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Adelheid #2
When Forever Died
Forever is a long time.
The life of a hunter is a lonely one. Perhaps more for Dakota than others in her line of work. Not only is she better than anyone else at chasing down the things that go bump in the night, but her past chases her with the same tenacity.
She's built walls around her solitary existence and that's the way she likes it, but the past never sleeps. When she's hired to hunt an ex-lover for murder, it's just the first in a string of memories that will bring Dakota's past, present and future into a collision course.
And when she agrees to take on a second case and hunt down an Ancient, a vampire over one thousand years old, it unleashes circumstances onto that collision that will shake the foundation of everything she's built and force her, for the first time in a long while, to look to others.
Can she survive it, like she's survived these past four centuries? Or will the weight of it all finally crush her?
The life of a hunter is a lonely one. Perhaps more for Dakota than others in her line of work. Not only is she better than anyone else at chasing down the things that go bump in the night, but her past chases her with the same tenacity.
She's built walls around her solitary existence and that's the way she likes it, but the past never sleeps. When she's hired to hunt an ex-lover for murder, it's just the first in a string of memories that will bring Dakota's past, present and future into a collision course.
And when she agrees to take on a second case and hunt down an Ancient, a vampire over one thousand years old, it unleashes circumstances onto that collision that will shake the foundation of everything she's built and force her, for the first time in a long while, to look to others.
Can she survive it, like she's survived these past four centuries? Or will the weight of it all finally crush her?
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First published February 8, 2012
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Mia Darien
55 books168 followersBorn a Connecticut Yankee in nobody’s court, Mia Darien grew up to brave snow and talk fast. She started reading when she was three and never looked back, soon frequently falling asleep with a book under her cheek. (Something she still does, though these days it’s her Nook as often as a paperback.)
At eleven, she discovered “Night Mare” by Piers Anthony and entered the world of grown-up fantasy fiction and it was all over from there. She started writing at fourteen, then met vampires as a teenager and the concept for what would become Adelheid was soon born. Epic fantasy remains her first love, but she enjoys writing whatever stories come to mind in any genre.
Now she loves both writing and helping her indie community with her freelancing. A geek till the end, she enjoys role-play by email games and World of Warcraft when she has the time. Married to her very own Named Man of the North, she lives with him, their mini-tank (also known as their son) and pets, who usually act more childish than the child.
At eleven, she discovered “Night Mare” by Piers Anthony and entered the world of grown-up fantasy fiction and it was all over from there. She started writing at fourteen, then met vampires as a teenager and the concept for what would become Adelheid was soon born. Epic fantasy remains her first love, but she enjoys writing whatever stories come to mind in any genre.
Now she loves both writing and helping her indie community with her freelancing. A geek till the end, she enjoys role-play by email games and World of Warcraft when she has the time. Married to her very own Named Man of the North, she lives with him, their mini-tank (also known as their son) and pets, who usually act more childish than the child.
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July 6, 2012
When Forever Died is book 2 of the Adelheid Series by Mia Darien. I haven't read book 1, Cameron's Law, but I didn't feel that I needed to to be able to understand this story. It worked as a stand-alone.
The main character is Dakota, a shape shifter with the ability to shift to any animal or human form she pleases. She's also a preternatural hunter, going on the hunt for vampires, werewolves, other shape shifters, you name it. Dakota is hard working, hard drinking, and doesn't take crap from anyone. She works alone and she likes it that way.]
Dakota's life is a tortured existence. She dreams of her past which makes her frightened and unsure, waking her in a panicked state. Her family were split hundreds of years ago and she's been searching for her sister for decades. Little does she know what her sister has in store for her!
Dakota's two latest bounty hunts see her searching for Carrie Stone, a vampire and her ex lover, who mysteriously disappeared a year ago whilst they were still in a relationship, and Anselmo De Laurentis, an ancient vampire who's the crime lord of the dangerous and violent vampire underworld. Add in the fact that she's also searching for her sister and the appearance of a group of people who are sure they're Norse God re-incarnations and you've got lots of ingredients to make a good mystery story. Oh, and there's a potential love interest too!
The book was well paced, not too slow to start off. Dakota's dreams are written as flashbacks are full of rich description of the time. I wasn't too keen on the long passages written in German, they didn't mean anything to me as I don't have a knowledge of the language. I did Google a few words but anything more would have been too time consuming.
