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Forever Vampires #5
Midnight Lover
Rosemary Laurey’s newest novel is a wickedly delicious tale of love, lust, and the otherworldly with a decidedly sexy twist...
There Are Beings Worse Than Vampires...
Vampire Toby Wise knows there is a spy in his organization. He thinks Laura Fox, the beautiful nurse who looks after the invalid founder of Connor Corp., is one. But Laura is no mere spy -- she’s a reporter out for a hot story. So when Toby receives a call for aid from a witch, Toby reluctantly involves Laura. There are sinister goings-on in Dark Falls, Oregon. A bloodthirsty beast of the night has been plaguing the town. As Toby struggles with his feelings for the irresistible Laura, she struggles to accept the alluring yet perilous world of the vampires. And as their attraction grows, so does the danger. For the prey they are hunting will prove to be a more deadly predator than either can imagine...
There Are Beings Worse Than Vampires...
Vampire Toby Wise knows there is a spy in his organization. He thinks Laura Fox, the beautiful nurse who looks after the invalid founder of Connor Corp., is one. But Laura is no mere spy -- she’s a reporter out for a hot story. So when Toby receives a call for aid from a witch, Toby reluctantly involves Laura. There are sinister goings-on in Dark Falls, Oregon. A bloodthirsty beast of the night has been plaguing the town. As Toby struggles with his feelings for the irresistible Laura, she struggles to accept the alluring yet perilous world of the vampires. And as their attraction grows, so does the danger. For the prey they are hunting will prove to be a more deadly predator than either can imagine...
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 2007
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Rosemary Laurey
46 books99 followersUSA Today Best-selling author Rosemary Laurey is an ex-pat Brit, retired special education teacher and grandmother who now lives in Ohio and has a wonderful time writing and letting her imagination run riot. Her hobbies are vacuuming, dusting and cleaning toilets but regrettably the demands of her writing career leave little time to engage in these pursuits.
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March 21, 2021
Book #1 of 20, from the giant, random box of backlist Paranormal Romance novels my brother got me for Christmas
What I enjoyed:
- terrible names (Toby Wise, Laura Fox)
- the existence of both Kit Marlowe and Vlad the Impaler within the actual cast of the book's characters
- the chupacabra subplot
- the use of "Nice!" as an exclamation during a love-making scene
- the FBI systematically ripping the main character's home apart for no reason, including accidentally hauling a vampire away while inside of his coffin, who then later bursts out of the side of the FBI van he's being hauled away in completely naked
- Non-ironic internal monologues including the phrases "Wowee!" and "Yikes!"
- a French vampire who everyone hates for seemingly no reason, aside from the fact that he is French, who ends up hooking up with a 60-year-old woman by the end of the book
- that a female character, who was a main in a previous installment of the series, is a "ghoul," essentially just a human with vampire powers who lives off of raw meat, including spending a scene where she carries dialogue just housing plastic trays of raw chicken
Things I did not enjoy AT ALL which are also the reason I cannot in good conscience recommend this book to anyone else to read:
- weirdly-placed casual homophobia
- blurry lines of consent
- racially-charged characterizations of antagonist vampires as specifically from Central America, including the fact that they utilize chupacabra familiars and use their paranormal gifts to install drug cartels in small towns as a means of gaining money and power
- out of the three Black characters, one ends up being the only sympathetic death in the book
- out of the three Black characters, one - the only woman of the three - ends up being introduced in uncomfortably sexually-focused terms, despite the fact that she is literally an FBI officer
- out of the three Black characters, the two male vampires come from inherently racist origins in ways that are spoken about with entirely too much nonchalance (ie, one came from a bad foster care system in their youth, and the other was born a slave in South Carolina, who talks about being whipped as a human, and how his relationship with a white female character would have been grounds for lynching in another time)
- the literal use of the n-word from one Black character against another, deliberately tagged in the dialogue as meant to be an insult (page 96)
- that the author was writing all of this as a British grandmother in 2007 and thought it was all cool and fine and normal
- the fact that almost none of this is mentioned in any of the Goodreads reviews on the site, so the only reason I didn't DNF, was because I wanted to make sure to mention it all here!
