Do You like book Desires Unleashed (2014)?
I don’t know if I’m opening a can of worms with this review, but well, I tried to do my homework and find the reason why this book or as 5 star ravening review or 1 very bad ones. There is something behind? Some event happened in the past or blog or similar that pushed people to write all of them, and not only that, but to fight on the comments session on how they hate or love this book? Sorry but I don’t understand and so I will try to give my two cents.Desires Unleashed is not an erotic romance, so if you bought this book hoping to find hot sex, well, maybe that is the reason why they are disappointed. There is sex but it’s part of the story, more or less a way to “build” the net of connections that link all the characters. And you need that net since, second main point, this book has not a clear principal couple; if you go for the old rules that the one opening and closing the story is the main character, then here you don’t have it, since Warren and Matthew, the Supernatural Unit Investigation Team duo open it and Annette and Natasha, the two friends and roommates, and main female characters, close the whole. Who are the main focus of the reader? No one, or maybe, according to your cup of tea, you can pick. And finally we arrive to the third and last main point, this is not a heterosexual, or bisexual, or gay paranormal romance, it’s all of them and also a mix of them.Warren (shapeshifter/gay) and Matthew (human/bisexual or maybe gay, he didn’t give me the vibes of straight) are professional partners, and there is sizzle between them, but Warren is in an on/off relationship with Darian (shapeshifter/gay); Darian (vampire/bisexual) and Xavier (vampire/bisexual) are long-time friends, professional partners and lovers, but both of them start a relationship with Natasha (human/straight). So maybe this is the issue? That no one of the male characters have a “straight” persona? I don’t want to think that this is the reason for the negative reviews but maybe it could be. And in a way this can also be the reason for a gay romance reader to give a negative thumb, since actually Warren/Darian or Warren/Matthew have not so many chances to interact on a love or sex level, and so maybe the gay romance reader feels as they didn’t have enough of what they like.I think the strong point of the novel is also is weakest one: it does not take sides. This is not a straight, gay or bisexual novel, since that is not the whole point; plus, probably since this is only book 1 in a long series (at least 5 books in total), most of the stories are still “open” in the end. I think you should read this novel as both an introduction than a test drive: you will meet the characters and you will have the chance to decide if you like them. From my side, I don’t really see where all the venom can arrive, on the contrary, I found it quite interesting since in its ambiguity it was original… to give you an example, at first I was really thinking for Darian to be the villain of the novel.http://www.amazon.com/dp/145639892X/?...
—Elisa Rolle
This book is one for those that love a lot of story and a lot of detail. You get both in this great first book in Desires Unleashed: Knights of Darkness Chronicles Book One. It becomes obvious quickly that the author is a natural storyteller and writing is something that she does well! There are a lot of details given in this book and the author doesn't skip a beat. Everything is explained from the different types of supernatural beings introduced to the way humans have come to live with them after finding out about their existence. A slew of characters are introduced and there are a lot of storylines being started within the pages setting this book up as the perfect start to a the series. It will draw you in leaving you wanting more when you get to the end.The relationships in the book have no silly "societal" constraints and are therefore beautiful and well written. There are some graphic sexual situations and they are done in a way that are generally tender and very loving for the most part. They tend to expand on the characters relationships and offer a deeper understanding of the storylines and the progression to come.Although at times it seemed there were a little too many details leading to a bit of a stalling in the progression of the story itself, I found myself really enjoying the ending of this book. In fact, I enjoyed it so much, I'm looking forward to finding out what happens in the next one!
—Shelly Hammond
Desires Unleashed was hard for me to get into at the beginning due to the characters being introduced, you get to know their story and know about them which helps later on in the book but also I would imagine for the other books that will be written.Once that bit was over I was hooked. The story was brilliant and unique.I love reading about Vampires and Shape-Shifters so this was really up my street. Humans are being murdered and now Humans, Vampires and Shape-Shifters have to work together to stop the murder before the humans start panicking.There was also romances involved too, and it does involve, gay, bisexual and straight sexualities which was interesting for me as I don’t think I have read a paranormal/urban fantasy where vampires and shape-shifters are gay or bisexual.It was an amazing read and I cannot wait to read the next book.
—Rachel