Eternal Kiss of Darkness

The Night Huntress World Series, Book 2

By: Jeaniene Frost

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

An immortal war has been brewing in the darkness … and now one woman has stumbled into the shadows.

Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. Suddenly she finds herself in a world she’s only imagined in her worst nightmares.

At the center is Mencheres, a breathtaking Master vampire who thought he’d seen it all. Then Kira appears—this fearless, beautiful human who braved death to rescue him. Though he burns for her, keeping Kira in his world means risking her life. Yet sending her away is unthinkable.

With danger closing in, Mencheres must choose either the woman he craves or embracing the darkest magic to defeat an enemy bent on his eternal destruction.

©2010 Jeaniene Frost (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“In the second spin-off from the best-selling Night Huntress series, Frost produces a tale that is wildly romantic as well as action-packed. If Frost keeps this up, fans will need to build more keeper shelves!” ( Romantic Times)

Loved IT!

Excellent!!! great romance and action. The narrator did a great job as always can't wait for the next one.

Best Yet!!!!!

I love this author! Did not think this would be better then First Drop of Crimson, but this is even better.

Great book, FABULOUS narrator!

Tavia Gilbert makes this book a pure joy. I read the paperbacks for all of these and have been loving her take, especially her fabulous voice for Bones. I highly recommend this series.

MENCHERES'S LOVE STORY

Having been engrossed in the Night Huntress Series, I didn't realize that this along with "First Drop of Crimson" happened before "This Side of the Grave". It helps to understand certain details in the Night Huntress books.

It is overall a good story hearing how Mencheres falls in love, but it wasn't a favorite. Granted Mencheres is very old, he seems like such a rigid character. I'm not quite sure how to take him. Tavia does a great job just like all the other books, don't get me wrong, but maybe if she gave him more emotion, it would make me like him better. Or perhaps that is just how he should be.

In any case, t is still a great story as Kira and Mencheres come together and things very quickly spark between them. I was also eager to hear how Mencheres thinks he is doomed to die, but perhaps he looked at everything all wrong. It takes falling in love with Kira for him to finally see what he really was seeing in his mind all along.

Definitely worth the credit, even though it isn't one of my favorite. It is still intense and steamy in a lot of ways! :)

Loved the characters!

This one is definitely heavy on the romance and light on the butt kicking but an interesting addition to the two series. I loved getting to know Mencheres and Kira too.

The voice of Bones was a bit disconcerting. Good thing he only had a small part in this book. I am sure he is much more suave and sophisticated. ;)

Love the connection and intertwining stories

I am happy the characters found each and understood how to help bring down the barriers to find true love.

Better than the previous book in series

I liked this book better than First Drop of Crimson because I liked the characters better. Kira is a strong female lead and Mencares is an exceptional alpha vampire. They have a great deal of chemistry between them. Mencares is dealing with the loss of his visions of the future - he only sees darkness ahead, which means death. He is in a battle with a ruthless and lawless law guardian and he wants to protect the people under his line before he passes away or the law guardian does him in.

Kira wants to save him. Cat, Bones and Vlad want to help. But can they beat death?

Must read 🤩

Could not put this one down, enjoyed the narrator!🥰👏👏👏 She knows how to tell the story!!

favorite in the series

I love the Cat and Bones stories so much i hesitated to even read the side stories because I was too excited to read the nest book in nighthuntress. however, I am so glad I did! this might be my favorite book of both series combined.

couldn't stop listening

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

I've "read" a few other books thus far, and I loved the intensity of this story. There was passion, there was a plot. I couldn't put it down.

Who was your favorite character and why?

I couldn't help but fall in love with Kiera. Her character was so tough and smart, but Mencari made her a teen again. It was beautiful to feel her falling in love. It was a book I truly felt.

What does Tavia Gilbert bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Her voices were not always my favorite, but each character had their own voice signature, and she maintained them so flawlessly, that by the end, I couldn't imagine it without her.

Any additional comments?

I started listening while driving back and forth places. As I got past the first few chapters, I found myself pulling out my ear buds and tucking my phone into my shirt so that I could even listen while trying on clothes and grocery shopping. I was beginning to feel as tho the people around me were there simply to interrupt my wonderful story! At the end, I couldn't shut it off even to charge my phone, so I laid next to the wall while it finished!