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Deep is the Night #2
Night Watch
Inheriting a haunted house in notorious Pine Forest is the last thing Micky Gunn wanted, but escaping the Shadow People who haunted her world drove her toward the town and new terrors. When the Shadow People follow her, things go bump in the night, and weird accidents occur, Micky decides it's time to stop running and to fight back. Mysterious, gorgeous cop, Jared Thornton came to Pine Forest to investigate his Aunt Eliza Pickle's mysterious death. When he discovers that gutsy Micky is in danger, he vows to protect her against the shadows that haunt her, and a thousand year old vampire determined to silence them forever. Deep underground, the ancient one rests, plotting his next attempt to create havoc in Pine Forest. Nothing and no one will keep him from spreading his evil as Halloween swiftly approaches and the veil between worlds is thinnest.
338 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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About the author
Denise A. Agnew
109 books162 followersDenise A. Agnew is the award-winning author of over 70 novels and several optioned and produced screenplays and TV pilots.
Denise’s record proves that with paranormal, time travel, romantic comedy, contemporary, historical, erotic romance, romantic suspense and horror writing under her belt, she enjoys writing about a diverse range of subjects. Her experiences with archaeology and archery have crept into her work, as well as numerous travels through the UK and Ireland.
Denise is also a Writer/Producer (Where’s Lucy? Productions), a paranormal investigator (SOS Paranormal Investigations), Reiki Master, Certified Creativity Coach and Medium. As a Creativity Coach, Denise assists anyone in the creative arts, including writing and acting, to maintain lifelong creativity. Denise lives in Arizona with her husband. She is represented by Gandolfo Helin and Fountain Literary Management.
Visit Denise’s websites at www.deniseagnew.com and www.agnewcreativemedium.com
Denise’s record proves that with paranormal, time travel, romantic comedy, contemporary, historical, erotic romance, romantic suspense and horror writing under her belt, she enjoys writing about a diverse range of subjects. Her experiences with archaeology and archery have crept into her work, as well as numerous travels through the UK and Ireland.
Denise is also a Writer/Producer (Where’s Lucy? Productions), a paranormal investigator (SOS Paranormal Investigations), Reiki Master, Certified Creativity Coach and Medium. As a Creativity Coach, Denise assists anyone in the creative arts, including writing and acting, to maintain lifelong creativity. Denise lives in Arizona with her husband. She is represented by Gandolfo Helin and Fountain Literary Management.
Visit Denise’s websites at www.deniseagnew.com and www.agnewcreativemedium.com
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January 13, 2013
I really, really hated this book. That's about as unequivocally honest as I can be about it. The overly mushy romance was so high school to me. And the book felt like a repeat of the first one. How?
1. Jared used the same words to seduce Micky as Lachlan did on Erin.
2. Their relationship follows the same predictable pattern- even with the sex scene right before the showdown.
3. They fall in love in a matter of days and are already talking about marriage if they survive, just like Lachlan and Erin.
4. The sex was very similar, albeit Micky was a bit more freespirited and less self-conscious than Erin.
Also, I found Jared's character to be very annoying and overly dramatic. He is constantly picking at Ronan for no reason and is always eager for a fight. He comes off as very immature and a self-proclaimed know-it-all; especially when he tries to counsel Erin. That whole portion of the book was stiff and fake to me. The cop thing was also too much. A cop, pretending to be a cop in the bedroom is not kinky. He's doing his job. That was lame. To me anyway.
Another sore point for me was how childish and fake Erin and Lachlan sounded when breaking the truth to Micky. I mean, there isn't exactly a hand book on how to tell people they're being hunted by a thousand year old vampire but I've seen better attempts on film and in another books.
I also couldn't help feeling like everything in the book revolved around sex and happened only for sex and to inspire sex. I have nothing against romantic erotica. In fact, I've read many erotica books from Anne Rice with vampires, mortals, genies and all manner of creatures having gay, bi, necro, pedophile, incestuous, sadomasochistic, unwilling (rape) and heterosexual sex without it feeling like ever scene was contrived for that one purpose and that one aim.
Then of course there were the typos. There were less this time than the first book, but far too many for anyone's liking. I had to be rereading sentences to see what it was she truly meant.
