Grasp Wild Knight (Midnight Empire: The Tower, #1) By Annabel Chase Classified In Brochure

little slow at the beginning but gets intriguing around the middle, Definitely a good read. This felt more like the outline of a book instead of a finished product, I liked the storyline, but the execution is really bad, I haven't read anything else by this author, but word crafting doesn't seem to be her strong suit,
In any case, I can't say I am motivated to read the next book in the series,
Excellent Beginning of a New Series

Annabelle Chase has constructed a new world where, due to a natural disaster, vampires have taken control of everything and everyone and monsters of all kinds have been unleashed on the human survivors.
In this environment London works as a knight, with a group of other women, to help people in need.
She is approached by Prince Callan, of the Royal House, to find his missing sister and retrieve a very powerful artifact that has been stolen from the excavation where it was found.
London doesnt want to work for the vampires since she is really a super powerful being that is a danger to the vampires, and being found out

would mean her death if they figured out what she was.
But she has no choice and so begins the investigation, with the unwanted help of Prince Callan, Even though she is deathly afraid of Callan she can not stop the feelings she is having about him.
And it looks like the Prince is taken with London too

The story is very well written, with sarcasm and humor and action.
It moves along at a quick pace and contains plenty of plot twists, I really enjoyed it and recommend it highly,
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I was curious to discover this new urban fantasy series! Besides, I really like Annabel Chases novels so how could I resist

London lives in a world very different from the one we know.
The sun disappeared a long time ago and vampires have taken over the cities, Its in this setting that London lives as a knight in the citys lesser known order, helping people when they need it and especially when they pay.
But then someone offers her a new job and that someone is none other than a vampire, Except shes been running from them forever, knowing full well theyll kill her if they find out what she really is.
Even worse, this vampire is also a prince whose power could destroy her! But theres no way she can refuse the job, hes a prince, no one can She will have to find her sister who has disappeared, as well as a stone that the vampire queen wants back.
But why is she so interested in any stone

This was a very enjoyable novel, London and Callan have a strong connection but our heroine knows that nothing good would come of such a relationship.
Still, Im quite curious to see what will happen between our two heroes!

This was an enjoyable first volume to read and I am very curious to find out what happens next! Great fun! Magic, swords, vampires, obnoxious royalty.


After you've run out of Ilona Andrews try this post apocalyptic fantasy view of a London ruled by Vampire Royalty in an ash ridden world of magic and monsters that sword and sorcery that is much less serious than some.
I snorted with laughter about the idea of having your mail pile up when you are not home and how exactly that works if it comes by carrier pigeon.
Riding into battle on a double decker London bus was also fun, Not that this is Terry Pratchett or even Christopher Stasheff territory but it was a lot of fun and I recommend it to fans of Andrews, Meljean Brook, Lawrence Watt Evans, Looking forward to more in this series.
Very clean, no bad language, no extraneous or kinky sex stuff though an attraction seems to be building, Five for fun. Pues estuvo bien, me entretuvo de principio a fin y la historia se me hizo interesante, sin embargo, no sé cómo describir el libro realmente, como que le falta profundidad a la historia pero tampoco se sintió como una lectura tan superficial, es complicado.

Eso sí, London me cayó muy bien y Callan me llama mucho la atención, Tengo curiosidad por saber cómo se desarrollará la relación de estos dos porque en este primer libro no hubo nada de romance en plan, besos, abrazos, etc.
, y como saben yo no puedo vivir sin leer romance, Curiosamente tampoco me molestó mucho la nula actividad romántica, la historia puede llegar a ser bastante entretenida con las brujas, magos, lobos, vampiros y más.
También aprecio que a pesar de que London tieneaños, la historia no gira entorno a lo sexual.
Ni una vez en todo el libro se mencionó nada sexual relacionado con ella y Callan, lo cual me sorprendió un poco ya que en otras historias la protagonista nada más conoce al que será su interés amoroso y no para de andar horny de verdad, a veces me harta tanto contenido sexual.
Este libro fue un buen cambio,
Si buscas un urban fantasy entretenido, rápido, con una protagonista chida y un vampiro que intriga, este libro es para ti.
an intriguing new series

