The few times Gleason explores Lilith’s point of view make me want to go read horribly non-canon Max/Lilith fanfiction. Lilith’s twisted, obsessive love of/lust for Max gets me every time it shows up. But the daywalker characters are pretty thin, which really shows as Lilith sizzles off the page. It doesn’t help that a bite she received in the third book has her battling vampire instincts, hoping the Venator side will win in the end. It’s hard to be an innocuous vampire hunter when you keep stumbling on dead bodies and the inspector has it out for you, as Victoria finds out. She’s managed to get her hands on the daywalker recipe and has some minions out and about, framing Victoria for murder. On the action side of things, I want more Lilith. This is the trouble with love triangles.) (Plus, I could tell she wasn’t going to end up with my favorite from book one which just makes it hard for me to root for the decided couple. Both of them have a thing for her, even if one doesn’t admit it, but by this point both have done some pretty crappy things to her. When the fourth novel starts, I’m not sure I want her to end up with either of these men. On the romance side, Victoria Gardella is caught between pretty and untrustworthy Sebastian Vioget and uptight prig dashing Max Pesaro.

Since I like Buffy, what I really care about is that the Gardella Vampire Chronicles deliver on what they promise: action and romance.

The sequels move away from reminding me strongly of Buffy as the mythos becomes more developed.

I quickly caught myself up to speed, so this review may be a little confused on which events happen in which books. Of course, some other shiny caught my eye and they languished on my shelf until I received a review copy of When Twilight Burns. It reminded me very, very strongly of Buffy but I still enjoyed it – enough that I picked up the next two on a trip to Half-Price. I saw it in the library and picked it up for a road trip. Historical Paranormal Romance published by Signet 5 Aug 08Ĭolleen Gleason’s series first caught my eye when The Rest Falls Away won the DA BWAHA award. Liviania’s Review of When Twilight Burns (Gardella Vampire Chronicles, Book 4) by Colleen Gleason

When twilight burns by colleen gleason