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Dark Needs at Night's Edge (The Immortals After Dark Series, Book 4) | 
| Author: Kresley Cole
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 5135
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: 1st Pocket Books Pbk. Ed
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 141654707X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781416547075
ASIN: 141654707X
Publication Date: April 2008
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Product Description
Bestselling author Kresley Cole continues her seductive Immortals After Dark series with this tale of a vampire shunned even by his own kind and a beautiful phantom, bound together by a passion they cannot resist.A RAVEN-HAIRED TEMPTRESS OF THE DARK...Neomi Laress, a famous ballerina from a past century, became a phantom the night she was murdered. Imbued with otherworldly powers but invisible to the living, she haunts her beloved home, scaring away trespassers -- until she encounters a ruthless immortal even more terrifying than Neomi herself. A VAMPIRE WARRIOR CONSUMED BY MADNESS...To prevent him from harming others, Conrad Wroth's brothers imprison him in an abandoned manor. But there, a female only he can see seems determined to drive him further into madness. The exquisite creature torments him with desire, leaving his body racked with lust and his soul torn as he finds himself coveting her for his own. HOW FAR WILL HE GO TO CLAIM HER?Yet even if Conrad can win Neomi, evil still surrounds her. Once he returns to the brutality of his past to protect her, will he succumb to the dark needs seething inside him?
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 Ok but not Kresley's Best July 31, 2008
J. Osborne (Seattle, WA)
I love Kresley Cole and couldn't wait for this book to come out. I was pretty disappointed. It seemed very slow. I loved Neomi but I really wasn't too crazy about Conrad. Maybe I just like Lykaes better that tortured vamps? Sadly her next book Dark Desires After Dusk was just as meh. I could take it or leave it. To many books are being written, I wish Kresley would slow down and take her time. Her next one is out Jan of 2009, lets hope it's better. Kiss of a Demon King.
 Kresley Is A Drug!!! July 31, 2008
BrooklynGirl (Brooklyn, NY)
The worst part of reading a book by Kresley Cole is the intense high and then intense low when it's done. I finished this book in 6 hours and threatened my husband and son with no dinner if they did not leave me alone in my cone of silence. Kresley has quickly become my drug of choice.
Once again she has nailed it. I was afraid that the story line would be hard to wrap my head around. But the relationship between Conrad and Neomi was intriguing, enthralling, very sweet and more of what we love about Kresley Cole.
Neomi and Conrad certainly had all of the tools to NOT make a life together. He's mad from drinking the memories of all his "kills" and being on the run for 300 years and she's a ghost with no bodily form. The quintessential if a bird and a fish loved each other, where would they make their home. But the duo find sweet ways to connect and learn to appreciate each other and what they both bring to the table and along with the other characters we have all come to love the relationship works out for the best. The style of writing, the intimacy, the total alpha male descriptives one he "Blooded"... Whew.
I look forward to Cadeon's book and will stare at if for a few more months before I dive in because I know Kresley Coles next release is not until 2009.
Very pleasant surprise July 30, 2008
R. Quillen (MS, USA)
I'm surprised by how much I like this book. I'm not really a fan of the immortals after dark series; I read one and liked it, read another and got bored with it. But this one... I loved it! And I'm strict with my 5 stars.
Conrad was such a unique character. He was one of those rare mentally flawed characters that kept me interested. He's a lost vampire and literally quite crazy and very violent. After centuries of drinking the blood of so many his head is full of their memories. He can no longer tell his thoughts from those of his victims and it's driving him to the brink of insanity. He aches to kill and torture and he was always willing to fight. His internal dialog was surprising and the author made me feel as if he really was crazy.
His brothers capture lock him in a manor for a type of "vampire detox" to help him get his mind back and to get to stop taking blood from the vein. There, Conrad meets Neomi, a ghost that was killed in the 1920's who 'haunts' the manor.
