Taken by Midnight

The Midnight Breed, Book 8

By: Lara Adrian

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

In the frozen Alaskan wilderness, former state trooper Jenna Darrow survives an unspeakable breach of body and soul. But with her narrow escape comes an even greater challenge. For strange changes are taking place within her, as she struggles to understand - and control - a new hunger. To do so, she will seek shelter in the Boston compound of the Order, an ancient race of vampire warriors whose very existence is shrouded in mystery.

Perhaps the most mysterious of them all is Brock, a brooding, dark-eyed alpha male whose hands hold the power to comfort, heal... and arouse.

As she recovers under Brock's care, Jenna finds herself drawn to the Order's mission: to stop a ruthless enemy and its army of assassins from subjecting Earth to a reign of terror. Yet in spite of their resolve, a purely physical relationship without strings soon binds Brock and Jenna together with a desire fiercer than life and stronger than death itself - until a secret from Brock's past and Jenna's own mortality challenges their forbidden love to the ultimate trial by fire.

Spend some more time among the Midnight Breed.

©2010 Lara Adrain, LLC (P)2010 Tantor

Exciting and passionate!

Quite honestly.... I cannot wait to see what will come of Jess and Brock. She is a spitfire that's been alerted by an Original. Will she officially become the first Ferndale vamp? I think so, and in that, will females be born of her or others? Do many things can follow this path. I look forward to it

Do not stop now

The series is still going strong... Storyline plot twists were great! Can not wait to begin the next book. Love the audio version!

Awesome!!!!

Just an awesome series. Narration is great. Great twist to the story. Keep it coming

The ending was bad

This story ended to abruptly. What happened to Jenna' s change?? What is she, Alien, Vampire or human. Is she done changing??? The answers should not be in another book, they should be in this one.

AWESOME NARRATOR

I absolutely love this narrator!!!!. I have pass this series up more times that I can count. When was given a free credit by audible, this was series I chose and I have not been disappointed. Hillary did a fabulous job with the narration and I have since purchase every book in this series because of the great narration she has done. I am eagerly anticipating the next book in the series. Great job Hillary!!!!!

Excellent! Could not put down!

I was completely enthralled with the storyline of this book by the midpoint of chapter one. Lara Adrian continues her Breed Series with another great read!

Really good

it's a good story, I really enjoyed it. Narrator is good. I recommend this story.

Great Storyline

Wonderful storyline. Lot's of surprises here. Thoroughly enjoyed this contribution to the series.

Make Better Choices.

I stopped pretty quickly, shocked. The author made the choice to have the main character call one enemy a “faggot”. Done!

Adrian should have made a better choice of inner monologue. Hillary should have made a better choice than to voice the slur. And you can make a better choice than to purchase this book.

Total letdown. But still buying the next one

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Yes. If Lara Adrian could erase and start from scratch that would be great. I was really looking forward to this one - totally bummed by how "wah wah" it was.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

I was really hoping to see Jenna develop into this badass human-vampire hybrid. She did develop some new stuff, but all in all, it was far less interesting than it could have been.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

In every way possible. I ended up listening at an increased speed to try and keep from getting too irritated by the narrator. I wish that lady romance narrators didn't feel the need to speak every other word with a sensual caress. If the sentence reads "He thrust the pen at her" WHY OH WHY do you feel the need to say it like he's thrusting something else at or into her? Seriously! Could someone please explain this to me? I can't take the narrator OR the story seriously when it feels like I'm listening to a sexline for 12 hours. For reals, this lady is so bad I want to take back every negative comment I left about Angela Dawe. She's like Davina Porter compared to this one.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Twilight the movie turned out to be better than Twilight the book, so if I use that as a frame of reference, then Yes. I would go see this if it were turned into a movie.

Any additional comments?

Even though this book sucked my left nut, I'm a glutton for punishment and have started the next book in the series. I am foolishly optimistic that this was a serious lack of judgment on the part of the author, wasting so many opportunities to make this a really good book. I've compared this series to Immortals After Dark and Psy-Changeling but not as good. This installment is a great demonstration of what separates the men from the boys. What this story seriously lacks is a strong over-reaching storyline. There are bigger things at play in this world, but it's sadly and very noticeably under-developed. In this book you could feel it most. SPOILER ALERT: For example, all we've been hearing about for all these books is how pervasive and powerful Dragos has become over the years. The guy has untold hunters and minions at his disposal, etc., supposedly has money, power and influence all over the world, and yet all he can manage are these sad little games that seem to be easily foiled by anyone with half a brain? At this point I assume that Dr. Evil from Austin Powers was the inspiration for his character. He's about as big a joke of a bad guy. I also find it amazingly convenient that Dr. Evil, I mean Dragos, only seems interested in trying to cause a ruckus in North America and Europe, where The Order can go quickly. It's lucky for them that he's concentrated all of his work practically in their backyard. And yet, here I go reading the next in the series. Even trainwrecks can be entertaining.