Book Description:Recently named the world’s chief clairvoyant, Cassandra Palmer still has a thorn in her side. As long as Cassie and a certain master vampire—the sizzling-hot Mircea—are magically bound to each other, her life will never be her own …
The spell that binds them can only be broken with an incantation found in the Codex Merlini, an ancient grimoire. The Codex’s location has been lost in the present day, so Cassie will have to seek it out in the only place it can still be found—the past.
But Cassie soon realizes the Codex has been lost for a reason. The book is rumored to contain some seriously dangerous spells, and retrieving it may help Cassie to deal with Mircea, but it could also endanger the world…
Review:
Embrace the Night begins with Cassie in a graveyard, someone shooting at her as she searches for the Codex Merlini. Thankfully, Pritkin travels with her to be her body guard, but their work relationship has a good amount of teamwork in it and they end up rescuing each other, much to Pritkin’s chagrin. We learn a LOT about Pritkin in Embrace the Night, and some of those bits of information are doozies.
We learn a little bit more about Cassie’s time away from Tony’s from the time she’s 13-17 in an interesting addition to the story. Mircea is not very prominent in this book because Cassie’s still trying to avoid him so the geis isn’t strengthened.
One of the new bad guys is a demon lord, Rosier. Unlike Myra, he’s a really good bad guy, truly scary, capable of really horrible things.
This book has it all, fast-paced action, laugh out loud humor, character development, the story moves forward in many areas, ending some story arcs and starting some more. As usual, Cassie has several factions trying to kill her, making even more enemies this time around. We revisit a few scenes in the first book and they make more sense now. This book should NOT be read out of order, it will make close to zero sense if not read in order. Have Curse the Dawn handy.
Sensuality: some heavy kissing, petting and one sex scene
Rating: 4.5 stars
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