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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780425198803
ISBN number: 0425198804
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: October 05, 2004
Publishing house: Berkley
Release Date: October 05, 2004
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American agent Erin Grayson is assigned to seduce international businessman Reece Champion. But she's been set up. Reece is an agent, too--and a vampire.
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I love fantasy novels - witches, vampires, magic, other worlds, you name it. So I was intrigued with the idea of a parallel Earth/Mageverse Universe. But I was also expecting a paranormal romance story. Unfortunately, the repetitive use of locker-room descriptions of everything sexual killed any idea of romance, and also killed any possibility of enjoyment of this story for me. I have read sensual and romantic, but I didn't find any of that here.
Unlike the reviewer who stopped after 50 pages, I persevered to the end, in spite of my distaste for the coarse and vulgar language that accompanied every sexual encounter. Then I did something I thought I would never, ever do - I threw it in the trash.
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I loved it!!! I read many, many, many, vampire, regular romance and paranormal books and I found the world that Angela Knight created new and exciting. Anyone looking for a new and refreshing book that is not the same old vampire romance will LOVE these books. The romance/sex is quite steamy from most of the books I have read in the past, but not out of place in the story.
I did notice there are a few reviewers who took this as an opportunity to try to convince, either the readers or themselves, I'm not sure who, that their far superior intellect had a problem with the method of changing over a latent female (although they fail to acknowledge that the hero himself was turned the same way and left with a broken heart). My advice, get over it, your reading paranormal romance for christmas sake!! If you want a thought provoking read, perhaps a change is in order.
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"Master of the Night" is a rarity: a vampire romance novel with a believable world-structure. The backstory for the vampires makes sense and seems much better thought out than others of this genre.
That's why the characterization is such a disappointment. Erin Grayson is supposed to be a government agent, but this seems to exist only as a reason to bring her and Reece Champion (god, what a name. *wince*) together. The other characters could have been intriguing, but their vulgar speech patterns and coarse vocabulary make them very unlikeable.
What kills this book for me is... the sex scenes. I *laughed* at them. Not because they were written to be funny, but because they were so over-the-top and trying so hard to be daring and avant garde they became a farce. There's one particular scene which made me groan and pitch the book aside. It really read like a teenage girl's idea of what 'frank sexuality' sounds like.
I'm not a fan of purple prose, but the language in the book is amazingly coarse, real men's locker room trash. I don't find it sexy, and I don't think women who talk like that are liberated or 'comfortable with their sexuality'. I also find it distasteful that is appears in the exposition, not just the speech and thoughts of a character.
The universe is an intriguing one, but the characters don't live up to their promise. Everyone is controlled by their glands, which becomes very tedious, especially in a plot that's supposed to be fraught with supernatural tenstions and the possibility of inter-dimensional war. I wouldn't trust half of these characters to walk a dog, much less prevent a war.
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I liked the overall plot of this book. The only problem I had with the book was the required sex scenes in which a Vampire must turn a Latent after three obligatory sexual encounters. I could have done with less sex and more plot, but all in all it was entertaining and I will probably read the subsequent in the series.
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First, my bonafides: I really like vampire novels of any kind (from Charlaine Harris to Sergei Lukyanenko), fantasy set in the current day (e.g., Patricia Briggs, or the Fables series by Bill Willingham), and paranormal chick lit (such as MaryJanice Davidson).
Caution #1: genre implosion
Knight's "Mageverse" features 1) King Arthur's knights, 2) extraterrestrials, 3) multiple dimensions, 4) vampires, and 5) contemporary romance. Normally I like a mash-up of a few genres, but this was somehow just too much.
Caution #2: seriously disgusting depictions of physical intimacy
It's fun when the protagonists get all steamy, and I'm not even bothered by extremely graphic descriptions. I should be ashamed of myself--that's how tolerant I am. But, for some reason, the NC-17 parts of this book are really, truly gross. As in "Antabuse for sex" gross. (I'd give an example, but obviously our reviews should be appropriate for a general audience.) And these scenes are so prolific that you can't just wait them out.
Yes, tastes vary widely, and other positive reviews for this book suggest that many readers are just fine with these scenes. I gave up reading before page 50, and it's possible that these early chapters don't characterize the rest of the book. Still, I think this book would be a real contender for the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award.
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