Reviewer: Amy Lignor
Title: Dark Prince
Author: Eve Silver
Publisher: Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Company
ISBN: 978-0-8217-8128-9
Release Date: August 2007
Genre/Sub-genre: Historical Romance
Year/Setting: Early 1800’s/Cornwall, England
Overall Rating: 1.5
Sexual Content Rating: Sensual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: Mild
Violent Content Rating: Minimal/Moderate
Eve's Website:
www.evesilver.net
Along the barren rocky coast of Pentreath in Cornwall, a battered body washes ashore and the nightmare begins. It seems that nowhere on this small island is safe, especially now that evil has come to Pentreath and moved into Trevisham House.
Through a twist of fate and her father’s web of lies, Jane Heatherington finds herself standing in the two frightening shadows – the eerie house and the ominous figure of her new master – Aidan Warrick, the owner of Trevisham.
Jane can only watch as Aidan, a man so cold that he must be in league with the devil, steals her away from her family and makes her his bondswoman. Her job? Work for seven years to pay off the debts that her father collected. But, as she begins to find out Aidan’s story, she learns quickly that his purchase of her services was really for revenge and not a simple debt collection. He has an old score to settle with Jane’s father – and he’s after the man’s throat – not his money.
This was just not my cup of tea. It held my interest in the early chapters with the descriptions of the dark, eerie locations that made up Cornwall life in the 1800’s. I could almost see Trevisham House looming over the sea, like some haunting abode that Dracula, himself, may have dwelled in. But, unfortunately perhaps for this tale, the Dark Prince had nothing at all to do with sensual vampires or things that go "bump in the night."
I, unfortunately, didn’t buy the heat of the romance either. Although Jane was a much more interesting character, I simply didn’t believe that the male-model beautiful creature, Aidan Warrick, would bend so fast and so easy to the demands of this girl he’d never met. Actually, he went back and forth – from mean to nice – so quickly that Aidan seemed more like a "fence-sitter," than a frightening devil. He sits in limbo – never really good and never really evil – just there. Even at his worst, he always has a noble reason for what he’s done.
This writer has many books to offer and I’m sure that there are leagues of fans who truly appreciate these romances.
Amy
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