No Rest for the Wicked: Immortals After Dark, Book 3

By: Kresley Cole

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

The second installment in Kresley Cole’s best-selling steamy Immortals After Dark series is now available on audio for the first time!

Centuries ago, Sebastian Wroth was turned into a vampire - a nightmare in his mind - against his will. Burdened with hatred and alone for ages, he sees little reason to live - until an exquisite, fey creature comes to kill him, inadvertently saving him instead.

When Kaderin the Cold Hearted lost her two beloved sisters to a vampire attack long ago, a benevolent force deadened her sorrow - accidentally extinguishing all of her emotions. Yet whenever she encounters Sebastian, her feelings - particularly lust - emerge multiplied. For the first time, she’s unable to complete a kill.

The prize of the month-long contest is powerful enough to change history, and Kaderin will do anything to win it for her sisters. Wanting only to win her, forever, Sebastian competes as well, taking every opportunity - as they travel to ancient tombs and through catacombs, seeking relics around the world - to use her new feelings to seduce her. But when forced to choose between the vampire she’s falling for and reuniting her family, how can Kaderin live without either?

©2012 Kresley Cole (P)2012 Penguin Audio

Amazing narrator amazing series

Love love love this series and the narrator is one of my absolute favorites....... Valkyries, vampires, witches, oh my and lots more..... Welcome to the lore, escape into this world and enjoy......

love the hie!

the narrator does an amazing job, i liked the audio version better than the print!

Great story and narration.

The story line is great. Not as much steam as I usually get in books of this nature but I really enjoyed the “action” intermingled with the love story. I’m looking forward to the next book but think the narration could benefit from a dual format. Having a man voice the Heroine feels odd.

best narrator ever!

Mr petcov is an amazing narrator. is adept at both voices and really makes the ride stupendous!

freakin amazing

This book was amazing I love Sebastian and Catherine the great story it was freaking phenomenal and I can't wait for the next one in the series

Oh the complexity!

I read the first two and almost done with this one. They’ve gotten better every time. In this one… the complexity of conflicting emotions, thought and feelings is incredibly raw and real. Just as people are in our minds. A spider web of contradictions, I can tell in this book the author is really starting to let go and immerse herself.

Outstanding Narration

I've read all Kresley Cole's books, at least twice, and Sebastian is my favorite vampire. I am so happy with the choice of narrator for her books. Robert Petkoff's portrayal of the vampires with their Estonian accents was perfect, as was the Scottish brogue of the werewolves, and he even caught the sassiness of the Valkeries. Not overdone. Thank you for putting these books on audio, and for using such a talented narrator.

The narration made the book

This narration was so delicious that I was 67% into the book when I realized that if I'd been reading it, I'd probably wouldn't have finished it. The plot was exciting and the main characters were not terrible but the dialogue was sometimes corny and the romance was not at all the kind I enjoy (man chasing woman while they bicker constantly.)

Before I stumbled upon the audio, I had serious reservations about continuing the series. Like the previous book, we have in this one a man with an instinctive compulsion to be with a woman but this is not reciprocated. He has NO CHOICE and if he's not with her, he suffers tremendously. She, however, can leave him whenever she wants without suffering. Maybe some women fantasize about having a man completely in their power but I'm not one of them. I want a man who chooses to be with me, not a slave without any choice in the matter.

To be fair to Kaderin, if a stranger shows up one day to tell me I was his fated bride, I would run in the other direction too. I don't object that she had misgivings about the situation (who wouldn't?) but that he had not alternative but to pursue her or be deeply unhappy forever (and in the case of an immortal, this is a terrible thing indeed.)

You would think that with so many issues against the plot, I wouldn't have enjoyed it but I was so enthralled by Mr. Petkoff's yummy narration that I had a ball with it. His performance of the characters - specially the men - was perfect and his accents were so freaking good that I had heart palpitations the first time I heard a (male) Scottish character. Mr. Petkoff didn't demure from performing the love scenes as they were written - there was moaning, groaning, gasping, panting, you name it. His interpretation was so well done that most of the time I was fanning myself as I was listening.

So you can bet the farm that I'll continue this series as long as Mr. Petkoff is the narrator. I wonder how bad the books will have to get before I stop listening!

Performance improved

Voices have improved a lot since the first book will keep listening, female voices have improved and males voices as well,

No Rest for the Wicked

I enjoyed book 3 more than 1 or 2.

I appreciated that the H was the one less experienced and unsure of himself. Its a nice change of pace from traditional book roles.