Why am I here, back safe on Wickham campus? The stron A new year is beginning at Wickham Boarding School. The strong magic I used in the ritual did more than just make Vicken human. She wants the ritual. Then she wants me dead.
And she will take down any and everyone in my life to get what she wants. They have a surprise and an unbearable punishment for me — like stepping into the sun for the first time, only to be put into a cage. And now I have to make an impossible choice — between love or life, yearning or having, present or past… Get A Copy. Paperback , pages.
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Shelves: historical-romance , hybrid-multiple-genre , young-adult , vampires , paranormal-romance. Is that a tear running down my face? Why yes I think it is. Even though I had some serious issues with how everything fit together, I did appreciate an ending which made me rethink my original rating. Hey, at least we're improving upon the first book here. I wasn't sure what the point was for having certain characters and instances in this series, up until the last few chapters happened.
Then again, I'm not exactly positive that everything Is that a tear running down my face? Then again, I'm not exactly positive that everything had been plotted out from the start to fall into place exactly the way that it did either. Something about the way the turn of events happened almost seemed like a conveniently happy accident in writing. Was it really the plan all along to take certain characters in the direction that they went in, or was some of the story improvising on the fly as book 2 was being written?
I guess I'll never know. Believe me when I say that I'm not complaining about where things are going. I just sort of feel like the vibe of book 1 didn't really match up with the direction of book 2. You can call me conflicted over the 'Vampire Queen' concept.
This is another case of "good bones, shaky execution" going on. I'm still happy with the historical parts of the story, but find myself somewhat confused with Lenah herself. Is it just me noticing this, or has this chick adapted to modern times far too easily? As well, am I wrong in thinking it's a little too convenient that Lenah was the 'queen' in the first place? And now, someone else might want to conveniently snatch the title up for grabs?
What kind of society doesn't have a waiting list or heir to a title? I'm so perplexed at what to feel about the whole of it. I'm entertained by what's going on, yet the story doesn't always feel like it lines up the way that it should.
Why would one of the main characters even BE at a high school? Just to watch over Lenah? I think that part could have been dealt with differently. It's the little details that pick and pick at my brain and make me question it all. Why is Justin such a baby? Why was Vicken a potential love interest and then he just 'wasn't?
I was angry. I was sad. I was happy. I was angry again. I was sad again. FFS, a few tears escaped! Heck I was so angry at what Lenah had done that it was making me shake. But then the epilogue happened and it gave me some hope. Huge kudos to that epilogue because I'm assuming that there will be a book 3, and because of this, that ending was KILLER in a fantastic way. There is absolutely no book info for installment 3 of the series, but since there was a 3 year wait between books 1 and 2, I'm going to safely assume that it will be a while before we know what's next to come.
In the end, this was just shy of a 3 star book all the way up until that phenomenal ending, which was a 5 star way to go out. If the next book takes that ending and makes this an epic journey to right the wrongs which have been done, I could easily see myself re-evaluating my feelings about the entire series and giving extremely high marks.
If this really was all a pre-planned setup, then I tip my hat to the plan because now I know we're in for a crazy ride ahead. View all 34 comments. Aug 15, Lindsey marked it as to-read. Ok, I've been highly anticipating this book since the first book came out and I have to say that I am really annoyed that the release has been pushed back to Ugh, I can't believe this.
I have already pre-ordered this through Borders Not cool at all. View all 8 comments. Oct 08, shady boots rated it did not like it Shelves: stupid-girls , hot-mess , covergasm. This review is also available over at my blog. First thing I want to address is, when I was first starting this book, I noticed that it was extremely different from the excerpt available at the end of Infinite Days.
It got me thinking that that was maybe the reason why this book's release was pushed back to They had to make drastic changes. Anyways, now that I've got that out of the way, I also want to get this spoiler out of the way. Now I had to get that out of the way because if not, this would be a very hard review to write. I shall start off with this: This book was a hot, ratched mess. After reading Infinite Days , which I gave a three star rating, my hopes for the rest of the series were pretty low, I will admit that.
