Immortal Ever After: An Argeneau Novel
New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands enthralls with Immortal Ever After, the latest entry in her sizzling paranormal vampire series featuring the wickedly alluring Argeneau family.
When Valerie is saved by the Argenau rescue team after being kidnapped by an immortal madman, Anders finds himself captivated by the strong, sultry woman. Engaged in a steamy affair, he promises to do everything in his power to protect Valerie while her abductor is still at large—and on the hunt.
Sexy, fun, and full of passion, Lynsay Sands’s Immortal Ever After delivers a tantalizing adventure and a smoldering romance.
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In mortals and their lifemates
she was a vet who had been out walking her dog when she was kidnapped by two guys who acted like vampires..She had made a plan that she was going to get away and save the other girls that were in cages in the basement with her. She learned a long time ago not to eat the oatmeal because it was drugged and she need to have her senses about her if she was going to make her escape. When she finally did get her escape and she stabbed the guy in the heart she grab the phone and called 911 and the lady thought she was crazy Bit she took the information down and she saw the other guy driving in at least she heard the garage door open so she had to make a break for it.. Leaving the phone off the hook she jumped out the window. Since this was an unusual case and the enforcers had been monitoring all the calls to the police they came and wiped everybody’s mine from the scene of the crime and went in and took care of everything and went out to look for her and found her passed out under a bush. She was brought to the main enforcers house because they knew that she was a lifemate for one of the enforcers heat always said he didn’t want to mate and saw how it made the other guys such love sick idiots. It’s a good book I haven’t read it and I’m not sure how I had missed it.
Tall, Dark & Quiet!
Anders, Mr. Quiet Enforcer; finally gets a lifemate. Valerie is a vet who was going back to college to learn some of the newer techniques in veterinary medicine when she was kidnapped by a rogue vampire. But, not only did she escape but she helped the other women who had also been kidnapped escape as well after staking "Igor" & calling 911 which in turn let the Enforcers find them & rescue them. But, when Anders came across Valerie & realized that he couldn't read her or control her he knew that he had found his lifemate. But, that is only the beginning of their story; there is much more to be read. However, I'm not going to tell you what happens next other than to say that this was a very good book. This book has some familiar immortals in it, a dog named Roxy, has some sex scenes, a delivery as Leigh finally gives birth to her..., a lot of staking of the bad guys & hitting them upside their head multiple times & some humor. Now onto the next book in this series.
Reviews
Valerie Moyer was a vet that moved to back to school to learn new things to improve the services she gives. She was kidnapped and put in a cage with other women in a basement. Not believing in vampires but they think their captures does. Today is her day and she realized that the oatmeal had drugs in it. She gets taken out and is going upstairs for her night out. She is looking for something to use. She squeezes shampoo in his eyes and they start to fight. She stalks him the heart and calls 911. Andrea and others of the enforcers go to check it out. She went out the window and Anders found her under a bush, he tries to get into her mind and couldn't read her. He is to protect her and sees if she is life mate. They try to kidnapping her again but the enforcers is working to find the bad immortals
Too many guest stars and a glaring continuity error
First, for long time lovers of this series, let me say it is much better than the Lady is a Vamp. I liked both Anders and Valerie and think they could be a good match. Unfortunately, they didn't spend much time talking and interacting with each other. Valerie spent more time talking and being with Leigh than Anders. About halfway through the book I was thinking about getting a score card to keep track of how many different leads from previous books made guest appearances. I was glad to see each of them, but there were so many guest stars it got overwhelming and in the way of seeing this couple actually interact with each other and fall in love. I would NOT recommend this book as a place to start the series. As a result, the book was a four star for me until the very end when an inconsistancy made me scream and cost it a star. **mild spoiler alert** The villan of the book had been holding Valerie captive at the beginning of the book and near the end she was able to provide an important clue to helping find him. Greg helped her go through her memories and she remembered seeing an old, poorly maintained renaissance portrait of her captor. (page 278) He was dressed in fur and a ruffled collar and they used that to get a sketch of his face in the hopes of finding him. (This bothered me a little - in past books descriptions of bad guys have been taken directly from the victims mind - here they used police sketch artists.) Then Valerie remebered seeing him since then, letting everyone know he was trying to recapture her. I was fine with that until the very last chapter when Mortimer reports back that they have questioned the now captured villan and he has informed him that he was turned on the battle fields of WWI. (page 351)How in the bleep is a man who was painted during the renaissance era supposed to have not been turned until WWI??!! How could everyone who read this book before it went to print have missed this issue?
