Publisher: HarlequinTEEN
Publication Date: February 26, 2013
Format: Ebook
Source: Netgalley and HarlequinTEEN
My Rating:
Goodreads Synopsis:
My kiss can kill.
I used to be ordinary Samantha Day, but that's changed. Now, after one dark
kiss from a dangerous boy, I can steal someone's soul…or their life. If I give
in to the constant hunger inside me, I hurt anyone I kiss. If I don't…I hurt
myself.
Bishop is the one whose kiss I crave most, but if I kiss him, I'll kill him.
Then there's another boy, one I can't hurt. One whose kiss seems to
miraculously quell my hunger. They're both part of a team of angels and demons
that's joined forces in my city to fight a mysterious rising darkness, an evil
that threatens everyone I know and love. I just wonder if I'll be able to help
Bishop—or if I'm just another part of the darkness he's sworn to destroy….
NIGHTWATCHERS: When angels and demons must
work together, something beyond evil is rising…
Review:
It has been a while
that this book has been sitting in my Kindle needing to be read, and I FINALLY
got around to it. I feel like such a slacker.
What I remember of Dark Kiss was a series of angels and demons and Sam, the
main character, who has a crazy supernatural past that she does not know about.
I have to say that Wicked Kiss
helped bring a lot of the key plot points out again for the slacker of a reader
that I am. It took key plot points from Dark Kiss and reiterated quite well in the rise and fall of
this new book.
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
FROM DARK KISS
Samantha has no soul;
it was taken from her by her crazy aunt in an attempt to unleash chaos into the
town of Trinity. While this would be a sucky situation for most, Sam is using
it to her advantage, to learn about her new-found powers while also having to
control her unending hunger for souls from others. In Wicked Kiss, Sam must come to terms with her soulless
existence or find a way out of it by retrieving her soul from the guy who took
it. Luckily this book picks up almost immediately after the end of the last
one, no summer lag time, no year or two later schemes. That is one of the
things I really liked about the plot, it really shoved the reader right back
into the plotline.
While I liked that
aspect there were a few things that I was more keen on noticing reading the
second book that the first, for example, there was a lot of instalove or even just
flat out attraction going on. Between
Bishop and his demon brother there was a lot of tension when it came to who
wanted Sam more, it was amusing, don’t get me wrong, but all of a sudden Kraven
wanted in on the fun? It was a little strange.
I found Sam to be
both strong and whiney at times, it was either her throwing a typical teenage
tantrum or being wise beyond her years and I doubt most teens are like that,
one way or the other, not both.
I did really like the
plot, it kept me pulled in and I read the book in one sitting. Like I mentioned
it picks right up where Dark Kiss left off and just keeps running, there are more
greys to deal with, more angel/demon teaming up to vanquish them, more crazy
people showing up to haunt the town and even an appearance of more of Sam’s
family… Overall it was a very captivating read.