Cause the romance is just mediocre. And you all know if a series has a bad romance Rah rah ra-a-ah. This series, however, didn't try hard enough, and it went zooming down the hill, then proceeding to completely crash and burn.
Lenah is one of the most selfish, shallow heroines I've ever seen in any series. In the first book I didn't like her, but in this one I full on hate her. As soon as she sees Rhode is alive, she immediately drops Justin like a pile of rocks and goes to full force Rhode Mode, obsessing about him non-stop, even imagining him when she and Justin were having a little romantic moment.
But of course, twist! They are not allowed to touch, and Rhode is being cold and distant! Wow, never saw that coming! So original! I was really pissed off by how Lenah just brushed off her so called "love" for Justin just like that. It just proves how meaningless the romance in this series really is.
Probably the most shallow romance I've ever read, really. Even worse than Luce and Daniel's romance, and that's saying something. I spent the rest of the book feeling sorry for Justin although I stopped feeling sorry for him near the end—you'll know why , and especially Tracy, who loses everything.
The author especially hates her. I was expecting her to just kill Tracy off and be done with it, but I was surprised when she didn't. Anyways, the plot is basically this evil vampire lady from Lenah's past, who happened to be one of the maids in her then home, Heathersage, and who Lenah had apparently turned into a vampire and is now wreaking havoc and killing everyone and things of that nature.
And then these Aeris It was just too stupid to follow for me. Most of the book is just Lenah trying to stop this evil chick named Odette from getting this ritual of some sort and destroying all of Wickham and the people in it.
Filled with Lenah whining over how she can't touch Rhode and how it's killing her and all that. Justin is pretty much just there as a replacement by now. I did like Vicken, though. I'm glad he didn't count as a love interest anymore. Him and Lenah are just friends now. I did like it when he was around though, cause he was witty and pretty charming. He's part of the reason I added half more to the rating. The other part of why I gave this book a higher rating than it deserves is the twist at the end.
I wasn't expecting it to happen, and it might have even been interesting enough to keep me reading this series. I still don't know. This book was such a huge disappointment that I can't see myself continuing this series, cause I feel like it'll probably just get worse and worse.
But oh well, we shall see eventually. Martin's Griffin. View all 3 comments. Oct 07, Casey rated it it was amazing. The wait for this one had been excruciating! Now that I was finally able to enjoy this marvelous read let me just state that it was worth the wait!
That ending has thrown me for such a loop! I really hope there is a third and it comes out soon! I don't think I can handle another three year wait. View all 7 comments. I really enjoyed this book, even more so than Infinite Days. Stolen Night started off where Infinite Days ended with Lenah dealing with the fact that the ritual that was supposed to kill her didn't work and that same ritual left her soulmate Rhode alive as well. Lenah and Rhode had a difficult relationship and that is shown throughout the book in that they obviously loved each other, but were cursed not to be together and this annoyingly drove Lenah into the arms of Justin, her human boyfriend.
It was beyond obvious that Lenah was using him and even went so far as to pretend he was Rhode every time they were together. Ordinarily, I would feel bad for a character who was being treated this way, but Justin was so annoying and he loved Lenah in a very needy and obsessive way anyway, I found myself wishing him gone all throughout the book. Even though Lenah did not love him, her soft spot for him drove her to make some pretty questionable descisions that will most certainly have consequences in the next book.
This book also introduced other characters in more in-depth ways, like Vicken, Lenah's friend that she turned human, he became the comic relief that was very much needed and there even was a bit of something that was shown with him and the former mean girl, Tracy and then Rhode, Lenah's soulmate who was shown in bits and pieces in the first book, you really get a feel for him in Stolen Night and his love for Lenah during Stolen night as he is now human and attending the same school as Lenah and Vicken.