What I enjoyed:
- terrible names (Toby Wise, Laura Fox)
- the existence of both Kit Marlowe and Vlad the Impaler within the actual cast of the book's characters
- the chupacabra subplot
- the use of "Nice!" as an exclamation during a love-making scene
- the FBI systematically ripping the main character's home apart for no reason, including accidentally hauling a vampire away while inside of his coffin, who then later bursts out of the side of the FBI van he's being hauled away in completely naked
- Non-ironic internal monologues including the phrases "Wowee!" and "Yikes!"
- a French vampire who everyone hates for seemingly no reason, aside from the fact that he is French, who ends up hooking up with a 60-year-old woman by the end of the book
- that a female character, who was a main in a previous installment of the series, is a "ghoul," essentially just a human with vampire powers who lives off of raw meat, including spending a scene where she carries dialogue just housing plastic trays of raw chicken
Things I did not enjoy AT ALL which are also the reason I cannot in good conscience recommend this book to anyone else to read:
- weirdly-placed casual homophobia
- blurry lines of consent
- racially-charged characterizations of antagonist vampires as specifically from Central America, including the fact that they utilize chupacabra familiars and use their paranormal gifts to install drug cartels in small towns as a means of gaining money and power
- out of the three Black characters, one ends up being the only sympathetic death in the book
- out of the three Black characters, one - the only woman of the three - ends up being introduced in uncomfortably sexually-focused terms, despite the fact that she is literally an FBI officer
- out of the three Black characters, the two male vampires come from inherently racist origins in ways that are spoken about with entirely too much nonchalance (ie, one came from a bad foster care system in their youth, and the other was born a slave in South Carolina, who talks about being whipped as a human, and how his relationship with a white female character would have been grounds for lynching in another time)
- the literal use of the n-word from one Black character against another, deliberately tagged in the dialogue as meant to be an insult (page 96)
- that the author was writing all of this as a British grandmother in 2007 and thought it was all cool and fine and normal
- the fact that almost none of this is mentioned in any of the Goodreads reviews on the site, so the only reason I didn't DNF, was because I wanted to make sure to mention it all here!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 13, 2025
This story was a lot better than Antonia’s. I like the continuation of the previous book with Elizabeth, it tied the whole story together. For the last book in this sorta-series, I am happy with how it ended. I was starting to get tired of everyone turning into some sort of supernatural being, so I am happy that Laurey kept Laura human. Overall a great read!
March 20, 2020
Disjointed, tedious, poor character development
September 28, 2010
3.5 stars. I liked it. The writing and conversations have a spark.
The author had me chuckling several times. I liked the way luck came into play to foil the bad guy on a few different occasions. I wasn’t expecting luck to be a helper, but it was nice. I also liked reading about Toby’s past. He was a slave in S. Carolina just before the Civil War. He still had scars on his back. He escaped his owner by hiding on a British ship which took him to England. He later became a vampire in England and eventually moved to Oregon. There wasn’t a lot of time spent on this back story, but it was a good addition to the story. This is book 5 in a series. I have only read this one book, and I enjoyed it without knowing about the others. Another reviewer claims these books are better when read in order.
Story brief:
Evil vampire Axel comes to town, Dark Falls, and feeds from and mind controls Granger Fox, the local newspaper owner. Axel forces Granger to ask his daughter Laura to get a job in Piet’s home to gather evidence against Piet, who is old and dying. Piet lives in the nearby town of Devil’s Elbow. Laura gets a job working as a nurse for Piet. Toby is a vampire who is staying at Piet’s home to sort out Piet’s business affairs. Adela, a witch, lives in Dark Falls and is a friend of Toby’s. Axel has a familiar, an evil creature called a chupacabra. This creature is killing animals in the town. The local people think Adela is responsible and threaten her. Other vampires and a ghoul become involved. Laura and Toby fall in love during all the craziness.
Data:
Story length: 330 pages. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scenes: 5. Length of sex scenes: 2 short scenes (1 page each) and 3 long scenes (7, 8 and 9 pages). Setting: current day Oregon. Copyright: 2007. Genre: paranormal romance.
The author had me chuckling several times. I liked the way luck came into play to foil the bad guy on a few different occasions. I wasn’t expecting luck to be a helper, but it was nice. I also liked reading about Toby’s past. He was a slave in S. Carolina just before the Civil War. He still had scars on his back. He escaped his owner by hiding on a British ship which took him to England. He later became a vampire in England and eventually moved to Oregon. There wasn’t a lot of time spent on this back story, but it was a good addition to the story. This is book 5 in a series. I have only read this one book, and I enjoyed it without knowing about the others. Another reviewer claims these books are better when read in order.
