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Morsure Nocturne (2013)

by Cassie Alexander(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

2290055689 (ISBN13: 9782290055687)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

J'ai lu

series

Edie Spence

review 1: I've been putting this one off for like two months bc some combination of the title and the cover and the summary made it seem a little sillier than I was prepared to read, and I'm regretting this a LOT rn. this was a great read, better than what I was expecting by far, and I loved it. this has some of the coolest, scariest vamps I've encountered so far. anna is terrifying and wonderful and one of the best characters in a book filled w great characters. ti the super sexy zombie was a startling delight, who proved to actually b a p great dude, even if he does regenerate by eating human flesh and tire a dude apart so he could steal parts of his body he'd lost fighting the aforementioned vamps. even asher turned out to not b so bad in the endbut the cream of the cream is with... moreout a doubt edie, our super smart tough resourceful nurse of a protag, who took to being shoved into the world of the supernatural w admirable aplomb, albeit somewhat bewildered. the medical slant gave the book a grounding in reality that a lot of the urban fantasy I've read lately has somewhat lacked, altho all the names of medication and diseases and the like can get to b a but much to the medically disinclined. anyway, edie!!! edie is so wonderful!!!!! she took the job at county hospital to help her emotionally abusive junkie brother stay clean, and as tired and as broke as she is when a vamp croney in her ward dies w the words 'save anna' on his last breath she feels compelled to do as he asks. in doing so she finds herself thrown into the deep end of vampire politics w her head (and her soul) on the line. the plot moves along swiftly, the pacing is near perfect, and the growth of edie's relationships w both ti and anna feel natural. things don't work out perfectly in the end, but in a way that's more satisfying (I think) than if they had. for anyone who needs the warning, anna (and several other girls who r mentioned briefly in the narrative) is a victim of some p horrific child abuse and sexual assault, altho there's nothing particularly graphic. some squicky torture stuff towards the end. my biggest issue was the author's horrendously clumsy attempts at writing an androgynous, potentially gender neutral character in meaty, who is alternately designated as he, she, or, ugh, 'he/she/it'. just fucking use THEY, author. I promise u it's better in literally every fucking way
review 2: I picked this book up because it looked promising. Unfortunately, for me, it fell rather flat. Edie Spence is a nurse on the nightshift, but this isn't your typical shift. Edie works on the mysterious Y4 ward, hidden in the basement of County Hospital, where the patients are anything but normal. Weres, shapeshifters, Vampires, even dragons, all come to Y4 when medical treatment is required. When Edie, new to the job, accidentally leaves a patient's arm unrestrained and in his delirium, he pulls out his ventalator and subsequently dies, Edie is compelled to find the mysterious 'Anna', the name whispered with the patient's last dying breath. This sets off a series of convoluted events that just really left me disappointed. Instead of focussing on the hospital, the majority of action takes place outside the hospital and really has nothing to do with the nightshift. The plot feels scattered and the world building is lacking. Alexander also forgets that the majority of us aren't nurses and don't know the lingo. Add in the mysterious 'Shadows', and the nebulous vampire hierarchy and you get a confusing mishmash.There are already a couple of more books out in this series, so obviously someone liked this book more than me. I won't be bothering with the rest of the series however. less

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Melleedawn

I really liked the main character. Her inner monologue was entertaining and it didn't seem like the author was trying too hard to be clever. The whole book was sprinkled with amusing little bits, like the part where she mentions that she is not pretty but she can do pretty well if she is in a place with dim lights and alcohol. Or another place where she says German fairy tales are about scaring kids for liking candy. I'm paraphrasing and the author said it better so read the book.But at the same time I really felt like I related on another level. Whenever her brother was a selfish jerk I got pissed on her behalf and I really felt the devastation when she confronted him at the shelter. I thought the romance was a little on the quick side but it was still believable because with Asher the first time was enjoyable but not fireworks and rainbows good. I get a little annoyed at authors who get all poetic and flowery about every single sex moment, because that doesn't seem relatable. And then later with the other guy, she talks about the awkward moments they have, and I don't know about you, but that is definitely part of my dating experience.

Shai

Started out great for me - I was expecting another boring first-person POV female supernatural asskicker book, where the protagonist is always "Look at me, I'm in leather, I'm badass, and my hair looks great and therefore this book is awesome even though it's trite and all the humor is lame." Nightshifted wasn't that, and I liked the idea of a nurse in a secret paranormal hospital ward, a woman with grit but vulnerabilities. But then I got bored and stopped really believing in any of the plot or characters. I finished it though - a nice diversion, like watching a B horror movie on Syfy.

stephanie

really enjoyed this one! Definitely continuing the series...

Thalia

loved it

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