Title: Midnight Savior
Author: D. McEntire
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Publisher URL: http://www.samhainpublishing.com/
ISBN: 978-1-60504-697-6
Genre: [M/F] Contemporary Paranormal
Rating: 3.5 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Mystical Nymph
Marie DeVeux has talked to the spirit of her dead grandmother since she was small and no one, including her family, ever believed her; they still don’t. For eight months, she experienced brutally vivid dreams of a man being tortured and the dreams are so real, she’s even seeing them while on the bus or at work. After losing her job, boyfriend and home, she winds up in a mental facility for several weeks. The only thing that keeps her going is the visits from her grandmother telling her the man is real and that she needs to find and rescue him.
As with other vampire warriors, Kern is a Watcher; his life dedicated to keeping the innocent safe from marauding rogue vampires. He’s lonely, tired of his job and feels the need for a little excitement in his life; he is tranquilized, abducted and tortured for eight long months. He’s starved and nearly insane with pain, hunger and despair when his crazy scientist captor, Dr. Pearson, disappears. Everything changes when Marie DeVeux arrives to help him escape. He only knows suffering and is determined to lash out at those he thinks has caused him pain and Kern doesn’t believe anything she says. He must discover the truth and get them out of harm’s way before his captor returns, or it will be too late for them both.
Midnight Savior is the fourth release in D. McEntire’s ongoing Watchers series. While it’s possible to read it as a stand-alone book, for ongoing storyline and character clarification, I recommend you read them in the order written.
Dr. Pearson is a great villain, brutal, unmerciful and very insane. D. McEntire does a nice job expressing his cold and calculating personality, making you want this man to meet an unpleasant and painful end. She does an equally nice job describing the pain and suffering Kern experienced at the doctor’s hands.
I felt I had a good understanding of Marie’s emotional upheaval and the uncertainty of her life. I loved the twist of her grandmother talking to her from the dead, but I had a problem with how little help Marie got from her. It left me with the unpleasant feeling the grandmother was calculating, cold and uncaring.
The entire story flowed well from scene to scene but Kern and Maria didn’t actually meet until approximately fifty pages into the story, and it left me feeling emotionally disconnected from the characters. That didn’t change until after Maria’s rescue attempt. From that point on, my connection to Kern and Marie improved. Seeing the other Watchers and their mates from previous books was a nice ending touch. I’ll let Dr. Pearson and what happens to him be a surprise.
Author: D. McEntire
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Publisher URL: http://www.samhainpublishing.com/
ISBN: 978-1-60504-697-6
Genre: [M/F] Contemporary Paranormal
Rating: 3.5 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Mystical Nymph
Marie DeVeux has talked to the spirit of her dead grandmother since she was small and no one, including her family, ever believed her; they still don’t. For eight months, she experienced brutally vivid dreams of a man being tortured and the dreams are so real, she’s even seeing them while on the bus or at work. After losing her job, boyfriend and home, she winds up in a mental facility for several weeks. The only thing that keeps her going is the visits from her grandmother telling her the man is real and that she needs to find and rescue him.
As with other vampire warriors, Kern is a Watcher; his life dedicated to keeping the innocent safe from marauding rogue vampires. He’s lonely, tired of his job and feels the need for a little excitement in his life; he is tranquilized, abducted and tortured for eight long months. He’s starved and nearly insane with pain, hunger and despair when his crazy scientist captor, Dr. Pearson, disappears. Everything changes when Marie DeVeux arrives to help him escape. He only knows suffering and is determined to lash out at those he thinks has caused him pain and Kern doesn’t believe anything she says. He must discover the truth and get them out of harm’s way before his captor returns, or it will be too late for them both.
Midnight Savior is the fourth release in D. McEntire’s ongoing Watchers series. While it’s possible to read it as a stand-alone book, for ongoing storyline and character clarification, I recommend you read them in the order written.
Dr. Pearson is a great villain, brutal, unmerciful and very insane. D. McEntire does a nice job expressing his cold and calculating personality, making you want this man to meet an unpleasant and painful end. She does an equally nice job describing the pain and suffering Kern experienced at the doctor’s hands.
I felt I had a good understanding of Marie’s emotional upheaval and the uncertainty of her life. I loved the twist of her grandmother talking to her from the dead, but I had a problem with how little help Marie got from her. It left me with the unpleasant feeling the grandmother was calculating, cold and uncaring.
The entire story flowed well from scene to scene but Kern and Maria didn’t actually meet until approximately fifty pages into the story, and it left me feeling emotionally disconnected from the characters. That didn’t change until after Maria’s rescue attempt. From that point on, my connection to Kern and Marie improved. Seeing the other Watchers and their mates from previous books was a nice ending touch. I’ll let Dr. Pearson and what happens to him be a surprise.
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