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Night's Rose (2009)

by Annaliese Evans(Favorite Author)

3.33 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0765361663 (ISBN13: 9780765361660)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

TOR

series

Night's Rose

review 1: This book was both refreshing and drab at the same time. I have not read many romance novels that included orcs, trolls, and Dark Fey. It seems that some angry paranormal romance god out there only wants us to read about vampires, werewolves, and crazy chicks specializing in working with the deceased. Again, another novel easily recognized as a early work of the author. While the plot was fairly simple to understand, it was far more than I hoped for when I picked up this novel. I had grown so used to other paranormal romances and their stale plots that this particular novel did not seem any different. And in a way, it was not. Again, we are presented with another novel about someone trying to take over the world in some way or another. It was how this devious little rebel... more Fey went about it. I mean, how many people think of manipulating orcs into casting a summoning spell that will bring about a beast so gargantuan that the earth itself was the only prison that could hold it? The ending was massively confusing, however. One minute we have a battle and this giant trying to break free, and the next page is the epilogue talking about the aftermath. I honestly felt like I was left hanging. But that was not what killed it for me. After the main character, Rose, so adamantly professes her deep love for her husband, Garreth, and her undying need to prove her loyalty and said love for him, in the last pages, she is ponders on whether or not her husband would be okay with having a menage with her and her husband's half brother, Ambrose. It was such a wrench in the plot that I was taken by surprise. I knew that the Rose had feelings for her husband's half-brother before she married, yet, at the same time, I felt that Evans pretty much killed those feelings when she married Rose and Garreth. When, all of sudden, Rose is wanting to have sex with Ambrose, I wanted to reach through the pages and smacked that fool across the face. What was this crazy b**** thinking?!?Oh, not to mention the scene halfway through the novel when Rose begs Garreth to have sex with her in not so subtle, or ladylike, words. I actually laughed when reading it. I guess that the scene just seems so out of place that it was humorous. Other than the few out place scenes, I really enjoyed this novel. About three fourths way through, the building of the plot finally climaxed, fizzling out as it does so, but, by that point, Evans has revealed all of her twist in the plot and the only thing left to do is gracefully end the novel. Once all the juicy little secrets have been laid on the table, the novel becomes slow and difficult to finish, but is a worthwhile novel from a budding author. I could have done without the Sleeping Beauty theme though. I love fairy tales interpreted for adults, but I felt this novel would have been even better without it.
review 2: This is a 4.78 for me. The reason for the nearly arbitrary number is the fact that there is a romantic triangle that seemed to be resolved during the first one hundred or so pages but then sprung up on us poor unsuspecting readers about twenty pages toward the end. As a slight spoiler - there is no chemistry (IMHO) between Ambrose and Rose. Sorry, but Gareth takes the cake here.This book, in terms of romance/sex/relationship, was, for those that know me,a double YUM! OMG, the sheer sexual magnetism in this book was disgustingly amazing. The plot, at some point I think I ignored the plot in favor of the sexual tension, was actually pretty good but a little confusing as anything having to do with a prophecy is bound to be. Rose, otherwise known as Briar Rose - to us known as the Sleeping Beauty, had been violated, used and abused and due to the inaction of a trusted friend has been left, for the past one hundred years, to suffer the loss of her family, her land and her innocence. There is a family and a world out there that Rosemarie Edenberg has left her mark on but that she cannot ever know. Aiding her are two men, one her fae mentor who actually may be more than he seems and her a vampire trainee who is an indelible rake but who also is more than he appears to be.This book is really about appearance and how things that are taken for granted are simply smoke screens and are deeper than one realizes. Rose has to suffer many betrayals, revelations and secrets than your average heroine. Though she is independent and brilliant and kick ass, she is still a woman, eh, let's rewind here, still human enough to crave the touch, trust and honesty of another person. It is almost obvious who she picks but the ride, well the ride is one of those things that make you blush during the 45 minute train ride from Manhattan to Queens. This book is not only sexy but also dark but not a pointless dark, there is a lesson to be learned here before the last twenty pages and that is; even the strongest person needs someone to lean on and that trust is not given freely but love that is given freely should not be taken advantage of.The last twenty pages, with the silly love triangle that makes me want to puke, can be ignored but if carries on to the next book I'm going to be annoyed. It reminds me of Dawn Cook's "First" series - which by the way, just found out that Dawn Cook is Kim Harrison -- what the???- in which there is a stupid and pointless love triangle (however there was more chemistry ... eh, I'll leave that alone). Anyway, this book surprised me, was a double yum but still couldn't manage to make the 5.00 due to the love triangle. However, still a good spring read. Especially if you want to see a re-imagining of the Sleeping Beauty tale. less

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