Kiss of Midnight (Midnight Breed, #1) - Lara Adrian

402 pages
Rating: 2.5 / 5

He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night--or this man--is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed--a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.
Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind--and the unwitting humans existing alongside them--from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.
Here, in the arms of the Breed's formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all....

This book didn’t do it for me. I think it was something about the main H/H that put me off.

The story in itself is pretty good. Lara Adrian gives the story a nice twist by portraying the vampires as aliens who crash-landed on earth a long time ago.

So there’s Vampires and then there’s the Rogues – the vamps who’ve given in to Bloodlust (a bit like the Carpathian series). Lucan Thorne is the leader of the Warrior class of Vampires (cue flashback to Wrath in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J. R. Ward)

Gabrielle sees some Rogues in bloodlust, Lucan meets her to find out what she knows, and what results is this weird attraction that had me banging my head at times wondering ‘what the hell’!!

Lucan doesn’t want any attachments, so he thinks he’ll do the tango with Gabrielle (in her sleep, btw) and get on with life, only to realize she’s a breedmate – a human woman who can breed with vampires (see, again like the psychic women in Carpathians).

Neway, Gabrielle to me is a complete bimbo. How you can make relationship plans in your head with someone you just met I do not understand. And we won't even get to the part where she’s seen a horrific killing but is horny from the get go. He’d have sex with her and then push her away, only to do it again..and she kept going back cause she loved him. And the sex wasn’t anything great either.

See, I don’t see why they’re together. It didn’t work for me. At times it seemed like they were supposed to be like Wrath & Beth, but these two were just sad together.

The Rogues weren’t scary, more bordering on boring.

I know i'm making comparisons with other books and i shouldn't because there's only so much you can play around with a paranormal plot, but this really seemed to me like bits and pieces from other series + a lil dose or originality where the originality wasn't enough to get me interested enough. Sad, actually.

Some of it, like the betrayal and the Master of the Rogues was a surprise though, so its not all predictable.
I liked the other characters in the book – Dante and Tegan - whose stories I want to read, so I might read the coming books.