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The Dark Ones

Dark Ones Saga, Book 1

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The Dark Ones

By: Rachel Van Dyken
Narrated by: Chris Chambers, Hollie Jackson
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To touch a Dark One is death. To talk to an immortal is suicide. Yet, I've been marked by both.

A Vampire. And the King of the immortals. My life is no longer my own. And now I know the truth, my life was never mine to begin with. It was theirs.

It's always been theirs.

Contains mature themes.

©2015 Rachel Van Dyken (P)2018 Tantor
Contemporary Contemporary Romance Paranormal Paranormal Romance Romance Fantasy
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amazing story

this book was so interesting and the reader did an amazing job reading the story

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Loved the story building!

The story was definitely something I invested in pretty quickly. I enjoyed the comic relief as well. I definitely plan to read the rest of the series.

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🌟disappointed🌟

Well....this was interesting, I tried to like it but-- the story line
was a little to weird for me.
Plus-- that ending sucked donkey balls!
Both narrators did a good.
Not enough HOT & STEAMY SEX EITHER !

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This is a fantastic story!

I loved the creativity and the way the story flowed. There was also humor in it which made me chucle a couple times. I liked it!

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Numb male narrative

I love the story but the male narrative was excruciatingly numb and cold, almost computer like. There was no emotion in his voice and was quite hard to follow. It was like listening to a child learning to read. But.... the book's story itself was very interesting and steamy.

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Good Story - Book 1 of 5

I came across this story on Galatea. Found it engaging and decided to purchase it on Audible.

The story was engaging though the beginning is a little confusing, it’s worth sticking it out as the last few chapters tie everything in.

This book series is a story of 5 Immortals who are also friends. Each has a story of sadness when it comes to love. This book tells the story of the Vampire Ethan and his love, Genesis. The Epilogue sets us up for the next book which is about Cassius and Stephanie. All five books are available on Audible or you can read them through Amazon.

The chapters are short and the plot is a mystery that unravels bit by bit with each chapter.

This was a great short read. You don’t really get a lot of detail or description on the characters but it is still quite good.

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Chris Chambers and Hollie Jackson

I loved it! Especially when Chris Chambers read Ethan's part and when Hollie reads Genies part! They made story come to life. It was done beautifully.

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Good listen

I am an avid listener/reader and I have always been drawn to more of the fantasy books, they are my guilty pleasure, I also loooooove a series, this was the best of both worlds!!! I liked the idea of this story line, it was predictable but not to the point where it was annoying.

Rachel gave an awesome story line to follow in the books to come!!! I am getting to read/listen to it now.

On the performance of Chris and Hollie, I loved that they gave each character their own personalities. I personally like a more fast paced reader so I had to speed up the time a little but that is a more personal preference than anything else.

Overall I would recommend this book as an easy read and nothing that takes so many twists and turns that you would be completely lost if you weren’t able to give 100% of your attention.

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The story

This is a very original and intriguing story. It’s very different from anything I have read. It’s funny and has good chemistry with characters. It does move very fast. The performances would good but I think the writing was lacking and it sounded a little like they were reading a high school play. But I would recommend this book it is very cute with a hint of sexy.

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ok

I tend to get hooked on this genre but this story felt underdeveloped and Elementary and its composition. The development of the story as a whole wasn't as rich and full as it could have been. The storyline had a lot of potential but I just felt like that was lacking substance.

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