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What is Lucinda, a tenth level wizard, to do when Destiny pairs her with a man who is utterly domineering, overwhelmingly masculine, incredibly irresistible and, according to her most trusted friend, extremely dangerous?
This book was formerly sold under the title "Darkest Nyte".
This book was formerly sold under the title "Darkest Nyte".
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First published February 1, 2005
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Amber Carew
10 books34 followersAmber Carew is also known as Opal Carew, the award winning bestseller of erotica fiction.
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August 6, 2017
Also titled Virgin Wizard.
October 3, 2014
Terrible, a very big disappointment. Character are so one dimensional and unrealistic. The plot and conflicts are so forced and I'm choosing between disgusting or incredulous to describe the conclusion. Everything is handled so badly. The whole book seems to be especially designed to leave a very awful mental after taste.
The most disappointing element in the book are the characters. Their development is very flawed and contrived. Lucinda, the main protagonist, is very fragmentary. It feels like she is a different person altogether every chapter or so. It even feels like her mind is a madhouse. Nyte, Lucinda's 'love' partner, is very shallow and one dimensional. Other characters are uninteresting and usually distracting if they chance to appear. They confuse the story instead of improving it. Overall, the whole cast feels like bad actors in a low budget movie.
The plot is a terrible mess, it is so horrible and amateurish. Not only is it horribly contrived, the author constantly withhold important information. Its a very obvious ploy to maintain reader's interest. Such a disgustingly cheap tactic. One of the information that is unfairly withheld is the relationship between Nyte and Randalph. It is one of the longest withheld information and the way the author give it to the readers is so contrived (and corny) it disgusted me and made me stop reading the book for a while.
And the icing on all the horribleness of the book is the ending. It's as terribly contrived as everything else. The events in the ending makes me rise eyebrows in its surreality. Its disgusting, corny, incredulous, unrealistic, disappointing and contrived at the same time. Such a horrible ending, I can't believe how the author is able to write it.
And other horrible things that also thrown in. The beginning, which is rather simple really, is all bogged down by superfluous details and Lucinda's mental outpouring. It takes many long minutes to read events that should happen in a few seconds. There is also the annoying jumps of POV. Sometimes the POV are on Nyte or Randalph but their view doesn't add anything to the story and often times makes the absence of the withheld informations more obvious because these withheld informations are still glaringly absent when being in their POV should have exposed them.
A terribly disappointing book. Very contrived and clumsy. Would never advice anyone to read it. This is one book I could throw into the trash without compunction.
The most disappointing element in the book are the characters. Their development is very flawed and contrived. Lucinda, the main protagonist, is very fragmentary. It feels like she is a different person altogether every chapter or so. It even feels like her mind is a madhouse. Nyte, Lucinda's 'love' partner, is very shallow and one dimensional. Other characters are uninteresting and usually distracting if they chance to appear. They confuse the story instead of improving it. Overall, the whole cast feels like bad actors in a low budget movie.
The plot is a terrible mess, it is so horrible and amateurish. Not only is it horribly contrived, the author constantly withhold important information. Its a very obvious ploy to maintain reader's interest. Such a disgustingly cheap tactic. One of the information that is unfairly withheld is the relationship between Nyte and Randalph. It is one of the longest withheld information and the way the author give it to the readers is so contrived (and corny) it disgusted me and made me stop reading the book for a while.
And the icing on all the horribleness of the book is the ending. It's as terribly contrived as everything else. The events in the ending makes me rise eyebrows in its surreality. Its disgusting, corny, incredulous, unrealistic, disappointing and contrived at the same time. Such a horrible ending, I can't believe how the author is able to write it.
And other horrible things that also thrown in. The beginning, which is rather simple really, is all bogged down by superfluous details and Lucinda's mental outpouring. It takes many long minutes to read events that should happen in a few seconds. There is also the annoying jumps of POV. Sometimes the POV are on Nyte or Randalph but their view doesn't add anything to the story and often times makes the absence of the withheld informations more obvious because these withheld informations are still glaringly absent when being in their POV should have exposed them.
A terribly disappointing book. Very contrived and clumsy. Would never advice anyone to read it. This is one book I could throw into the trash without compunction.
February 10, 2015
Lucinda Divine was a wizard, she had a mentor named Rand, he was suppose to be her Lovebond, but it never seems to feel like it. Lucinda got a calling to go to be a mentor, of which she never thought would happen. She shows up, and in an alley she meets her charge, a naked man. Lucinda thought it was suppose to be a baby. She popped back to her place and it seems he doesn't know who he is and where he was. He definitely keeps trying to seduce her. Lucinda knows this isn't suppose to be. Why does she have this attraction to him and what about Rand?
Rand came to visit Lucinda and tell her he felt that Nyte had returned. Rand saw her guest and was upset telling her he wasn't what he seems.
I like this book because I love magic and wizards. The story between Nyte and Luce is great and I love the way she tries to hide her feeling for him.
I have not read anything by Amber Carew before and I am looking forward to read more.
Rand came to visit Lucinda and tell her he felt that Nyte had returned. Rand saw her guest and was upset telling her he wasn't what he seems.
I like this book because I love magic and wizards. The story between Nyte and Luce is great and I love the way she tries to hide her feeling for him.
I have not read anything by Amber Carew before and I am looking forward to read more.
October 7, 2014
This one would have me scratching my head every once in a while. I'm not sure if it was in a series and I should have read previous ones to truly understand the verbiage and relationships or not. If not???? The ending wasn't quite to my liking, but I don't like hurried endings.
September 26, 2014
this book was in a box set. she is a new author for me. I found this story life interesting .I'd read another one of her book just to see if I'd like to read more of them.
February 22, 2016
I'm sorry I can't stand adult indecisive woman main characters. I just wanted to bitch slap her
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