Nightfall

De: Joey W. Hill, Desiree Holt

Narrado por: Maxine Mitchell

Ranch owner Quinn Pedraza has to find someone to run the saloon he won in a bet, but more than that, he needs a woman who can handle his alpha personality... and closet submissive sexual cravings. When vampire Selene Torres arrives on the scene, he gets everything he wants - and learns what he really needs.

Inside Scoop: Quinn's BDSM journey is not for the faint of heart and includes extreme sexual situations and dubious consent, as well as male/male scenes. A Romantica paranormal erotic romance from Ellora's Cave.

©2014 Joey W. Hill and Desiree Holt (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Wow, this angle on a vampire romance, is sure different

I liked most of this book. It had a good plot with lots of action. The sex scenes are hot but, may make someone who is conservative, somewhat uncomfortable. There is a dominant/submissive relationship and the dominant is the Heroine; who is a vampire. There is also a M/F/MM sexual encounter that includes bondage and sodomy. There is quite a bit sexual activity in the book so Trying to FF through those parts would probably shorten the book by 1/3.
This Vampire book has a few different twists, to the legends so I don’t think it will seem like the same old same ole. Enjoy!
-V from Kansas

fantastic story!

cant say enough about this book, has everything a vampire story should have, a must read!

Pretty good but…

I was hoping this story would have the same bearing and feel of the Vampire Queen books but although it is a spin-off it had a different flavor and feel to it. However the story was still quite good and worth the credit. My only real complaint is that I felt it should have been a dual narration and different female narrator. Although Ms. Mitchell was okay I just didn’t think she was a good fit for the role. The voice of Selene just seemed wrong even though she did a decent job with Quinn. All that being said this story was well worth the listen and I would definitely say worth a credit.

Good fit with the series

While this is the 11th book in Joey W. Hill's 16-book "Vampire Queen" series, it was only the second book in the series I had read. (I started with #16, so clearly I have no respect for order!) I have read numerous other titles by this author and this one was very much in keeping with her style but also unique to the characteristics of her Vampire Queen series.

Hill writes BDSM stories. In the Vampire Queen series, the Vampires are (usually) sexual Dominants, and their human servants are (usually) sexual submissives. In the case of this particular book, the Vampire/Dominant is female, and the human servant/submissive is a very "alpha male" sort of guy. I think Hill handles the dynamic well and respectfully: while Selene (the Vampire) certainly wants to dominate Quinn (the human servant), she doesn't want to humiliate or emasculate him, and Quinn is happy to explore their power exchange as long as it takes place in generally private surroundings.

Since this was only the second book in this series that I had read, I wasn't really well-versed in the politics of the vampire culture that is central to the series. I got an up-close-and-personal view of it in this book and, well, it's pretty brutal. Very brutal. Exceedingly brutal. Because I wasn't as familiar with this series, I wasn't really expecting the Punisher-level of graphic violence that is presented here, and it caught me off guard. (The only thing that "rationalizes" the violence in this series is that vampires and their human servants have amazing and lightning-fast healing abilities. They can withstand a great deal of physical damage, and while the damage DOES hurt, they will recover from it fully within a few hours or a day as long as they have blood and rest.)

One quibble I had with the story itself is that I thought Quinn acted very foolishly in the final chapters. Despite many others (vampires and humans alike) telling him to not act, he put his head down and bulled his way on through, which then created a situation he had to be rescued from. Since human servants can live for three or four centuries, it's reasonable to hope he'll wise up over time. But in this story, he acted like a lunkhead.

This story is co-authored by Desiree Holt and is presented as a crossover, but I can't tell which series of Holt's this one ties into. I wish I knew, because I'd maybe be interested in checking out some of the others. Her website didn't really say.

Also, this book does have elements of M/M, so if that's not your cuppa, steer clear.

Hmmmm

Hmmm 🤨 This read like “Instructions to Vampire 101”; usually I can sense the attraction between the two that will get together…. This “forever” was a bit forced and accommodating to their personalities like a square being shoved into a sphere - they didn’t quite fit. 💔