Ebook Into the Fire A Night Prince Novel Jeaniene Frost Books

Product details Series Night Prince (Book 4) Mass Market Paperback 384 pages Publisher Avon (February 28, 2017) Language English ISBN-10 9780062076403 ISBN-13 978-0062076403 ASIN 006207640X

Into the Fire A Night Prince Novel Jeaniene Frost Books Reviews

• I as looking forward to reading this book, having read all the other books in the "Night Huntress" universe. Sadly. I felt the story was padded and drawn out to the point of being annoying. It isn't a bad book, just not a very good book. Way too much time is spent describing the waves of emotion the heroine, Leila feels emanating off of Vlad; and the only emotions he seems to have are anger, love, and a rare, tiny bit of sadness. Most of the characters are largely flat and those with the most dimension are not the major players. The character, Ian, is always interesting in this universe, and I am glad to read that Ms. Frost's next book set in this world centers around him. It is a shame that she turn Vlad the Impaler into Vlad the Pissy Alpha Male, especially when he was interesting in previous books.
• 3.5
  There are chunks in the book that I really like,others that held very little interest, and things I want to know more about. There are also things that I both loved and hated- as in the same thing falls into both categories for different reasons. It's not my favorite of the series and I can't say it really met expectations but it is worth getting in my opinion.
  
  Positives
  Vlad not being in complete control. I really liked the struggle he had to go through and the slightly more vulnerable side you see because of it.
  Veritas For the little part she shows up for. I like her. Totally called it.
  Ian Beginning- when he shows up and the end of the book.
  Easter Egg of Bones and Kat's cabin. That was kind of cool.
  Lelia More independent, confident, and in general stronger.
  Meeting Lelia's other family and getting into the history of her abilities.
  Gretchen making the change. I think she'll make an interesting one and I'd like to see her get at least one book or a novella.
  Gretchen in general. I really liked her small part in this book.
  Maximus having some attitude.
  
  No so positive
  Only Lelia's viewpoint. I've had that complaint since the beginning so it's no surprise I have it with this one as well.
  While I found some of the magical elements to the book interesting, there were chunks like the bar, I was rather meh about. The middle of the story in general was rather difficult for me.
  Ian. I love Ian as a character. In every other book Frost has written where he's made an appearance, large or small, I have loved him. He's one of my favorite characters and there were parts that I liked-see positives. However, the middle section of all the introduction to magic stuff, etc, he just....I don't know. It just didn't feel right to me. Too over the top maybe. Beginning and End, Total Ian. Something about the middle though.
  Lelia Being more than a little hypocritical when it comes to Gretchen. She kicks up a storm when Vlad makes choices for her but she goes and mind wipes her sister. Even though the intention to protect is good it was wrong on many levels. I was applauding Maximus calling it out too though I wish he'f gonr a little further with it. She also got a little....self-centered, holier than thou. Not a lot but boy did it grate the nerves when it showed.
  What the bad guys ultimately wanted Made me want to bang my head into the wall a little bit. How Vlad handled it too.
  Not much time with Samir. I liked him in the last book.
  I liked Gretchen stepping up for Leila, liked Lelia wanting to protect her sister, didn't like Lelia mind zapping her, didn't like that Lelia was willing to let Gretchen do it in the end just to spare Vlad the heartbreak.
  
  What I want to know
  All right, so Gretchen had no interest for me at all for the first two books. Book 3, I liked the small little bit of her and Samir. This book I actually really liked her and I now have a burning desire to know more. I want to know if her crying was about the thought of Samir being under threat Is there something there? Maximus seemed like a potential romance in some moments.
  I am officially interested in Ian's story though I do hope we get his perspective, not just the Verita's. While similar to a previous story, I am interested to see how Frost makes the changes and expands. I hope he gets more than just one book.
  
  One final note. This may have been addressed and I just missed it but, if the hex could be transferred to the blood relative, why not give Gretchen vamp blood, then transfer to Gretchen, Gretchen 'dies', then comes back as a vamp. It might be that the nature of the hex doesn't allow for it but I don't think it was ever considered, just that the transfer would have to wait if she was already a vamp so that it wouldn't be during the blood craze. Perhaps I'm forgetting something though.
• Welcome back, Jeaniene Frost. I hear you've been traveling a rocky road, so, it's great you're back on the scene. I like your books. I wanted to like this one.
  I saw Into The Fire on Ilona Andrews's blog, and on Charlaine Harris's blog. They mentioned its release, but they did not promote it. Maybe they are too busy to read it? I read it. Actually, I read most of it, and skimmed the final three or four chapters set in Belarus. Or was it Poland? It was about the sixth? seventh? whirlwind location change and I lost track of where we all were. Some locale with black quartz caves.
  The pacing was unusual for this series, frenetic from the opening scene to the last. Chase, fight, argue, repeat. Chaos, fire, electricity, deception, disguises, explosions. Broken windows and doors. The last two pages were calm, gentle, romantic and sweet. By that point, I felt as if I had earned them.
  The plot Leila, a fun young American woman, recently turned into a vampire, pals around day after day with horny, ancient European male vampires, trying to find a way to disconnect from and rescue Vlad's whiny stepson (another ancient vampire), who is being held hostage by magical necromancers.
  Lelia's sister, Gretchen, for each book a reliably annoying character, remarkably becomes an even bigger headache. (Really Jeaniene? I choose indomitable Marty for eternity over Gretchen, all day long.)
  Vlad the Charismatic seems exhausted by his string of violent misfortunes over a horrible year. He shows up as the character we used to care about in the last two pages. Finally.
  My favorite chapters covered Leila's Cherokee heritage. I wish that had been the plot focus of the book.
  The sex scenes did not seem to interest the author too much. (They sure did not interest me). If the publisher is contractually requiring three scenes per book, well, checked that box.
  Speaking of the publisher shame on you, Avon. This book needed an editor that cared more about helping Jeaniene write a great finale for this series than meeting a production deadline. She deserves (so much) better. So do the readers.