Overall, a very good book. View 2 comments. Jul 22, Katy rated it it was ok. It's been two years since I read the first book so I don't really remember much about it or how I felt about it, but I thought I liked it enough to have the sequel on my to read list.
However, I can't say I liked Stolen Nights very much. I know a lot of my review is ragging on Lenah, but if you skip to the last paragraphs, I have legitimate points, at least I think, when it comes to inconsistencies in the end.
The biggest problem I had with this book was I could not stand Lenah. She was selfish a It's been two years since I read the first book so I don't really remember much about it or how I felt about it, but I thought I liked it enough to have the sequel on my to read list. She was selfish and made some very stupid, stupid mistakes. Yes, that was the meat of the story, but my goodness, she irritated the hell out of me.
And I don't mind love triangles, but what I do mind, is when a heroine HAS decided what she wants and still continues to string along the wrong person. THAT just makes me mad. I also didn't like that she was such a weak character. I know that Maizel wanted to emphasize that Lenah has been a vampire for, what years now, and it takes a bit to get use to the fact that she took all that strength, ability and power she had all those years for granted, and now she's a helpless human.
That wasn't the part I had a problem with. The part I DID have a problem with was she was weak mentally. I understand now that she is the hunted, the tables have turned, and I don't fault her for being scared for her life. However, Lenah came across as a really whiny, "why is everything so unfair," helpless, damsel in distress for WAY too long in the book.
This used to be the vampire queen? I understand the new state is a bit of a shock from what she used to be able to do, but she doesn't do anything to adapt except feels sorry for herself and wallow in the pity that she is the cause of all these bad things that are happening. The lack of action scenes is also disappointing. And when there WAS action - wait, when there was an action scene - it was missing the kickass part. There was a bunch of hair pulling and quick blood draining, and that was pretty much it.
I was ready for a showdown between two of the most power women in this book, but sadly, that never came. The other problem I had was the end. I don't think it was packaged very neatly.
I mean, I'm glad the unselfish part of Lenah found an exception for Rhode, but I think it upsets that balance that the Aeris had been talking about at the beginning. And it was kind of inconsistent, though I can't really explain it without spoiling the book. My theory is that he is behind the current vampire problem, but even if he's not, he should have returned to school as a human because he was created by a vampire that Lenah had created.
However, Lenah is able to remember the night she was supposed to meet Rhode. View all 21 comments. Stolen Night is the long awaited sequel to Infinite Days, by author Rebecca Maizel and this was one of my most anticipated reads, since I read Infinite Days back in My prediction was; the story would centre around Stolen Night is the long awaited sequel to Infinite Days, by author Rebecca Maizel and this was one of my most anticipated reads, since I read Infinite Days back in My prediction was; the story would centre around Lenah and Justin dealing with a now human Vicken.
Everything I once thought I knew from Infinite Days — in my opinion, is turned upside down with the return of Rhode. I felt Lenah really grew in this book, despite her lack of physical strength.
She loses a lot of close friends during this book too, but she remains strong through-out. He's broody and dark and just lovable. I need to know what happens! The story itself is absolutely heart-pounding, intense and heart-breaking. The trials the characters are faced with are hard and it was quite an emotional read. Talk about a hard job but overall, I think Rebecca did a fantastic job. A huge thank you to Macmilliam for giving me the opportunity to review this book.
View all 15 comments. Definitely not the direction I was sure the book was going to head. And I mean that in a good way.
If it took so long to release this book, because it was a hard process to finally get to the end of this book There is major growth by the end of the book, specially from Lenah, and we are letf with a tightness in our chests, that demands the next book and a Happy Ending in it.
Big changes, love lost is found only to be separated again, and we finally get to experience first Definitely not the direction I was sure the book was going to head.
Big changes, love lost is found only to be separated again, and we finally get to experience first hand how amazing and huge the love between Lenah and Rhode is. Oh my Rhode I feel so much for you. And Lenah, it took some guts to make the decision you made at the end. You have earned my respect. The humour and funny was brought by non other than the loyal Vicken, whom I absolutely fell for, and showed such a vulnerable side there at the end.
