• Lothaire: Immortals After Dark, Book 12

  • By: Kresley Cole
  • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
  • Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,513 ratings)

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Lothaire: Immortals After Dark, Book 12

By: Kresley Cole
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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Number-one New York Times best-selling author Kresley Cole continues her electrifying Immortals After Dark series with this thrilling tale, revealing secrets of the Lore, fierce realm of the immortals....

All fear the enemy of old.

Driven by his insatiable need for revenge, Lothaire, the Lore’s most ruthless vampire, plots to seize the Horde’s crown. But bloodlust and torture have left him on the brink of madness - until he finds Elizabeth Peirce, the key to his victory. He captures the unique young mortal, intending to offer up her very soul in exchange for power, yet Elizabeth soothes his tormented mind and awakens within him emotions Lothaire believed he could no longer experience.

A deadly force dwells within her.

Growing up in desperate poverty, Ellie Peirce yearned for a better life, never imagining she’d be convicted of murder - or that an evil immortal would abduct her from death row. But Lothaire is no savior, as he himself plans to sacrifice Ellie in one month’s time. And yet the vampire seems to ache for her touch, showering her with wealth and sexual pleasure. In a bid to save her soul, Ellie surrenders her body to the wicked vampire, while vowing to protect her heart.

Centuries of cold indifference shattered.

Elizabeth tempts Lothaire beyond reason, as only his fated mate could. As the month draws to a close, he must choose between a millennia-old blood vendetta and his irresistible prisoner. Will Lothaire succumb to the miseries of his past - or risk everything for a future with her?

©2012 Kresley Cole (P)2011 Simon & Schuster

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Kresley Cole does it again!!!

What made the experience of listening to Lothaire the most enjoyable?

I have read or listen to all the books in this series and Kresley Cole always brings her A game to each story.They are fun,brave, suspenseful and outrageous. Any one who has been waiting will be pleased.I had used up my credits and had to pay membership price but it will worth it.Robert Petkoff was a fabulous Lothaire( the enemy of old).
I the story takes you on a journey with two very flawed but interesting character, very human in their misunderstandings.
I enjoyed my book vacation!

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Okay ??

I'm not sure what to think of this book... I think it could have had the potential to be fabulous but the narration was very poor! Thank heavens the girls white trash accent lessened as the book went along otherwise I couldn't have listened all the way through. Also the story was sort of ridiculous, Lothaire was just a jerk that I just can't see how any girl would fall for him. I wouldn't recommend this, a very big disappointment.

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Totally Credit Worthy

What did you like best about this story?

It seems like I've been waiting forever of Lothaire's story but the wait was worth it. The only down side was the sex scenes, they had me giggling with all the very un-sexy chit-chat.

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Do Not Read this Book UNTIL....

Do not read this book until you've read the others in the series, which happily are now all available on Audible. I'm a bit anal about reading books in order, so I've been patiently waiting as the earlier books in this series came out one at a time until finally..finally..we have them all. I cannot possibly fathom how you could enjoy this book properly without first being immersed in the world that Kresley Cole lovingly unfurls for you one book at a time. I'll be honest. When I read the first book, a novella really, called A Warlord Wants Forever, I wasn't knock my socks off thrilled. It was good, good enough to read the second book even, but nothing to crow about. Still, as I read each book, came to understand the world and the dynamics of the Lore, I so got caught up in this series, and now I'm an unabashed IAD fangirl. The timelines intersect, the characters intermingle, and the more books in this series you read, the more you see how everything fits together. Which is why, before I review this book, I wanted to sing the praises of this series as a whole.

On to Lothaire, the enemy of old. Proud, vulgarly rich, strong and heart-stopping. In fact, he's stopped approximately a heart a day during his long immortal existence. Permanently. I'm not sure if you'd call Lothaire evil, because most of the things he does is done with more precision than malice. You see, Lothaire has an "end game", and nothing but nothing can get in the way of that. So when he hurts, maims, double crosses, back-stabs or kills, it's generally just one more stepping stone to his goals. If not exactly evil, he is sociopathically self centered and narcissistic (although he claims to have known Narcissus, who copied the traits from Lothaire, not the other way around).

Then we have Ellie, a young, tough, not very worldly but clever mountain girl. Trailer trash of the bottom rung, but like most mountain people, viciously proud and unwavering in her loyalty to her family and clan. She has a demon living inside of her, a goddess of death trapped in her body, and between the goddess and Lothaire, she winds up doing a 5 year stint on death row. Lothaire, believing the goddess of death who lives within Ellie to be the entity he's truly attracted to, saves Ellie from death row and whisks her off to the relative safety of his New York Penthouse.

