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

Not as good

I have really enjoyed this whole series, but I thought this installment wasn't as good as the other books. The main characters (Brock & Jenna) were not well developed and the plot failed to pick up the on going 'Dragos vs The Order' theme. It seemed almost as if the author has written this book without a clear idea of where she intends the series plot to go.

poor narrator

The context of the Midnight breed series is fantastic but the narrator leaves much to be desired. Her voice is so flat and uninteresting it takes away from the storyline.

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.

Sweet and romantic

From her Breed series, I enjoyed tis due to the chracters friendship, support and blossoming relationship. Would buy another of her books again.

Didn't like the narrator voices

Her voice sounds like Resting B Face. I will not even finish the book because I don't like how the Narrator changes her voice. It's like being read to by a Kindergarten Teacher. I've enjoyed other Audible Books but her style messed up this series for me. I will need to use Kindle to read it.

worst book in the series absolutely hate it

Only thing I can say is that when you make the main character the most unlikable human being in anything you've ever read that is a disaster for a book and I'm hardly in it and I don't know if I'll finish worst book to date