All in all I really am soooo excited to read the next book! What about the US? When will it be released here?? And now its gonna be 3?? I don't know how much more I can take before I give up. I want to cry right now If I hadn't loved book 1 so much, I would just drop the series What the French?!
Man I was really looking forward to its release this month August and now View all 37 comments. Fantastic book - Lenah Beaudonte is an extremely powerful and ruthless vampire queen who is more than five centuries old. Unhappy with her vampire existence, she implores her vampire maker and lover Rhode to uncover an ancient ritual that can give her back her humanity.
After hibernating for years,she wakes up as a human teenager enrolled at the exclusive Wickham Boarding School. Rhode has done everything to give her a new chance at life and in doing so has made the ultimate sacrifice—his ow Fantastic book - Lenah Beaudonte is an extremely powerful and ruthless vampire queen who is more than five centuries old. Rhode has done everything to give her a new chance at life and in doing so has made the ultimate sacrifice—his own life.
Mourning for him, Lenah seizes the chance to walk in the sunlight, have fun with friends, experience real emotions, and fall in love with a great guy. Lenah knows that it is only a matter of time before her vicious coven opens her crypt and discovers her missing. Linked to her by dark magic, they will not rest until they find her, destroying the world she has come to love. Lenah is a unique and complex character whose emotions ring true. Her horrifying life as a vampire is revealed through a series of detailed and riveting flashbacks that are extremely effective in driving the plot and the decisions she makes.
A promising start to a series, the story is filled with action, romance, longing, deception, and sacrifice. It will leave vampire fans thirsting for more!! Looking forward to book 2! Shelves: favorites , badass-mc , sobfest , vampires , reviews , 5-holy-stars , the-feels-are-strong-with-this-one. It's not fair. I guess I should start by commending Ms. Rebecca Maizel for writing yet another superb book.
Also, Stolen Nights is the first book in that I've read! This'll be a tough one to beat, I'm telling you. This is horrible. Hell, even Odette was tragic. But I suppose Lenah did the things she needed to do in order to forgive herself for all the killings that she's done in her past vampire-crazy life I just finished reading it and snot is literally still coming out of my face so You know those moments in a book when something happens and you can't believe characters are THAT stupid?
Yeah, Stolen Night had several moments I just couldn't ignore. For instance, students were being murdered, they disappeared and even a teacher died in a car accident but the school faculty said those cases weren't linked and urged the students not to leave the school.
Nov 02, Jessica marked it as to-read. Looking forward to read this book I love the cover but lets see what there will be inside. View 1 comment. Jun 26, Lisa rated it it was ok.
A very disappointing sequel to the amazing Infinite Days. Rebecca Maizel uses language beautifully. Her narrative conveys her characters thoughts and emotions seamlessly. Infinite Days was written like an adult fairy tale. Yet, in book two of the Night Queen we are only shown Lenah's obsession with Rhode her vampire maker. Through a ritual in book one Lenah and Rhode are transformed back to human. Infinite Days covers Lenah's matriculation at an East coast boarding school. There she befriends BFF Tony and falls in love with Justin while her former vampire coven hunts her down.
Along the way she learns how to be a sixteen year old human girl. It isn't easy after being a year old vampire queen. We follow along as Lenah learns to drive a car and use a computer. Even picking a human wardrobe and learning how to converse with modern day teenagers is a challenge for Lenah. But she masters it all and we love her for it. Rhode is believed to be dead in Infinite Days but is very much alive in book two.
Due to a circumstance too complicated to explain Rhode and Lenah are forbidden to ever being together again. If they break the rule they die. That conundrum is the basis of the sequel. But it doesn't work. Too much of the story is centered on Lenah and her inability to live knowing she can never be with her vampire maker again. She dumps Justin her first human boyfriend, never mourns the death of her best friend Tony who was murdered by her coven and she spends all her time trying to get back to Rhode.
