Cocktails and Books
Written on Feb 4, 2012
Gabriel was a man that has been tortured by a bodily deformity he's had since birth. He was shunned and scarred by his wife, who deemed him a monster because of it. He volunteered to be turned into a vampire hoping that would make him feel better about himself. Unfortunately he didn't. So here he was, a 180+ year old vampire who has had limited sexual experience because of his deformity.
Along comes Maya, a doctor who was attacked outside her apartment by a rogue vampire who started the turning process with her. Gabriel is immediately drawn to her and vows to protect her. When he's faced with the prospect of her dying because the turning was happening correctly, he offered up his blood because he couldn't face her death.
Maya has to face the death of her human life, but in addition, she has to deal with being an abnormal vampire since drinking human blood makes her sick. The only blood she craves is from Gabriel. While she was initially scared of the scarred man, she soon finds herself having to deal with an attraction to him that seems to grow with each passing day.
The two of them have to deal with communication issues and their own insecurities in order to find themselves on the path to happily ever after. But they also need to deal with the fact that both of them are only half vampires.
Through a witch, they discover they are both half satyr and that Gabriel's deformity is actually an essential satyr "bit". This is when things got a little strange for me, but Tina Folsom worked the extra bit into the storyline (you'll have to read it to find out what that is).
Loved the Rogue storyline and how someone close to the Scanguards went bad. The Rogue was definitely not who I thought it was and even when the signs were there, I didn't want to believe it. It was this storyline that kept me reading, rather than the romance between Gabriel and Maya.
Not my favorite of the series, but still an entertaining read.