Darker After Midnight (Midnight Breed, #10) by Lara Adrian

Darker After Midnight (Lara Adrian)

SUMMARY

In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret for many long centuries, maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order—a cadre of Breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind alike—to stop Dragos, the power-mad vampire at the center of the conflict, before his push for domination can explode into catastrophe.

At the center of the Order's quest is Sterling Chase, once a morally rigid enforcer of Breed law, now a warrior fallen from grace, whose biggest battle is the one he wages against his own savage nature. With addiction beckoning him toward eternal darkness, Chase's path to redemption has never seemed more out of reach—until he finds himself drawn to a beautiful young woman who may be something much more than she seems . . .

MY REVIEW

Breed warrior Sterling Chase (Harvard)
Special ability: wrapping himself in shadows and hiding in them
Age: Over 1oo years old

Breed mate Octavia Fairchild (Tavia)
Special ability: Photographic memory
Occupation: Assistant for senator Clarence
Mark place: Lower Back

Settings: Boston, Maine, Washington

Well, well, WOOOOW! Just WOW! After 9 long length books and 2 short length books, this climactic series reaches the end of its first part (the following books cover stories that will happen 20 years after) and it is the end of the world as we know it. The time frame of the book is Christmas time -a few days before and a few days after. There are so many things going on, that whatever I write it will be a spoiler.

Anyway, besides the huge events that are taking place, this is finally Harvard's book. My favourite breed warrior. I was really looking forward for his book. Harvard was a tortured, self destructive hero since the first book in which we met him (Kiss of Crimson). He was the second best in his family behind his brother's long shadow, he always have had an unsatisfied lust for his sister in law Elise and he was filled with guilt and shame the most part of his life. In this book he is still fighting his demons but this time someone actually cares for him.

Harvard finally falls in love, forgets the dull and boring to tears Elise, gets the best girl and he has his HEA. Tavia and Harvard held each other together during the cataclysmic events of the book while they also help all the rest.

GREAT COUPLE, GREAT CHEMISTRY, GREAT LOVE SCENES.