Review #3: A Tale of Two Vampires

Title: A Tale of Two Vampires
Author: Katie MacAlister
Series: Dark Ones - Book 10
Released Date: September 4, 2012
Type: Young Adult, Vampire, Paranormal Romance

Time isn’t always on a vampire’s side....

Iolanthe Tennyson has had a very bad year—due in part to the very bad men in her life. So she’s accepted her cousin’s invitation to spend the summer in Austria to indulge her photography hobby. Rumors of a haunted forest there draw Iolanthe into the dark woods—and into the eighteenth century....

Nikola Czerny is a cursed man, forced by his half brothers to live forever as a Dark One. But his miserable existence takes an intriguing turn when a strange, babbling woman is thrown in his path. Iolanthe claims to know Nikola’s daughter—three hundred years in the future. She also knows what fate—in the form of his murderous half brothers—has in store for him. If only she knew the consequences of changing the past to save one good, impossibly sexy vampire...

The story...its good if you're one of the vampire-loving kind. Its great, as expected of Katie MacAlister. Just like the rest of her past novels, its witty, with a loveable, chauvinist, Dark One, a funny and in this case, mundane Beloved(who turned out to be more as the story progresses) and some the quirky characters you'd expect from the last books.

Here we are in the time where Ben and Fran are happily together for a few months now, Imogen's interesting live-life with a Viking ghost, and other characters from Ben and Fran's story. Nikola, which turns out to be more than a regular guy in the story, is sweet, endearing and has an adorable habit of writing down everything that confuses him, as as his right seeing that he's a self-proclaimed scientist.

When Imogen's lady-in-waiting, or nanny, or whatever you call her, was introduced as an Christian fanatic who calls Io some devil's partner and other rude stuff, at first I laughed at her but as the story progressed, she got more irritating by the second. I'd strangle her if I was there. Thank God, for Io has a patience of a saint. What's funny about the go-back-time situation was the French pink head, the gay guy who ogles his master's behind. I think that's the reason why Nikola took him as his foreman. I mean, all of Nikola's house staff are either different, or has some really odd quirks. I think that's sweet of him, as much as he tries to deny, and blather about how he wasn't the master of his own castle and being his chauvinist self. :P

Iolanthe, bless her, is as good, as courageous and as interesting as the other female leads in the other novels because they were willing to put up with the martyred expressions of their Dark Ones and are as fiercely protective of them as the guys are to the them. Though, it would've been nice if they did get to meet the past characters from the other books, because I just love reunions!!

And for that, I rated it at: 5/5