Darkness Rises

Immortal Guardians Series, Book 4

By: Dianne Duvall

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Krysta is used to getting the drop on vampires. Her "special abilities" aren't much, but the plan is simple - she plays helpless pretty young thing to lure them in. Then her shoto swords come out and it's bye-bye, bloodsucker. Until one night she finds herself with an unexpected ally. He's a vampire, all right, but different. Mysterious. Handsome. And more interested in saving her skin than draining it. Etienne has been an Immortal Guardian for two hundred years-long enough to know that Krysta is special. He can't stop thinking about her long legs, even more than her short swords. Then he discovers the vamps she's exterminating have friends in high places, and the Guardians are in danger, too. He'll have to accept Krysta's help to save them. The stakes for a mortal are high. But the cost to his heart might be higher . . .

©2013 Leslie Duvall (P)2013 Tantor

Mostly great

The only real problem I have with this series up to this point is: I am continually being told how Seth is a supremely wise nearly omniscient leader, but he constantly behaves like a petulant manchild lashing out at the slightest provocation and threatening immediate death to his subordinates. I don't know how any of the characters ever got the impression to respect him as leader other than for just being super powerful.

I have several minor quibbles with terminology errors, like the rampant abuse of the word shoto. I mostly forgive those but they do irritate me a bit

Other than that, this series is quite good. It gets pretty wacky and over the top. aliens, angels, vampires oh my. Just waiting for wizards and dragons at this point. but Seriously the story elements are woven together fairly well and the bizarre stuff that shows up keeps it feeling fairly fresh.

Also the sex scenes are probably the least interesting thing about the series, if that's what you are looking for. They are super vanilla hetero-normative and fairly repetitive, but the romances themselves are pretty good. The characters are pretty diverse and interesting which can definitely be hard to do with a long running multi cast serial like this.

To many I Love you's?

Where does Darkness Rises rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Better than many

What was one of the most memorable moments of Darkness Rises?

When you find out Zack isn't the bad guy

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

yes, she is very good at character development

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

I laughed out loud several times. Way to much mush in this one, didn't fit in well with the storyline. In the middle of a battle, turn to each other "I love you" really!

Any additional comments?

I really enjoy this series. It has a good plot that draws you, but the romance just did not fit in as well as the first 3 books.

I liked the multiple storylines going on in this i

I still find the electric cars and food discussion annoying, but the storyline and overall mysterious origins of everyone keep me coming back. multiple storylines being intertwined at times was also better in this one.

A great series to read

loved it! Great story and characters. Lots of action, funny moments and a bit if mystery. will keep reading this series of nooks

cute

Krysta and Etienne were a cute couple. They complemented each other really well. Their story was fun, and of course you have the continuing backstory as well. I think it would be a little confusing if you haven't already read all of them, but I keep reading wanting to know what happens next LOL.

***Spoiler
I liked that she chose to change before something happened and took the choice from her.

AWESOME...... SIMPLY AWESOME

Dianne Duvall's a Maestro at creating a fascinating paranormal world, then floods it with interesting characters, breathes life and personalities into each of them for us to savour and drool over and finally gives us an incredible, action-packed, funny, intense, adventure with twists, humor, intrigue, sizzling sex scenes and, of course, an intense romance.

Book by book she seamlessly orchestrates love matches, battles, villains, good, evil and questionable characters, shocks and surprises whilst all the time building and building towards the inevitable final battle. Krystal and Etienne's story was a non-stop entertaining and enjoyable listen and only added to the intrigue and mysteries that is the Immortal Guardian's world.

Worth a credit? There's WOWS, POWS, PHEWS and WHO KNEWS so I think I've said enough to let you know that my answer will not only be a YES, but a HELL YES written on 100 shiny Helium balloons all leisurely floating skywards. A good runner-up to J R Ward's BDB.

BEST SERIES EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What did you love best about Darkness Rises?

Everything!!!!! It has HUMOR, SEXY STEAMY ROMANCE, AND MYSTERY.....

Who was your favorite character and why?

LOVE ME SOME SETH ;)

Which character – as performed by Kirsten Potter – was your favorite?

ALL=)

Any additional comments?

Worth the credit or to just buy..... I have this whole series in my library and listen to them over and over..... Cant wait for the next one, hope dont have to wait as long...

Stop, Collaborate an Listen

STOP before you listen to this book you need to know that Ms. Duvall COLLABORATED on a collection of novellas called "Predatory" and you need to LISTEN to that before you try this one. This made me kind of mad especially considering that the novella isn't even classified as part of the Immortal Guardian series but contains major plot developments for the series. I hate it when authors do that. I started listening to this story and it just didn't make sense the characters kept referencing a battle and there were unknown characters that were never explained and then I finally realized I had missed a story. I am really not happy about this.

Potter did an excellent job narrating this story, she really does an excellent job voicing all of the characters in the series. I enjoyed this book, perhaps not quite as much as the first three but I still really enjoyed it. Etienne is pretty predictable for a 200 year old french immortal guardian. His one quirk of using slang to make him seem not as old to his love interest was endearing. Krysta was a great character, a strong and funny heroine I really enjoyed her story. I think maybe I will give this story another listen after I have read the novella, I think I will like it more.

So good

Don’t listen to the low star reviews. I can’t wait to go on to the next book!!!!

Still liking the series. :)

Keep them coming Dianne. I have really enjoyed keeping up with the imortals. They are fun. And Kirsten is awesome with the different accents. Cant wait to see what is up with Zach. Thanks