The Warlord Wants Forever Immortals After Dark #0.5

DNF at: I have no bloody shrimping idea. And frankly, I don't give a damn. I was so furious when I stopped reading I didn't even bother to check. ► I wish I had time to write a full length review to properly convey how much this piece of crap pissed me off. But I don't, so I'll give you the short of it. And I'll start by the worst of it: ► I CANNOT STAND books that promote rapey behaviour. And bringing women to submission against their will. And taming them because, you know, women are not supposed to be strong badasses. They're supposed to be compliant wimps. HELL NO. And I don't give a damn if the f@cking hero regrets his actions at the end of the story. You do not romanticize this type of behaviour. NO YOU DON'T. And why is it that it is always female authors who write such CRAP??!! Why?! ► To make things worse, our thousands of years old, supposedly ass-kicking heroine is fine with it! Yay! Why don't I give up my free will and let the big, strong male take over?! I am nothing but a lame, weak female after all! I obviously cannot think or choose for myself! Life is so much easier when Macho Man is in charge! Yay again! I'm such a lucky girl! I'm pretty sure feminism just committed suicide again. Must be a PNR thing. ► If this wasn't enough, the story is also ridiculous, stupid, boring and the world building is confusing as hell. A PhD might be required to fully understand what is going on here. And I still haven't figured out when this is supposed to be happening: the Middle Ages? 2012? 1854? No freaking idea. ►To make things worse it looks like the author couldn't choose what sups and mythological creatures to use in her story so she just threw them all in there. Yeah, Kresley Cole is an equal opportunity kind of gal. Everyone gets a chance in her books, from Valkyries to Vamps. Yay. ►Anything else? Apart from the AWFUL writing you mean? And the PNR Tropes Fest? Nah, that's pretty much it. ►►Congratulations Kresley Cole, you just made it to my Black List From Hell.

I heard great things about the Immortals After Dark series but read none of the books. The opportunity arose for me to read Munro, book 19, in the series. Big risk, but I was assured it could stand on its own. However, to get a feel of the world before jumping into Munro, I decided to read the first two books in the series, starting with 🎧︎The Warlord Wants Forever. The Warlord Wants Forever was an interesting, unique and bizarre tale. The story hidden in the pages of this book was dark and steeped in heat. Myst and Nickolai burned up the pages with their sexy times. Mysts actions at the outset revealed her cruel and vindictive side. Not that Nikolai was any better, as he planned to torture for information. The only difference, he didn’t follow through on his plans. During this time, he made a stunning discovery: Myst was his mate. A fact he discovered through a process known as blooding. Myst abandoned him, which she believed was the merciful option, as her sisters wanted to kill him. Her decision left him in mental, physical, and sexual torment. Five years later, after searching high and low, he found her and proceeded to take his revenge. Few readers like myself would be on board with how this aspect of the story played out. The hero forcing the heroine to do his will, simply because she was his mate, and no other woman would suffice. I understand the need for revenge but taking away someone’s free will is a bit extreme. Myst is quite the heroine. Sassy, strong, determined, funny, and a fighter. One would be hard-pressed to believe she had a crush on the hero based on her attitude towards him, but she did. Nikolai was possessive, obsessive, and dark. The story may not have wowed me, but it piqued my curiosity as it relates to the world and the variety of supernatural species.

This is a good debut story and I’m glad I gave this series a second chance. Even with a short-length Cole gave us the proper introduction to this series showing some of the imaginary behind ‘Immortal After Dark’ and spiking our curiosity by leaving a ton of new threads ready to be followed. Wroth and Myst’s romance give us a tour throughout the imaginary behind ‘Immortal After Dark Series’ showing valkyrie tales and quirks, the forbearer’s mission, vampires in a quest and the Lykae moving the board pieces. It’s a good series introduction with all the pieces moving at the same time and I’m a little disappointed that ‘A Hunger Lile No Other’ wasn’t able to convey this kind of interaction.

3 Good Start Stars "Five years of hell! You deserve to be fu*ked until you can't walk!" This was a novella introduction to a series, and overall it was pretty good. It was definitely not what I was expecting, and it did take me a little while to get into the characters of Myst the Coveted and Nikolai Wroth the Warlord Warrior, but in the end Myst had more depth in her than she'd led me to believe, and I ended up liking both characters. I'm glad I read this one, if for no other reason than to lead me into the rest of the series. I would recommend picking this up if you're interested in reading the Immortals After Dark Series, otherwise I don't feel as a separate novella this was a MUST-READ.

Check out this and my other reviews at My Blog, Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest ★Book Basics★ Genre : - Paranormal Romance Series : - First in the series. Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[Yes (hide spoiler)] Would I read more by this author/or in this series? - Yes Rating - 5 stars ★Review★ I am sooooo late to the party with this series, have had it on my "need to start" shelf for ever!! Just for some reason never got round to it. And I could kick myself! I love a paranormal series, where the heroines are not just cookie cutter innocent humans through the entire series. The heroines here are kick ass, and can more than hold their own, and have their own history and lore and I love it. A great start to what I hope is a brilliant series. I loved the relationship between the hero and heroine, and the entire world and lore characters that are introduced. Funny, engaging, sexy and enjoyable.

Read as part of the Fated Mates Read-A-Long of Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series, The Warlord Wants Forever is technically the first book in the series, although not by publishing order. I believe I read the more heavily edited and updated version in Blood Red Kiss, but didn't want to mark that as the book I read because I didn't read the other two stories. I'm glad I was advised to not read this book first, because I don't think I would have enjoyed it without the broader context I've been given reading the others. This was a story where I LOVED Myst, the "most beautiful Valkyrie" but really side-eyed her hero, Nikolai Wroth, who I had first met in A Hunger Like No Other as a besotted recently blooded and married to his fated mate Vampire. Here's Nikolai kind of sucks, and there are some big consent issues, so content warning for that. Nikolai definitely didn't grovel enough for my taste, even if Myst did make him suffer for FIVE YEARS after blooding him. Ha ha ha.