Night Bites by Nina Bangs

Cindy Harper had an ice-cream flavor for every emotion. Vanilla caramel fudge eased the stress of dealing with her weird and wacky guests at the Woo Woo Inn. But no sweet treat from her freezer was smooth, creamy, or tempting enough to cool down her dark fantasies about über alpha male Thrain Davis.

This was a man to be enjoyed on a strictly primitive level. Every woman who ever saw him smile would wonder about the pleasure his mouth could give her and recognize the secrets in his hard blue gaze. Too late she realized the danger of inviting an ancient vampire into her inn. The concept of fanged creatures of the night scared her witless. Besides, he forced her to examine her past when she was just fine with her present. He did have an upside, though. Who needed ice cream when you had a hot and yummy dark immortal in your bed?

Night Bites is a well written romance novel by Nina Bangs. This story is about Cindy finding out about herself and falling in love with Thrain. Thrain has finally found her after 700 years of searching and knows that he has to reunite her with her father. He did not think that he would develop primal urges to make her his.

The plot of this story was entertaining. Thrain and Cindy had to come to terms with fears that had haunted them for several centuries. They also had to learn how to trust each other. And on the side they had to deal with the crazy, and sometimes real, occupants of the Woo Woo Inn. The Inn was filled with people who believed they were vampires, werewolves, and shape changers…and then there really were those people there, along with cosmic troublemakers, Egyptian deities, and Celtic fairies. The medley of different supernatural creatures just added to the complexity and diversity of the characters within the book.

The sex in this book was great. It wasn’t ‘erotic’ enough to get rated a ‘hot’ or ‘steamy’ rating but it was enough to get the blood pumping through the readers veins. I really enjoyed them. I especially liked Prada’s love rug. You’ll know it when you read it. The bed was also very funny. I liked that there was a touch of humor during the sex scenes and that it didn’t get overwhelmingly serious.

In the end I am rating this book a 3.5 stars. It was great but the plot was not very complex. In the context of another story, this whole plot could have been written in one chapter. Nice job on the expansion but not so much on the complexity of plot.

Publisher: Dorchester Publishing, Co.

ISBN: 0-505-52614-X

Price: $6.99 (cover)

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