[books] Come to Me By Lisa Cach
Come to me is the second book in a paranormal romance. The first book isn't really necessary to understand the second, and the second book is much better than the first.
It deals with incubi and succubi (ah, the favorite characters of fantasy romance authors anywhere). And though the story isn't much for world building in demon-sense (the hierarchies are not unique, the Night World almost one dimensional and the creatures in it, barely touched), the second book was more emotional than the first book ever was.
Probably because Theron (the incubi in the first book) was a megalomaniac who wanted to take over the world but ended up in love with the fiancee of the human whose body he was going to take over, and Samira, the succubi in the second book had more hardships.
Be warned though, Samira ends up complaining about being human half of the time (she was sentenced to humanity by Nyx). Nicolae seems too perfect, except he has scars from 3rd degree burns on 50% of his body and has a broken arm and a leg, which you don't get reminded of too many times in the story and the politics in the story is plotted out and panned out with conversations from the main characters. You see one battle scene and that's it. If you're looking for the kind of fantasy that dwells into world-building and details, this is definitely not the book to read.
It is a fair enough hand at romance though, exceedingly better than the first book, Dream of Me, that I wonder if her later books, Have Glass Slippers, Will travel would be better.
Samira was the lowliest creature of the Night World: a mere succubus, a winged spirit bringing dreams of passion to sleeping men. She knew every wicked wish that lurked in their hearts, and yet she had never felt the touch of a man's loving hand. Nor had she wanted to... until now.
Shattered by war and banished to a crumbling fortress, Nicolae turned to the dark, forbidden arts. When his conjuring summoned Samira, he sought to use her as a tool to oust the invader from his lands and regain all that he had lost. But when she arrives on his doorstep the next night in human form, all her powers stripped from her, he thinks he has no use for her whatsoever.
A creature of Night and a ruined prince: one called and the other came. What happened next would change their worlds forever.
It deals with incubi and succubi (ah, the favorite characters of fantasy romance authors anywhere). And though the story isn't much for world building in demon-sense (the hierarchies are not unique, the Night World almost one dimensional and the creatures in it, barely touched), the second book was more emotional than the first book ever was.
Probably because Theron (the incubi in the first book) was a megalomaniac who wanted to take over the world but ended up in love with the fiancee of the human whose body he was going to take over, and Samira, the succubi in the second book had more hardships.
Be warned though, Samira ends up complaining about being human half of the time (she was sentenced to humanity by Nyx). Nicolae seems too perfect, except he has scars from 3rd degree burns on 50% of his body and has a broken arm and a leg, which you don't get reminded of too many times in the story and the politics in the story is plotted out and panned out with conversations from the main characters. You see one battle scene and that's it. If you're looking for the kind of fantasy that dwells into world-building and details, this is definitely not the book to read.
It is a fair enough hand at romance though, exceedingly better than the first book, Dream of Me, that I wonder if her later books, Have Glass Slippers, Will travel would be better.
Samira was the lowliest creature of the Night World: a mere succubus, a winged spirit bringing dreams of passion to sleeping men. She knew every wicked wish that lurked in their hearts, and yet she had never felt the touch of a man's loving hand. Nor had she wanted to... until now.
Shattered by war and banished to a crumbling fortress, Nicolae turned to the dark, forbidden arts. When his conjuring summoned Samira, he sought to use her as a tool to oust the invader from his lands and regain all that he had lost. But when she arrives on his doorstep the next night in human form, all her powers stripped from her, he thinks he has no use for her whatsoever.
A creature of Night and a ruined prince: one called and the other came. What happened next would change their worlds forever.