Dark Needs at Night's Edge (The Immortals After Dark Series, Book 4)

I had my heart set on Conrad falling in love with Nix because they are both crazy but at the end when Myst and Kaderin are planning to go to war against the vampire king to get their husbands back...love it. Plus, Nix stating Mike Rowe from "Dirty Jobs" is in love with her...hilarious. I want desperately to read Lucia's story and Regan's.

I have been reading romance novels since I was 15, so a good 20 years now. In my mind nothing like a cup of tea and a good romance novel to escape and unwind at the end of a day.
Just to give a sample of my taste, other authors I enjoy are: Jen Holling, Connie Brockway, Johanna Lindsey, Julie Garwood, Christina Dodd, just to name a few.

This entire series is such a page turner. I had a hard time putting any of the titles down. More evenings than I care to admit I stayed up way to late "just to read one more chapter".

I love that the brothers are all together in this book working to save a fallen brother. Love that they are doing what they can to save the one vampire that most likely cannot be saved. The sparks between Neomi Laress and Conrad are just fantastic from the beginning. I could not find out fast enough how on earth these two could be together.

I enjoyed the glimpse of supporting characters so you felt that any of them would be enjoyable to read about in their own series. The entire series is fast and there is not a lot of review of what happened in a prior book. You open the book and off you go. These are not slow moving. I laughed, I cried, I blushed. Boy Ms. Cole writes some steamy scenes. Wow! And I am amazed that nothing repeats. Each book is so different, the plots are so different and the way the main characters relate is so different. Yes they do all have hansom men and lovely ladies. But the dynamic relationship between the main characters is simply fire from page 1 to the end. Out of all my years reading romance. I have never read modern romance before. I can say without a doubt that these are the best romance books I have read and that is truly saying a lot considering how many authors works sit on my shelf.

I love Kresley Cole and couldn't wait for this book to come out. I was pretty disappointed. It seemed very slow. I loved Neomi but I really wasn't too crazy about Conrad. Maybe I just like Lykaes better that tortured vamps? Sadly her next book Dark Desires After Dusk was just as meh. I could take it or leave it. To many books are being written, I wish Kresley would slow down and take her time. Her next one is out Jan of 2009, lets hope it's better. Kiss of a Demon King.

The worst part of reading a book by Kresley Cole is the intense high and then intense low when it's done. I finished this book in 6 hours and threatened my husband and son with no dinner if they did not leave me alone in my cone of silence. Kresley has quickly become my drug of choice.

Once again she has nailed it. I was afraid that the story line would be hard to wrap my head around. But the relationship between Conrad and Neomi was intriguing, enthralling, very sweet and more of what we love about Kresley Cole.

Neomi and Conrad certainly had all of the tools to NOT make a life together. He's mad from drinking the memories of all his "kills" and being on the run for 300 years and she's a ghost with no bodily form. The quintessential if a bird and a fish loved each other, where would they make their home. But the duo find sweet ways to connect and learn to appreciate each other and what they both bring to the table and along with the other characters we have all come to love the relationship works out for the best. The style of writing, the intimacy, the total alpha male descriptives one he "Blooded"... Whew.

I look forward to Cadeon's book and will stare at if for a few more months before I dive in because I know Kresley Coles next release is not until 2009.

I'm surprised by how much I like this book. I'm not really a fan of the immortals after dark series; I read one and liked it, read another and got bored with it. But this one... I loved it! And I'm strict with my 5 stars.

Conrad was such a unique character. He was one of those rare mentally flawed characters that kept me interested. He's a lost vampire and literally quite crazy and very violent. After centuries of drinking the blood of so many his head is full of their memories. He can no longer tell his thoughts from those of his victims and it's driving him to the brink of insanity. He aches to kill and torture and he was always willing to fight. His internal dialog was surprising and the author made me feel as if he really was crazy.

His brothers capture lock him in a manor for a type of "vampire detox" to help him get his mind back and to get to stop taking blood from the vein. There, Conrad meets Neomi, a ghost that was killed in the 1920's who 'haunts' the manor.

I was a little iffy on the lead female being a ghost but I thought it was perfect for the plot. No matter how crazy or domineering Conrad became he couldn't, as Neomi put it, sling her over his shoulder and force her to do his bidding. This was great in teaching Conrad patience. I did, however, think the way she was made corporeal was a little cheap but...hey..she was ghost! The author did a great job.

I thought the two were great together. I was very pleased that Conrad didn't have a miraculous recovery overnight and that mentions of his struggles were throughout the book. I thought his progress was quite believable.

The main focus of the book was Conrad and Neomi helping to heal his damaged mind. I was glad that the villains of the book didn't steal from their wonderful moments. There was also a very surprising moment concerning Conrad's dealings with other women. Unlike other books I've read with similar heroes, I found Conrad's situation to be very believable. I loved those scenes.

I very strongly recommend this book and I don't think it's really necessary to read the other books in the series. Some of the secondary characters were a bit annoying anyway.

I really got a feel for Conrad and he has become one of my favorite characters. This book was great.