in a while – I’d forgotten how purple prosy the sex scenes are. All bare mons and rod, shafts and quivering pussies; engorged erections straining against pants and damp, swollen nipples. “If you prick me with those fangs again, I’ll penetrate you with this” He thrust, rubbing his d--k over her mound”. My penchant for double alpha m/m romance has ratcheted down my patience even further because all I can think is – Burnin’ daylight people, let’s get this show on the road and @#$% already!!!!

Oviously in the IAD world, Nix pulls the strings in the background bringing the couple du jour together. The Morior are new players in The Accession scene – looks like it’s building to be a complete free for all – if it ever comes.