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I liked that the hero & heroine were atypical for romance books and that they were each others opposites. Brandon is a deaf mute 21 year old white virgin vampire who is abused. Lina is 26 years old, black, human police officer who is not a virgin. Brandon is timid. Lina is assertive. Brandon dislikes violence. Lina has not problem being violent when necessary to protect herself and others. Brendon grew up being abused. Lina would hurt anyone who tried to hurt her. I liked that Lina had good sexual experiences before being with Brandon. I also liked that Brandon was not a manhoe and was only with Lina who he had a crush on for years.

There were only a few issues I had with the story. At times it dragged. It was painful reading about Brandon getting hurt. His brother Caine and grandfather were abusive. I liked the love making scenes but thought that Brandon drinking from Lina would be hotter than it was. It really wasn't.


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Dark Thirst The Brethren Series Book 1 Sara Reinke Books Reviews

Like other reviewers, I found it refreshing to have an interracial relationship in a romance (even if it is paranormal where even inter-species romance runs towards the norm). And I liked that Brandon was not perfect, or a typical alpha male. He had weaknesses and was flawed, and aren't we all? It worked for me. But the history of Brandon's abuse is retread, and retread in this story and it gets very tedious, without adding a lot of value to the plot. The siblings and sibling dynamics are bizarre to the extreme. And I guess this is a spoiler alert but somewhere towards the end of the book the hero develops the ability to communicate with and summon birds, yep birds, to help him in the final show down with the bad guy. That the showdown took place at night in an underground club...well, what the heck, very obliging birds I guess. More spoilers, we all get that Rene is going to likely have his own book in the series, but he pretty much overshadows the couple in this book as soon as he's on the scene. All in all, it was kind of...meh. It wasn't awful, but not great either.
There was great potential as it is quite well-written and has an interesting take on vampires but overall there is something in it that has me happy to stop at this book and not read any others. This is a purely personal reaction on my part as I prefer more depth or a humourous approach and this had neither for me, in fact it seemed to lack a style.

It is nice to see the colour issue addressed and also the handicapped with the hero deaf and dumb but it was almost as if the author decided on this for effect rather than it being a progression in the plot. There is a predictability even in the brutality of some of the characters that didn't hold my interest enough for me to read the series. A good read but not great!
I was completely obsessed after the first page, consumed by wanting to know more about the characters, their lives, and how they intersected together. The mystery of the brethren, who and what they are, Brandon, and the love story between he and Lina. Mrs Reinke writes her their stories to life in my mind; a classic tale told in an exciting way. The thing I loved the most were the how the book gave enough detail without using too many cliché's and over dramatic descriptions; not to say that her words aren't poetic, but just enough of both. The only downfall were the love scenes that were to brief and not very detailed; the action scenes were hard to muddle through if you aren't familiar with akido and pick a new move other than hyper-extending a wrist, thanks. The other problem area for me were the birds. Aside from that I thought that this was truly a great read that I would recommend to any who reads the Charlain Harris or Anne Rice, the mythos is different, so prepare for a different kind of creature, but you'll enjoy it all the same.

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Brandon Noble was little older than a toddler when a vicious attack by burglars robbed him of his hearing and the ability to speak. That one, blood-drenched night almost killed him, and it showed his family as the monsters they are, forever altering the course of his life and instilling a deep aversion to his family's murderous nature.

As Brandon grew, he was locked in a silent world and castigated by the head of his family, a cold and unfeeling man known as the Grandfather. Prevented from using his limited telepathic abilities, banned from using sign language, Brandon has grown up under the thumb of his sadistic elder brother and unrelenting Grandfather. He's suffered systematic abuse that resulted in a nearly pathological timidity, with only brief moments of peace and happiness to lighten his bleak existence as he's grown into a man. One of the sources of that happiness was the teacher that his father brought to the lands of his kind, the Brethren. Jackson Jones is deaf, too, and he was Brandon's first experience with the world beyond the wealthy but suffocating influence of his race.

Jackson opened up Brandon's world, offered opportunity and potential freedom, until one weekend when the grim understanding of what his family intended for Jackson and his visiting sister Angelina forced Brandon's hand. He refused to be a monster like his family, fought against the bloodlust and fled the bloodletting that would give him his first kill. For a while after that, his father was able to protect Brandon from the traditions of his kind. Then the Grandfather found the letter of acceptance from a prestigious deaf college - a school that Brandon's mentor and teacher Jackson had secretly helped him apply to and a school Brandon had been banned from attending.

