Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian

I originally picked this book up to take the place of my Black Dagger Brotherhood fix since I finished the last released book. I went to Amazon and searched for similar titles and found this one...oh, boy, I'm happy I did. While this series has it's similarities to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, such as the sexy, big warriors that totally kick ass, it also has its own "brand".

Kiss of Midnight, the first of The Midnight Breed series, follows Lucan Thorne and Gabrielle Maxwell's story. Lucan is the fearless leader of the Order while Gabrielle is a photographer that happens to take very special pictures....Why are they special? Well, you'll just have to read the book to find that out (mean, aren't I?).

After a successful gallery showing, Gabrielle and her friends go out to celebrate at a new club. While at the club, Gabrielle notices a very mysterious, very good-looking man watching her from across the way, she is intrigued by the stranger but ignores the feeling. After leaving the club for the night Gabrielle witnesses an extremely savage murder outside. In that second she is thrown into a world she never knew existed— a world where vampires stalk the night— a world where vampires and Rouges (Vampires suffering from Bloodlust) are at the brink of war.

Adrian's take on vampires is defiantly something different, which I really love to see in vampire books. Her vampires are extraterrestrial who crashed landed on Earth many centuries ago (OK, I know it may sound corny, but this series is great, just give it a try, please). These vampires could not live off Earth's food so they where forced to look for a difference substance, the substance being human blood.

Adrian's vampires are only males, kind of like Katie Macalister's Dark Ones. In her world, there are no turned vampires, vampires are born vampires—males only of course—much like the Brotherhood's bloodsuckers, but in this case there are certain human females, characterized by a birthmark of a teardrop falling into the bowl of a crescent moon, with the genetic make up that allow them to procreate with the Breed after being blood bonded, these females are called Breedmates.

All in all, I think this is a good series, well I can only vouch for the first book at the moment since I haven’t finished the second yet (it’s great so far), when that’s done, I’ll write another review, heh, or attempt to!

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