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Dreams if a Dark Warrior is the eleventh in the Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole and this time it's Regin the Radiant Valkyrie, notorious swordswoman and prankster battling the odds to find true love.
It's a long, hard road, as her fated one turns out to be a human with a vehement hate against anything supernatural,

This book started out great, Regin is smart and funny and in combination with Nïx, she's downright hilarious, There were many laugh out loud moments in the firstpages, In contrast, our hero Declan Chase is the brooding, sulking type, His past and the way it influences his future is really dark and the Dark warrior's intensity level was upped a notch because of it, I really enjoyed the first part of the book because of the high level of tension and the conflicting thoughts and wide variety of emotions,

Sadly though, it went wayward after aboutpages, The story was all over the place while the plot stopped making sense, There was a track through the wilderness, which is probably the fourth time something similar happens in the series, Adding to the feelings of repetition is the fact that to me all Cole's women start to sound alike, They have a very distinct voice in the beginning of their books, but once they start accepting their mate and start softening up, their inner voices are interchangeable, It could have been Carrow or Lucia talking, I didn't see Regin anymore,
On top of that I was disappointed by the fact that Declan Chase got turned into one of Cole's Scottish werewolves, In the beginning of the story he's a human from Northern Ireland and at the end he talks in monosyllables, growls a lot and throws a 'ken' and an 'aye' in for good measure.
Why I liked Declan just the way he was,

So unfortunately, to me, the highlights of the last part of the book wasn't the happy couple, but a plotting vampire and a mysterious but adorable high school kid.
I still can't see why Lothaire the Enemy of the Old is supposed to be so scary, but he is funny as hell, Thad was adorable and I loved his interactions with 'mister Lothaire',

Thad and Lothaire saved the book from a lower rating, I hope the next book is less lengthy and more focused, so that Cole can keep doing what she's good at: entertain, Bir önceki kitabı okuyorum henüz ama bunun konusu beni benden aldı dostlar, . . Napsak hemen buna mı geçsek I mean frankly why does this exist This book was way too fuckin metal for me bro but also he sucked and there was so little groveling which was the only reasonbesides the fact that Ive read nine of these fucking books and I cant skip oneI was even remotely interested.
I listened to this at,x speed and if I couldve gone faster physically in the app I totally would have, It was also way too long and boring at the end,

I was so excited for Regins book bc she was such a bad bitch but come on her entire spirit and light were broken in part by his actions and negligence.
He tortured her, her friends, and countless others and yet by the end we were supposed to feel sorry for him more than her It also took himof the book to even start to act right.
Im all for revenge but this went so far beyond justification, I loved Kiss of a Demon King and think the enemies to lovers and revenge were executed so well there, Here there was barely growth and everything was imbalanced,

I can feel sympathy to an extent but literally the entire ending was everyone just being like bro what the fuck and Regin being like but he had a tragic backstory so its fine.
He basically only felt remorse for things that impacted Regin and he did a shit ton more than just fuck her over, Several basically all heroes in this series are pretty fucked up but this was a new, very detailed low, Maybe this is hypocritical bc I could forgive them for shit but I sure dont care,

I think there was still a way to frame his character as the tortured brainwashed guy, without making him so complicit in her utter destruction, The vivisection took it way too fucking far, I mean he was an idiot to think that they wouldnt hurt her especially after hed made enemies who KNEW he was fascinated

with her Yeah thats grade A hero materialsure.
He had the opportunity to protect her but he didnt even think about playing a few steps ahead, It occurred too late in the book for the whole brainwashed thing to still be a factor in his complete disregard for her safety,

If he had to be held back and restrained while it was happening, that wouldve been equally as heartbreaking, but at least not that fucking atrocious, She had to suffer that invasion TWICE, She admitted really fucking bad details that I absolutely didnt need truly theyre living in my head in the worst way and that had like no impact on him, He had the audacity to be like “but Ive felt pain too!” I physically skipped the entire chapter and a half aroundin my audiobook and it was still so much to take in.


He also didnt fucking murder the guy who commanded the vivisection, He let him get away bc he still viewed him as a “father figure, ” Lothaire better rip his dick off and serve him up spaghetti and meatballs in his book, I also wanted to see Dixon get drawn and quartered by Mr, Centaur on the page if we can see Regin be fucking sawed into, In my opinion, the villains suffered a fraction of what they deserved and for a book this fucking HEAVY thats just not acceptable,

To top it all off, he actively wanted to forget what he did to her bc he couldnt handle the guilt, Idk what to say besides HANDLE IT, BATHE IN IT. TAKE A SHOT OF IT, Fucking coward. I think I couldve processed the torture with time but I will never be able to accept the lack of groveling and how the end revolves around pitying him,

And it gets worse! We dont even get Aiden back Like she couldnt love Aiden but she could love this fucker My goddamn vote is for the fucking pirate.
That was my one saving grace and I got absolutely fucked over, Like please someone explain how she loved this bastard but none of the rest They had like zero scenes that fostered any sort of love, Like what kind of Stockholm syndrome is this One Direction didnt prepare me!!! The past three books have gotten progressively darker, which is not a turn I needed, Most of the time its the women who are taking the brunt of the suffering, Poor Malkom tho deserved so much better too,

And when Nyx was like we didnt intervene on your torture bc Regin didnt want perfect Good god make him snore or something not commit genocide And there are like four other torture facilities that werent blown up I think Joy.