Semmy and Valerie Immortal Love Saga! 3.5***** SPOILER ALERT!!
Valerie, a visiting vet, has been kidnapped along with five other single, family-less women, who were caged and bitten nightly by a rogue vampire, Ambrose. Valerie, breaks free after staking Igor, and calls 911 for help. The Argeneau Enforcers, intercept the call, and arrive to rescue the women: this allowed Semen (Semmy) Anders to meet his life mate, in Valerie. Anders takes her to Lucian and a very pregnant Leigh' s home, where over the course of a several days, she falls in love with Anders after experience rebound pleasure Immortal style. The rescued women are re-kidnapped and in Ambrose' s attempt to kidnap both Valerie and Leigh, Leigh goes into labor. Valerie, once again, is able to save them both, deliver the twins safely after turning the first baby into the correct position, and escaping Igor' s grips again at Lucian' s home. The plot, character development, and coquette romance were enticing, which made the novel flow flawlessly. Lucian, again micromanages the Enforcers, and this was an issue in the story line, as they are not allowed to deviate from his orders. A great, quick, Summer read about my favorite Immortal clan! I am rereading this, as though it was my first time. I certainly forgot several key points in the novel, including the fact that Anders was of Arabic/African heritage. Actually, the entire plot was foreign to me.7/16/16.
Immortal Ever After: Argeneau Series
Lynsay Sands knows humor and knows her target audience with her Argeneau Novels. I am not knocking them because I have purchased them all; it is a great escape from reality and the everyday drivel. This story focuses on Anders - the nearly silent enforcer and his finding his 'lifemate' Adventures, action and hi-jinx occur. It is not a bad story whatsoever. I find that I laugh out loud at certain passages and re-read them for a few more chuckles. I have done that with all of the books in the series. I liked the character of Valerie - she was a well rounded character. I love Leigh Gerard-Argeneau she was the icing on the cake. I re-read her pages about 4 times. My mom that I was having a fit in my room.
enjoyable romantic urban fantasy
"Igor" came every night to give his caged female prisoners drug-laced oatmeal, fruit and water except the one his master chooses for his "night out" dining. This evening the vampiric psychopath selects veterinarian Valerie Moyer as his latest bloody snack. However, far from being docile, she stopped eating the oatmeal after her last "night out" Valerie surprises and stakes Igor. She calls 911 but the dispatcher thinks she is on drugs when she mentions six other women, stakes, bites and a vampire who has come for his meal. Wounded and exhausted, she escapes only to faint. Monitoring the 911 call, vampiric enforcer Anders Andronnikov leads a team into the house. The vampire is gone, but they tend to the women and the police answering the 911 call. Anders finds Valerie and with Bricker takes her to home of Lucien and pregnant Leigh Argeneau. The enforcer also knows Valerie is his lifemate while the vet feels the attraction. As she accepts the concept of good and bad vampires, her nightmare stalks her waiting for the opportunity to bleed her to death. The latest Argeneau romantic urban fantasy (see Under A Vampire Moon and The Lady is a Vamp) is an enjoyable thriller due to the likable protagonists and a self-trained rogue vampiric survivalist. The sister bonding between Leigh and Valerie adds freshness while the horde of cameo visitors detracts from the plot. Still series fans will enjoy this engaging triangle. Harriet Klausner
OK but not as good as Sands other books
Lynsay Sands has always been my go to when I was looking for fun, lighthearted romance. Her characters are irresistible and the humor that peppers all her stories make them endearing and hard to forget. So I'm a bit disappointed in this book. It started in a dark place. Really dark. I was surprised and even went back to make sure I was reading a Lynsay Sands book. Valarie is a vet who had been kidnapped by a rogue vampire. In a dark room, locked up in a cell, Valarie manages to find the mental power to overcome her situation and find a way to rescue herself and the woman locked up with her. A rogue vampire case always gets the attention of the enforcers and this time Anders is on the case. Right away he realizes that he can't 'read' Valarie and knows that is sign that she may be his life mate. As Anders and Valarie discover the attraction between them, the rogue vampire is still in shadows waiting to re-capture Valarie before she tells the enforcers what he looks like. Anders will protect her at all costs and with the help of the rest of enforcers maybe Valarie will accept him and become his mate. Like I said...the book started off really dark although the story lightened up, the humor wasn't as great as it was in previous book. Sands usually has me laughing out laud while reading and with this one I barely cracked a smile. I liked Anders and really liked Valarie. I liked that she was a strong woman capable of handling herself. But felt like the romance between the two was lost in the constant stream of secondary characters that were coming in and off the book. That took my attention away from them, and when there was a scene of the two of them alone, they were making out. I really didn't feel that the romance between was anything more than lust. It felt disingenuous. Not only that, but I felt like I didn't really know them at end. Which is not typical of a Sands book. The story was good but a bit forced and the humor just wasn't there. Overall...a disappointing book, but it won't stop me from reading Sands. I love her books and am willing to over look a fluke every once in a while.
