Reviewed by True
TITLE: Dark Summer
SERIES: Sequel to Blood Winter
AUTHOR: S.J. Coles
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 204 pages
RELEASE DATE: July 27, 2021
BLURB:
Is a human lifetime long enough to learn to love a vampire?
The tumultuous events of the Blood Winter are a fading nightmare, and Alec and Terje are trying to build a life together at Alec’s newly restored ancestral home of Glenroe. There’s just one problem… Terje doesn’t appear to be committed—constantly called away on mysterious errands and seemingly unable to forsake his own kind. Alec begins to wonder if Terje is capable of loving anyone, let alone him.
When an old uni friend Jay Singh, recently out of the closet and looking rather too good to be true, returns to Alec’s life, he becomes more conflicted than ever. Things only escalate when Alec is forced into the social and political issues still surrounding the haemophiles’ tumultuous integration into human society and soon it is more than just his relationship on the line.
Can Alec figure out what kind of future is possible with a vampire—and if it can ever be enough for either of them—before it’s too late?
Publisher’s Note: This story is best read as a sequel to Blood Winter.
REVIEW:
Alec is most of the time alone, he knows and accepted that his haemophile (vampire) lover Terje needs time alone, but now almost a month on his own it’s getting harder and harder.
Alec is in a constant dark and brooding state of mind. He hoped to go on a trip with Terje, he’s afraid it will not happen.
One day he meets an old college friend, Jay from twenty years ago. He’s an investigative journalist, investigating human-haemo relations.
When Alec and Terje are together and make love, wow it’s everything, highly sensual and intense. I was sitting on the edge of my chair to absorb it all.
They reach deep into each other’s hearts. Terje never allows to let him reach into his core.
Terje is vague about what he does during his absence, Alec tries to be patient and understanding, it’s getting more difficult. After pushing Terje, he now knows it’s about Evgeniya. She’s dangerous for all kinds but especially for Terje, she’s planning something.
Terje and Ivor (please read Blood Winter) have a business to do. Alec insists to be part of it.
Arriving in London they split up for different purposes. Alec runs into Jay again. He wants to join Alec on his trip.
When shit hit the fan everything went down, hard.
Okay, first things first. It was an amazing story. It was extremely captivating, entertaining, awesomely written, almost flawless, but I so missed Terje and Alec together. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed about Terje’s behavior, on the other hand, at the end of the story he made up for it, hugely!
My silly romantic heart hoped for much more moments where they would be together, several times they were apart and I’m sorry to say, I didn’t like that. I do understand the choice of it, it’s for the whole picture, but still, my feelings didn’t agree with it.
The different rates of stars and hearts between Blood Winter and Dark Summer tell how different my feelings are about both stories.
So, looking back at it all, it was a beautiful story, with action, a lot of feels, beautifully written, layered, and developed.
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