Note: I generally dont go out and read books that I know Ill have achance of hating, However, I am reading the entire series so I wasnt going to skip it, and the beginning was good enough to where I thought it would actually be tolerable but byit was legit too much.
This book also isnt a recent release so Ive gotta assume I havent impacted sales in any way, shape, or form lol, Wow, what a ride! I loved this book, I stayed up tillam just reading, Loved every page. Something funny happens to me with this series, every time a pick a book in it I get surprised because it makes me remember why I love this series so much.
As too much time passes between one book and the next I tend to forget the reasons that made me adored this series but I only need to read one book in it to find myself crazy about it all over again.


At first it was all about the world building, I had never read about a world like this one where all the supernatural species coexist together and have so many rules, I love the paranormal aspect of this series, But now afterbooks it's more than that, it's about the characters as well, I just love them all, It doesn't matter how much time goes by, it takes me one page of a new book to remember it all, This is definitely one of the best and more complex paranormal series out there, there's just nothing wrong with it,

In this installment we get to read about a couple who deserved a book long time ago, Finally we read Regin the Radiant's amp Aidan the Fierce's HEA, This book was just amazing, I loved to see how the bad guy was not really what it seemed and how love can conquer it all, not even time will get in between this amazing couple.


An amazing read, go buy your copy guys! It's so worth it, What do you do when you love an author so much that you want to give them the acclaim they deserve

You sit around typing, retyping, typing and retyping for long stretches of time trying to put into words why she is so fabulous.
. . and then at the end of all that, you delete everything in complete frustration knowing that it is completely impossible to express how high you feel when reading her work.


So in a completely understated manner I will say that "I absolutely love, adore, cherish and worship everything that is Kresley Cole"
This book is just another installment in the phenomenal Immortals After Dark series and as with all the others I LOVED IT TO BITS!!!

A few of the MANY, MANY, MANY freakishly hilarious favourite quotes from this terrific book:

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"I finally understand what a dickiedo is, Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do"

, "Zing! Kick their mortal asses, Scot!" Regin cried along with the rest of them, "Fuck'em up"

. "Psst, Chase. The sexual tension between us is grueling, "

. "Chase, I've tussled with vibrators stronger than your charge throwers, "



hangs head in shame I am not worthy, .stars

Hear this tale, the legend of Aidan the Fierce and Reingleit the Radiant One, a pair of lovers both bound and cursed by fate.



Im not quite sure what to think of this book, sitelinkDreams of a Dark Warrior is definitely constructed differently than previous books in the Immortals After Dark series/universe, On the one hand, it features my favorite female character in the entire series besides Nïx as the female protagonist, Reign The Radiant, On the other hand, it also features one of my least favorite male characters in the entire series as the second main character, Declan Chase, In the end, what you think of this book may just come down to a personal preference,


She blinked up at him, "And these are your words of sentiment"
"There's no poetry in me, Reignleit, No fine words. " He stared down at her, his gaze begining to consume her, "I come to you as a man unfinished, "


This book is definitely different than the others in the series, For one, the main romance is very unique and complex, In every other book in this series so far the two protagonists of a book have never met before the story starts, Dreams of a Dark Warrior contrasts from that strongly, A thousand years before the events of the beginning of this book, Reign fell in love or like with a Viking berserker named Aidan The Fierce, He died brutally in her arms, and over the course of a millennium, hes been reincarnated in different bodies and fallen in love with her again and again, Only to die tragically once more, as soon as they kiss and he regains his full memories of his previous lives, This time around though, Aidan has been reincarnated into the body of Declan Chase, A mortal who hates immortals, and works for a mortal organization, known as The Order, Who are hellbent on imprisoning, killing, torturing, researching, and destroying immortals,


Aidan had been swordstruck in his first life, poised in his second, crushed during a shipwreck in his third, In his fourth, he'd been shot,


This was definitely an interesting take, and its a very complex and unique angle compared to other romances in the series, The two big problems I had with this story though, were that the male main character just wasnt quite likable enough to be completely sympathetic or especially interesting, That, and the entire take on the reincarnation story, Declan redeeming himself, and how the romance unfolded, just didnt feelbelievable or complete, I kept waiting for when Declans character development arc would finish satisfyingly, but it never came, It seemed like he got threequarters of the way there, but the last bit that was so necessary to the story and relationship development never came,


This Aidan version was Celtic, Before, he'd been a Viking beserker, a French knight, a Spanish privateer, and an English cavalryman,