Story brief:
Evil vampire Axel comes to town, Dark Falls, and feeds from and mind controls Granger Fox, the local newspaper owner. Axel forces Granger to ask his daughter Laura to get a job in Piet’s home to gather evidence against Piet, who is old and dying. Piet lives in the nearby town of Devil’s Elbow. Laura gets a job working as a nurse for Piet. Toby is a vampire who is staying at Piet’s home to sort out Piet’s business affairs. Adela, a witch, lives in Dark Falls and is a friend of Toby’s. Axel has a familiar, an evil creature called a chupacabra. This creature is killing animals in the town. The local people think Adela is responsible and threaten her. Other vampires and a ghoul become involved. Laura and Toby fall in love during all the craziness.
Data:
Story length: 330 pages. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scenes: 5. Length of sex scenes: 2 short scenes (1 page each) and 3 long scenes (7, 8 and 9 pages). Setting: current day Oregon. Copyright: 2007. Genre: paranormal romance.
May 22, 2011
I didn't like this book or this series but I didn't exactly dislike it either. Probably 1.5stars is best rating. This entry featured Toby & Laura to say more delves into why this was a bad book.
1) When there is a series of 5books - why recycle your own work?
2) I finished this series because it was a gift (although now I'm wondering if my sister even likes me; especially since she made me promise to finish it).
3) When writing both British & American characters - they don't speak the same english, keep it straight. I was confused when the american's couldn't stop speaking british english & british slang.
4) Romances need chemistry and there is more to chemistry than sex. I believe in falling fast but in a matter of hours each of the characters were irrevocably in love with the exact same character that was irrevocably in love with them??? (the half star was the sex scenes)
5) Characters should be interesting on their own. Most of them had plenty of potential but not much follow thru. I forgot everything about it & them as soon as the book was done - not memorable at all. I had to re-open the book to find the character's names.
6) Sophmoric writing -- a page quota?
7) Too often characters had information they shouldn't/couldn't/wouldn't. Causing confusion for both the characters and the reader.
Those are all huge obstacles to overcome, so what was good? Hmm....the premise wasn't bad. It was quick - a good thing. The conceit of historic literary figures being modern day vamps, great possibilities. Other supernatural's being in the mix (witches, ghouls, etc) and the variety of vampires could be an interesting ongoing series. These things were great jumping off points -- too bad the series fell flat on its face and the possibilities unexplored. One thing is certain, I will run from anything else by this author.
1) When there is a series of 5books - why recycle your own work?
2) I finished this series because it was a gift (although now I'm wondering if my sister even likes me; especially since she made me promise to finish it).
3) When writing both British & American characters - they don't speak the same english, keep it straight. I was confused when the american's couldn't stop speaking british english & british slang.
4) Romances need chemistry and there is more to chemistry than sex. I believe in falling fast but in a matter of hours each of the characters were irrevocably in love with the exact same character that was irrevocably in love with them??? (the half star was the sex scenes)
5) Characters should be interesting on their own. Most of them had plenty of potential but not much follow thru. I forgot everything about it & them as soon as the book was done - not memorable at all. I had to re-open the book to find the character's names.
6) Sophmoric writing -- a page quota?
7) Too often characters had information they shouldn't/couldn't/wouldn't. Causing confusion for both the characters and the reader.
Those are all huge obstacles to overcome, so what was good? Hmm....the premise wasn't bad. It was quick - a good thing. The conceit of historic literary figures being modern day vamps, great possibilities. Other supernatural's being in the mix (witches, ghouls, etc) and the variety of vampires could be an interesting ongoing series. These things were great jumping off points -- too bad the series fell flat on its face and the possibilities unexplored. One thing is certain, I will run from anything else by this author.
August 6, 2013
Sigh! Why do the good series have to end so soon? I want another Forever Vampire!
Toby Wise is house-sitting for Elizbeth Kyd in Devil's Elbow OR, keeping an eye on her invalid dad, Piet, while 'cleaning up' the financial records after Laran's 'hostile takeover'. But one of Piet's nurses, Laura Fox has a mission of her own. Forced on her by her dad's new 'friend' Axel.