The story itself flowed well and even though there were a few branches to the story they all tied together nicely at the end. There was a character who appeared at the end who had been an important person in Dakota's life centuries ago. It would have been nice to learn a little more about their reunion but maybe that's for another book? One last little thing is that although there wasn't an overload of secondary characters I did find myself getting confused as to who was who sometimes and had to stop to remember who they were and what their job was.
All in all I liked the story and would be happy to read more of Mia's work in the future. I can definitely recommend you give this book a read.
**I was given an ecopy of When Forever Died by the author in exchange for a review. This did not affect the honesty of my review**
The main character is Dakota, a shape shifter with the ability to shift to any animal or human form she pleases. She's also a preternatural hunter, going on the hunt for vampires, werewolves, other shape shifters, you name it. Dakota is hard working, hard drinking, and doesn't take crap from anyone. She works alone and she likes it that way.]
My voice took on a distinctly inhuman edge "I am not having a very good few days and I don't have time for dicking around, so tell me what I want to know or I'll send you through one window and out the other on your head"
Dakota's life is a tortured existence. She dreams of her past which makes her frightened and unsure, waking her in a panicked state. Her family were split hundreds of years ago and she's been searching for her sister for decades. Little does she know what her sister has in store for her!
Dakota's two latest bounty hunts see her searching for Carrie Stone, a vampire and her ex lover, who mysteriously disappeared a year ago whilst they were still in a relationship, and Anselmo De Laurentis, an ancient vampire who's the crime lord of the dangerous and violent vampire underworld. Add in the fact that she's also searching for her sister and the appearance of a group of people who are sure they're Norse God re-incarnations and you've got lots of ingredients to make a good mystery story. Oh, and there's a potential love interest too!
The book was well paced, not too slow to start off. Dakota's dreams are written as flashbacks are full of rich description of the time. I wasn't too keen on the long passages written in German, they didn't mean anything to me as I don't have a knowledge of the language. I did Google a few words but anything more would have been too time consuming.
The story itself flowed well and even though there were a few branches to the story they all tied together nicely at the end. There was a character who appeared at the end who had been an important person in Dakota's life centuries ago. It would have been nice to learn a little more about their reunion but maybe that's for another book? One last little thing is that although there wasn't an overload of secondary characters I did find myself getting confused as to who was who sometimes and had to stop to remember who they were and what their job was.
All in all I liked the story and would be happy to read more of Mia's work in the future. I can definitely recommend you give this book a read.
**I was given an ecopy of When Forever Died by the author in exchange for a review. This did not affect the honesty of my review**
June 12, 2012
When Forever Died is the second book in the Adelheid series. It primarily focuses on the hunter that was introduced in the first book, Cameron's Law, Dakota. Even in the world that Mia has developed which has given the recently revealed supernatural beings the same rights as normal people Dakota is a rarity. She has the ability to take multiple animal forms and can even shift into other human forms.
The best thing about the fact that Dakota is so unique and powerful is that she doesn't miraculously develop new skills that allow her to escape any situation. That is something that I find fairly often in books and it drives me crazy. Despite the fact that she has such a greater kind of power than most of the other preternatural citizens she is still flawed and bad things still happen to her. Another nice aspect of this book is that it works pretty well as a standalone novel. You can have a greater appreciation for the book if you have read Cameron's Law (and at the time of this review it's free so why wouldn't you?), but this would still be an enjoyable book if you hadn't.
The pacing of the book is done well with some occasional flashbacks to enrich the backstory of the main character. Since she has been alive for around two thousand years there is a lot of story to cover.
Mia has done an excellent job once again of making her characters into people first and creatures with amazing powers second. Dakota is haunted by her family past as well as a past relationship in this book and struggles to deal with both them as a normal person would. There is a hint of romance in this book once again, but it weaves into the story without overpowering or slowing anything down. This is one of the best paranormal series I have found this year.
Review copy provided by the author.
The best thing about the fact that Dakota is so unique and powerful is that she doesn't miraculously develop new skills that allow her to escape any situation. That is something that I find fairly often in books and it drives me crazy. Despite the fact that she has such a greater kind of power than most of the other preternatural citizens she is still flawed and bad things still happen to her. Another nice aspect of this book is that it works pretty well as a standalone novel. You can have a greater appreciation for the book if you have read Cameron's Law (and at the time of this review it's free so why wouldn't you?), but this would still be an enjoyable book if you hadn't.
