| PARANORMAL & SUSPENSE book reviews |
Darkness Bound
Lorienne Walk
Paranormal Romance
Heat Rating: 4
Sarah’s twenty-fourth birthday
looks like it’s going to be a
washout, until she receives an
inheritance from the parents she
can barely remember.
There are strings attached, however. The huge family estate
holds secrets as well as memories, and then there’s Grimalkin,
a sexy vampire who claims to be her slave. But is Sarah fit to
be his master?
While they play games of dominance outside forces are at work,
seeking to deny Sarah her birthright, and her very life. And the
creature she commands might very well be her downfall.
REVIEW: Sarah Berkley was a “faded woman in a faded life”.
She has just turned 24 and despite chiding by her friends, she
is feeling like nothing is worth doing except keeping up her
shooting skills. Then she gets a letter saying she had inherited
a great deal more.
Told in the third person, a welcome change in vampire books,
Sarah is led by fate, maybe a little too strongly. It works for her
though and she meets all comers with aplomb.
The other main character is the only other character that
comes into hard focus as if the whole world centers around
those two. This book would lend itself well to an action series
not dissimilar to Buffy, though in its later series as it is a little
raunchy, though not out of character.
At seventy five pages, it isn’t deep and meaningful, but it is a
good read for an afternoon.
| Reviewer: Karen Fainges |
January 2014 | 93