Bane’s Choice by Alyssa Day
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
When a centuries-old vampire in search of redemption meets a doctor who’s on a mission of her own, a searing, world-destroying passion is the last thing on either of their minds.
Bane’s Choice
Minds can be changed.
A doctor with secrets of her own is drawn to a dangerous predator in this pulse-pounding paranormal romance from ‘New York Times’ bestselling author Alyssa Day.
What better way to hide the existence of vampires from humans than in plain sight? Thus, the Vampire Motorcycle Club was born. Bane, the 300-year-old vampire who leads the club, has fought for years to protect his kind. But the truth about vampires is not only that they exist, it is that they are creatures of pure desire. Conscience and restraint has been burned out of them by the process of Turning. Any woman Bane meets is either prey – or food.
Dr. Ryan St. Cloud finds out that vampires exist when one steals her patient out of the hospital right beneath her nose, leading her to question her own sanity. But when the dangerous man whose touch inflames her senses and whose gaze enthralls her comes to her for help, she is unable to refuse. Bane is a dangerous predator, but somewhere beneath his arrogance and power, she can see his heart – and she knows it could belong to her if she is strong enough to claim it. She is bound to a vampire, but loving her would be. . .’BANE’S CHOICE’.
”Bram Stoker is a vampire?”
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏
Character development: 🤓😉
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration
The Hero: Bane – he is a 300-year-old vampire and is the president of a vampire biker gang. His territory is in Savannah, Georgia and warlocks have been encroaching on his territory, binding humans to them via blood magic and killing even more. He had claimed his territory from warlocks long ago and fought a war with them, coming out the winner. He wouldn’t let them return, though he didn’t understand why they kept trying. He had already beat two other groups of warlocks in the last few years.
The heroine: Ryan – she is a human and a doctor. When men in a motorcycle gang enter the room of one of her burn victims, she is enraged that they are putting him at risk since they are not sterile. She stands up to the leader of the men and he tells her he is coming for her before he disappears with her patient. She doesn’t know it yet, but she is resistant to his compulsion which is something that never happened to Bane before.
The Story: Warlocks are dangerous to vampires due to their blood magic. Humans that are bound to warlocks are nearly as indestructible as vampires. So it was of utmost importance that Bane and his MC deal with the group of warlocks that are trying to move in on their territory. This group has more power than any Bane had felt before, they are led by a master necromancer named Constantine. Though Bane has magic as well.
The story didn’t seem to be that bad, but I found myself getting bored of it fairly early on. I am not sure if it was because of the mood I was in, or if it was the writing. Sometimes when you are in a mood, you just can’t get ‘in’ to a story and that was my problem with this book, though I just couldn’t pinpoint any specific thing that was wrong. Though I didn’t think the vampire seemed as bad as he was made out to be and the heroine was a bit bland. There were also many pop culture references that seemed a bit silly at times…
“Usually only predictors are shifters, like Wolves, Lions and Tigers and Bears.”
“Oh my”.
The audiobook was told in multiple points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Laurie West. Teddy Hamilton is one of my favorite narrators, he has a great voice and shows a lot of emotion through his narration. I don’t know that I have heard Laurie West before, but she has a good voice for the female characters, but definitely has a frog in her throat when she does the male characters. It was absolutely horrible.
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