I was also surprised and a little disappointed at how quickly and easily Reign and Declan got past his huge, and arguably unforgivable, transgressions, Declan had hated immortals his entire life, However, it only took him a couple of weeks to contemplate this and decide he not only wanted Reign but that he loved her, Which wasnt the unbelievable part, seeing as hed been deeply in love with her in multiple lifetimes before this one, And his initial relationship with Reign in his first life was over seven months long, The less believable part lies in why Reign so quickly fell in love with Declan, For two reasons. One, hed imprisoned, tortured, and hurt her in unimaginable ways, Although, the truly unforgivable part of her torture wasnt his fault, People had intentionally done things to prevent him from finding out about her torture, and he hadnt known itd happened to her until it was too late, Two, Reign hadnt fully fallen in love with Aidan or any or his reincarnations, Except somehow, shed fallen in love with Declan after all the terrible things that had happened to her because of him, in only a few days after shed been hurt by him in unimaginable ways! That just doesnt make sense.
Especially when she hadnt loved Aidan as much as Declan, for some reason, I believe I would have definitely found it all more thorough and authentic if Itd taken weeks or months for Reign to fully love and trust Declan after all that.
And Id probably need some more character building and penance over a longer period of time for Declan to be more sympathetic and dimensional in my eyes,


Yet now she would have to pretend to be attracted to a man who'd mercilessly tormented her Instead of giving in to her desire to playdress him in his own intestines


As far as writing goes, once again sitelinkKresley Cole improves and impresses.
Im not surprised at this point, Her writing ability just gets better and better with each book she writes, Its a part of what makes reading this series so fun, Knowing that the author is constantly improving their storytelling ability for the better, and continuing to be a writer thats always willing and trying to do better, and does, This allows her to follow her winning enemiestolovers HEA mate formula, while constantly finding new ways to shake up the story, and surprise the reader with different plot points, characters, romances, settings, and more.
The evergrowing, yet subtle, worldbuilding make this series a very enjoyable one to sink your teeth into, without ever feeling lost in the lore of the universe shes created, but rather immersed instead.



"When you tortured me, I told you I'd make you pay in ways you couldn't imagine, "
As ever, I was right, Lothaire almost sighed. The world is so tediously predictable,


sitelinkDreams of a Dark Warrior has a surprisingly, yet splendidly, well written and entertaining cast of secondary and supporting characters, Which includes a fun and welcome female friendship, a villain that must work with the heroes for survival, a male friendship, and a young overwhelmed yet innocent teenager new to the Lore.
They all eventually even become a ragtag crew of sorts, In a way, this was an interesting half step in a new direction, that still stayed grounded in the Immortals After Dark formula, Which is interesting, seeing as the romance took a half step back from the IAD formula itself, This wasnt a story that just felt like two lovers and a few people in the background, Its not like all IAD novels were built like that before, sitelinkWicked Deeds on a Winter's Night,, sitelinkKiss of a Demon King,, and sitelinkPleasure of a Dark Prince,most notably, all had interesting supporting and secondary characters, However, I think sitelinkDreams of a Dark Warrior takes the cake when it comes to dimensional secondary characters, I especially enjoyed Lothaires character and his POVs, The fact that whenever they were in life or death situations he was either just bored or annoyed, while everyone else was panicking or enraged, was infinitely entertaining,


"Take cover!" Declan tackled Reign back under the trees, sheilding her with his body, Everyone hit the ground, except for Lothaire, who yawned, "


Now, I know that Ive already said that I found the romance lacking from a storytelling perspective, However, I sadly also found it lacking in the sexy times department as well, The first spicy scene between Reign and Declan was quite good, but after that, things fell flat, I dont know what happened, but there just suddenly wasnt a slowburn anymore, I felt like they just skipped right to sex and missed a few key steps on their way there, It just didnt make a lot of sense why that would happen so quickly in their particular situation, Not only that, but it resulted in making a lot of their chemistry and sexual tension dissipate, Like throwing a bucket of water over a fire, Sure, that wont put out the entire fire, there will still be embers, But the flame will fizzle out pretty damn quickly, The relationship just wasnt as interesting after that,


She feared she might be jot more infatuated with this reincarnation, Like on her way toward fallingoffaskyscraperontoyourface in love with him


Nonetheless, this was definitely a solid read, I may always be a little disappointed in this book, and perhaps always wonder what it could have been, I still believe that Reign deserves better, and she and Declan together just dont make a whole lot of sense, I wondered If I just had really high hopes and standards for this novel because it was Reigns book and I love her and have been waiting for her story.
But I know logically it just wasnt as good as it could or should have been, Although, what this book lacks in heated moments, chemistry, love, sex, and romance, it makes up for with expectedly improved writing and worldbuilding, As well as a surprisingly well rounded, interesting, and entertaining groups of supporting and secondary characters, This is definitely a mustread for fans of sitelinkKresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series!


Because, gods help her, she wanted her scarred, surly, fuckedup Irishman more than she'd ever wanted her perfect Viking.


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