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ISBN number: 0312998546
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Page Count: 384
Printing Date: October 04, 2005
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Release Date: October 04, 2005
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Discover a realm where anything is possible. Where peril and passion collide. Where a woman is tempted by a man she wants but can never have. A man she could destroy with just one kiss. Discover THE HUNGER…
An Undeniable Desire…
The year is 1811, and vampire Beatrix Lisse has spent six hundred years trying to atone for her sins.Yet she can’t forget the one man she loved many centuries ago—until she meets John Staunton, the Earl of Langley. John is London’s most notorious rogue, but he sees an innocence in Beatrix that she no longer believed existed. But Beatrix can’t bring herself to reveal her true nature to John, even after they surrender to their fierce passion. It’s only after John abandons Beatrix that she learns he has a secret of his own…
Leads to Love that Burns Eternal…
An undercover spy for England, John’s mission is to find out who is behind the sudden shift in power in the French government. If he allows himself to get too close to Beatrix, John knows he’ll put her life in danger. But as John gets closer to completing his mission, the very person he seeks is none other than Beatrix’s centuries-old rival. With the world unraveling around them, John and Beatrix unite to fight a nemesis whose fury has no limit—even as their unquenchable passion grows more dangerous by the day…
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I didn't find this book to be memorable. The book lacks passion in my opinion. I would not get any more books by this author.
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This is the second in the series started with "The Companion", although chronologically it occurs first; the third book is "The Burning". It's probably worth reading them in series order as the author slowly unfolds her vampire worldview and we meet some of the same characters.
"The Hunger" is about Beatrix Lisse, Countess of Lente, a born vampire who is part of an experiment by Stephan Sincai (hero of the third book) to prove that "made" vampires are no different than "born" ones. The vampire Rules require all "made" vampires to be instantly killed but Stephan decided to bring up two vampires equally to prove they are equally entitled to life. Unfortunately for him he picked a rather damaged young "made" vampire, Asharti, to bring up alongside Beatrix and eventually Asharti persuades Beatrix to leave his tutelage and they launch themselves on the world.
Anyone who has read "The Companion" knows Asharti is a nasty piece of work; Beatrix, on the other hand, has spent the last 600 years trying to make up for her very first 100 years with Asharti of killing people for their blood. The Countess of Lente is known as a patron to the arts, she is well-liked in the Polite World of Regency London and in fact the men of society, who believe she is a skilled courtesan, all vie for her affections. She isn't actually a courtesan, she uses her assignations with men to feed a little from them and then to give them memories of a night to remember, even though they didn't actually experience it.
However, as soon as she meets the Earl of Langley, John Staunton, she realises he is different from all the other men who cluster around her. Mainly because he doesn't seem all that interested in her - evidently a cause of some pique - and she furthers the acquaintance. He is working as a spy for England and puts himself in harm's way many times in order to try to find out some of Napoleon's plans. Little does he know that Asharti is behind Napoleon's successes and that she is raising up an army of vampires who cannot be defeated by humans.
When John is kidnapped by Asharti, Beatrix goes to the rescue and it is at that point that John discovers she is a vampire and she gets herself caught trying to save him. He knows vampires are evil, having suffered under some tortures from Asharti. Will he do anything to rescue her?
Like "The Companion" this book is set in a very interesting time - the Regency - with the added kick of the vampire theme. I like what Squires has done with her vampires, the vampirism being a kind of blood-borne parasite that lives symbiotically with its host. However, I would not want to be a hero in any of her stories - in each of these three the heroes have spent quite a long time being tortured. John gets off it lightly, having only 3 weeks of torture; in the other two books the men are suffering for 2 years or more. And this is not your regular thumbscrews and rack torture, it's sexual torture and I found that aspect of the book rather distasteful - I felt that the author enjoyed writing about it a little too much. Perhaps it's supposed to be titillating to some readers but it didn't work like that at all for me; I rather wish that side of it was off-scene and more was made of the relationship between Beatrice and John after the rescue.
This is a good book, well-written and engaging (apart from the one reservation mentioned above). I really enjoyed the local colour of a person going to the guillotine and the way people reacted to it in the crowds. I don't think it's as good as the very first book and I didn't really enjoy the third in the series but this is still worth a read and has a great deal more character development and growth than an awful lot of other books in this genre.
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It seems that this book would be better as the very first book rather than the second in the series. The Hunger gives more history on Asharti and Beatrix than The Companion. In The Companion, it shows Asharti's cruelty explicitly.
In this story about Beatrix, she longs for her very first and only love Stepha Sincai. Beatrix is a 600 year old vampire and seems to be lacking something in her life. She is surrounded by art, music, and poetry and this is not enough to fill her life. She is surrounded by men whom she entertains and feeds from for her survival. One occasion she meets John Staunton and her life is changed forever. He challenges her. He never comes at the times he is requested. He does not bow down for her every whim. This turns Beatrix on. John is a spy for England. However, Beatrix just sees him as a rake who does not care for her. John sees her as someone who lacks virtue and will use him like his past loves.
I bet you can guess the ending. Stephan Sincai does make an appearance and Asharti is in here being her usual cruel self. I found this book slow until about the middle of it. I found the beginning of the book descriptive about the characters' backgrounds but no real interaction between them to make it a well developed plot. It needs more to build a relationship between Beatrix and John. It is a dark story. If you are looking for erotic, this is not it. This book has rape and torture in it. If Susan Squires is using this as her technique to depict Asharti as evil, she has done a great job. It is really twisted. My heart bled for John as these acts were occurring. I even found myself crying over these horrible acts.
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I could hardly wait to read this second book and I was not disappointed. If I had it to do over again(and of course I will!) I would read this book before The Companion. Mostly because I knew what happens to Asharti from the Companion but reading the Companion I didnt know who Beatrix(she plays a small part in the very first book)was or where Asharti came from and why.Both are such great "escape" books. I didnt want them to end! I am more than ready for the subsequent one Ms Squires-bring it on!
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I LOVED THE BOOK BUT I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED BY THE FACT THAT ASHARTI WAS IN THIS ONE...WASN'T SHE KILLED IN THE COMPANION??? OTHER THAN THAT THE BOOK WAS GREAT. IT AD JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF ROMANCE AND MYSTERY TO IT...RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE!!!!!!!!!!
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