Official Review: Dark Stranger The Dream by I.T. Lucas
Posted: 20 Jul 2015, 07:56
[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Dark Stranger The Dream" by I.T. Lucas.]
3 out of 4 stars
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It always amazes me when authors of speculative fiction take an old idea, dice it up into tiny little pieces, add a few ingredients of their own, and create something entirely new and profoundly captivating. In Dark Stranger The Dream (The Children of the Gods Series Book 1 by I.T. Lucas, the vampire spinoff creatures we meet are called near-immortals. Kian, belonging to a small clan of near-immortals, is totally gung ho about a mortal woman named Syssi. The irony of this whole situation is that when his sister Amanda first tries to hook him up with her, he is entirely against it. When he sees her for the first time, however, he wants nothing more than to divest her down and penetrate her with his... fangs.
Of course, there are other things he wants to do to her besides bite her. Come now, people, this is a paranormal romance novel after all. Enticing to ardent romance lovers as this may sound so far, there are certainly other factors to look forward to as well. A member of Kian's clan has been assassinated by a near-immortal who belongs to another clan called Doomers. After ransacking his sister's lab, the Doomers come across a notebook containing the names of Amanda's research subjects in it. Syssi is rated the strongest, and because of this, she might be a potential near-immortal. Will Kian get to her before the Doomers do?
Like Annani, the last remaining goddess she bestows on us, I.T. Lucas knows her colorful selection of characters very well. Inconsistencies play no part in this awe-inspiring bundle of nocturnal monstrosities, ancient humanoid automations, and inducements so akin to erotic romance novels that promises to hook its talons into its readers and steer them to the very edge of their covert imaginings.
With her quality of writing barely bordering on sophistication, I.T. Lucas's talent for the written word certainly deserves its own unambiguous round of applause. If not for the aforementioned, then certainly for the accolade due to a read engrained with a flawless buildup and execution of developments. The one vice apparent to me is how high the level of the paranormal element is in contrast to the romance element. Readers might be in serious danger of forgetting what genre it is the book they're reading falls into. Albeit so, readers might agree upon reaching this novel's cliffhanger conclusion that the tone is certainly set for the next two installments of a series that promises to be quite a ride.
If you are a reader with one foot planted firmly in E.L. James's Fifty Shades Trilogy, and the other in novels similar to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series, then this one is for you. In regard to my overall opinion, I don't think this novel is balanced well enough; the genre scale favors the paranormal side heavily. My rating is 3 out of 4.
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3 out of 4 stars
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It always amazes me when authors of speculative fiction take an old idea, dice it up into tiny little pieces, add a few ingredients of their own, and create something entirely new and profoundly captivating. In Dark Stranger The Dream (The Children of the Gods Series Book 1 by I.T. Lucas, the vampire spinoff creatures we meet are called near-immortals. Kian, belonging to a small clan of near-immortals, is totally gung ho about a mortal woman named Syssi. The irony of this whole situation is that when his sister Amanda first tries to hook him up with her, he is entirely against it. When he sees her for the first time, however, he wants nothing more than to divest her down and penetrate her with his... fangs.
Of course, there are other things he wants to do to her besides bite her. Come now, people, this is a paranormal romance novel after all. Enticing to ardent romance lovers as this may sound so far, there are certainly other factors to look forward to as well. A member of Kian's clan has been assassinated by a near-immortal who belongs to another clan called Doomers. After ransacking his sister's lab, the Doomers come across a notebook containing the names of Amanda's research subjects in it. Syssi is rated the strongest, and because of this, she might be a potential near-immortal. Will Kian get to her before the Doomers do?
Like Annani, the last remaining goddess she bestows on us, I.T. Lucas knows her colorful selection of characters very well. Inconsistencies play no part in this awe-inspiring bundle of nocturnal monstrosities, ancient humanoid automations, and inducements so akin to erotic romance novels that promises to hook its talons into its readers and steer them to the very edge of their covert imaginings.
With her quality of writing barely bordering on sophistication, I.T. Lucas's talent for the written word certainly deserves its own unambiguous round of applause. If not for the aforementioned, then certainly for the accolade due to a read engrained with a flawless buildup and execution of developments. The one vice apparent to me is how high the level of the paranormal element is in contrast to the romance element. Readers might be in serious danger of forgetting what genre it is the book they're reading falls into. Albeit so, readers might agree upon reaching this novel's cliffhanger conclusion that the tone is certainly set for the next two installments of a series that promises to be quite a ride.
If you are a reader with one foot planted firmly in E.L. James's Fifty Shades Trilogy, and the other in novels similar to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series, then this one is for you. In regard to my overall opinion, I don't think this novel is balanced well enough; the genre scale favors the paranormal side heavily. My rating is 3 out of 4.
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Dark Stranger The Dream
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