Hunger Like No Other (Immortals After Dark, Book 1)

Emmaline is half vampire and half Valkyrie. She is known in her coven as Emma the timid. Her family is shocked when she decides she wants to travel to Paris alone to find out the truth about her father. While there she is attacked by a handsome, yummy, strong, yummy, scary...oh yes yummy man who scares the stuffing out of her. She is even more shocked to find out that in order to return to Louisiana she will have to help Lachlain MacRieve the leader of a Lykae Clan return to his home in Scotland. She'll do it believing she will be allowed to return home. She has no idea Lachlain is her forever mate and he has no plans on ever letting her get away.

Lachlain has spent the last hundred and fifty years being tortured by the vampire Demestriu. He is slowly going mad and then...he scents his mate. He has been waiting an eternity to find her and he is not going to let her get away now. He is shocked and somewhat disgusted when he finds out his long awaited mate is half vampire. But despite this he can't keep himself from feeling things for the wee little Emma. She fires his blood and he will do what he must to keep her...even if it means to lie to her. Anything to get her home to Scotland where he will be able to keep her safe and protected when he goes to get revenge against Demestriu. But, life doesn't always go according to plan and wooing Emma is just one of those things. Will he be able to keep her safe and with him or will the vampire horde take away the one thing he needs to live?

Lachlain and Emma are wonderfully constructed characters. These two are both strong likeable characters. Their conflict is entertaining as is their way of dealing with what they face. Emma is sassy and quick witted...Lachlain is patient and yummy. This is a great new series and I truly can't wait for the next installment. Ms. Cole has made her mark on the paranormal genre and is an author you need to add to your must read list!


Totally unputdownable   March 16, 2007
Mrs. K. L. Findlay (UK)
17 out of 20 found this review helpful

I read this book due to the 5 star fiasco on this page and thought I'd give it a go - and OMG! I'm so pleased I did. I've never read a vampire/werewolf book in my life as I always imagined them being horror based and I'm not good with horror, but when I saw this under Romantic fiction I couldn't help myself and gave it a go. I read this book in 2 days (inbetween baby and work) and it played on my mind so much I couldn't sleep because I couldn't wait to see what happened next!

This is a wonderful love story with erotic scenes that are generally not for the faint hearted - if you are shocked easily then it's not for you, but as a women I think we all need a good erotic book now and then and it really didn't disappoint me. It left me hungry for more! ;)

I won't go into the story, thats been done already and I don't want to give anything away - I just really recommend it and Kresley Cole, I am your fan! I've also just finished yesterday her second book in this new series and that was amazing too.


Oh... My....GOD!!   August 18, 2007
Laura Phillipson (UK)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful

Dear lord, this is the horniest, sexiest, most unbelievably erotic book I have EVER read! The sexual tension in it is almost unbearable!

I must admit I havent made a habit of picking up erotic fiction and I'm sure there is much ruder more pornagraphic stuff out there (which is not my cup of tea AT ALL). But this was so SEXY!

It was like Buffy or Charmed for adults with hot horny sex and romance thrown in. The book had me gripped from the first page and the characters are well written and 3 dimensional. There is good humour and loveable characters a fantastic hero and a loveable heroine.

I would recomend this book to anyone with a weakness for huge brooding, devastatingly attractive masculine heroes who have been driven mad with misery and longing, searching for a thousand years for "Her" ... "The One".




It definitely gives you an apetite for kresley cole   November 29, 2006
Chessy (ENGLAND)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful

This was a very tasty read which does give you an apetite to read more of her vampire books.This book reveals a preview of her follow up 'No rest for the wicked'which is good but i found not quite as tasty as this one.
This story is well cooked from start to finish i didn't want to put it down to eat my dinner. The electric attraction between Emmaline and Lachlain is wildly static.
You will find the male typically a strong sexual beast with a lot of built up testerone to fulfill. He also envokes your pity for him from his tortured past. The lady character is obviously frail and vunerable but surprisingly stands strong and heroic in her fight to live and her fear of Lachlains wild need-to force her to give in to desire that is meant to be.
The romance in this is delicious enough for all those passion fanatics to eat up and enjoy. Bon appettite.