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Narrated by:
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Carolyn Eve
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Arthur Russell
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By:
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Karina Halle
About this listen
From the New York Times bestselling author of River of Shadows and Black Sunshine comes a new dark gothic romance duet about how love can transcend the ages, but at a deadly cost.
Is it her destiny to love him?
Or is it her destiny to die?
Valtu Aminoff is no stranger to tragedy. Though many know him as the enigmatic vampire that inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, Valtu's complex life is far more horrific than any fiction could imagine. When you lose the love of your life over and over again, it can do more than break your heart—it can corrupt your soul.
It's up to his new lover to decide if Valtu's damaged soul is even worth saving.
But destiny isn't done with Valtu yet. And tragedy is always around the corner.
Contains mature themes.
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Blood Orange
- Dracula Duet, Book 1
- By: Karina Halle
- Narrated by: Arthur Russell, Carolyn Eve
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Dahlia Abernathy has only known revenge. When her parents were killed at an early age by vampires, Dahlia spent the rest of her life under the thumb of the Witch's Guild being trained to kill them. Her latest mission sends her undercover to a prestigious music academy in Venice, Italy. Her goal? To kill Professor Valtu Aminoff, her teacher and the notorious vampire who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. But getting close to a dangerous vampire like Professor Aminoff is one thing. Falling for him is another.
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oh.my.god
- By Author Katherine Fox on 01-27-25
By: Karina Halle
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Black Sunshine
- By: Karina Halle
- Narrated by: Sofia Willingham
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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A week before Lenore Warwick's 21st birthday, she's kidnapped by the brooding and dangerous stranger with cold eyes and a lethal touch, who has been stalking her on San Francisco's fog-shrouded streets. Absolon "Solon" Stavig isn't your average criminal though. He's a centuries-old vampire who's caught between wanting to kill Lenore and wanting to save her.
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Loved the story, didn’t love the narrator
- By Briel on 08-31-23
By: Karina Halle
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House of Bane and Blood
- Order and Chaos Series, Book 1
- By: Alexis Menard
- Narrated by: Jacci Prior, James Cavenaugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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Nico has his own motivations for their union beyond maintaining peace with her family. A serial kidnapper known as The Collector has been ravaging the streets of Remnant Row, stirring up mistrust between natives and descendants. If Milla can help restore safety to his streets, he'll have no need for her or her family's company. Find the Collector, prevent a war between their sides of the city, and pay off the family debt before she turns twenty-one. If Milla can fulfill her end of the bargain, she'll walk away with more freedom than she's ever had before.
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Top 3 Books of 2024!
- By KSTEGS on 04-26-24
By: Alexis Menard
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Ablaze: Her Move
- The Second-Born Series, Book 1
- By: Alexus Russell
- Narrated by: Adrienne Fleming
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Princess Lorilys has spent the last three years preparing to rule the kingdom she inherited from her sister. As her ascension approaches, a rebellion emerges, endangering everything she has sworn to protect: her family and the future of the molecularly talented citizens of Lawrencia.
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NEED book #2!!!
- By Rachel Lynn Burchett on 04-08-25
By: Alexus Russell
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A Vow of Dragons and Storms
- The Lost Fae Riders Series, Book 1
- By: G. Bailey
- Narrated by: Anne Robert
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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It turns out the last of the dragon rider fae have been locked in a trap, a mansion with no doors, no way to leave for five hundred years, and I’m the first fae to enter. The dragon fae riders know nothing of the world outside or the vampyres who have taken over in their absence, and most don’t trust me.
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Wonderful pacing. Good world building
- By Mira Coronado on 11-28-24
By: G. Bailey
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The Nymphos of Rocky Flats
- Felix Gomez Series, Book 1
- By: Mario Acevedo
- Narrated by: Andre Chapoy
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire. Now he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue when an old friend prompts him to investigate an outbreak of nymphomania at the secret government facilities in Rocky Flats. He’ll find out the cause of all these horny woman or die trying! But to do so, he must contend with shadowy government agents, Eastern European vampire hunters, and women who want him just for his body.
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More of a tease than I thought it would be
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 03-22-25
By: Mario Acevedo
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Blood Orange
- Dracula Duet, Book 1
- By: Karina Halle
- Narrated by: Arthur Russell, Carolyn Eve
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Dahlia Abernathy has only known revenge. When her parents were killed at an early age by vampires, Dahlia spent the rest of her life under the thumb of the Witch's Guild being trained to kill them. Her latest mission sends her undercover to a prestigious music academy in Venice, Italy. Her goal? To kill Professor Valtu Aminoff, her teacher and the notorious vampire who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. But getting close to a dangerous vampire like Professor Aminoff is one thing. Falling for him is another.
