Endless Days by C.L. Quinn

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Cherise wanted a quiet, normal life…something she had never had.   

After a traumatic loss, she needed serenity, so she moved halfway across the world to the American states, to a beautiful, quaint village in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. And there, with fresh air, tall trees, and lovely neighbors, she opened a little patisserie, and settled into a wonderful, normal life. Her family had told her she couldn’t run from her destiny.

Turns out, they were right. The last thing she ever wanted was to see a vampire again, but suddenly, a damaged one shows up, stripped of his memory, unable to keep human blood down, and in need of help that only someone with her skills could provide. Damn’t! She should have known that something would ruin her perfect quiet life of solitude, gardening, and baking her incredible French pastries. No matter how desperately she wanted to send him away, he needed her.

The family legacy couldn’t be denied…she was born to use her empathic skills to help. Okay, she would help him and send him on his way quickly so that she could get back to her gentle life. She didn’t want him in her village, but maybe she would discover that even an empath doesn’t know what’s in her own heart.

This is the second in the series The Firsts. The beginning of the series, Forbidden Days, lets the reader know how these characters come together, and leads to Cherise’s story, a more sensuous and personal tale.

Endless Days

Good book, but who chose that awful cover?

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☹️☺😋😘

The heroine: Cherise – she was introduced in Forbidden Days, she is not quite human. She comes from a race of people with special abilities, she is like a seer, she has a gift of empathy and also is able to distinguish between other supernatural races; just by looking at a person, she is able to tell what kind of being they are. She left her village because she was tired of being caught up in the chaos and death of the supernatural world and wanted a “normal” human life. Though she found herself with a group of vampires. When they were targeted by other vampires determined to kill everyone associated with them, she decided to leave again. This time she ended up in a small village in Colorado, opening a café that specializes in french pastries.

The Hero: Kavin (a.k.a. David Patric) – he is a vampire with amnesia, and that isn’t the only thing wrong with him. He has been staying in a mansion outside a little village in the Rocky Mountains. The locals think the place is haunted. He can’t remember who he is, how long he has been alive or what happened to him to make him so confused. He knows he is a vampire, but can’t keep human blood down. He made friends with an elf that lives nearby and Kavin has been feeding on his blood for a while, but the elf can’t keep it up, as he has been too tired and run down to support his family.

The story: Cherise’s gifts had been plaguing her lately, giving her a foreboding of something coming. She had been having nightmares and had been unable to sleep, so when the elf showed up at her café asking for her to help the vampire in the mansion outside of town, she knew that was the reason for her unrest. She didn’t want to be anywhere near a vampire, but she knew her conscience would bother her until she offered to help.

It turned out that there were sinister forces behind Kav’s amnesia and there was a good reason that he was afraid even though he hadn’t known why at the time. I don’t want to say much more about this part of the plot, only that it does get pretty suspenseful. I was surprised when Cherise first told Kav that he was a first (bloodline of the first vampires). Since his past confinement seemed odd to me since the firsts in Forbidden Days were able to do things like freeze a bunch of people at once with just their minds. So it seems odd that Kavin could have been captured. It did explain that he had been “disconnected” from his exceptional abilities and hadn’t been able to access them, but there had to have been a time when that was not true.

The plot of this book was really really good, but one thing I hate in books like this is that there always seems to be one point where the heroine feels she has to do something dangerous, and everyone, including the Hero tells her not to do it, but she thinks she knows better than everyone else and just thinks she can be so helpful. Then she ends up in hot water all because of her own naivety and stupidity. Of course, the reader can see it coming a mile a way, but she does it anyway and makes things worse for everybody.

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