The pacing of the book is done well with some occasional flashbacks to enrich the backstory of the main character. Since she has been alive for around two thousand years there is a lot of story to cover.
Mia has done an excellent job once again of making her characters into people first and creatures with amazing powers second. Dakota is haunted by her family past as well as a past relationship in this book and struggles to deal with both them as a normal person would. There is a hint of romance in this book once again, but it weaves into the story without overpowering or slowing anything down. This is one of the best paranormal series I have found this year.
Review copy provided by the author.
April 30, 2012
Once again, Mia Darien has succeeded in creating non-human characters with humanity AND putting a unique spin on the preternatural abilities of Adelheid's inhabitants. Dakota is a lovable curmudgeon (with a well-written character arc) and a rare breed of shifter. (Unlike other shifter heroines, Dakota is no "one-trick pony.")
Dakota's intriguing dream-memories, which span many lifetimes, are rich in story. (I couldn't help comparing the dream-memories to the flashbacks in the 90s HIGHLANDER series.)
I defy anyone to read When Forever Died and NOT like it.
Dakota's intriguing dream-memories, which span many lifetimes, are rich in story. (I couldn't help comparing the dream-memories to the flashbacks in the 90s HIGHLANDER series.)
I defy anyone to read When Forever Died and NOT like it.
April 15, 2014
When Forever Died by Mia Darien captured my interest from the very first page. This book is part of the Adelheid Series. The plot runs smoothly into this well-written, action-packed story. The author has created fascinating characters – mostly supernatural with a few humans thrown in. Dakota, a shifter, tells her story in first person. We meet her as a panther, chasing her quarry. For fans of detective fiction, this supernatural crime story is a perfect choice.
February 23, 2015
[Full disclosure: I received a free ebook in conjunction with the blog tour in exchange for an honest review.]
Dakota was one of the secondary characters that really intrigued me in the first book of the Adelheid series, Cameron’s Law. That was from Sadie’s point of view and in When Forever Died we learn that Sadie has hired Dakota as a freelance hunter to work on a job-by-job basis. But what happens when a job comes across Dakota’s desk that brings her long-suppressed past back to the surface?
Even though we met Dakota briefly in the first book I was extremely excited to read about her adventures in this second book and I certainly wasn’t disappointed. Dakota has had a hard life as we learn through various flashbacks and her powers have not made life easy for her. Even though it would be pretty cool to morph into anything or anyone you’d like it doesn’t solve all of your problems—sometimes it even causes them as she learns when she starts tracking down a rogue Ancient. When she discovers that a former lover of hers and someone even closer to her are involved with this Ancient and his mysterious but clearly nefarious plans, things definitely get interesting. It’s very gratifying to see Dakota change throughout the course of the story as she learns more about herself and her past but also begins to look more to the present and begins to appreciate the people around her. She’ll never be the life of the party by any stretch of the imagination but it was nice to see her begin to realize that maybe people aren’t so bad at all.
Even if the plot sucked, Dakota would have carried the day and still made this a good book. However, the plot was awesome as well. Tracking an Ancient isn’t easy, particularly when they don’t want to be found and they have immensely powerful beings helping them. Add into that a seemingly insane secret society of supposedly reincarnated figures from Norse legends and you’ve got a very interesting and extremely fast-paced plot. Nothing is as it seems and of course nothing is simple in Adelheid’s supernatural community.
Speaking of the supernatural community, I absolutely love Mia Darien’s world-building. In Cameron’s Law we mainly see the world of vampires and werewolves as well as the human opposition to the fact that they are now considered human beings with full legal rights. Here in When Forever Died we see Dakota’s extremely rare species of shapeshifter, one that can turn into whatever they like whereas normal shapeshifters are restricted to one animal form like Sadie’s weretiger boyfriend Vance. Just because almost a year has passed since the events of the first book doesn’t mean that humans are more accepting of the supernatural community, though. And just because the supernatural community is ecstatic that they’re allowed to live in the open doesn’t mean some of them bear any less hatred of humans than before. Mia Darien is good at not only creating unique species of supernatural creatures but also creating complex and believable political systems within and without the supernatural community.
Even if you haven’t read the first book, you can certainly start the series at When Forever Died or any of the other books in the series because each stands alone quite well. They’re all interconnected in fascinating ways but you don’t have to start right at the beginning because they all feature different characters. It’s a great way to go about a series like this and I have to say that I can’t wait to read the other three books.