And is it just me, or does every woman in this book/series begin by asserting their independence, only to become love slaves to the alpha male and unable to live, eat, breathe and sleep without them? What's the moral behind that? That us women are weak damsels in distress without Scottish body builders and arrogant police officers to defend us? I don't know about all that.... I've done fine all my 23 years without either of those. Tired of these damsel in distress books. It's bad enough when men pen us out that way, but even worse when women submit to and glorify it in their own writing.
My final grieviance is the sex scenes. Why is it that sex is only the best and mind-blowing if someone has an object up their backsides? I'm sorry but Micky screaming to Jared that she wants him in her ass was not sexy. I cringed through that whole scene. I've read books about gay sex that left me more turned on and hot and heavy than that awful sex scene.
Sorry. Just wasn't for me. I have no intention of reading that third book. I've endured enough. I'd rather go read about Anne Rice's Prince Charming spearing male love slaves up the arse than another book of this nonsense.
The End. ~_~
1. Jared used the same words to seduce Micky as Lachlan did on Erin.
2. Their relationship follows the same predictable pattern- even with the sex scene right before the showdown.
3. They fall in love in a matter of days and are already talking about marriage if they survive, just like Lachlan and Erin.
4. The sex was very similar, albeit Micky was a bit more freespirited and less self-conscious than Erin.
Also, I found Jared's character to be very annoying and overly dramatic. He is constantly picking at Ronan for no reason and is always eager for a fight. He comes off as very immature and a self-proclaimed know-it-all; especially when he tries to counsel Erin. That whole portion of the book was stiff and fake to me. The cop thing was also too much. A cop, pretending to be a cop in the bedroom is not kinky. He's doing his job. That was lame. To me anyway.
Another sore point for me was how childish and fake Erin and Lachlan sounded when breaking the truth to Micky. I mean, there isn't exactly a hand book on how to tell people they're being hunted by a thousand year old vampire but I've seen better attempts on film and in another books.
I also couldn't help feeling like everything in the book revolved around sex and happened only for sex and to inspire sex. I have nothing against romantic erotica. In fact, I've read many erotica books from Anne Rice with vampires, mortals, genies and all manner of creatures having gay, bi, necro, pedophile, incestuous, sadomasochistic, unwilling (rape) and heterosexual sex without it feeling like ever scene was contrived for that one purpose and that one aim.
Then of course there were the typos. There were less this time than the first book, but far too many for anyone's liking. I had to be rereading sentences to see what it was she truly meant.
And is it just me, or does every woman in this book/series begin by asserting their independence, only to become love slaves to the alpha male and unable to live, eat, breathe and sleep without them? What's the moral behind that? That us women are weak damsels in distress without Scottish body builders and arrogant police officers to defend us? I don't know about all that.... I've done fine all my 23 years without either of those. Tired of these damsel in distress books. It's bad enough when men pen us out that way, but even worse when women submit to and glorify it in their own writing.
My final grieviance is the sex scenes. Why is it that sex is only the best and mind-blowing if someone has an object up their backsides? I'm sorry but Micky screaming to Jared that she wants him in her ass was not sexy. I cringed through that whole scene. I've read books about gay sex that left me more turned on and hot and heavy than that awful sex scene.
Sorry. Just wasn't for me. I have no intention of reading that third book. I've endured enough. I'd rather go read about Anne Rice's Prince Charming spearing male love slaves up the arse than another book of this nonsense.
The End. ~_~
February 4, 2019
This was pretty good. It was different type of reading. The end was interesting. As I look at all the boxes of books I have I find myself wanting to dig through them all to see if I have the rest of the series. Hopefully soon I'll be able to unpack my library and find out
January 10, 2016
this book was really bad. I'm not going to go into a whole lot of detail when you can just read my review for the first one since they're the same damn book. no really its like she exhanged characters gave the romance plot a bad facelift then sent it out without any editing. the heroine of this one is slightly better than in the last book but other than that all the scenes felt exactly the same which just pissed me off because I felt like I wasted my time. even more obnoxious is the fact thati feel compelled to finish the series since there's only one left but I already know how that will turn out. oh and this book to cheesy to a level that even I queen of cheesy romances have never see. if you want more about the awfulness of these books see my review of book one in the trilogy
March 24, 2012
It was great! Really interesting!
March 3, 2014
Totally loving this series.
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