Great!
I love this series. Lyndsay Sands has such a unique take on her vampires. I've read them all. This was not my favorite, but it was still great. Anders has always been a secondary character in the series, Always in the background, but this time he takes the stage front and center as he finds his life mate. Valerie Moyer, has been kidnapped. She is being held by what she thinks is somebody pretending to be a "vampire". Playing out his fantasies by holding women in cages, drugging them and then bringing them up to him to "feed" off of. When she decides she has had enough, she stops eating the drugged food, and on her next trip up to the "master", she fights off his servant, that the girls have nicknamed Igor, calls 911 then escapes out the window. Anders has been an enforcer for the Immortal Council for a very long time. They monitor the local emergency channels looking for calls that might lead them to a rogue vampire. When Valerie's call comes in they intercept the local police, use a bit of mind control, send the cops on their way and take over the investigation. What Anders does not expect is to finally find his life mate. That one person that an immortal can live with and feel safe. The one person they can't read their minds or control. A very rare find for one of their kind. Now he just has to convince Valerie, that not all immortals are monsters like the one that held her and the other women captive. Like humans, immortals can be good, bad, or downright evil. He has to convince her he's one of the good guys. And he needs her to agree to become his life mate. Or loose her forever. This is a great series. It was nice to see so many returning characters from earlier books. You don't need to have read the earlier books to read this one, the author gives plenty of back story for a first time reader. But you will get a more complete story. And for those who have read the series, there is a small surprise at the end of this one that I think a lot of us have been waiting for.
An Eternal Ever After for the serious Anders
Veterinarian Valerie uses her head to enable her rescue and that of the other women kept in a cage but a guy with 'fake fangs' playing vampire games, and when Ander's and Lucien's group of immortal Enforcers intercept Valerie's 911 call, they take on the the hunt for the on-the-hoof feeding rogue and Ander's discovers the woman he can't read or control in Valerie - his lifemate. I liked the leading lady Valerie a lot and I liked that while she's a damsel and she's in distress, she doesn't wait around for her knight and instead comes to her own rescue time and again. The story here isn't really as funny(silly) as some of Sand's other Argeneau romances but I thought that sort of fit with the reserved Anders - he is not as flamboyant a leading man as some of my past favorites but he is earnest, honest and the nanos ensure that both of the leads hidden passionate natures are put to good use. I also liked the way that the big reveal to Valerie by Anders of his immortality goes down, and the fact the way that Valerie handles it is very much in character. It is refreshing that Valerie's learning the big secret which had such a potential for being a big problem doesn't follow the path where the heroine flees and it takes a brush with death for her to realize what she's throwing away with the man she loves, instead Valerie doesn't panic, since she and Anders have built something which allows her to trust and accept the truth from him. And I really liked the way that Lucien steps in later to help her get the information she needs to make the final decision of whether to 'turn' and accept an eternal HEA. There are tons of small cameos of pairs from the previous seventeen or so books, but a very pregnant Leigh gets a nice chunk of screen time (along with her not-as-imposing-as-normal mate Lucien). I have to say that even though Leigh does take over the match making mantle from Momma Marguerite (who had only a brief cameo) I much prefer Leigh's meddling to Marguarite's - though Leigh's manipulation skills are top notch in managing to get what she wants from the enforcers who she out maneuvers at every turn. I had read the sample of this - which I had thought was really promising - and then saw the lukewarm response by other readers to the story, so I delayed buying it until the price fell to a 'worth-a-shot' price. I have to say that I actually enjoyed the story quite a bit. So for me this was a fun episode in the never ending saga of the Argeneau's, but in case you were wondering - no, Sands hasn't run out of vamps in need of lifemates yet.
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