Book Review of Daughters of
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Daughters of Night: Possession
Daughters of Night series, Book Two
Daughters of Night series, Book Two
Ashley Torbeck
Genre:
Young Adult Fiction/Young Adult Paranormal
ISBN:
1480213195
ASIN:
B00ASBZ0JM
Number
of pages: 380
Word
Count: 69,031
Blurb
:
Carmen's
family is being threatened by a new group of vampires, and she is forced into
another battle. Only this time it's not just her life on the line. Now she must
face an evil unlike any other. One that is dangerously close to consuming her,
and Carmen's only hope of succeeding is in the hands of a girl she doesn't know.
Will the demons inside Carmen bring her down before she and Gaviyn can save the
delicate life of the mystery girl, or will they all fall over the edge into a
pit of death and despair?
About the
Author:
An
avid reader and sarcasm specialist, Ashley's quirky and bubbly personality
stems from the vast amount of information she crammed into her head as a child.
No genre was off limits, but she developed a fondness for Stephen King books
early on. Of course, growing up in Eastern Kentucky, life moved a little
slower, so books became her closest friends.
Fast
forward a few years, and the vast insanity that surrounded Ashley became her
life. In January 2009, she married the only person on Earth as insane as
herself, and they now reside in Louisville, Kentucky, patiently awaiting the
zombie apocalypse while she taps away at the laptop with a plethora of stories
to keep you entertained.
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Excerpt:
Excerpt from Daughters of Night: Possession
Gaviyn
“Carmen? CARMEN?” I screamed at her
limp body.
Shaking her didn't seem to help. Nor
did the screaming, but I couldn't very well sit there and do nothing.
Just as I was leaning down to kiss
her, she just fell limp. It wasn't the first strange thing that had ever
happened to us, by no stretch of the imagination, but this terrified me. I had
never seen her so helpless and limp, except in her previous incarnations.
This is how she felt when she was
dead.
I refused to let myself think she
was gone. I mentally sent out a distress call to any vampire who could hear.
With as loudly as I was screaming both mentally and out loud, I knew someone
would be there quickly. It just wasn't fast enough.
The door bust open, and Damien
rushed over, followed by Kaiya and Rayne.
“Dad, what happened?” Damien asked,
his voice shrill and cracking as he stared at his mother.
“I don't know, she just fainted.”
“Vampires don't faint,” Kaiya said,
meekly.
I snapped my head up and glared at
her.
“They do if they're half witch, and
you'd know that if you knew my son at all.”
“Dad, not now,” Damien said softly,
putting a hand on my shoulder.
My anger toward Kaiya subsided, and
I turned my attention to my son.
This isn't the time for this,
Damien thought to me. Help Mom.
Of course, he was right. As usual.
He was too smart for his own good.
He turned his attention back to
Carmen, and I followed suit.
“Mom, come on, wake up,” he
whispered, his eyes rimming with pink.
“Gaviyn,” Rayne said. “She is still
with us. She's just unconscious.”
“Why won't she wake up? What's wrong
with her?” I demanded, not taking my eyes off my mate.
“She will wake. And until she does,
and I can examine her, I honestly don't know what-if anything-is wrong.”
“Well of course something's wrong!”
I screamed at her.
Just then Carmen's eyelids flitted
open, as if she were waking from a dream.
“Damien!” she screamed, her eyes
darting around the room, not focusing on anything.
“I'm here, I'm here, Mom,” Damien
whispered, his voice full of emotion and his eyes dripping red tears down his
cheek.
“Oh, Goddess, Damien, it's you! It's
the real you, and you're normal and...oh, Damien!”
She sat up quickly and pulled him
into a hard hug, wrapping her arms around him and burying her face in his neck.
Damien glanced at me worriedly, and held her back. I stroked her hair as she
cried into our son's neck.
“Carmen, honey, what happened,” I
asked tenderly, still stroking her hair.
She pulled back, her face smeared
with bloody tears, her chest hitching with sobs. With one arm, she reached out
and grabbed me, pulling me into this weird family hug. I exchanged looks with
Damien, and sent my thoughts to him.
Something's wrong with your mom,
I'm going to need some time with her to calm her down.
His thoughts came rushing back, loud
and clear.
What happened? Dad, I'm scared,
what can I do to help? Why is she acting like this? Has this ever happened
before? I'm really freaking out here!
I tried to calm him.
I think she's going to be fine,
son. Please, just go hang out with some friends for a while so Rayne and I can
make sure everything checks out. Can you and Kaiya go tell Blair I need him
immediately. And Aliena. Send them both here, then I'll call you when you should
come back.
He nodded, and swallowed hard before
disentangling himself from Carmen's grip.
“Mom, I'll be back, I have to get
Kaiya back home before her mom flips out. But I promise, I'll be back as quick
as I can.”
He glanced at me on that last line,
and I nodded. I knew he wanted to be here. I didn't want him even more freaked
out, though.
Carmen released her grip on us both,
and, embarrassed, she nodded while she wiped at her face. Rayne handed us a box
of tissues from the table.
“Carmen, Blair will be here in a
minute, but I need you to tell me right now what the hell just happened.”
She sniffled, and looked up at me.
She was a mess, but Goddess, she was still beautiful.
“It's Damien. Something bad is going
to happen.”
Review
Oh I love good vampires. You know the ones who don’t kill but rather
disable their victims. The ones who
protect the innocent. This story was
fabulous, love and hate, peace and war, sanity and insanity, you know, all the
good stuff.
I give this book 4 out of 5 clouds.
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