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oh.my.god
- By Author Katherine Fox on 01-27-25
By: Karina Halle
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Black Sunshine
- By: Karina Halle
- Narrated by: Sofia Willingham
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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A week before Lenore Warwick's 21st birthday, she's kidnapped by the brooding and dangerous stranger with cold eyes and a lethal touch, who has been stalking her on San Francisco's fog-shrouded streets. Absolon "Solon" Stavig isn't your average criminal though. He's a centuries-old vampire who's caught between wanting to kill Lenore and wanting to save her.
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Loved the story, didn’t love the narrator
- By Briel on 08-31-23
By: Karina Halle
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House of Bane and Blood
- Order and Chaos Series, Book 1
- By: Alexis Menard
- Narrated by: Jacci Prior, James Cavenaugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Nico has his own motivations for their union beyond maintaining peace with her family. A serial kidnapper known as The Collector has been ravaging the streets of Remnant Row, stirring up mistrust between natives and descendants. If Milla can help restore safety to his streets, he'll have no need for her or her family's company. Find the Collector, prevent a war between their sides of the city, and pay off the family debt before she turns twenty-one. If Milla can fulfill her end of the bargain, she'll walk away with more freedom than she's ever had before.
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Top 3 Books of 2024!
- By KSTEGS on 04-26-24
By: Alexis Menard
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Ablaze: Her Move
- The Second-Born Series, Book 1
- By: Alexus Russell
- Narrated by: Adrienne Fleming
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Princess Lorilys has spent the last three years preparing to rule the kingdom she inherited from her sister. As her ascension approaches, a rebellion emerges, endangering everything she has sworn to protect: her family and the future of the molecularly talented citizens of Lawrencia.
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NEED book #2!!!
- By Rachel Lynn Burchett on 04-08-25
By: Alexus Russell
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A Vow of Dragons and Storms
- The Lost Fae Riders Series, Book 1
- By: G. Bailey
- Narrated by: Anne Robert
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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It turns out the last of the dragon rider fae have been locked in a trap, a mansion with no doors, no way to leave for five hundred years, and I’m the first fae to enter. The dragon fae riders know nothing of the world outside or the vampyres who have taken over in their absence, and most don’t trust me.
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Wonderful pacing. Good world building
- By Mira Coronado on 11-28-24
By: G. Bailey
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The Nymphos of Rocky Flats
- Felix Gomez Series, Book 1
- By: Mario Acevedo
- Narrated by: Andre Chapoy
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire. Now he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue when an old friend prompts him to investigate an outbreak of nymphomania at the secret government facilities in Rocky Flats. He’ll find out the cause of all these horny woman or die trying! But to do so, he must contend with shadowy government agents, Eastern European vampire hunters, and women who want him just for his body.
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More of a tease than I thought it would be
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 03-22-25
By: Mario Acevedo
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A Fire in the Sky
- A Novel
- By: Sophie Jordan
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, Fiona Hardingham, Joe Jameson, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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When Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, descends on her home, Tamsyn’s world becomes even more dangerous. To save the pampered princesses from a fate worse than death, she is commanded to don a veil and marry the brutal warrior. She agrees to the deception even though it means leaving Stig, and the only life she’s ever known, behind.
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Barely more than an eleven hour prologue
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 03-24-25
By: Sophie Jordan
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Sign of the Slayer
- Soul of the Slayer, Book 1
- By: Sharina Harris
- Narrated by: James Fouhey, Julienne Irons
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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High school is supposed to be about studying, socializing, and marching-band practice. Not fighting vampires. Then one night flipped my world inside out-now, my life sucks. But it isn't all bad. I'm at a slayer academy, learning things like the real origin of vamps and how to make serious weapons out of thin air. Every last one of them will pay for what they did. I'm doing great. Until I come face-to-face with the actual vampire prince.
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The wait is over...
