After Midnight

After Midnight
L.M. Prieto
Loose Id LLC
ISBN: 1-59632-343-8
Fiction, Erotic Paranormal
Reviewed by Shannon Frost

Andrew Sutter and Devon Forsythe return from the dangers they faced in After Dark, to face even darker challenges. As Andrew begins a smooth transition in learning how to control his newly found magical abilities, Devon struggles with the knowledge that he is a werewolf. When two senior werewolves arrive to take him back home to his grandparents in England to protect him from a werewolf civil war, Devon and Andrew fight to stay together. On top of this new problem, Andrew discovers that his grandfather who taught his murderous brother, Tyler, magic is still alive, and has every intention of using Andrew to bring Tyler back from the dead once again. As the two men battle to survive, Andrew begins to sink further into darkness, and Devon must find a way to bring back the gentle man he’s always loved.
After Midnight continues a few months where After Dark left off. Darkness abounds in this tale with more blood magic, more gore, more death, and more graphic love scenes. Andrew’s character is visibly tainted as the story progresses to where he’s hardly recognizable from who he had once been. The addition of the senior werewolves to the story is excellent as they fill the reader in on some of the werewolf history and lore. The general writing in this story also has a smoother flow, showing improvement from author Prieto in her overall craft. As with the first novel, After Midnight not only ends abruptly, but with a cliffhanger. Having never been a big fan of cliffhanger endings finding them more frustrating than anything, others may not be bothered by this as they have already followed Andrew and Devon this far, and plan to continue in subsequent works, and judging by the trend of After Dark and After Midnight, the next may yet increase in darkness.