Midnight's Daughter (Dorina Basarab, Dhampir, Book 1) | Karen Chance

Midnight's Daughter (Dorina Basarab, Dhampir, Book 1) | Karen Chance | I liked Dory better than Cassie!

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	Midnight's Daughter (Dorina Basarab, Dhampir, Book 1) Karen Chance Onyx, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen chance has written a paranormal?with bite.

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir?half-human, half-vampire. Unlike most dhampirs, though, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity. Now Dory?s vampire father has come to her for help? again. Her Uncle Dracula (yes, the Dracula), cruelest among vampires, has escaped his prison. And her father wants Dory to work with gorgeous master vampire Louis-Cesare to put him back there.

Although Dory prefers to work alone, Dracula is the only thing that truly scares her?and when she has to face him, she?ll take all the help she can get?

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Midnight's the Right Time

For fans of the Cassie Palmer series, this newest walk on the dark side in Cassie's world is a welcome addition. For readers who have never met Cassie, you are not left in the dark. You can easily pick up this book & fall into the wicked fun & adventure in this world of vampires, and other creepy crawlies.
Dory is a strong, layered character, and fans of paranormal romance & adventure will delight in the escapades & the banter in this book.
And hey, if you like this, go back & pick up the first three books in the Cassie Palmer series. For those of us who took a chance on Chance back int he beginning, this is just one more keeper for the book shelf, and a taste of wichedness to come when book four in the Cassie series comes out in April 2009.

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I liked Dory better than Cassie!

I am a big fan of Karen Chance. IMHO this book was even better than her Cassie series. I have read all three of the Cassie books but I had not read the short story from In the Prowl ANthology. I think you need some background before reading this book, because it jumps straight into the action.

This has all the features of the Cassie series- lots and lots of action. A strong heroine, and gorgeous vamps. I preferred Dory to Cassie because of the sense of vulnerablity she has and her insecurities related to being a Dhampir. The love hate relationship between her and her Dad (Mircea) was a nice touch. It was interesting seeing Mircea from a different POV.

The romantic tension between Dory and Louis-Cesare sizzles. They start out hating each other and move towards sexual and emotional attraction. I loved this! However there was no resolution in the end and Louis-Cesare just dissappears after the big climax scene. The introduction of Caedmon allows for a potential romantic triangle just as in the Cassie books.I hope there will be more books about Dory in the future.

Buy this book, you will gobble it up in a single setting, it is hard to put down!

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Mignight's Daughter

Great book. I enjoyed the Cassie Palmer series and I think that this is a great spin off of that one.

Midnight's Daughter by Karen Chance

Very, very hard to review this book. I gobbled up Karen Chance's Cassie Palmer series and am anxiously awaiting book four to be released in April 2009. So I jumped on "Midnight's Daughter" which is an offshoot of that series. Technically, this is a standalone novel. But IMHO, you really should read about Cassie and that world before taking on Dorina. It provides a deeper insight into her world and events that have shaped the actions and intentions of some characters in her book.

Dorina is a dhampir, half human, half vamp, and has fits of uncontrollable rages like all dhampir. She's unusual in that she has managed to stay alive for over 500 years by channeling her rages into killing non-human creatures. When Daddy dearest shows up, Dorina knows it's not good news. When Daddy dearest asks her to go after Uncle Drac (yes, that Dracula!), she's sure he's only sending her on this suicide mission to finally be rid of her once and for all. Especially seeing the vamp he intends to be her partner...Louis-Cesare. It doesn't take long for both Dorina and Louis-Cesare to butt heads and become the targets of just about every other supernatural faction out there.

Very complex. Very intense. Very dark. I sucked this down like a vamp with O negative. This is really a dark urban fantasy with heavy emotional and relationship threads. Just about every character in this book could use the services of a good shrink (I'm thinking Lynda Hilburn's Vampire Shrink) and you can forget about trying to predict what will happen next! I loved it. I want another Dorina book soon so I can see where she and maybe Louis too are headed

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I enjoyed this book, Lots of Action

This is the first book I have read by Karen Chance, however I have her others, in my to be read pile. I enjoyed it and pretty much read it though in one sitting. There is a lot of action in this book, one action scene near the end of the book is about 90 pages long and I felt it was a little to long for my taste. As the other reviewers here have said, Dory is half vampire, half human and she is on the hunt for her Uncle Dracula, yes that Dracula. She teams up with a vampire, Louis-Cesare, a very good looking Vampire and together they go searching for her Uncle Drac, but in the meantime, Dory is also hunting for her missing friend Claire. Claire's story begins in "On the Prowl" We learn a lot of Dory's background in this book as well as background on Louis-Cesare. The book teams with Vampires, Fey, Ogres, Trolls and other Supernatural creatures. The story ties up neatly at the end and sets us up for a sequel at the end. I am looking forward to reading the sequel.

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