Great storyline, easy follow along plot with nice twists and turns.
Good descriptive writing that was enjoyable and entertaining,
Awesome characters I cant wait to get to know better,
Im heading off the get the next book now, I honestly don't know how I finished reading this one, The firstwas overall fun, The lastlost me. I think I was so numb to everything about this story that I lost ALL interest by that point.
The characters weren't holding my attention and I couldn't care less about the story if I tried,

Even though I picked this book up knowing from reading reviews that it did not have any romance in it whatsoever that is also what kinda sorta ended contributing to me being bored out of my mind with this story.
The one aspect that I enjoyed immensely was the heroine's connection to animals and how many of them she took care of.
That was so interesting to read about!

Due to this experience, I don't think I'll be continuing on with this series.
It's not a bad story necessarily! It just isn't for me,.This is a decent start to a UF series, It has a lot of the typical elements, and at times reminded me a fair bit of Kate Daniels not in an obvious rip off way, but in terms of texture/tone.
But that's cool, I liked Kate Daniels a lot,

I like the FMC, and the MMC seems promising, I can't get a good fix on the secondary characters, as the other knights had some squirrely moments, Not as in they are bad characters, but as in, . . there's something clearly going on there, and I'm not sure what yet,

Reading onwards!. . so this is one I will continue,

Where it went wrong for me The romance, There is none. Nada. Zilch. Zero. It is very rarely and almost unnoticeably implied a time or two, A reader can assume where it is going, but there is no tow curling, None. At. All.

Now the good side is the storyline, Interesting FMC, London, with some cool gifts and a heritage she is trying to hide, Her back story has potential to be earth shattering, which I hope it is,

MC, Callan, there is little to go on here, He has the potential to be a great MC, but all we get this book is glimpses and hear say.


Needless to say if bookdoes not fill in some gaps I will be one angry reader.


Happy reading,
DD i was somewhat interested and the main lead was decent

still, the pace was rushed and the adventureactionmystery part of it was poorly fleshed out.


.stars
I'm bailing a bit before halfway, I just can't take it seriously at all, and not for the obvious reasons,

The obvious reasons would be worldbuilding that throws everything paranormal into a postapocalypse stew with Vampires running the show and everything else serving them at their whim.
The world blew up and ash covers the sky and it's perpetual night, Fortunately magic so we don't actually have a deepfreeze and all the plants dead, Those wise caretakers, the vampires, bend all the resources to keeping things running kinda normal using magic to fill in the ultraviolet gaps, I suppose.


But that's all just giving a book its premise and I could have rolled with that, Only we have London and Callan and every time they interact I want to smack somebody, London is all about being scared, flying under the radar, keeping her talents hidden and, above all, avoiding vampires.
We find out at aboutokay, yes, I looked why that is and it's only mildly stupid so fine.
Only every time she talks with a vampire, it's like she's daring them to kill her, Seriously the opposite of low profile, She shows no deference. She tweaks at them. And she openly criticizes their social structure, And I'm wondering what the crap is wrong with these despots letting that crap slide because our London is seriously too stupid to live.


And every sentence out of Callan's mouth is an innuendo, Only, the kind of innuendo you'd get from a clever eleven yearold, And I'm all thinking, "this guy knows he's 'bantering' with a woman who literally cannot tell him no, right" I mean, this is what the social setup meansvampires are the medieval overlords who can kill you without question and whose rule is supreme and without compromise.
So he's all throwing out these cheesy comeons with a woman who is his inferior in every way and who, if you take the worldbuilding at all seriously, cannot repulse him like he deserves.
I mean, London does. Repeatedly. Because she's too stupid to live, But he's one of these guys who cannot take a hint, apparently, and these stupid invites just keep on coming.


I dunno. I'm probably taking the setup too seriously, or something, Like, if you dial down the dire worldbuilding by a factor of, um, a million, then it might work Only then what the crap is London doing whining about how she can't be herself without being killed cause she's extra special girl

Yeah, it doesn't work.
And I'm done trying to make it, .