The complications multiply, brought on by Axel's violent determination to bend the humans to his will.
Toby is confronted by the FBI, mind-controlled deputys and Chupacabras, handling it all with patience and tact. But his efforts to handle one little human just about does him in. Laura steals his heart as she runs frantically into danger to save her father.
Help arrives from Elizabeth and her stepmother, Adela Whyte; our favorite frenchman: Etiene Larousliere and Vlad Tepes and his warriors. Laura surprises then all, earning Vlad's admiration as she follows in Elizabeth's footsteps in rescuing her father.
Toby finally realizes what his male buddies have before: that you can't force your female to obey your commands. He learns to just love her (which he does very well) and try to keep her safe as helps her take on the world.
I love the interaction of the vampires, especially Etiene's idiosyncrasies. And the way Laura takes down Axel is priceless.
Favorite scene: Toby pranking the mob with the body of the dead Chupacabra after they burn down Adela's friend's house.
Toby Wise is house-sitting for Elizbeth Kyd in Devil's Elbow OR, keeping an eye on her invalid dad, Piet, while 'cleaning up' the financial records after Laran's 'hostile takeover'. But one of Piet's nurses, Laura Fox has a mission of her own. Forced on her by her dad's new 'friend' Axel.
The complications multiply, brought on by Axel's violent determination to bend the humans to his will.
Toby is confronted by the FBI, mind-controlled deputys and Chupacabras, handling it all with patience and tact. But his efforts to handle one little human just about does him in. Laura steals his heart as she runs frantically into danger to save her father.
Help arrives from Elizabeth and her stepmother, Adela Whyte; our favorite frenchman: Etiene Larousliere and Vlad Tepes and his warriors. Laura surprises then all, earning Vlad's admiration as she follows in Elizabeth's footsteps in rescuing her father.
Toby finally realizes what his male buddies have before: that you can't force your female to obey your commands. He learns to just love her (which he does very well) and try to keep her safe as helps her take on the world.
I love the interaction of the vampires, especially Etiene's idiosyncrasies. And the way Laura takes down Axel is priceless.
Favorite scene: Toby pranking the mob with the body of the dead Chupacabra after they burn down Adela's friend's house.
July 18, 2014
And again, such a good story. Seriously I love how these random romances spring up. "I'm hundreds of years old and am never going to find someone I'm interested in like that.... Ohhhh hello there....." After reading four of her books already I guess it's expected but it still makes me smile. Also twisting in a chupacabra into the story? Classic. Not something that would have been in a vampire novel but I liked it. :) I love the way that the characters from all of the books in the series are all twisted into each other's stories, it shows how well thought they all are. Although I must say that the story behind this book was very similar to the story of the ghouls. Really? This race of vampires just happens to always guilt trip only daughters about their fathers? A little too similar for my tastes but still a good story nonetheless.
June 12, 2011
Wow, did I get through this whole series? I guess I did, but I can't remember the ending because I kinda skimmed through it.
Its hard to write fiction, it's harder to write from a POV that is not your own. I get that but for God sakes an editor should be able to catch these mistakes of Americans never being ever in Europe not talking like an English person. While this book did have many fewer "I see."'s there were still the obligitory exclaimation points. It just breaks the romance scenes for me. I equate the ! to shouting, ending on a high pitched tone, alarm.
And don't even get me started on the nigger comment...
Its hard to write fiction, it's harder to write from a POV that is not your own. I get that but for God sakes an editor should be able to catch these mistakes of Americans never being ever in Europe not talking like an English person. While this book did have many fewer "I see."'s there were still the obligitory exclaimation points. It just breaks the romance scenes for me. I equate the ! to shouting, ending on a high pitched tone, alarm.
And don't even get me started on the nigger comment...
August 20, 2010
3.75 stars. She ended this series on a high note compared to the last couple of books!
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June 22, 2010Forever Vampires Series:
1. Kiss Me Forever
2. Love Me Forever
3. Be Mine Forever
4. Keep Me Forever
5. Midnight Lover
1. Kiss Me Forever
2. Love Me Forever
3. Be Mine Forever
4. Keep Me Forever
5. Midnight Lover
April 18, 2015
What happened?! Why couldn't the previous books be as good as this one?
My ass was laughing the entire time...no not farts included.
My ass was laughing the entire time...no not farts included.
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