Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost ~ Book Review

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Three reasons you should read this Paranormal Romance:

In Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost, Vlad is a strong alpha-male vampire with a shield around his heart, and he’s about to find out love isn’t the enemy.
Leila is an outspoken heroine with a vampire best friend that can match her snark for snark – the dialog was amazing.
The characters detest the modern Dracula stereotype, but somehow still manage to live up to it.

About Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost

Title: Once Burned
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Series: Night Prince #1
Genre: Paranormal Romance

She’s a mortal with dark powers…

After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person’s darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude…until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world’s most infamous vampire…

He’s the Prince of Night…

Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all—but whatever you do, don’t call him Dracula. Vlad’s ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires in existence, but his enemies have found a new weapon against him—a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When Vlad and Leila meet, however, passion ignites between them, threatening to consume them both. It will take everything that they are to stop an enemy intent on bringing them down in flames.

My Review of Once Burned:

Vampires are real, and one just happens to be a little person in an acrobatic act for the circus. His partner is Leila, an unusual woman, but completely human. She can read people when she touches them and has the power of electricity in her touch. While her electrical ability sounds really cool, it means she can’t touch anyone without potentially killing them (hence the vampire acrobatic partner – he won’t die). But it’s the reading of people that gets her noticed.

A kidnapping, a rescue, some threats, and a long trip overseas finds her in the amazingly extravagant home of Vlad Tepesh – yes, THE Vlad Tepesh. He is determined to use Leila to find whoever is out to hunt him down, and also prevent them from using her to do the same to him. But first, they need to figure out who the bad guy is.

Vlad is a mercurial sort of vampire. He hides his heart from the world and refuses to let himself love anyone. But Leila intrigues him, and he soon finds that it might just be worth it to open himself up again. Leila challenges him on multiple emotional levels and never backs down from him – something that is usually a very dangerous thing to do.

Leila, and her friend Marty, made Once Burned for me. They are all the friendship goals in the world, and he better not die or I will be really upset. Vlad was fun, but also a bit of the vampire cliche – tall, dark, handsome, brooding, moody, violent. It didn’t seem like anything really new.

I’m excited to read the next book in the Night Prince series. I think there’s a lot of adventure and romance in store for Vlad and Leila, and I can’t wait to see how the battle plays out.