In Ellies own words: "I'm the sucker punch you never saw coming". The proud vampire of royal blood and the girl whose favorite sport is Nascar butt heads more than once, as you can well imagine. Telling more than that would require spoilers, but suffice it to say, Lothaire's confusion is priceless as he begins to realize that it's Ellie, not the goddess who shares her body, that he's destined to be with.

Robert Petkoff has read most if not all of this series, and he does a wonderful job. I've noticed some have complained about Ellie's accent, but I thought it was as authentic as he could make it, and he was only reading what was written. When I heard her talking to Thaddeus (a Texas boy), I thought it was spot on the way he distinguished between the mountain twang and the Texas Southern drawl. I find him to be "the voice of the lore" and couldn't imagine anyone doing it better.

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worth the listen

Have read all the other books in this series, and still interested in the ongoing story. Wasn't disappointed in this book, which was very refreshing, since I have been let down by so many other series novels lately. This book is based around Lothaire, and acquiring his Bride, but really gives a lot of background explaining what makes him tick. Nix plays a role in this book, as she has the others, which gives us more information on the assention.
I just love the Valkeryie anyway. The narration could have been better, Lothaire sounded very old, compared to Elizabeth, but I got used to it. All and all, was still an interesting ongoing story in the series, so looking forward to the next.

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Utterly pathetic heroine

I love this series, but there are a few with disgustingly pathetic heroines. This is one of them. What's worse is she starts out amazing and then is all like "you're gonna obliterate my soul?!? I hate you. Omg I'm so wet. Yes Lothaire. Cry cry. Please don't obliterate my soul. I want to be with you."

Such a bummer because unlike the others with weak heroines, I was really looking forward to Lothaires book.

Wtf kind of woman or person would pathetically chase a man who not only treated her like utter shit but was going to literally EXTINGUISHE her soul.

One of the most enraging aspects of weak heroines is why they reach super hard for good qualities and there's an attempt to convince us that they have a reason to be so pathetically besotted. "What a sweet guy. Risked death and torture to find this ring to turn me into a vampire " YES SO THAT HE COULD obliterate your soul so that he could use your body to house the evil death goddess who possessed you! Then even worse, when they inner monologue about their own "wrongdoings " I injured him and lied to him AGAIN BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO OBLITERATE YOUR SOUL!!

This could've been so good. If Elli wasn't so pathetic. Lothaires actions could've been redeemable if he had to pathetically chase her. If the heroine would've been better his actions would've driven this story. Again, it's so much worse because she started out awesome. Just going with the flow trying to survive. she was awesome up until she started begging him and chasing him and being super grateful for him not doing shit like erase her soul, kill her, making sure she could be in the light AFTER TURNING HER AGIANST HER WILL. Like why in tf would you appreciate someone barely (like juuuust barely) slightly correcting their own actions.

I loved Lothaire. I think if The h would've been much harder. more "go ahead and kill me it'll hurt you more than me." and less "where's lothaire, my captor. he's late to pick me up. wah wah" his actions would've seemed more redeemable.

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Best story yet!!

What other book might you compare Lothaire to and why?

Dark Needs at Night's Edge, maybe I'm just a sucker for bad boys that you gotta love! Their behavior can be "horrible", but when you find out what makes them that way, your heart breaks with them.

Have you listened to any of Robert Petkoff’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

He is the best male author I have listened to this far.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I laughed, cringed, held my breath, cried and sighed.

Any additional comments?

This book seemed full. With a little bit of everything that has happened since the start. Because of that you have a lot of back story that's interesting but it adds on to the prior stories from a different view. Totally worth the wait..

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ANOTHER HOME RUN

This will be short and sweet as all I need to do is tell you to read ANY of my Audible reviews on Ms. Cole's Immortals After Dark books and you'll pretty much get the picture. Ms Cole is a brilliant character-maker, plot-developer, culture creator and humorist. This book absolutely slayed me with the female lead..Elizabeth. She was one the funniest, most challenging and smartest females Ms Cole has developed yet...right up there with Regin the Radiant and my favorite of all, Nucking Futs Nix.

As for the narration....they don't come any better than Mr. Petkoff. His Elizabeth was so well done, I could have sworn she was right in the room with me.

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AAA+ READ

Loved this book. It kept me interested the whole way through. The narration was fantastic. I just really enjoyed the story in this book and the characters. I have actually re-listened to it. I also enjoy that other characters from this series, (valkery) are brought into it, i especially liked getting another side to nix the all seeing valkery. Overall, if you enjoy this series you will really enjoy lothaire. Only disapointment, no other books after this one YET>

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I had a love hate relationship with this book.

What did you love best about Lothaire?

I loved the mix of action and emotion.

Would you be willing to try another book from Kresley Cole? Why or why not?

Yes, I love her writing style.

Have you listened to any of Robert Petkoff’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes. this was on par with his other work.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No. I hated the mean spiritedness of the main character so much that I found myself really making an effort to continue at times.

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