Claimed by Rebecca Zanetti

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A Daring Rescue Emma Paulsen is a geneticist driven by science. But she’s also a psychic, so when a dark, good-hearted vampire frees her from the clutches of the evil Kurjans, she realizes he must be the man who’s been haunting her dreams. But with a virus threatening vampires’ mates, Emma may discover a whole new meaning of “lovesick”. 

A Deadly Decision As King of the Realm, Dage Kayrs has learned to practice diplomacy. Still, it’s taken three hundred years to find his mate, so he’ll stop at nothing to protect her—even if it means turning his back on his own kind…

Claimed

The King and Queen of the vampires!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😔😃😤🥰

The heroine: Emma – she is a brilliant geneticist and sister to Emma from Fated in addition to being psychic. She is able to see the future in her visions and has been having visions of Dage for years. With him she sees his past. He is over 350 years old and has been King since his parents died when he was 25. Emma knows that he means for her to be his mate, but she is fiercely independent and will be submissive to no man.

The Hero: Dage – he is King of the vampires and a protector of the Sanguisuga race. The Sanuisuga are at war with the Kurjans, a race of monsters who can’t go out in sun, they have been doing genetic experiments to try to fix the gene that doesn’t allow them to go out in the sun. The Kurjans have also perfected a solution that can turn a Sanuisuga mate back into a human female that can then be mated to a Kurjan. The Kurjans have been systematically trying to find and steal all human females with abilities to mate with and grow their numbers.

The Story: When the Kurjans captured Emma and have her on a helicopter bound for Nunavut in Canada and the evil Kurjan leader named Franco who will make her life miserable, Dage rescues her, but Emma is determined to get back to her own life. Emma ends up working on the virus the Kurjans have created to try to find a cure since some of the females have been infected.

I liked the storylines in this, and the world building is great. There is a growing storyline about little Janie and her dreams, where she meets a boy named Zane that I think will keep being developed until Janie grows up. She is now only 4 years old, so it has a way to go, but it is already getting good. Since the sadistic Kurjan leader’s son Kalin expects that Janie will someday be his.

I also really like all the psychic stuff in this series. So many books with psychics have them rarely use their gifts, but these people use the abilities in so many ways, such as in shared dreams, in feeling where other people are, in predicting the future and having visions. Emma even sees visions of her own death. The war is full on in this book and there are lots of skirmishes between the vampires and the Kurjans.

The one thing I don’t really understand is the fact that during the peace time, the Kurjans used that time to make leaps in genetics while the vampires apparently worked on improving their weapon technology because they knew the peace wouldn’t last. However, I don’t see that they have any better weapons than the Kurjans. Though the Kurjans are way ahead of them in genetic engineering.

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