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Three Reasons You Should Read This Paranormal Romance:
- Into the Fire by Jeaniene Frost wraps up the Vlad and Leila love story, but it isn’t all pretty bows and ribbons.
- There is some very interesting background information about Leila revealed that helps explain a lot about her powers and abilities.
- Vlad gets some pretty hefty secrets dumped on him as well – the past will never rest.
About Into the Fire by Jeaniene Frost
Title: Into the Fire
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Series: Night Prince #4
Genre: Paranormal Romance
In the wrong hands, love can be a deadly weapon.
For nearly six hundred years, Vlad Tepesh cared for nothing, so he had nothing to lose. His brutal reputation ensured that all but the most foolhardy stayed away. Now falling in love with Leila has put him at the mercy of his passions. And one adversary has found a devastating way to use Vlad’s new bride against him.
A powerful spell links Leila to the necromancer Mircea. If he suffers or dies, so does she. Magic is forbidden to vampires, so Vlad and Leila enlist an unlikely guide as they search for a way to break the spell. But an ancient enemy lies in wait, capable of turning Vlad and Leila’s closest friends against them…and finally tearing the lovers apart forever.
My review of Into the Fire:
The final book in the story of Vlad and Leila didn’t feel like as much of a romance as it did an urban fantasy. Yes, we still have all the romance elements and a happily ever after (or for now at least), but so much happened without the two of them being together. It tried too hard to bring the side characters to the forefront of the story. And I assume that’s because their story will be coming soon. But it did cause this last book to fall a little flat in the romance department.
Now, I enjoy a good urban fantasy all the time, so the lack of togetherness didn’t bother me in general. But this was supposed to be a romance. The urban fantasy part of me loved the action and the lore. Finally seeing how Leila “came to be” and learning more about her history was really nice – if it did take up a little too much of the story. It gets stuck there for quite a while. But, in a world as vast as Jeaniene Frost’s, there may be a reason for this that I don’t understand just yet.
Vlad’s past is fleshed out a lot more, and we find out that his version isn’t really the right one – and he doesn’t know it. I really enjoyed that part of the storyline. The shock and confusion from a vampire that always strives so hard to stay in control and all-knowing was a nice change of pace.
There are still a lot of loose ends at the conclusion of the book, but we do know that there are people working on “things” still. Again, this gave it less the feeling of an ending for Vlad and Leila and more of a feeling of a setup for what happens next – those two were just along for the ride.
