Kayla Friday’s life dramatically changed the day she arrived
in Seattle Washington to identify her sister’s body at the morgue. Within
minutes, she is thrust into a world of paranormals who are looking for a
necklace that was in her sister’s possession. Without a clue to what is going
on, Kayla clings to a man named Hart who she meets at the morgue, to help
her. The only problem is, Hart’s job is
to recover that necklace by any means possible and helping Kayla is just a ruse
to get his hands on it. Also she’s
pretty sexy and he wouldn’t mind getting her into bed.
As Kayla tries to survive in this post-apocalyptic world,
her attraction for Hart grows more and more every day. But little does she know
another man has his eyes set on her, and he plans to make her his next prized possession.
Will Kayla find the necklace and make it
home safe or will her trip to Seattle be her last?
Hearts of Darkness is the first book in the Deadglass Series
by debut author Kira Brady. At first I
had trouble getting into this story right from the beginning. Kayla’s sister’s dead body is set on fire in
front of her and a couple pages later, she grabs onto a perfect stranger named
Hart and starts kissing him. My jaw
actually dropped when Kayla started checking out Hart and did this. How could
you think about a man, how could you be attracted to a man, after just seeing
your dead sister in a morgue and watching her body burn? And you react by
kissing a stranger?? Ok.
The romance between Hart and Kayla was not enjoyable for me
because it never had time to develop. They kiss in Chapter 3 before they’ve
even gotten to know each other at all. This ruined the chase for me. You know when
one person in a romance novel is chasing after another and they don’t know if
the other really likes them or not? Well we didn’t have any of that. We knew from the very beginning that Hart
wanted to screw Kayla, and we knew Kayla although supposedly a virgin, was
QUICK to jump into bed with the first man she meets in Seattle.
The word ‘’Lady’’ is used over and over and over in this
story instead of God. The Lady is one of
their Gods and they say her name constantly.
I had no idea who this Lady is but eventually it was sort of explained.
I started counting at one point how many times Lady is used. After 15 times, I
stopped counting.
The world that Kayla was in was already built for me as it
is practically identical to Karen Marie Moning’s Fever Series world, so I didn’t
have trouble picturing it. At times I
got confused because of the extreme similarities between the two series. In both series the main character is
traveling far to a place where their sister was studying, was found
dead/possibly murdered, had a secret boyfriend, and was living in a place that
was overrun by paranormal beings that the rest of the world doesn’t know about.
In both series the main character clings on to the first man she meets. In the Fever Series, Barron; In Deadglass,
Hart. There are numerous more
similarities but they would create spoilers for both series so I won’t mention
them.
I had extremely high hopes for Hearts of Darkness when I
heard it’s comparable to KMM’s series. I
didn’t think the comparison was because of near identical plots. I assumed it would be because of the writing or
some other aspect. After having read a
lot of urban fantasy novels, (I don’t know why this is classified as paranormal
romance) this story just doesn’t feel unique to me. I feel like I’ve read it before, too many
times.
Despite all of my complaints, I WILL be continuing on with
this series to see if it will develop more. It did have a fast pace and the action was enjoyable. Unfortunately, the negatives still outweigh the positives with Hearts of Darkness.
MY RATING:
