Title: Nightside
Author: VL Locey
Series: Lake Erie
Genre: M/M/M Romance, Paranormal
Release Date: October 23, 2019
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
Being a new member of the undead sect has its ups and downs, something that newly embraced Akio Lee is finding out first hand. Being able to spend eternity with his beloved Vincente, the man who introduced him to life in the nightside, is a definite up. Having to sneak up and feed on strangers? That’s one of the downsides, and something that Akio is finding difficult to swallow. But what other option is there for a recently wed vampire couple who need blood to survive?
Finding a new donor perhaps? One who comes into the lifestyle willingly, as Akio had done, and is open to the unique and sensual relationship that develops when three men have a blood bond. A man who can exist in both the nightside and the dayside worlds. A man like Dalton Briggs, the tall, dark, and handsome caretaker of the manse Akio and Vincente now call home? Dalton seems to tick every box Akio and Vincente have: he’s comfortable around vampires, he’s obviously into men, he’s drop dead gorgeous, and he’s human. But will the outgoing handyman be willing to offer two vampires his vein, his body, his heart?
If you follow my reviews/blog you'll recall I just got around to reading VL Locey's Lake Erie series a couple of weeks ago and I loved it so when I continued on to Nightside I was thrilled to find it was Akio and Vincente's story as Akio adjusts to his new role in life as a vampire. Locey did not disappoint.
I couldn't help but love Akio when he and Vincente resided in Mikel's wine cellar throughout the earlier stories and found his friendship with the skunk shifter, Templeton, to be incredibly fun and refreshing. Watching the recently wed vampires adjust to married life, Akio's newfound existence, and a their new home is interesting, intriguing, and done with the same humor-filled sassiness that we've come to know in the previous Lake Erie entries. Then we meet Ian, odds job handyman extraordinaire who has his own bit of supernaturalism flowing through his veins . . . speaking of veins, that bit of supernatural Ian has going on is enough to be something special to the boys as he agrees to be their donor. What started out as a necessity turns to attraction turns to love and suddenly the three become so much more.
We get to see some of our favorite shifters from the previous entries return. As I said above one of the things I loved most was the friendship between Akio and Templeton but I also enjoyed the friendly bickering between Vincente and Mikel. I say "friendly bickering" because they would never call each other friends, heck they probably wouldn't even admit to be acquaintances but I think deep down neither would know what to do with themselves if their significant others weren't friends and they didn't have reason to be in the same room at times. They act like they absolutely have to work together but I think they secretly enjoy the sniping, which in my book is friendship, no matter how unwilling they are to admit it😉.
I will say that on one hand I would have liked to seen a little more of the mystery of the house's past been more deeply explored, but that is down to me be a mystery fanatic. Truth is if the mystery had been more prevalent it would have changed the whole atmosphere that we've come to love about the Lake Erie series. So in the end I think it was actually perfectly handled for the series, the characters, and the story.
The clever and slightly different take on the paranormal world that Locey has created in her Lake Erie series is exactly what I needed. Don't get me wrong I love the old fashioned take on the paranormal genre that we've come to know through books and films such as Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein but sometimes a person likes to have things shaken up and/or a lighthearted look without it becoming a satire on tradition. For me, VL Locey's Lake Erie series is exactly that: fun paranormal romantic mystery with just the right blending of tradition and originality without any over-the-top satirical creepiness.
Can't wait to see what the author has planned next for this interesting world she's created.
RATING:
USA Today Bestselling Author V.L. Locey – Penning LGBT hockey romance that skates into sinful pleasures.
V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, Torchwood and Dr. Who, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a pair of geese, far too many chickens, and two steers.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.
Nightside
B&N / KOBO / BOOKS2READ
An Erie Collection
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