Nightwolf by Karina Halle is now live!

A contemporary vampire romance with a friends-to-lovers twist.

 

“I’m a human and he’s a vampire and he’s told me more than once that those love stories never end well.
Too bad my heart doesn’t know the difference.”

 

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Blurb

My name is Amethyst DeMille and I’m in love with a vampire.

Sounds complicated, doesn’t it?

Yet the fact that he’s a sexy, centuries-old blood-drinking vampire isn’t what makes our relationship complicated.

It’s because we live in the same house together, work at the same exclusive club together, and he happens to be my best friend with absolutely no idea how I feel about him.

I mean, sure he’s probably seen me give him heart eyes more than once. Wolf is not only a deadly, charismatic vampire with great persuasion skills, he also happens to be built like a Nordic God, all solid muscle and chiseled bone structure and haunting eyes that I sometimes think tell me more than he wants me to know. He’s the type of guy most women find themselves falling for (and not just because they might end up his next meal).

But despite the simmering sexual tension and yearning between us, I know there’s no way I’ll ever be able to tell him how I feel. After all, I’m a human and he’s a vampire and he’s told me more than once that those love stories never end well.

Too bad my heart doesn’t know the difference.

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This book is a spinoff of The Dark Eyes Duet, featuring Wolf & Amethyst, but can be read as a total standalone. However, if you are reading it as a series, The Dark Eyes Duet (Black Sunshine and The Blood is Love) should be read first.

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Review

3.5 stars!

A sexy, vampire, friend-to-lovers story, with all the feels.

In the Dark Eyes Duet we were introduced to Wolf and Amethyst. Wolf is a vampire friend and housemate of the duet’s hero, Solon, and Amethyst is the human who also lives in their house, and who works as the Manager for Dark Eyes, the club that runs in the basement. In the original duet, we could see something simmering between the two friends, and I was so happy to finally get their story.

Note – I would not recommend reading this book without reading the Dark Eyes Duet. There’s a lot of world building in the first book, and though this one does give you some explanation, there’s a lot that it skims over. This book is also hella spoilery for the duet, so do yourself a favour and start with those ones first.

Wolf and Amethyst are the best of friends, but they have loved each other from afar for years. They both know it, and they quietly acknowledge it, but they’ve never discussed it with each other and have never allowed themselves to explore it, knowing that a vampire and a human cannot have a happy ever after. But a few days away with forced proximity sees their walls swiftly crumble, with the two of them both realising that they can’t hold back from each other any longer, and holy freaking hotness!

Yeah, there’s something happening between us. I don’t think we can stop it, even if we wanted to.

Karina Halle writes seriously sexy romance, and the passion between these two is off the charts! Their chemistry absolutely sizzles, and when all of those pent-up feelings are finally released, they bare all, diving in to explore all of that mad lust and emotion, and I loved seeing them finally find their way to each other.

“You’re mine,” I say to her, my voice hoarse, the rest of me vulnerable and raw. It’s not a question, it’s a statement.
“Promise?”

But right when happiness is within their grasp, tragedy strikes, throwing them both spiralling. Fear and grief are crippling, and their lives will never be the same, and there is a lot of emotion, soul-searching and drama for them to work through to find their way through it all.

Halle wrote this book coming out of her own personal tragedy, and you can feel her pouring out her soul onto the pages of this book. It’s truly heartwrenching, but it’s so real, and that’s what makes it all the more painful to read. It’s definitely not the story I thought we’d get in this book, and though there are moments of lightness, humour, and supernatural elements, this is a very different story to the first books, with a whole lot of drama and emotion. It’s written beautifully though, and through it all, the romance shines, and I loved seeing Wolf and Amethyst go through so much and still find their happy.

“You’ve always been the one. Always. Even before I met you, you have been the one, the one I’ve been searching for centuries for.”

I wouldn’t say I ‘enjoyed’ this book, because it’s just not that kind of story, but I’m sure you get what I mean. It’s beautifully written, engaging, full of soul-searing emotion, and a great story for Wolf and Amethyst. Characters from the previous books also appear – I loved seeing Solon and Lenore again, and I’m so excited that Dracula is getting his own book, up next.

3.5 stars.

An Advanced Reader Copy of this book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

 

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Meet Karina

Karina Halle is a former travel writer, music journalist and screenwriter, and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of over 55 bestselling novels, ranging from horror and suspense to contemporary romance. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband, and her adopted pitbull Bruce, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.

Halle is represented by the Root Literary Agency and is both self-published and published by Simon & Schuster, Hachette and Montlake. Her work has been translated and published in 20 languages.

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