Midnight is Daugther

I've been purchased 3 duplicates of this book by assorted friends and family, so obviously fate was very decided for me to end up reading through this. We question what it is regarding me personally that makes me seem an appropriate candidate with the book with a name like 'Midnight's Daughter'? ;--)
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Like a huge enthusiast associated with Betty Chance's Cassandra Palmer series, I could not assist comparing them with this brand new sequence, set in the same urban-fantasy world along with warring mage, fey as well as vamp heirarchies. We skipped the best personality in the Cassie series, unpredictable battle mage John Pritkin, and to be truthful none of the secondary characters in Midnight's Daughter were up to taking his location.

But never mind, our dhampir (half-vampire) protagonist Dory is dynamic sufficient to transport the story, Used to do discover her excessively badass attitude grating following while but that's most likely because, coming to heart a conservative small aged woman, I tend to scowl as well as shuffle during my chair a bit whenever brought to characters that smoke cigarettes copious levels of weed.

I loved which Opportunity balanced out the damaging aspects of Dory's character (some serious frustration administration issues, extreme violence, wherewithal to behave civilly in the direction of most people, as well as periodic abuse of sarcasm) along with good points for example her extreme loyalty, dedication as well as fundamental wish not to destroy a whole bunch of innocent people in one of the woman's unstoppable dhampir rages.

The reader is used through Dory's fear for her kidnapped buddy and roommate, Claire - her determination in order to save Claire no matter what endears her to us, aided by the fact that Claire, because observed through Dory's eye, may be the type of person your reader doesn't desire to observe harmed.

Dory's grasp vampire dad, Mircea, is really a familiar personality with regard to Cassandra Palmer fans, although we have seen a different aspect in order to him or her here compared to sexy, charming romantic curiosity. The job that he models Dory, that your woman allows to understand information that will guide her in order to Claire, would be to catch his out-of-control psycho-vamp sibling Dracula, possibly the committing suicide objective in which she is assisted through warm vamp swordsman Louis-Cesare, who I thought would be a great intimate curiosity till he or she walks away from the country within the last section. I believe exactly what troubles me personally relating to this is the fact that Dory does not seem impacted by their disappearance by any means, shape, or even type, which in spite of exactly how difficult she's, struck me personally as unrealistic.

It is really an lively read with several well-thought-out characters which will make this a smaller amount of a cookie-cutter urban dream, nevertheless I nevertheless do not feel it is on a single level as the Cassandra Palmer books. If you wish to provide Betty Chance a attempt, I recommend you start with those.

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