The Colonial

by Charlie Daye

Detective Aiden Cooper was a vampire who spent the last 150 years awaiting the return of his long lost love Abigail. He was promised by a witch, who also happened to be Abigail's mother, that her soul would return to him in her next life.

Melissa Salazar was a formidable attorney living in Los Angeles and no stranger to the paranormal. Deciding a fresh start was in order and wanting to be closer to her best friend Aria, Melissa sells her practice and moves in to a beautiful Colonial style house that is owned by Aria and her husband Dominic. Little did she know that move would change her life forever.

One fateful night, Aiden finds Melissa brutally beaten and left for dead. As he rushes to her aid a familiar scent lingers in the air. Aiden looks down at the woman he cradles in his arms... could this be Abigail?

Genres: Vampires, Paranormal, Romance

293 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

My love for all things books began at thirteen. That was when I picked up my first teen paranormal romance.

My first attempt at writing came in the form of poetry followed bt my first short story which received local notoriety.

The House is my first full length novel and is the first book in the Curse Breaker's Series.

Reviews

[Chelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second book in the curse breaker series. It follows The House. This story is about Melissa.

Melissa is a high powered attorney in California. She is a strong and caring woman. She has decided to see her practice and move back east. Her best friend's husband gives her a house to live in that has been in the family for hundreds of years. She starts a practice of family law out of the home office. She does divorces and wills for the people in the town. Things change dramatically for her when she takes in a client named Elise. Elise's husband is a thug. He beats her and when people cross him they come up missing.
Melissa refuses to back down from him and things for her go from bad to worse.

Aiden is a cop in the town that Melissa moves too. He is a vampire who has waited 150 years for his love's soul to be reborn again in his lifetime. Aiden save's Melissa from the goons attack. What happens next is a whirlwind romance that is made for the ages.

There are witches and propheies that must be contended with. There are stubborn woman who need protected and feel the need to protect other's at all costs.
This book is full of hot sex and passion. The love that these couples have nothing can stop.. Not death, not thugs and certainly not a prophecy.
Can true love win out over death and fear? Can the love of a woman save a man from the curse of the vampire?
Read The Colonial and find out. You will not be disappointed. There is drama, there is love, there are villians and there are true romantic heros.
Charlie has written and excellent second book in this series. I could not put it down and am looking forward to the next book.

[InD'tale Magazine · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5.0

Charlie Daye is a master at writing relationships with passion, love and a bit of sarcasm just to make it entertaining!

Read full review in the 2012 September issue of InD’tale Magazine.

[Avid Reader Amy's Reviews · Rating 2 out of 5]

*******Reader: This Review Contains Spoilers But I Have Hidden Them*********

Review as seen on my blog Amy's Book World


I was intrigued by the book's description. I mean a Vampire possibly turning back to human. Two souls connected, destined to find one another again.That is pretty cool. The story starts off well with a prologue introducing you to Aiden and explaining his Vampire curse. Then the main story starts off sluggish for me. There is alot of space in between characters interactions so it is filled with over detailing. It's basically a map of each turn she made in the house and EVERYTHING she saw. Jeez. The story gets better though once "people" start piling in and filling in the voids. The book the book then picks up. Hopes in this book being remotely good where diminished once I got to chapter 12. The character Melissa is Brutally beaten and raped, as upsetting as it is her behavior afterwords is what turned me off to this book. Only a day after her attact she finally sees Aiden and it seems all she can think about is jumping him sexually. Her primary thought should be healing not only physically but mentally also before she even thinks about pursuing a sexual relationship with Aiden. I get that Melissa and Aiden have a soul connection, but I would have appreciated if the author would have been more realistic in that part of the storyline. To write about something serious it should be taken serious and not written so lightly and brushed to the side. When it came to breaking the curse I felt that part of the story got jipped. It was barely a scene and it was like "wham bam thank you ma'am" curse is broken and now we are moving in. Really? It's the Curse Breakers series you would think more time would have been spent on the actual curse breaking.

I think that the concept is great and the story can be even better if it was re-edited. If that was done I think that this would be an outstanding book. So in my rating of this book I was a little peeved with certain parts and wanted to give this book 1 star out of 5. I know I had to look past how I felt emotionally and give an appropriate rating and for me it has to be 2 stars out of 5. That doesn't mean I hated it, it means it was okay.

[Pereza · Rating 3 out of 5]

**SPOILER**I was very disappointed in this second book of the series. The spelling and grammar errors were just as prevalent here as in the first. The intent was there, but wasn't followed through in a very smooth way. The first 7 chapters were dull. Too much time was spend describing how each room of the house was being decorated. By the time she finally meets Aiden, things speed up, almost too fast. There was too much detail that seemed to be left out, or the book could have been made longer to account for other things. I mean seriously? You find out the man you fell in love with within the first 10 minutes is a vampire and it's no big deal? Never even crossed her mind. And Melissa was raped! Three weeks later she's having hot, passionate sex? Strong woman.

I'll stop my review right here so as not to discourage other from reading this book. If you can get past the errors, punctuation and spelling, it's a great read.

[Tonya]

4.5 out of 5



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