Book Review (65).

Darker After Midnight (Midnight Breed #10)

by Lara Adrian

Publication: 24th January 2012

Publisher: Random House

Pages: 369

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Age Appropriate: Adult

*Warning May Contain Spoilers From Previous Books In The Series**

In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret for many long centuries, maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order—a cadre of Breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind alike—to stop Dragos, the power-mad vampire at the center of the conflict, before his push for domination can explode into catastrophe.

At the center of the Order’s quest is Sterling Chase, once a morally rigid enforcer of Breed law, now a warrior fallen from grace, whose biggest battle is the one he wages against his own savage nature. With addiction beckoning him toward eternal darkness, Chase’s path to redemption has never seemed more out of reach—until he finds himself drawn to a beautiful young woman who may be something much more than she seems . . . 

My Thoughts.

I'm glad to see that this is not going to be the final book in this series as reported, on Lara Adrian's site there are two more books at least to come out in the series.

I was anxious to see how Chases' book would turn out given he was on his way to Bloodlust and there didn't seem to be any way out of it, after being arrested at the end of the last book taking the blame for a bombing that Dragos committed, so  the cops chase the terroists to the Order's compound and to take the attention away from the Order he surrenders to the police.

While in police custody he is taken into a room where the eyewitness Tavia picks him out of the line up  Chase breaks out and finds that the Senator whom Tavia works for is a Minion turned by Dragos , who hopes to lure in the Vice-President of the United States and turn him as well.

After catching up with Tavia he discovers that she is a female Breed but she believes that her glyphs are actually burns she got as a child after her 'Aunt' had her take medication which toned down her Breed characteristics and left her unaware of her actual physical make-up.

Dragos has managed to screw with dna and Tavia is the daughter of a Gen One and a Breedmate, so she's Breed with a Breedmate birthmark.

They have immediate chemistry and make a great couple and Tavia helps Chase get through his Bloodlust.

I loved that everybody appeared in this book and that we see the christening ceremony of Dante and Tess' son Xander Raphael and  the pregnancy of Elise the mate of Tegan.

The Breedmates in the Order discover that they are descended from Atlanteans and that the queen may still be alive and the Order are outed after Dragos sets loose all of the Rogues that were being held in the Enforcement Agency's around the world.

The epilogue at the end reassembles the Order and their mates at a congress meeting where they are recognised as their own species.

This made for a great way for the supposed ending of the series but now that there are another couple of books being released I'm interested to see what happens next.

Another great book in this fantastic series.

I give this 5/5.