Darkness by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Kat’s boss wants dirt on the NSO. She is sent to Homeland undercover, but everything goes wrong as soon as she enters the front gates. She is arrested by a big, powerful, sexy New Species but she is not frightened. He turns her on and things heat up fast between them. Now, she just hopes he doesn’t break her heart.

Darkness admires Kat’s courage, but he cannot trust anything she says. He hasn’t been with a female for years because he knows he is too damaged. He is not mate material, despite his desire to possess her in every way. Darkness fears losing control – the one thing that defines his life. He doesn’t think he can tear down the protective walls he’s built, even for her.

Inside Scoop: Kat never realized how much fun handcuffs and dominant males could be until she discovered her kinky side through Darkness’ need for control.

Darkness

The heart of Darkness!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: ❤️💙💚
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 🤓😉🤨
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The Hero: Darkness – he is New Species but is different than all the rest. While in captivity he was trained as an assassin and a spy. He was forced to do some of the worst things imaginable, like torturing prisoners to get information and using his sex appeal to get what he wants from people. He was forced to try to get answers from a woman that betrayed him, he had to torture and kill her. He feels he is too damaged to trust himself to be with a woman.

The heroine: Kat – she is an FBI agent and her boss assigned her to get information on the NSO and homeland. He was friends with the warden of Fulton prison and blames them for his friends’ disappearance. Kat doesn’t like her boss and thinks he is a racist against New Species but has to do what he says. She goes to Homeland as the representative from the crime lab to instruct New Species on their forensic science procedures.

The Story: I have been waiting for this book for a while, I was intrigued by Darkness from the first time he appeared in the prior books and really started liking him in the last book, True. He is probably the most dangerous of all the New Species and is definitely a good male, though he doesn’t think so. He is all about control and keeping himself in check and he has high standards. He refused to interrogate Jeanie in the last book because he refuses to hurt females.

When an attack at the gates of Homeland is thwarted by Kat after she takes the gun off one of the guards, Darkness sees that Kat had skills she shouldn’t have if she was just a CSI from a crime lab. He takes her into custody and has to interrogate her. Kat does have secrets and is there undercover, so she has to put on an act for Darkness. She knows who he is, and she is intrigued by him from the start.

This book is told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Vanessa Chambers. Vanessa’s voice is soft and feminine. She is awesome at doing different voices for different characters and I have been binging this series for over a week now and haven’t gotten sick of her narration. Though I have to say that her voice for Darkness wasn’t my favorite, she tried to talk with a deep voice, but it ended up sounding like someone with a cold. Overall, this book didn’t quite match up to my expectations, it wasn’t bad, but wasn’t as good as some of the others in this series.

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