I was a little iffy on the lead female being a ghost but I thought it was perfect for the plot. No matter how crazy or domineering Conrad became he couldn't, as Neomi put it, sling her over his shoulder and force her to do his bidding. This was great in teaching Conrad patience. I did, however, think the way she was made corporeal was a little cheap but...hey..she was ghost! The author did a great job.
I thought the two were great together. I was very pleased that Conrad didn't have a miraculous recovery overnight and that mentions of his struggles were throughout the book. I thought his progress was quite believable.
The main focus of the book was Conrad and Neomi helping to heal his damaged mind. I was glad that the villains of the book didn't steal from their wonderful moments. There was also a very surprising moment concerning Conrad's dealings with other women. Unlike other books I've read with similar heroes, I found Conrad's situation to be very believable. I loved those scenes.
I very strongly recommend this book and I don't think it's really necessary to read the other books in the series. Some of the secondary characters were a bit annoying anyway.
I really got a feel for Conrad and he has become one of my favorite characters. This book was great.
Loooooved IT!!! July 10, 2008
Neker (Duson, Louisiana United States)
I soared through this book. It was absolutely fabulous! The characters are unique, intriguing and oh so HOT. Conrad is one of the four Wroth brothers that we've heard about in previous novels. It had been a while since I've read one of the other three books in this series so I had to back track and read a few reviews before reading this one to remember the storyline. Although, to be honest, Cole did a great job of reminding the reader without it sounding redudent. Nikolai and Murdoch were the oldest and upon finding their four sisters dead and two younger brothers almost dead, they did the unthinkable and turned their brothers into vampires. Sebastian was not happy but eventually became okay with it since it led him to his Bride. Conrad took the whole vampire thing really hard because little did his brother's know becoming a vampire went against an extremely important vow Conrad took when he was young. Now adays he's simply going insane from all the blood kills he's made and his brothers have got it into his head they are going to save or die trying. I loved how Cole started off with affection between the two instead of just throwing them together and saying it's love. They fell in love with each other way before they even realized she was his Bride. It was really sweet!
The kidnapping and ghost "thing" is a wonderful storyline. The whole Valkyrie "thing" is a laugh riot--Nix especially. I can't wait to read the next in series.
Something new...and OH SO GOOD! July 10, 2008
Krista Lyn (Minneapolis, MN)
So I'm a fan of the TIAD series with A Hunger Like no Other being my favorite, No Rest for the Wicked being my least favorite, and Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night right smack in the middle. Dark Needs at Night's Edge definitely ranks right up there, if not surpassing A Hunger Like No Other as my favorite.
What I appreciated so much about this book was the ROMANCE. So often, (I'm not going to go off on my "What happened to the romance in JR Ward's Lover Enshrined"), but back to my point.....I hate it when writers start out as romance authors and then "loose themselves" in subplots, urban fantasy, and boring conflicts/wars. It all becomes to bogged down, and if there isn't enough romance....I get lost and bored. That's me.
With that all being said, this book does not disappoint the "romance first" type of reader. Neomi is a ghost and Conrad is a vampire on the verge of insanity. I don't usually like ghosts as players in a romance novel, but this one works. No one can see Neomi, but Conrad can. As he is held captive in her home... by his brothers.... who are seeking to save his soul...a friendship is born.
Another thing that sometimes bothers me about paranormals is the whole "MINE" type of bonding. The instantness of the bond lacks the "build up" that is so important to me if I'm going to really "buy in" to a relationship. This one has all the build-up one could hope for.
Conrad does not initially believe that Neomi is his bride because she is dead. He is incredibly dependent on her, and WITH HER is more "sane" than he's been in several hundred years! I love that.
I won't give away any details, but this is a great book. The sensuality is "over the top". I found myself blushing several times...quite a feat when a book can do this to me after reading hundreds of romance novels! How can there be scorching romance between a ghost and a "mad" vampire. Read this one and find out. Cole does not disappoint.
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