There is no more mention of classes or homework, just Rhode. Stolen Nights reminds me of Twilight. Stephanie Meyer created in Bella a teen age girl obsessed with a boy to the exclusion of all else. The independent fierce Lenah of Infinite Days is replaced by an obsessed and insecure teen. This is very boring and very sad. Young women today can do and be anything they want. Obsessing over a man whether they be human or vampire is a ridicules waste of time. And so was this book. Feb 18, Rose rated it did not like it Shelves: arc-or-galley , romance , netgalley , paranormal , supernatural , young-adult , a-to-z-ya-challenge Initial reaction: Definitely not as good as the first book, and there were times when I sincerely though I would be better off forgetting about this book's existence entirely, and just keeping to what I liked about the first one.
I think what I can say on an overarching note is that neither the writing or plotting of this particular work were sound and it really bothered me. There were sparks momentarily of good things here: Vicken was cool, and some interesting twists toward the end, but they w Initial reaction: Definitely not as good as the first book, and there were times when I sincerely though I would be better off forgetting about this book's existence entirely, and just keeping to what I liked about the first one.
There were sparks momentarily of good things here: Vicken was cool, and some interesting twists toward the end, but they weren't really enough to save the book in my experience, and I felt very, very disappointed with Lenah's characterization. Still trying to decide whether to give this 1 or 1. I'm more inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt, but at the same time, I really didn't enjoy this at all. Full review: To commence this review, I'll admit I read "Infinite Days" last year and while I had certain qualms about it, I still really enjoyed the experience, especially in the audiobook form.
The premise in itself for that book was very interesting and complex in insinuation - considering Lenah is a some year old vampire who, by a measure of a sacrifice, becomes human teenager again. There's a bit of self-discovery elements in that book which I adored watching, and Lenah juxtaposes her former life as a vampire to her newfound human qualities with surprising and intimate clarity for a YA work. True, the romance in that book seemed quite formulaic, but I still really liked watching Lenah's developing relationships with Jason and Tony, watching her internal conflict with those spectra, even considering the latter parts of the book where tragedy strikes and there are no share of hearts left unbroken by the events that transpire.
The action sequences were well drawn, the stakes were high, and overall I just went along for the ride in that book and would not hesitate to re-read it again. Yet reading "Stolen Nights" seems to undo all the positive elements of the previous book and then some.
I had to ask myself if this book was written by the same person because not only were the descriptions in this book repetitive the descriptions of apples among other things and lacking intimacy, but it was also so infuriatingly cliche and did so many things to undo what made the first book work.
I'm having a difficult time knowing where to begin because I wonder why this book got so many things just I think the first mistake was bringing back the deceased lover and sidelining the main love interest of the previous book. It didn't make any kind of sense. Long story short, Lenah has a particular challenge when her former lover, Rhode who purportedly sacrificed himself so that she could be human , turns out alive in the mix of a new wave of vampire attacks that leave students that Lenah knows for dead.
So what do you think Lenah does after one of her friends is killed and she discovers Rhode is alive? She goes running straight to Rhode, declaring her love for him and leaving her current lover Jason stranded on the beach.
That was the first sign I knew that I would have problems with this book. If they had that much power, why for all the love of things could they not have stopped Odette and left it up to Lenah? Sense this does not make. I really did not feel any kind of romantic intimacy between the characters in this book.
All of it felt manufactured, forced, and manipulated for the sake of drama, and it infuriated me. Even the action sequences felt brief, lacking true stakes, and didn't hold my interest very much. There were a few sparks of interesting turns in this story, but not enough to save the book for me. I'll make mention of them though because I think they were worth noting in the context of the story.
One of them was Vicken, who, since turning human, became a charming, hilarious aide to Lenah in her quest to stop Odette from killing more students and targeting Lenah in particular. There was also a character death that hit me very hard in the context of the story, and the friend that was left behind grieving really stood out to me, probably one of the few moments in the book where it tugged at my heart.