I give this book 5/5 stars.
Dakota was one of the secondary characters that really intrigued me in the first book of the Adelheid series, Cameron’s Law. That was from Sadie’s point of view and in When Forever Died we learn that Sadie has hired Dakota as a freelance hunter to work on a job-by-job basis. But what happens when a job comes across Dakota’s desk that brings her long-suppressed past back to the surface?
Even though we met Dakota briefly in the first book I was extremely excited to read about her adventures in this second book and I certainly wasn’t disappointed. Dakota has had a hard life as we learn through various flashbacks and her powers have not made life easy for her. Even though it would be pretty cool to morph into anything or anyone you’d like it doesn’t solve all of your problems—sometimes it even causes them as she learns when she starts tracking down a rogue Ancient. When she discovers that a former lover of hers and someone even closer to her are involved with this Ancient and his mysterious but clearly nefarious plans, things definitely get interesting. It’s very gratifying to see Dakota change throughout the course of the story as she learns more about herself and her past but also begins to look more to the present and begins to appreciate the people around her. She’ll never be the life of the party by any stretch of the imagination but it was nice to see her begin to realize that maybe people aren’t so bad at all.
Even if the plot sucked, Dakota would have carried the day and still made this a good book. However, the plot was awesome as well. Tracking an Ancient isn’t easy, particularly when they don’t want to be found and they have immensely powerful beings helping them. Add into that a seemingly insane secret society of supposedly reincarnated figures from Norse legends and you’ve got a very interesting and extremely fast-paced plot. Nothing is as it seems and of course nothing is simple in Adelheid’s supernatural community.
Speaking of the supernatural community, I absolutely love Mia Darien’s world-building. In Cameron’s Law we mainly see the world of vampires and werewolves as well as the human opposition to the fact that they are now considered human beings with full legal rights. Here in When Forever Died we see Dakota’s extremely rare species of shapeshifter, one that can turn into whatever they like whereas normal shapeshifters are restricted to one animal form like Sadie’s weretiger boyfriend Vance. Just because almost a year has passed since the events of the first book doesn’t mean that humans are more accepting of the supernatural community, though. And just because the supernatural community is ecstatic that they’re allowed to live in the open doesn’t mean some of them bear any less hatred of humans than before. Mia Darien is good at not only creating unique species of supernatural creatures but also creating complex and believable political systems within and without the supernatural community.
Even if you haven’t read the first book, you can certainly start the series at When Forever Died or any of the other books in the series because each stands alone quite well. They’re all interconnected in fascinating ways but you don’t have to start right at the beginning because they all feature different characters. It’s a great way to go about a series like this and I have to say that I can’t wait to read the other three books.
I give this book 5/5 stars.
June 23, 2012
Review of When Forever Died by Mia Darien.
Reviewer: Alastair Rosie
This is book two of the Adelheid Series so I’m still finding my feet in Mia Darien’s world of preternaturals. It’s a classic detective story set in a world where preternaturals live in full view of humans, similar to the world of True Blood. The heroine is Dakota, a shapeshifter and it opens with her pursuing another preternatural who has been terrorising the local New England communities. It then moves onto the hunt for Carrie, a vampire who has gone missing, apparently preternaturals are supposed to register their presence and when they don’t it gets, complicated.
Add in an Ancient, Dakota’s shapeshifting sister, a group of reincarnated Norse deities and we’re set for a rollercoaster ride in what is a well thought out alternate world. Darien has chosen to relate the details of this world in monologue fashion using Dakota’s jaded voice. Dakota is a hunter and tired of hunting her own kind. She reminds me of those pulp fiction detectives, she drinks too much, her relationships with her co workers and the police are almost always tinged with sarcasm. Her love interest, Moore is a good counterpoint for Dakota as she chases her ex girlfriend, the vampire Carrie.
I found it an easy read, in the style of Hammer but wondered if the book couldn’t have been longer which would have given her the option of expanding and colouring her alternate world. There are times I want to know more about particular aspects but she seems content to leave us with snapshots. Another thing that did irk me was passages rendered in German. If you’re not fluent in German you won’t read those passages. Foreign phrases and local English dialects should be limited to single words that we all know. She has however kept away from the Bram Stoker connection with vampires which has probably been done to death a thousand times over.