The Grandfather broke every bone in Brandon's right hand in response. Then allowed Brandon's brother Caine to do the same to his left. And when the bones healed, the Grandfather told him, he would be forced to go through the bloodletting.

Brandon's meager freedoms and limited independence were to be stripped from him forever. It took over a year for his hands to heal, but when they finally did and he realized the time for the bloodletting would be approaching, Brandon did the only thing he could. He fled the only home he'd ever known, defying the elders of the Brethren, denying his own blood...and praying for a salvation he didn't truly believe his kind deserved.

Dark Thirst (The Brethren Series, Book 1) stories Brandon's flight from the cult-like Brethren society and the battle he wages within himself to avoid the impulses of his kind. He refuses to kill, and in so doing, takes a stand for the beliefs that could strip him of his life if the Brethren find him. He runs to Jackson when he leaves the family compound, but instead of finding his mentor and friend, he finds Jackson's sister Angelina. Lina, now a cop, is taking care of Jackson's plants while her older brother is in Florida caring for their sick mother. When she meets Brandon sparks fly and things she thought she knew about the world come under fire from creatures of legend and nightmare. Together they stand against a force beyond reckoning. Or together they fall.

Well written and intricately built, Reinke has created a vampire mythos that is as dark and disturbing as it is unique. The Brethren are vampire-like creatures, a threatened race at less than 300 strong, and sequestered in horrifying and antiquated traditions. Patriarchal in nature, their culture has no room for infirmity and no rights for females. It was a fascinating twist on the standard fare, but so gritty and bullying that there was nothing to redeem them as a race.

I liked the story, admired the originality, but ultimately had some problems with the characters. Brandon was so timid and unlearned, and so stifled by the restrictions put on him, he spent most of the book being a broken, scared young man with little hope. Lina was, in contrast, a strong female lead, independent and sure of herself, but unaware of the Brethren and their power. Together the relationship between them was a unique role-reversal, but didn't quite work for me. I didn't mind the biracial romance, nor did I mind the age difference, per se, (Lina is about five years older than the 21 year old Brandon) but Brandon never quite grew into his description of a large, strong, handsome man. He always seemed more a boy to me, even through the end when his world had been significantly widened and he'd had the chance to right some wrongs. I found the romance between him and Lina a bit off-putting for that reason.

Had his awareness of some cold truths come a little sooner in the book, and had he been given a chance to truly come into his own before the end, I would probably feel differently. I enjoy coming-of-age books that evolve characters from damaged to damaging. Brandon didn't quite get there by the end of this book. I was, though, pleased with Lina as a character. Reinke developed her nicely, and her reactions as her eyes were open to the truth of the Brethren seemed organic and realistic. Secondary characters were also well developed for their roles - even the Grandfather, who was creepy to the extreme, and Caine, the sadist big brother.

Originally written as a trilogy, just this past month Sara Reinke announced that she will be returning to the Brethren series and will be releasing the fourth book next year. Fans of the series will be happy to hear that the book will feature Brandon and Lina as the leads. That is not the case in the second and third book in the series, as I understand. I'm currently on the fence as to whether or not I'll continue this series. While I applaud the freshness of the mythos and the originality of aspects of the plot, the problems I had with the romance in this book really set me back a bit on the series. And though I have thoroughly enjoyed darker-themed books and series in the past, the violence towards the child Brandon, as well as the culture that the Brethren espouse, was a bit unsettling. I didn't find much in the way of reading enjoyment in the book because of that, unfortunately. Despite the strong positives that I mentioned.

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I liked that the hero & heroine were atypical for romance books and that they were each others opposites. Brandon is a deaf mute 21 year old white virgin vampire who is abused. Lina is 26 years old, black, human police officer who is not a virgin. Brandon is timid. Lina is assertive. Brandon dislikes violence. Lina has not problem being violent when necessary to protect herself and others. Brendon grew up being abused. Lina would hurt anyone who tried to hurt her. I liked that Lina had good sexual experiences before being with Brandon. I also liked that Brandon was not a manhoe and was only with Lina who he had a crush on for years.

There were only a few issues I had with the story. At times it dragged. It was painful reading about Brandon getting hurt. His brother Caine and grandfather were abusive. I liked the love making scenes but thought that Brandon drinking from Lina would be hotter than it was. It really wasn't.