I also didn't expect a few twists towards the end that probably would've been better off if it led to anything more substantial though some who may follow Jason may seriously question where and when this transition occurred. Then there was the ending, which I somewhat expected and probably could've had more resonance to me if the events leading up to that point didn't feel so contrived.
In the end, I think I'll choose to pretend this book doesn't exist and continue to be fond of the first book. I don't know if the series will continue from here considering that ending, but if it does, I surely hope it has a better jumping point than anything this novel had to offer.
It disappointed me that much, and I really think Maizel has more talents and charm in her prose than this work showed. It didn't even come close to the quality of the first book, in my opinion. Martin's Press. Rebecca Maizel really did it with Stolen Nights! I really, really, really loved it!
I'm so thankful to JP for introducing Infinite Days to me. I said I really wish that there'll be more kick-ass actions in the book. And heck! My wish was granted! I didn't get bored since from the start, there's 'actions'.
And all my wish were there. I get to see Rhode again. Tony even though it's just mere seconds. Anyhow, the plot was really good. I mean, it's really unique. With Lenah wanting to be human again after being made a Vampire without having a choice, from there, I know this story was really a unique one. A friend yes, JP, it's you already spoiled the book to me Yes, yes, my fault for clicking the damn spoiler button but still I can't wait to read it 2 days ago. I usually don't read spoilers cause I get lazy to finish a book, but Stolen Nights?
I finished it in less than 10 hours! So even knowing what happened to them because of the spoiler button seriously?! Why did they invent spoiler button?!
I did not expect the characters and the story to be like that. I didn't imagine it, didn't thought of it. I hated the Aeris for keeping Lenah and Rhode away from each other. And I really hate the options they gave Lenah. And even though view spoiler [he's been manipulated by Odette hide spoiler ] , and had a valid reason for THAT, I still don't like him. Rhode, I love Rhode. No I'm not rating the book because of Rhode. I like him very much because he's really a sweet guy.
And the sparks between him and Lenah? I just kept grinning. Right there and then, I want him to be happy with Lenah. He already lost too much and in pain for a long time. It does not feel forced nor overly romanticized but rather a natural progression of their time together. Their scenes together are as poignant as they are powerful, and their story truly gives new meaning to the idea of loving someone for eternity.
Stolen Nights thwarts the sequel curse as everything about it is better than the first novel. There are plenty of answers as well as a strong plot with ample tension, drama and character development. As with the first novel, the cliffhanger is subtle, and readers who are not interested in continuing the series obtain enough closure to be able to walk away from the novel satisfied.
However, fans who fall in love with Rhode and Lenah will be waiting with baited breath for Ms. Maizel to finish the series. If the strength of Stolen Nights is any indication, it is going to be an amazing finish to an increasingly compelling series.
All affiliate income is used to support the blog. Related 4 Comments amanda on October 27, at PM I just bought stolen nights a couple weeks ago, finally, and I literally just finished it.
I know! Yes, there should be another book, but I have no idea whether she is writing it, let alone the release date. So frustrating to wait! It is worth it. Seriously, it is even better than the first book, and the way it ends will break your heart, leave you gasping in surprise, and completely anxious for the next book! Besides, even though Lenah is a teenager, since she's been around so long, it really does not have that angsty teen feel to it.
Lenah and Rhode really do act like adults, no matter their outward appearances. It's one of the more compelling elements of the story. Damn you Michelle for making me want to check this out from the library! Although a bit on the young side, I like all of the elements of this story. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Enter your email address to subscribe to That's What She Read and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address. Synopsis :. Why am I here, back safe on Wickham campus? The strong magic I used in the ritual did more than just make Vicken human. It drew someone to Lovers Bay who does not belong here. She wants the ritual. Then she wants me dead. And she will take down any and everyone in my life to get what she wants. They have a surprise and an unbearable punishment for me — like stepping into the sun for the first time, only to be put into a cage.
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