Title:Darken

Author :Angela Fristoe

Series:The SIEGE Series

Release date:19 May 2016

Rating : 4 Stars

Sometimes the past comes back to haunt us, sometimes it comes back to tempt us.Gavin Walker is still reeling from the death of his fiancée, Lela, two years ago. Every day is a struggle to control the monster he hides raging within him. Now, he’s working with sweet, sexy Coraline Evans, and she’s only making it harder.

Cora hasn’t forgiven herself for causing the accident that took her best friend Lela’s life. She tried running from the guilt and Gavin’s accusations, but that’s no longer an option. Someone is out to kill Gavin, and she’s determined to stop them, even if it means letting him break her heart in the process.SIEGE Corporation has a vested interest in Gavin and they aren’t willing to let him simply walk away again.

They’ll use anything and anyone to get what they want from him, including Cora. Faced with choosing between revenge and a second chance at love, Gavin isn’t sure if the monster SIEGE created will let him have either.

Darken is book 1 of The SIEGE Series, a new paranormal romance series by USA Today bestselling author* Angela Fristoe. If you like your romance on the sexy side, this is a must read!Check out Darken and enter the hot and steamy lives of the Walker family from The SIEGE Series.

It has been a while since I came across a promising “first” novel for a series in a genre like this. Well actually I am not even sure what genre this is. Darken (The SIEGE Series, #1) by Angela Fristoe is definitively contemporary and a romance but also it is something different.

It is a based on a not totally new but still intriguing plotline. The reader can easily picture the future novels as there are enough hints within the plot of Darken and that is totally OK.

Gavin and Cora get their sort of standalone novel so – yeah – not a cliffhanger in sight – thank you very much. The story starts of quite loud in the first chapter but gets a little more quite then.

I would have wished for a little faster pace around there. But I often encountered this with the opening books of a new series.

Sometimes a story has to find its flow and that might take a little so I assume we will know for sure if this series is a keeper when the second book is out.

The writing is solid and the characters are well developed – I see no reason to not enjoy this book either as a standalone or as the opening of a new world.

I honestly think that some of Gavin’s Brothers might be even more interesting than Gavin (sorry).

So I am actually looking forward to the next books and would love a chance at reviewing those too.

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