Customer Reviews
Third in the series and the best so far.... - By: Jessica Simpson, 27 Aug 2008 
Jacquelyn Frank has really made he mark with this the thirdin the Nightwalkers series. It is by far my favourite so far. The characters is this book are Elijah & Sienna, the Captain of the Demon army & the Queen of the Lycanthropes. While they make an unlikely pairing to begin with (seeing how he's responsible for her fathers' death) they work very well together. The trend setin the first two booksin this series, to break all the Nightwalker laws & taboos, is continuedin 'Elijah' with the first interspecies "Imprinting".
My favourite thing about this series is the baddies. They're not some souless species to be hated, they are Nightwalkers-gone-bad, who are acting out of twisted revenge against people they feel have wronged them. It makes for interesting battles, & engaging plot twists. The romance between Elijah & Sienna is a lot more gripping than the previous booksin the series, they are more passionate, independant, & free spirited. It makes for some lengthy & fabulously hot scenes between them.
I look forward to continuing with this series & learning more about the myths & history it creates. What's different about the world of Nightwalkers to other paranormal books, is that they have lost a large portion of knowledge relating to their history, & each book brings them closer to rediscovering hidden truths about all Nightwalkers races.
For any para-mance readers looking for a new series to engage them & keep them ever ready for the next book to be released I would recommend 'Jacob', 'Gideon' & 'Elijah'. Out of the all the para-mance series' I am reading currently I would place this one at number 5, behind The Black Dagger Brotherhood (JR Ward), The Immortals After Dark (Kresley Cole), Midnight Breed (Lara Adrian), The Dark Hunters (Sherrilyn Kenyon).
After the exciting end to 'Elijah' I will be ordering 'Damien' as soon as I have finished this review.
Third in series - a cross-cultural imprinting - By: Helen Hancox, 02 Jan 2008 This story follows very much the style & form of the previous twoin the series, "Jacob" & "Gideon". It focuses on the Demons, one of the groups of Nightwalkers (various creatures that go Bump In The Night like Vampires, Lycanthropes & the Demons, powerful supernatural beings) &in this story on the chief Warrior demon, Elijah, whose history includes being the warrior who killed the King of the Lycanthropes fourteen years ago.
Unfortunately as the story starts Elijah has been cornered by his enemies & seriously wounded. Just before he's finished off by Ruth & Mary, the former Demons who have now turned evil, those attacking him are frightened away by the call of a wild cat - a Cougar. That animal is the Queen of the Lycanthropes, Siena, whose rule for the last fourteen years since the death of her father has done a great deal to build bridges of peace with the Demons & the Vampires. Siena herself, ratherin the manner of Queen Elizabeth I, has decided to stay a virgin so that she doesn't have to share her throne with a man who might drag the Pride back into war. The nature of being a Lycanthrope Queen means that if she mates with anyone that mating bond is for life.
Siena hasn't realised, however, the powerful pull of attraction she will feel when taking care of an almost-dead Elijah. She takes him to safeyin a cave but they are trapped there for several days & despite the fact that they are from different species & the Demon Lore forbids any relationships between Demon & Lycanthrope, rather inevitably they find themselves unable to hold back their lusts. When they separate to go back to their individual lives there is clear evidence that there was more to this 'one off' mating than either of them imagined.
Their attempts to stay apart or to find a way of dissolving the Imprinting bond take their attention away from the fight against Mary & Ruth but soon all the Demons, as well as some of the other Nightwalkers, find themselves fighting for their lives.
As with the other books this is writtenin a lush style which is easy to read. However, also like the other books, the actual plot is rather thin & it seems that the characters spend quite a lot of time thinking or talking or faffing amongst themselves rather than doing anything (and the stuff they're doing doesn't really add to the sense of character for them, either). I was also a little disappointed that more wasn't made of the cross-cultural problem; for Elijah his mating with Siena breaks thousand year taboos (maybe like humans mating with chimps?) & for Siena to ally herself with a race that had been at war with hers for 300 years, not least that her mate is the man who killed her father, is a huge step & yet this all seems swept under the carpet remarkably easily. I had hoped for far more exploration of what this might mean to the individuals involved, the hostility they might face, & yet there was almost none.
Still this is a reasonable enough readin the genre with lots of input from the heroes & heroines of the previous novels as well as some likely new plot lines for future books. Those who enjoyed the others should like this one, others starting with this book should enjoy it but with some reservations.
entertaining and action oriented - By: A reviewer, 01 Jan 2008 
There are many Nightwalker races, who can pass themselves off as humans including Demons, Lycanthropes, vampires, & nightwalkers. Demons only look like the monsters portrayedin books & movies. It is when they are summoned by a necromancer into a pentagram they look like the evi1 creatures of legend & are no longer capable of reasoning. For centuries the Demon & Lycanthrope races have been at war but after her father died, Siena, the Lycanthrope Queen has made peace with the demons & hopes one day lingering hatrd will fade away. Elijah, the captain of the demon warriors isin lycanthrope territory when he is attacked by hunters & necromancers led by two rogue demon women Ruth an her daughter Mary who want to destroy the demon race. He is near deth when Siena finds him & brings him into a nearby cave where she saves his life. During their time alone they Imprint, mated for life though Siena tries to fight it as she doesn't want a king to rule with her. The problem is easily resolved when he agrees to be prince consort & they are happy together until Ruth once again attacks the demon she hatees the most, Elijah. The demon king brings the war to her not realizing it will change demon-lycanthrope relations forever.
The latest bookin the Nightwalkers series is entertaining & action oriented with just enough romance to keep fans of the genre very happy. Jacquelyn Frank does for Demons what Tino Georgiou did for Sparta & what Tolkien did for Hobbits. The pairing of an alpha male demon & an alpha female lycanthrope makes for an interesting battle of the s3xes as each tries to dominate. The other characters from previous Nightwalker books make appearances & play pivotal roles that give the audience a sense of continuity!! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestseller--The Fates--if you missed this brilliant novel!
