ARC Review: King of Darkness [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "King of Darkness" by Elisabeth Staab.

Product Description

ETERNAL COMMITMENT IS NOT ON HER AGENDA ...

Scorned by the vampire community for her lack of power, Isabel Anthony lives a carefree existence masquerading as human -- although, drifting among the debauched human nightlife, she prefers the patrons' blood to other indulgences. But when she meets the king of vampires this party girl's life turns dark and dangerous.

BUT TIME'S RUNNING OUT FOR THE KING OF VAMPIRES ...

Dead-set on finding the prophesied mate who will unlock his fiery powers, Thad Morgan must find his queen before their race is destroyed. Their enemies are gaining ground, and Thad needs his powers to unite his subjects. But when his search leads him to the defiant Isabel, he wonders if fate has gotten it seriously wrong.

Author

Elisabeth Staab lives in Northern Virginia with her hero and soul mate. She has been a telemarketer, a web page editor, a software developer, a reader for the blind, a technical trainer, a coffee shop barista, a tutor, a homemaker, a government project manager, a graphic designer, and a professional ebayer. Finally, she's landed on being a writer ... which is what her high school guidance counselor originally suggested anyway.

Elisabeth believes that all kinds of safe, sane, and consensual love should be celebrated -- but she loves the fantasy-filled realm of paranormal romance the best.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (February 7, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1402263155
ISBN-13: 978-1402263156

My Review:

Vampire King Thad must find his mate so he can lead his people and to defeat the Wizards.  He has finally found her at a nightclub but she's not a willing participate to become his Queen.

Isabel and her parents were shunned by their own kind so they moved to the human world.  She loses them at the tender age of 13 to a tragic accident and leaving her an orphan to defend for herself.  Now she inhabits nightclubs consuming red wine and drinking from humans to her hearts content until Thad the Vampire King comes calling.

Thad and Isabel interact a lot but I didn't really feel a connection between them other than lust.  After I got to know them they I felt more of a connection between them.

I liked how Thad was a new vampire king but he didn't really know how to lead his people and what he is capable of.

There are several other storylines intertwined into the main one and I was more interested in those.

3/5

Thanks Sourcebooks for sending me this ARC to review, greatly appreciated!