Title: Last Kiss Goodnight
Author: Gena Showalter
Series: Otherworld Assasins #1
Released Date: December 26, 2012
Type: Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Adult, Aliens, Magic, Shapeshifters
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The breathtaking first novel in New York Times best selling author Gena Showalter’s new paranormal romance series, Otherworld Assassins, featuring a black ops agent who is captured and enslaved…and the beautiful deaf girl who holds the key to his salvation…
THE SWEETEST TEMPTATION…
Black ops agent Solomon Judah awakens caged and bound in a twisted zoo where otherworlders are the main attraction. Vika Lukas, the owner’s daughter, is tasked with Solo’s care and feeding. The monster inside him yearns to kill her on sight, even though she holds the key to his escape. But the human side of him realizes the beautiful deaf girl is more than she seems—she’s his.
THE ULTIMATE PRICE…
Vika endures the captives’ taunts and loathing, hoping to keep them alive even if she can’t free them. Only, Solo is different—he protects her. But as hostility turns to forbidden romance, his feelings for her will be used against him…and he’ll be put to a killer test.
*****
Again, Gena Showalter hadn't disappointed. This one was a bit twisted, nice in a few ways and shows what human(or humanoid species in the case) were capable in dire, dire, times like being caged and showcased and used in a circus just because they're different. Vika's father I really wanted to kick and behead and give him some self-deserved ass-kicking that I'm sure would be ten-times worse than what he'd done to Vika, Audry and all the others who suffered in his care.
Love this one because its detailed in the gorey scenes that I could easily picture it in my mind. Like zombie-apocalypse-gore + hard-core warriors = one memorable(if not tummy curdling) book.
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Now, what to say about this one... hmmm...
Well, first off, I felt really sorry and kind of feel for Vika. Not that I myself was abused like her, but her pain.. I don't know, just jump from the pages for me and kind of...you know. Anyway, I commend her spirit in the face of her (twisted) father's kind of "love." Vika's deafness was a spell I think, or was it? Becasue it was after her father died that she could finally hear, or was that because of Solo sharing-thing?
Anyway, love Solo's intense-ness and his total warrior mode. He's a great guy, just rough around the edges. He's unconciously holding imself back from the world, from people, so that he couldn't hurt them if he got into a rage. Yes, he kept saying that he didn't care for the things he's done in the past, the "clean-ups" he'd have to do in his job, but that just made him what he is in the book and learned to come to love Vika. That part of him(besides Dr. E's attempts) was one of the things I really appreciated in this book.
Let me say that this book is way different from Ms. Showalter's previous works. Its so dark, edgy and twisted that I now crave more. The guys or warriors finding peace, and light from their mates is a common enough scene in her books and I'm such a sucker for happy-endings. But still, the names these aliens in the book take are ridiculous for one. Okay, some funny and some that's so unusual, it's like a new word...
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