- By Kindle Customer on 02-26-24
By: Sharina Harris
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Darkhouse
- Experiment in Terror Series, Book 1
- By: Karina Halle
- Narrated by: Jo Raylan
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Dex and Perry might have the chemistry of Mulder and Scully and the scares of the Winchester Brothers, but I promise you this duo is unlike anything you've seen before. When 23-year-old Perry Palomino explores a supposedly haunted lighthouse, she runs into Youtuber Dex Foray, a sexy, snarky and opportunistic ghost hunter who doesn't quite believe in ghosts. What Dex does believe in is making money and in Perry he sees a viable opportunity: create a ghost-hunting show on YouTube.
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Waiting for the Next Book
- By H Price on 04-22-17
By: Karina Halle
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A Ship of Bones and Teeth
- By: Karina Halle
- Narrated by: Jo Raylan, John Masterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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Princess Maren is a woman with a secret. Ten years ago she sold her soul to the sea witch Edonia, giving up a life underwater in exchange for the love of Prince Aerik on land. But after a decade of abuse and misery inflicted by the cruel prince, Maren wants nothing more than to reverse the spell. An opportunity for escape presents itself when the prince and princess are traveling overseas and are taken hostage by a band of notorious pirates, led by the fearsome Captain Ramsay "Bones" Battista.
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I really enjoyed the alternate options for the Little mermaid retelling.
- By Mandy Kerns on 02-09-25
By: Karina Halle
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Born in Blood
- A Broken Bloodlines Origin Story
- By: Sadie Kincaid
- Narrated by: Maxine Mitchell, Joe Arden, Sean Masters
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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Welcome to Georgian England, circa 1800. Alastair Thorne is a cad and a rake. Even his mother told him so. Pity for her that he cannot bring himself to care, for he relishes his life of debauchery and licentiousness, and is content thinking of no-one but himself. Except Alastair may have just messed with the wrong fair maiden, and his life is about to be cut violently short. That is until he comes face to face with the enigmatic stranger who's been watching him from afar.
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The length! Wtf
- By rebecca on 04-13-25
By: Sadie Kincaid
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Dragon's Kiss
- Blood & Flame Saga, Book 1
- By: E.A. Winters
- Narrated by: Kim Bretton
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Every month, the great black dragon comes. Every month, a child is snatched. That's all the village of Kalma knows. Semra is one of those children, and she knows the truth: there is a dragonlord in the mountain, raising the children into his personal syndicate of assassins. When seventeen-year-old Semra learns they aren't fighting evil but are in fact evil themselves, she risks everything to expose the dragonlord.
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Great Clean Fantasy Read
- By Gina Weber on 12-31-24
By: E.A. Winters
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Strange Beasts
- By: Susan J. Morris
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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At the dawn of the twentieth century in Paris, Samantha Harker, daughter of Dracula's killer, works as a researcher for the Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena. But no one realizes how abnormal she is. Sam is a channel into the minds of monsters: a power that could help her solve the gruesome deaths plaguing turn-of-the-century Paris—or have her thrown into an asylum.
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SO GOOD💗
- By Lababybendecida on 10-28-24
By: Susan J. Morris
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River of Shadows
- Underworld Gods Series, Book 1
- By: Karina Halle
- Narrated by: Jo Raylan
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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When twenty-four-year old Hanna Heikkinen's estranged father dies, she reluctantly makes the trip to Northern Finland for his funeral. Being in the enchanting land of ice and snow feels miles away from Hanna's busy life back in Los Angeles, especially under the complicated circumstances. But when Hanna discovers that her father's body is missing, that's when things really get weird. A mysterious man, Rasmus, tells Hanna the truth: her father was a powerful shaman who went into Tuonela, the Realm of the Dead, in order to barter for more life.
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So disappointed
- By rowpattie on 09-19-22
By: Karina Halle
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The Last Raven
- The Ravens, Book 1
- By: Helen Glynn Jones
- Narrated by: Jane Fox
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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As sole heir to the House of Raven, there is nothing Emelia can’t have. The only problem is, she doesn’t want it. But when a new guard enters her closed-off existence, she sees a way out. As rebellion and dark forces swirl around her, Emelia has a choice to make – leave everyone she loves behind, or stay and accept her destiny…
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Good but....
- By Gryy on 03-27-25
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The Twice-Sold Soul
- A Second-Chance Queer Fantasy Romance
- By: Katie Hallahan
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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You can’t outrun your demons—McKenna Ellerbeck knows this all too well. She’s been running from literal demons for a decade, one that will stop at nothing to take McKenna’s magic for their own and one that shattered her heart by grasping for dark power. After a horrible run-in with hellhounds on the streets of Paris, McKenna is ready to hide again when she’s confronted by her ex, the Archdemon of Desire Remiel Blake.
