This book was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!Vampires, Were-humans, Were-demons, the 7 levels of Hell, an ancient Amazon mother-seer who thinks she is the Neteru, the continuing war between light and dark, battles, bloodshed, death, sex, love, lessons and choices, this book has everything!Carlos continues to burn both ends against the middle, hoping against hope that no one will catch him while he struggles to make his choice between light and dark. He was marked as dark well before he became a Master Vampire, b...

DEEP. That Amazon warrior was a bad mumma mumma!

You know what is neither sexy nor exciting? 560 pages of a girl and her boyfriend yelling at each other. The blatent sexism doesn't help either.This book is largely plotless and really hard to follow because of it. There are a few shreds of plot spread out through the run very, very sparingly, and that makes it all the more confusing when what little plot there is actually happens.This book is pretty evenly divided. The first 250 pages are the sex part. The plot that's been hinted at in baffling...

This book is MUCH heavier and more complicated than the first two in the series. To be honest, it took me a while to get through it, because although there is just as much thrilling, scary action and steamy, star-crossed romance and the characters and mythology were just as compelling as the previous two installments, this book suffers from being too seriously aware of itself. The plot becomes more convoluted and over-complicated, feeling like it adds another layer that may or may not be necessa...

So we open up knowing that Damali & her gang are depressed. I'm not entirely sure why they're all depressed – they just kind of are. I think it's because they escaped from the tunnels of hell but Carlos – a vampire who none of them knew – didn't. This also really depresses Damali who expresses this by having a random vampire kill, just because and decides to have a reunion with an old friend, drink booze and spend some time reminiscing and being depressedWe know they're depressed because they sp...

The series never gets old for Mi, I love it!......On to my Favorite in the series #4 The Bitten

A lot happened in this book, and it took me a while to finish because I've been so busy. But I'll try to remember everything that happened...First, Damali and Carlos finally come together. I love that L.A. Banks took her sweet time to get her characters to that point. I would still qualify this book as romance, but it is definitely top tier romance. Banks is an amazing writer. Her books have a complex and continuous plot revolving around our two lovers. At one point in this book I wasn't sure if...

I have to say I definitely liked this better than the first two in this series. And after reading the teaser for The Bitten at the end, I'm anxiously looking forward to that one now too.Granted like the first two, the writing style got to me at times. Were it not for the fact that the characters tend to say a lot of useless and unimportant stuff, I might've gotten lost in the dialogue sometimes, partially because of the dialect they use—is it called hip hop, black, or urban street language, I'm

APB Perspective Reviews :3.5 stars . I love Carlos and Damali but there is so much dialogue I felt like I wanted to scream , just stop it !" But I'm interested is the series so I'm on to the next book because I want to see what happens next .

This series is very good. While it doesn't get the love that Sookie Stackhouse, Lestat, Anita Blake, Buffy and countless others get, it is just as good or better. These books would make a beautiful movie or series AND have the most DIVERSE cast that the world has ever seen!!! If hope Ms. Banks brings these stories to Hollywood (or HBO or Showtime) and if she ever needs a script writer, just send it my way!!!

3 1/2 starsThis was my favorite installment so far! So much happened to move the story along. I'm taking a short break from the series to get some other things read, but I'll hopefully come back to it later this year. For some reason I'm thinking these are perfect for fall/winter reading. Where you can find me:•(♥).•*Monlatable Book Reviews*•.(♥)•Twitter: @monicaisreadingInstagram: @readermonicaGoodreads Group: The Black Bookcase

Up to this point I was liking the series. Now I LOVE it! The vampire huntress squad was magnified and you really got to see a dynamic that will leave you loving or hating them. Vampire huntress Damali grows up and her lover Master Vampire Carlos gets a whiff of something. There is a lot to always bite off and chew slowly when reading L A Banks. This book blooms into a thorny rose that pricks you. It wants blood.

Well, I've gotten through Book #3.I enjoy the world around Carlos, the vampire. The council, the intrigue, that sort of thing. I don't understand hardly any of it. This is the most confusing book series ever.But - there's WAY too much angst here! I want more vampire hunting! More battles! Hold off on that drama, girl! It wears me out, it's stilly, it makes no sense. There are parts of this story that I like but parts that are so eye rolling.It's also terribly confusing. I never understood a thin...

I hate the way the characters talk also, but it's a good over all story. The language is not a turn off, its comic relief.

Sexy, entertaining, suspenseful, sexy, engrossing, and sexy are just some of the words to describe this series.

It took me forever to read this book. And really, I don't know why I am still reading this series. The language is ridiculous. NOBODY TALKS LIKE THAT! Also, I end up getting do made at Damali and Carlos that it's not even funny. So, in this book, D and Carlos FINALLY get together and its super hot. Then, they have to go to Brazil to deal with this crazy thing that is eating humans. Carlos and D fight about it and she puts on a concert over there that is so hot it reaches the Vampire Council. The...

Partly my bad, starting midway through a series, some are ok with that some are not. Honestly though, I doubt it would have been better if I had read the others because a significant portion of the first 80 pages was insipid recaps of all that had gone before and that is annoying if you have read it all in the first place. The level of angst was high enough to drown in, for no apparent reason since they apparently spent the last book kicking Hell's arse in battle. The 'sistuhs and brothers' writ...

I love this series. Periodically I'm lead to revisit this series. No matter when I return I always get something new than I got from previous reads. This author lit a fire in me back on 2004 to get me on my path as a writer. That I will never forget.

After the her vampire lover dies while saving her, Damali goes into a depression and becomes "blind" to her gifts as a vampire hunter. But Carlos isn't dead. Resurrected by the monks he is now a master vampire and takes over the territory of the vampire who tried to kill them.Problems are brewing in Brazil, which is in Carlos' territory. It appears that another Neteru is around and something is killing people by tearing them apart. Marlene needs to call on one of her old lovers for help.I really...

The first 2/3 of this book are great but towards the end I completely lost interest due to the fact the last one hundered pages could have been cut down to twenty pages or less. Also, some supporting characters are flat and interchangable. Even the main characters, including the Vampire Huntress herself, seem flat.There are, however, several likable aspects of this book. Banks has two love stories, a young woman love story and an older woman love story. It's nice to see that in a novel. Too ofte...