"The right man can make you lose your inhibitions"
Nathan is a vampire who lives a life of loneliness and
despair. He can't feel any real emotions, can't form bonds
with anyone else, and moves from place to place, town to
town, working in blood labs where he finds his
nourishment. He isn't a bad man, just one who experienced
some bad luck a couple hundred years ago. His days are
what most people would consider to be a living hell.
Imagine living in a world where you don't stay in the same
place for more than a few years, if even that long. You
can't make friends because there are too many secrets you
can't explain. You can't fall in love, get married, and
have children because you drink blood and have to sleep
during the day, and most girls just aren't comfortable with
that. But you can sense everything going on around you,
even if you can't be part of it. When the couple upstairs
engages in rather boisterous sex, Nathan hears it. He also
hears their fighting. And when he comes upon Amy, the
young woman with the demanding boyfriend who left her
because of her prudishness, Nathan decides to help her lose
her inhibitions. What's a guy to do? He is just trying to
be neighborly . . . Anyone interested in reading a romantic love story should
not pick up DARK DESIRES. It is neither romantic nor a
love story. However, it is a dark, emotional tale of a
young man whose innocence was taken from him a long time
ago, of a man who still has honor when no one expects it of
him. It is an erotic journey for a timid, self-conscious
woman into the realm of sensual love, and who finds an
amazing teacher in her spooky neighbor. It is also a
lesson to be learned by all of us: some decisions are too
big to be taken lightly, and some mistakes can never be
rectified. While it is hard to like Nathan, it isn't hard
to admire or empathize with him.
Reviewed by Kelley Hartshorn
Posted April 28, 2003
SummaryWhen Nathan meets Amy, she's in tears. Her boyfriend has
left to consider their relationship; he's frustrated that
she's not more interested in sex. Nathan knows he should
leave the young woman alone--relationships with a four-
hundred-year-old vampire can be hazardous for mortal
females. But he can't fight the attraction any more than
he can understand it. He offers to become her sexual tutor
and show her how to please her boyfriend. Unable to battle
his power of persuasion, Amy agrees.
While Nathan is seducing Amy in ways she's never imagined,
and showing her things no mortal lover could, she's falling
in love with him. When she learns his secret, she's ready
to join him in eternity.
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