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Buffy meets TVD in this bi fantasy!!
- By kaleigh kailani on 12-05-24
By: Katie Hallahan
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Vow of Revenge
- A Novel (The Mafia Academy Series, Book 1)
- By: P. Rayne
- Narrated by: Lance Greenfield, Meg Sylvan
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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When my father arranged for me to marry the heir to the Costa crime family, I swore I’d do anything to escape that fate. I have more to offer than being some man’s arm candy and producing heirs. Marcelo Costa might be my fiancé, but he’ll never be my husband. So when he and his father are killed in a car bombing, I consider myself lucky. No longer will I have to go from being a mafia princess to becoming a mafia wife, I can now attend the Sicuro Academy—a private college created for mafia children like me.
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Marcelo & Mirabella
- By Jake J on 03-25-25
By: P. Rayne
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The Pact
- By: Karina Halle
- Narrated by: Lidia Dornet, Shaun Grindell
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Linden McGregor is tall, rugged, and gunslinger handsome - a helicopter pilot with a Scottish brogue and charm to spare. He's also one of Stephanie Robson's best friends and has fit into that box for as long as she's known him.
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- By Smitten with Reading on 12-19-15
By: Karina Halle
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-10-25
Valtus Voice🥵🥵
I loved this Duet. The storyline and the emotions it took me through was definitely a roller coaster,
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-03-25
wonderful!!
Wonderful narration, plot and SPICE!! This duet was such a great read. I loved it!
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- Ashley
- 10-24-24
Obsessed!
Loved this ending for Rose and Val. It never bored me and I couldn’t stop listening! Excited to check out the other stories from different characters in the story. Hope Karina writes one for roses brothers! I’d definitely read it
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- Anonymous User
- 09-26-24
dark romance is not my shit
full of violent ,blood and dirty dirty sex scence that somehow too dirty for my taste,it make me dizzy and nauseous. I think I should go back to my small town romance lol nothing wrong with the book tho it's amazing but it's just not suit me.
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- Author Katherine Fox
- 01-31-25
Great conclusion!
This was such a great conclusion to the story! im sad its over haha. Rose and Val finally get their ending
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- Elyanna
- 10-13-24
Action, Spice, Halloween Vibes, and of course sexy Dracula
This listen was fun and kept me interested the whole time. My ADHD brain never had an instance of feeling like this boon wasnt moving along quickly enough. Definitely a lot of spice with some depraved vampire shenanigans. I think the narrators were perfect for this book! Definitely an accurate description of Venice as well 👍🏻
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- Jericha K
- 01-10-25
I'm going to miss Val and his love!
What a great duet! I loved the narration, there will never be a more perfect Dracula! Now I'm going down a rabbit hole to listen/read all of Karina Halle's work!
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- 30/F/HI
- 03-31-25
Awesome series. High heat+ HEA
Ok first- what you really want to know: If you liked book 1 , buy the damn book immediately. And the sex scenes are very very good! Lots of dark rough totally unique scenes. High heat and lots of it! Possibly even More than book 1 I think. Still they fit into the plot seamlessly and didn’t detract from the story.
A bit of a different vibe than book one. It did seem like things are left a bit open ended and unanswered. Not so much that it messed with the plot and while it’s a bit frustrating I got the feeling (🤞🏻hoping!🤞🏻) that it’s setting up for future books. Just like how this series is interconnected with the dark eyes series. Maybe it will follow her brother… that seemed the obvious choice to me.
Fantastic duet narration with good amounts of both characters POV. I did think it wrapped up somewhat suddenly. Made me feel like the ending of book 2 wasn’t as awesome as the first 2/3s and book 1. Maybe that’s due to a wrap up of the story and a HEA. Not as sexy and dramatic and again it left me with questions. But it was sweet and loving and I
M happy with it.
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- Yaya
- 01-09-25
Wow 🤩!!! What a fantastic journey….
I loved this book. This author gives you a well thought out and complete story. You’ll fall in love with these characters. The pacing is great. The steamy scenes are hot 🥵 and there are several unexpected laugh out loud moments. This was a fantastic book. The narrators did an amazing job. I will certainly search for more books by everyone involved. Highly recommend this duet.
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- Brandy lenz
- 02-10-25
Orange blood & Black Rose
I truly love this 2 book set with a twist to the Dracula stories! I hope to hear many more…
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