Reviewed by True
TITLE: Touch in the Night
SERIES: Blood and Bonds #1
AUTHOR: S.J. Coles
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 336 pages
RELEASE DATE: November 7, 2023
BLURB:
Jesse Truelove never felt a part of his own family. But can a vampire really give him a new one?
With a criminal record, no steady job and a penchant for kink, Jesse Truelove has spent most of his life feeling like an outsider. He tells himself it doesn’ t bother him, that he never needed human connections anyway.
Now the Undying Baron, Emory Von Magnusson, a vampire— or, to use the modern term, ‘ haemophile’ — has reclaimed his ancestral home north of Jesse’ s hometown, and the human population isn’ t sure how to react. Jesse knows a thing or two about what it’ s like to be misjudged, so he keeps an open mind. But when a bungled break-in at Emory’ s home brings them face-to-face, Jesse finds it’ s much more than his mind that’ s stimulated.
However, building a relationship with an undead blood-drinker was never going to be straightforward, especially when that undead blood-drinker reveals he wants a family.
REVIEW:
Jesse is the only one in his family who doesn’t see vampires as a threat.
Certainly not the handsome Baron Emory Von Magnusson.
Jesse is the only one who can think and feel outside the box, sadly he has a past of going out of line, legally.
Emory wants to hire Jesse for his high IT security skills. It’s a live-in job.
When Jesse accepts he understands soon there’s way more going on.
It seems Emory has a daughter, who’s been taken away from him.
Emory is using Jesse to get things done, legal or illegal, dodgy or not, you’ll have to find out for yourself.
Jesse doesn’t know what to do or feel, and how to deal with it. What he does know are the feelings he has for Emory.
It’s a slow-paced story, I prefer the term vampire over haemophile. It was an entertaining read, enjoyable, with more depth than you’d think of at first sight. The view on vampires was different than most stories. The family problems running through the story, the conversations, and the actions felt truly honest and realistic.
Personally, I couldn’t fully commit to Jesse and Emory’s relationship, I couldn’t feel it, I suppose it’s me.
Overall a widely, well written entertaining story.
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