Overall though the book is an easy read, perfect for whiling away the time on a train. It won’t tax your brain to the point you’re constantly backtracking trying to find if you’ve missed something. I’d give it a four out of five because I really wanted to know more of the preternatural world and although there was a guide to the preternatural at the end of the book I would have preferred it was worked into the book itself as well. It would have bulked the book out a little but if it’s a good read you won’t notice the extra word length.
Looking forward to book three and will go back to read Cameron’s Law in the next few weeks.
Written by Alastair Rosie. June 2012.
Reviewer: Alastair Rosie
This is book two of the Adelheid Series so I’m still finding my feet in Mia Darien’s world of preternaturals. It’s a classic detective story set in a world where preternaturals live in full view of humans, similar to the world of True Blood. The heroine is Dakota, a shapeshifter and it opens with her pursuing another preternatural who has been terrorising the local New England communities. It then moves onto the hunt for Carrie, a vampire who has gone missing, apparently preternaturals are supposed to register their presence and when they don’t it gets, complicated.
Add in an Ancient, Dakota’s shapeshifting sister, a group of reincarnated Norse deities and we’re set for a rollercoaster ride in what is a well thought out alternate world. Darien has chosen to relate the details of this world in monologue fashion using Dakota’s jaded voice. Dakota is a hunter and tired of hunting her own kind. She reminds me of those pulp fiction detectives, she drinks too much, her relationships with her co workers and the police are almost always tinged with sarcasm. Her love interest, Moore is a good counterpoint for Dakota as she chases her ex girlfriend, the vampire Carrie.
I found it an easy read, in the style of Hammer but wondered if the book couldn’t have been longer which would have given her the option of expanding and colouring her alternate world. There are times I want to know more about particular aspects but she seems content to leave us with snapshots. Another thing that did irk me was passages rendered in German. If you’re not fluent in German you won’t read those passages. Foreign phrases and local English dialects should be limited to single words that we all know. She has however kept away from the Bram Stoker connection with vampires which has probably been done to death a thousand times over.
Overall though the book is an easy read, perfect for whiling away the time on a train. It won’t tax your brain to the point you’re constantly backtracking trying to find if you’ve missed something. I’d give it a four out of five because I really wanted to know more of the preternatural world and although there was a guide to the preternatural at the end of the book I would have preferred it was worked into the book itself as well. It would have bulked the book out a little but if it’s a good read you won’t notice the extra word length.
Looking forward to book three and will go back to read Cameron’s Law in the next few weeks.
Written by Alastair Rosie. June 2012.
July 12, 2013
I love it. This book features Dakota, bounty hunter extraordinaire. She is one of my favorite characters.
Dakota hunts the NHF, or Non-Human Form creatures. She’s the one police call when they can’t handle a particular supernatural being. Cameron’s Law may have made all preternaturals citizens, but just like humans, you get your bad seeds and that’s when they call Dakota.
Dakota now kind of works for Stanton at her agency. She has a long way to go to be a team player and she’s kind of scary.
She’s working a case for Myles Bail- Bonds. A fight ends in death and the vampire, wanted for manslaughter, has bolted.
Then she gets a phone call to come down to the police station. The Captain has a case he needs help with.
It seems he needs an ancient, a vampire over 1000 years old, found and brought in.
Dakota doesn’t usually work more than one case at a time, but she’s intrigued. She’s never hunted an ancient before.
And Detective Moore, the visiting detective, has caught her eye. When she learns the detective is looking for a mysterious being, the name slaps her in the face. She’ll need to stay close to Moore in order to monitor her hunt for this being, which happens to be Dakota’s sister.
Someone is following Dakota, things are heating up, people are being torn apart, and bodies are disappearing.
What I really enjoyed about this second book, is Dakota finally opens up, as much as she can, and tells what she is, or thinks she is. She starts to let others in, to trust a few people, to get this ‘friend’ thing.
The authors flashes you back into time so you can see Dakota’s origins and why she is like she is. You also meet her deadly sister. Not someone you are going to like at all.
The writing is so fluid. The characters and situations feel normal, not fictional. You forget they can’t really exist and just go with it.
All I’ll say about the ending is it left me grinning.
And, of course, wanting more.
I received this book for my honest review.
Dakota hunts the NHF, or Non-Human Form creatures. She’s the one police call when they can’t handle a particular supernatural being. Cameron’s Law may have made all preternaturals citizens, but just like humans, you get your bad seeds and that’s when they call Dakota.
