Random Reads #717, August 14th

Random Reads is a monthly meme (that I'm going to do weekly) hosted by I'm Loving Books to read some books that have been on our TBR piles for a long time. Using Random.org, I got 7419 which turned out to be Midnight Awakening by Lara Adrian! It's been on my TBR pile since March 23rd, 2019, and I added it because I love her writing and this series! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Random Reads #705, May 22nd

Random Reads is a monthly meme (that I'm going to do weekly) hosted by I'm Loving Books to read some books that have been on our TBR piles for a long time. Using Random.org, I got 858 which turned out to be Midnight Awakening by Lara Adrian! It's been on my TBR pile since March 23rd, 2019, and I added it because I love her writing and this series! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Will the Time Come #407, March 21st

Every Thursday I am going to list a book which I really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! Thanks to Jodie from Books for Company for this meme!

Want to Join?

-Pick a book you have been meaning to read

-Do a post telling us about the book    

-Link the post up in the linky  

-Visit the other blogs

From Goodreads:

He comes to her more dead than alive, a towering black-clad stranger riddled with bullets and rapidly losing blood. As she struggles to save him, veterinarian Tess Culver is unaware that the man calling himself Dante is no man at all, but one of the Breed, vampire warriors engaged in a desperate battle. In a single erotically charged moment Tess is plunged into his world—a shifting, shadowed place where bands of Rogue vampires stalk the night, cutting a swath of terror.

Haunted by visions of a dark future, Dante lives and fights like there is no tomorrow. Tess is a complication he does not need—but now, with his brethren under attack, he must shield Tess from a growing threat that includes Dante himself. For with one reckless, irresistible kiss, she has become an inextricable part of his underworld realm…and his touch awakens her to hidden gifts, desires, and hungers she never knew she possessed. Bonded by blood, Dante and Tess must work together to thwart deadly enemies, even as they discover a passion that transcends the boundaries of life itself…

Why the time hasn't come yet...
I don't know, I read the first book, so hopefully I'll read it soon! What about you guys? Happy reading! 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #371, July 16th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #370
Teaser Tuesday #378
WWW Wednesday #378
WOW #374
Will the Time Come #371
Third Sentence Thursday #361
Random Reads #346
First Lines Friday #374
The Reward Challenge Update #356
Book Blogger Hop #40
How Well I Stuck to It #208
Wrote that Review Update #205

Week 28 Reviews:
Charisma
When Blood Calls
In Rides Trouble
Her Fierce Warrior
Kidnapping in the Black Hills
Her Rogue Alpha
Trouble in the Ukraine
Her True Match
Her Dark Half
X-Ops Exposed
Shadow's Bane
Spinning Silver
Awaken in Darkness
A Touch of Midnight
Kiss of Midnight

Random:
We Have the Cover of Highland Brides #7!!!!
We Have the Cover of Throne of Glass #7!!!!

OK, so I got 23 posts in 7 days, What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Grave Mercy, Dark Triumph, Mortal Heart, and Long May She Reign.

Week 28 Reviews: A Touch of Midnight, Kiss of Midnight

From Goodreads:
Savannah Dupree is halfway across the country from her Louisiana bayou hometown, a freshman studying at Boston University on a full scholarship. But academic excellence is only one of Savannah's gifts. She possesses something even more remarkable than her quick mind and insatiable curiosity for learning. With a simple touch, Savannah can see an object's past—a skill that puts her life in danger, when her studies bring her into contact with a centuries-old English sword and the secret hidden within the blade's history: the vicious murders of twin boys by a group of fanged creatures borne of the worst kind of nightmare.

In all his three hundred years of living as one of the Breed, vampire warrior Gideon never dreamed he'd see the blade again that spilled his young brothers' lives ages ago on that blood-soaked night in London. Ever since the boys’ deaths, Gideon’s been on a personal quest to rid the world of Rogue vampires, but now he can’t help wondering if the brutal slayings of his only kin was something more sinister—an act perpetrated by an unknown enemy. An enemy who is apparently living in hiding somewhere in Boston. There's one certain way to prove Gideon's suspicion, but it will mean using innocent, gifted Savannah to help uncover the full truth—a truth that will shatter everything she knows about herself and the world around her. And with danger closing in from all sides, the passion that ignites between Gideon and Savannah will tempt them to risk their hearts and lives for a love that might just last an eternity…

From Goodreads:
He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night—or this man—is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed—a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.

Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind—and the unwitting humans existing alongside them—from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.

Here, in the arms of the Breed's formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . .

My Review:
I really enjoyed reading these books! The world was interesting, and I loved this take on vampires. It was unique, which I really love, and yeah, I just had to read more! Though sometimes the alpha male thing got a little annoying!

A Touch of Midnight was a really awesome introduction into this series! The fact that it's set in the 70's, yeah, that's different, and it was interesting to see how things have changed in the world! Not their world, because it's going to take more then a novella to change it!

The vampires in this world, that they're descend from a group of aliens, yeah, that's pretty cool. That they are all male, and have to find a special human female to have kids with, yeah, it's different! The various safe places that each guy wanted/thought he had to send the ladies to, yeah, I didn't like that they would be forced to leave their lives, but having a safe place is a good idea!

A lot happens in the first book. Like one of their own betrays them. And they discover a bad guy who might be around for a while, since he's a generation one and helped found the warriors. And is Lucan's older brother. Yeah. That was pretty intense and made for a great ending!

These books were so great, and I can't wait to read more!

Author: Lara Adrian
Series: Midnight Breed #0.5, 1
Read: July 13th, 13th, 2018
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2018 Books and Kiss of Midnight is a WTC Book!
Publisher: Lara Adrian, LLC, Dell
Published: July 15th 2013, May 1st 2007

A Touch of Midnight:

5/5 Hearts

4.5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Kiss of Midnight:

5/5 Hearts

4.5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

First Lines Friday #374, July 13th

First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.

-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!

"Her baby wouldn't stop crying. She'd started fussing at the last station, when the Greyhound bus out of Bangor stopped in Portland to pick up more passengers. Now, at a little after 1 A.M., they were almost to the Boston terminal, and the two-plus hours of trying to soothe her infant daughter were, as her friends back in school would say, getting on her last nerve." -Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian

Well, that sounds pretty stressful! Traveling is never easy, and to have an upset child as well? I don't envy her position! Sounds pretty exhausting! Can't wait to see where it's going to go! What about you guys? Happy reading!