Demon from the Dark: Immortals After Dark, Book 10

De: Kresley Cole

Narrado por: Robert Petkoff

Malkom Slaine: tormented by his sordid past and racked by vampiric hungers, he’s pushed to the brink by the green-eyed beauty under his guard.

Carrow Graie: hiding her own sorrows, she lives only for the next party or prank. Until she meets a tortured warrior worth saving.

In order for Malkom and Carrow to survive, he must unleash both the demon and vampire inside him. When Malkom becomes the nightmare his own people feared, will he lose the woman he craves body and soul?

©2014 Kresley Cole (P)2014 Simon & Schuster Audio

Cole + Petkoff = Genius!

Not my favorite but still good! I completed the whole series when it was on sale and have enjoyed every spoken word! You will never tire of these characters and the narrator! I hope it never ends...I will be sad.

Still going strong!

10 books into the Immortals After Dark series and the team of Cole and Petkoff is still knocking it out of the park!

The Writing:

Kresley Cole is paranormal romance at its finest. I don’t how she does it but she kinds the laughs and sexy times coming with each installment in the IAD series. She writes extremely entertaining characters and paints a vivid world surrounding her supes.

The Narration Performance:

I can’t call Robert Petkoff a narrator no longer, he doesn’t read a book he PERFORMS them. The man can do no wrong! He is the cherry on top of Cole’s writing. Seriously, if you think of audio books as experiencing the biggest epic/action movie in 3D then you not only get an outstanding story told through Cole’s writing but you get the added layers in-depth and texture of her characters through Petkoff’s performance. I couldn’t image anyone else bring this series to life the way he does. It’s magic to my ears! EVERY TIME!

The Story & Character:

Malkolm is a vemon (I know you’re thinking WTH is a venom), a demon that has been turned into a vampire. Malkolm was forced into the turning by his enemy many, many years ago. He hates vampires due to his childhood as a blood slave to a vampire his mother sold him to. (Great childhood, right? Mother of the year award goes to…)

So Malkolm has characteristics from both his demon and vampire sides. He also lives alone because no one likes or wants a vemon around.

Carrow is a witch and has been kidnapped and blackmailed into bring Malkolm back to her enemies. She thinks the task will be easy and agrees to do it because hey, she has no choice. But once she meets Malkolm she realizes that her task of bring him back won’t be as easy as she thought.

And of course Cole adds in the fact that Carrow is Malkolm’s mate. Things start to heat up between the two and they develop feelings for each other (duh, it’s a romance of course they do). But Carrow holds back because she has HUGE guilt over lying to Malkolm about why she is there in his realm. Especially since she has learned of his past and how everyone that he had loved betrayed him in some way.


Demon from the Dark is easily one of my favorites in the series. Malkolm grabs your heart and doesn’t let go and Carrow is the perfect mate for him. If you like your heroes on the strong and silent side with a heart of gold underneath you should pick Demon from the Dark. It could be read without reading the other books in the series but I highly recommend starting with the first book, A Hunger Like No Other or even the novella that started it all, The Warlord Wants Forever. The IAD series has characters and plotlines that overlap one another and it’s much better to experience this world in the layers that each book brings. And if you are an audio fan do this series on audio!! If you’re looking to give audios a try start with this series. It a faultless example of what a great narrator can do for an already awesome book(s).

wonderful fantasy romance

A great example of Kresley Cole's storytelling ability. I can't wait to see what Nixie cooks up next. So many options for new story lines with all the characters "reunited" by the Order.

Great story, excellent narration!

Overall it was good. I really liked the Heroine up until right before they returned. Her thought process portrayed her as selfish and beyond stupid. Willing to betray someone so badly and being stupid enough to believe they'd actually keep their word. It was maddening.

I read reviews bashing this book for glorifying rape and thought it'd be like "a hunger like no other" in which there were true rape scenes ...it wasn't anything like that.

Books that glorify rape and abuse enrgage me to no end. This certainly wasn't one of them.

Another solid read in the series

Robert Petkoff nails the narration again. He makes the stories better to listen to then read...though i do both :) and that's saying a lot. Carrow is super funny and sassy and a little trashy. Worth the credit.

Malcolm….that is all

I don’t know what it is exactly, the story, the spice, the conflict, or the man but I’m stuck stuck stuck.
Carrow and Malcom are full of feelings, and bad pasts but they come together so well❤️

PHEWEE FLAWLESS..... SIMPLY FLAWLESS

I want to thank Ms Cole for her gifted imagination, her many hours of work, her thought filled days, maybe sleepless nights conjuring up this exciting, riveting and emotional adventure and say that every lost hour, every minute and every second was so worth it as you've brought yet another spellbinding addition to the Immortals After Dark series. I don't mind my bloodshot eyes or my fatigue because you gave me a listen that I just couldn't, and wouldn't, break from until my bedroom grew light and the birds began to welcome a new day.

You gave me a proud but lonely, tortured and tormented Demon that I sympathised with, cherished and hoped he got his much deserved HEA, a Witch that first betrayed him but was loyal and loving in the end and a suspense filled plot that was filled with action, heartache, passion, drama, witty dialogue, snappy one-liners and humor, sizzling sexual chemistry, hot sex and paranormal beings that were gruesome, bloodthirsty, gifted, weird and wonderful. Then you teamed all that with the much loved characters from previous books and added new ones that thrilled, chilled and totally entertained me.

The final cherry on top was to have it read by the Maestro himself as Robert Petkoff's many accents enriched an already bulging story and breathed life and soul into it's many characters.

Worth a credit? It would be a definite thumbs up YES but this was under $10 so I bought it, saving my credit for another time.

Modern beauty, old fashioned beast

What did you love best about Demon from the Dark?

Vividly but not boring descriptions

What other book might you compare Demon from the Dark to and why?

A few of the dark Hunters

Have you listened to any of Robert Petkoff’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, this was the first

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Several

Any additional comments?

A modern beauty and the beast, man, I fell in love with the beast and the heroine. It's a must read book for paranormal romance freaks. And I bet you'll fall in love with Malcolm and Carole also

So good, also sad.

This book made me feel really bad for Malcolm. The writing was superb. I have re-listened to this book, but I skip over the sad parts. I can barely listen to the parts where Carrow & Malcom silently get to know each other, because I know what is going to happen and that evokes a bunch of apprehensive feelings.
Wish I could say more, but it might spoil the Emotional Roller Coaster for the next person.

Fantastic

I enjoyed this story as I have enjoyed all the books in the series. I look forward to reading the rest of them.