Dakota now kind of works for Stanton at her agency. She has a long way to go to be a team player and she’s kind of scary.
She’s working a case for Myles Bail- Bonds. A fight ends in death and the vampire, wanted for manslaughter, has bolted.
Then she gets a phone call to come down to the police station. The Captain has a case he needs help with.
It seems he needs an ancient, a vampire over 1000 years old, found and brought in.
Dakota doesn’t usually work more than one case at a time, but she’s intrigued. She’s never hunted an ancient before.
And Detective Moore, the visiting detective, has caught her eye. When she learns the detective is looking for a mysterious being, the name slaps her in the face. She’ll need to stay close to Moore in order to monitor her hunt for this being, which happens to be Dakota’s sister.
Someone is following Dakota, things are heating up, people are being torn apart, and bodies are disappearing.
What I really enjoyed about this second book, is Dakota finally opens up, as much as she can, and tells what she is, or thinks she is. She starts to let others in, to trust a few people, to get this ‘friend’ thing.
The authors flashes you back into time so you can see Dakota’s origins and why she is like she is. You also meet her deadly sister. Not someone you are going to like at all.
The writing is so fluid. The characters and situations feel normal, not fictional. You forget they can’t really exist and just go with it.
All I’ll say about the ending is it left me grinning.
And, of course, wanting more.
I received this book for my honest review.
August 24, 2013
'Welcome to Adelheid' is a series of books where being a supernatural being is legal, and vampires, werewolves, and other shapeshifters, can live out in the open. This reminded me of the set-up for Laurel K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. However, the similarities end there, and Mia Darien chose to give voice to a different character in each book.
In 'When Forever Died' the narrator is the theriomorph Dakota (She is a shapeshifter of great longevity who can morph into any animal or human she wishes). She is a very private person whose social skills border on rudeness. Working solo suits her, but a new case finds her dealing with her past, when she accepts the bounty hunting contract of locating and catching her ex-girlfriend, a vampire guilty of murder who has unexpectedly disappeared.
This case is only the beginning of a bigger one where Dakota will learn to be a bit more social, at least with Sadie Stanton the vampire P.I. (also her part-time boss) and Madison the secretary of the P.I. agency, while she is still a strong and formidable character. But not as mysterious, as this case involves people from her past, people she hasn't seen since the 19th century.
Throwing a new love interest at your main character is always a good trick to reveal private details about said main character, and detective Samantha Moore is this person for Dakota.
This said, romance never overshadows the main plots in Mia Darien's series and the author has more to reveal about the town of Adelheid and the unfolding story branches out in a great cultural diversity. 'When Forever Died' holds its own in the supernatural crime genre.
In 'When Forever Died' the narrator is the theriomorph Dakota (She is a shapeshifter of great longevity who can morph into any animal or human she wishes). She is a very private person whose social skills border on rudeness. Working solo suits her, but a new case finds her dealing with her past, when she accepts the bounty hunting contract of locating and catching her ex-girlfriend, a vampire guilty of murder who has unexpectedly disappeared.
This case is only the beginning of a bigger one where Dakota will learn to be a bit more social, at least with Sadie Stanton the vampire P.I. (also her part-time boss) and Madison the secretary of the P.I. agency, while she is still a strong and formidable character. But not as mysterious, as this case involves people from her past, people she hasn't seen since the 19th century.
Throwing a new love interest at your main character is always a good trick to reveal private details about said main character, and detective Samantha Moore is this person for Dakota.
This said, romance never overshadows the main plots in Mia Darien's series and the author has more to reveal about the town of Adelheid and the unfolding story branches out in a great cultural diversity. 'When Forever Died' holds its own in the supernatural crime genre.
February 24, 2015
I received this book from Masquerade Book Tours in return for a fair and honest review.
This is Dakota's story - a hunter with a heart of gold... if she ever lets you get close enough to find out for yourself. She has been around for centuries and lived through things you can only imagine. She is tough, no-nonsense and full of attitude. I loved her.
Dakota is having trouble adjusting to being part of a team as she has spent so long being by herself but with Sadie and Madison there to help, she'll get there - whether she wants to or not.
Usually Dakota will only take on one job at a time but after accepting a job to hunt down a vampire, Dakota is asked by the police to hunt for an Ancient (a vampire over 1,000 years). This is too good an opportunity to miss so she accepts but soon realises that they might be closer related than she had thought.
