Reviewed by Jen
TITLE: Violent Desire
SERIES: Blackrose Brotherhood
AUTHOR: Ariana Nash
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 364 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 30, 2025
BLURB:
12 immortals, 12 outcasts, 1 mission.
Kill their own kind, before it’s too late.
Detective, killer, vigilant. Eric Sharpe is tired of watching criminals walk free. When a low-life drug-dealer kills his partner and escapes justice, Eric plots his own revenge. His plan is faultless, but for one thing: The handsome, mysterious man who arrives moments before Eric’s plan comes to fruition. Not only does the mysterious man know Eric’s an undercover cop, he knows exactly what Eric did fifteen years ago—an event so traumatic Eric has been trying to bury it ever since. And the mysterious man? Fifteen years ago, Eric killed him.
Now he’s back to reclaim what’s his: Detective Eric Sharpe.
Immortal. Predator. Vampire. After betraying himself and the Blackrose Brotherhood, Zaine can’t afford another mistake. There’s one rule above all others the Brotherhood stand by. One rule that can never be broken. Never, ever, care. All Zaine has to do is hunt and kill the savage nyktelios vampires and keep his head down. And he was doing just fine, until saving Detective Eric Sharpe from a vicious vampire attack. Zaine can’t stop thinking about the intelligent, handsome but haunted man. Walking away is the right thing to do, but the detective and Zaine are hunting the same killer—the same vampire—a vampire who knows more about the both of them, and the brotherhood, than anyone realizes.
A vampire seeking to bring down the Blackrose Brotherhood, for good.
Zaine can’t walk away. Eric won’t walk away. Brotherhood rules be damned, the vampire must be stopped, and they’ll go down fighting together to end him.
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Violent Desire is the first book in an all-new MM paranormal romance series. Each book features a new MM couple ending in a HEA/HFN.
Content warning: These are adult books. There will be graphic, on-page depictions of sex, torture, and swearing. These vampires do not sparkle. They’re relentless in their mission. They do bad shit for good reasons, and some do good shit for bad reasons. They DO NOT CARE. They have been described as psychopaths with fangs. Read at your own risk.
REVIEW:
This series seems to be a re-release, but I missed reading it the first time around. I love me a gritty vamp story that isn’t all sparkles and rainbows, so this grabbed my attention right away. There seems to be a number of beings involved in this world and we are just breaking the surface in the first installment. In simple terms, the Brotherhood consists of a bunch of vampires, or at least we think they are all vampires, who have made it their mission to eradicate the world from those of their kind who choose to live the old ways of feeding off of humans which basically makes them willing slaves to the vamps until which time they are used up and discarded. They live by strict rules to not get involved other than to take out the enemy vamps. In their world, if you are not going to abide by the Brotherhood rules, you are essentially an enemy that needs to be taken out.
Here, we have Zaine, the youngest member of the Brotherhood who had an experience many years ago of getting too close to someone. That guy died, and Zaine was punished. He found himself in another situation wherein he encountered Eric, a young man who had been enthralled by another much older vampire, Sebastien. Fast forward to current times, and he runs across Eric again.
Eric, is a human who somehow escaped Sebastien long ago, is now a detective working under cover when things go awry and Zaine, who has made it his mission to watch over him, ends up getting close once again. This happens to coincide with Zaine’s mission of tracking down and eliminating Sebastien.
There are a lot of finer details involved which make this more interesting, but as I said earlier, this is the simple run down. Much of the story is the struggle Zaine faces between his loyalty to the Brotherhood and doing what he feels is right with regard to Eric. Erie, on the other hand, has some issues of his own he is working with to keep control of his life. It seems to be aspects of these struggles which draw these two together.
There isn’t much love lost between the brothers on pretty much any level, even though they’ve been together for many, many years. That does seem to be changing a little bit towards the end, especially as the story plays out and seems to be heading in a slightly different direction for the Brotherhood. Perhaps that will have a positive effect on the other brothers as they each have their own story. I’m looking forward to seeing where it all goes next.
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