Blurb from Amazon.com:
It's not easy being a Vampire Angel.
No one knows that better than Trond Sigurdsson. In the centuries since he
last went out drinking and wenching with his Viking buds, Trond has been a
gladiator, a cowboy, a ditch digger . . . even a sheik. But now he's the baddest
of them all: a kick-ass Navy SEAL kicking butts of terrorist immortals with the
help of his hotter-than-Hades female partner, police officer-turned-Special
Forces operative Nicole Tasso—whom Trond dearly hopes to "partner" with very
shortly in a whole different way.
The "cop" part of Nicole tells her there's something bizarre about her
gorgeous godlike teammate. But her "all-woman" side can't help wondering how
great it would be to have a virile Viking in her bed. Trond has secrets galore,
but Nicole feels certain she can dig them out—and really get to the heart of
this powerful, unnerving stranger whom she may be risking her soul to love.
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Kiss of Surrender: A Deadly Angels Book
This book
took all my might to finish. We have everything from Vangles, Lucipires, to SEALS
and WEALS (Women SEALS)...Oh my! Yep you heard me right and that is not misspellings.
Our heroes are Vampire Angels and their foes are the Lucipires or the
affectionately deemed Lucie's. They are Lucifer's Vampires, get it? Yeah me
either. All this and it's based in my home town of San Diego, CA! What the heck
is not to love!! Ok so the first thing I gotta say is, it totally is
waaaaaayyyyy to long a book. It should have been around 200 pages but it's 384.
There is waaaaaayyyyy too much description and endless chatter about things
that are not important to the story. The story drags with this stuff. I do have
to give it credit though, it does have some very cute dialog between our hero,
Thrond Sigudsson and our heroine, Nicole Tasso. Basically the concept is,
Thrond is a Viking who's biggest sin was Sloth. He was so lazy that the village
and people he was supposed to be protecting perished. When he finally decides
to get out of bed one day, he is met by St. Michael the Archangel and given a
second chance to either become a Vangel or he can go to Hell. He chooses the
Vangel. Now he's on a mission to help vanquish the Lucipires for Mike
(seriously, that's what they call the Archangel). He has been thrown about in
time (yep there's time travel in this book too) and has to blend in to those
societies to find the tainted souls that the Lucipires have gotten to, so he's
been everything from a gladiator, a
cowboy, a ditch digger . . . even a sheik and now he's a SEAL based in
Coronado, CA where he meets our heroine, Nicole. Nicole has a very ugly past.
She was in a very abusive marriage and when she got out, she became a cop then
she was recruited into the WEALS. Nicole is a hard as stone woman who doesn't tolerate
men with secrets. When she sets her sights on Thrond, she will do whatever it
takes to uncover his.
Kiss of Surrender does have some very witty banter between
Nicole and Thrond, if you don't mind weeding through all the other stuff. On the flip side, a
few things that did bother me were that the characters seemed at odds on what
we were lead to believe is their base personalities. There's a point where one
of the bad guys basically tells Thrond that he'd like to be redeemed. Thrond
eventually tells Michael and Michael blows the whole concept off. I mean, dude,
he's an Archangel, isn't he supposed to look for the good in all things but Mike
comes off as more interested in things he's never experienced himself and
totally bored then anything benevolent. Then there's Thrond, he's also supposed to be as
close to a typically classic angel as you can be, yet he's still full of sloth even after a
thousand years and don't get me started on Nicole. She's a pit-bull when it
comes to ferreting out Thrond's secrets and they blame it on her abusive past.
She goes as far as even sexually harassing Thrond when he plays the "I'm
Gay" card to get her to back off but does she, no! She throws his butt in
a closet and practically rapes him, then when the incident is discovered, she
gets a slap on the wrist for it. Along those same lines, I also felt it shed a
really bad light on SEALS and WEALS. Rather than honoring the military, the
story pokes fun at it indirectly. I think that bothered me most of all. The
author paints them more like a bunch of frat boys and girls whom have nothing
better to do then run their exercises and then go to a bar to find a bedmate
while getting drunk. When they do get this super high profile mission, the way
they talk about it, it almost feels like graduation day with a super cool school outing thrown in, oh and they also get to bring down the baddie. Needless to say, I found the whole
book a bit hard to swallow. I'd suggest passing on it.
2 out of 5 books
Hmmm. . . This book sounds intriguing. I laughed at the part where you wrote: "She goes as far as even sexually harassing Thrond when he plays the "I'm Gay" card to get her to back off but does she, no! She throws his butt in a closet and practically rapes him. . ."
ReplyDeleteAnyway, good review.
Best,
Jhobell Kristyl of BOOK MAVEN'S PICKS