There are twists and turns aplenty in this book as we find out more of Dakota's past in the form of flashbacks and how things intermingle and become relevant in the present day. Ex-lovers, twisted sisters, stalkers, not to mention a whole host of Norse mythology. It's all in here and makes for a gripping read. Definitely recommended.
This is Dakota's story - a hunter with a heart of gold... if she ever lets you get close enough to find out for yourself. She has been around for centuries and lived through things you can only imagine. She is tough, no-nonsense and full of attitude. I loved her.
Dakota is having trouble adjusting to being part of a team as she has spent so long being by herself but with Sadie and Madison there to help, she'll get there - whether she wants to or not.
Usually Dakota will only take on one job at a time but after accepting a job to hunt down a vampire, Dakota is asked by the police to hunt for an Ancient (a vampire over 1,000 years). This is too good an opportunity to miss so she accepts but soon realises that they might be closer related than she had thought.
There are twists and turns aplenty in this book as we find out more of Dakota's past in the form of flashbacks and how things intermingle and become relevant in the present day. Ex-lovers, twisted sisters, stalkers, not to mention a whole host of Norse mythology. It's all in here and makes for a gripping read. Definitely recommended.
February 19, 2015
3 1/2 stars: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
We first meet Dakota, a very mysterious character, in the first book of the series, Cameron's Law. She's prickly and a loner and I love her. I think I like her so much because she is so mysterious.
This book is kind of a standalone. There are scenes in it that you won't really get unless you read the first book, but it is possible to read it as a standalone.
In this book, you really get to see a very relatable, human side to Dakota, past all the walls and thorns she puts up around her. This is my favorite part of the book. In the story, you get to see her past, put into flashbacks and dreams. The German part really threw me, as it's not a language I would prefer to know, and it was difficult to understand.
The pacing of the book is just as good as the first book of the series, and it pulls you in from the beginning.
We first meet Dakota, a very mysterious character, in the first book of the series, Cameron's Law. She's prickly and a loner and I love her. I think I like her so much because she is so mysterious.
This book is kind of a standalone. There are scenes in it that you won't really get unless you read the first book, but it is possible to read it as a standalone.
In this book, you really get to see a very relatable, human side to Dakota, past all the walls and thorns she puts up around her. This is my favorite part of the book. In the story, you get to see her past, put into flashbacks and dreams. The German part really threw me, as it's not a language I would prefer to know, and it was difficult to understand.
The pacing of the book is just as good as the first book of the series, and it pulls you in from the beginning.
April 17, 2012
When Forever Died by Mia Darien didn't capture my interest as most books do. The plot ran smoothly but the sentence structure made it hard to keep up with. This book is part of the Adelheid Series which I have yet to actually read. Perhaps if reading the other books would put more light on this one, I suggest reading them at first.
Personally I found it a little hard to be pulled into this book because of the lack of editing the book went through. I give this book *** (3 Stars). The plot would be interesting if the format and editing was looked at and corrected. Other than the grammar and sentence structure, I think it would be a really good read.
Personally I found it a little hard to be pulled into this book because of the lack of editing the book went through. I give this book *** (3 Stars). The plot would be interesting if the format and editing was looked at and corrected. Other than the grammar and sentence structure, I think it would be a really good read.
July 20, 2012
Author Mia Darien has woven a fascinating tapestry of characters – mostly supernatural with a few humans thrown in – into a well-written, action-packed thriller perfect for paranormal, fantasy, and action lovers. Reminiscent of the great, gritty detective novels, Dakota tells her story in first person. She’s a shifter, and we meet her as a panther, chasing her quarry. Yes, she’s a contracted bounty hunter sent out to catch the supernatural bad guys, and she can shift into any human or animal form she’s familiar with... http://www.darkparanormalromanceserie...
January 15, 2015
Another fairly good paranormal novel. I enjoyed this one more than the first because of all the shapshifter action. As far as supernatural beings go, I'm partial to shifters. Also, I found Dakota's story to be more interesting and engaging than Sadie's. Again, some scenes were a bit more abrupt than I would have liked and the surprise twists were not exactly surprising, but the narrative flow was much cleaner in this second installment in the series. When Forever Died is a decent read and I look forward to the next one.
July 23, 2015
Loving this series. Great read.
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