Veil of Midnight by Lara AdrianMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I've loved Nikolai since the beginning of the series. He keeps going and going all the time and doesn't stop ever. He'd never let himself love. He just devoted his life to killing for the order. He was in impossible situations from the beginning of this book. I loved how he refused to let his fear show.
Renata, Renata, Renata... I didn't dislike her so much at the beginning of the book. But as the book went on, she did one thing after another that made me hate her. She was so confused about things in her life. Yakut had done awful things to her yet when he died, she couldn't believe that his son Lex had done it? How could she not. After the way that Yakut treated his son, I'm amazed that he hadn't had him killed sooner.
I felt bad for many people in this story. Renata for those two years of her life, Mira for being used at such a young age, everyone at Andreas' safe haven for their terrible death, Andreas for having to suffer through losing everything and everyone who mattered to him, and I even felt bad for Lex. All he ever wanted was to please his father and be something in his eyes. Yet his father Yakut was a horrible beast from day one. He killed Lex's mother and barely cared for Lex himself. Honestly, I'm not sure if I should pity him considering he was only seeking to rule in the end. I can't really pity him for that but in a way I still feel that part of him wanted his father to be there for him, be proud, love him, do something good to show him that he was his son. But he never did. I guess I have a thing about relationships with parents.
From the start Renata was trying to prove herself. She wanted to convince herself that she was strong enough to do anything yet she wasn't. Not without vampire blood in her system. It's not her fault that she was so weak. That's the way Yakut liked her. He was a horrible bastard in so many ways and he deserved exactly what he got. Renata really believed that Niko did it. If she hadn't used her powers on him, she would have been strong enough to protect Mira. She didn't think about anything before she acted. When she found out that Mira was gone, she should have known that she was going to go save her. Therefore she should have collected weapons before she confronted Lex. But no, she just strolled up to him and then depleted so much of her powers. After betraying Niko she definitely should have gone to save him since it was her fault. She shouldn't even have expected anything in return.
Niko ended up helping her. I have no idea why he fell for her for the most part. He gave her his blood to save her life and give her power to save Mira. Then because Niko omitted one piece of information that was for her safety and despite everything else he had done for her, she betrayed him again. She used her powers against him again after she wouldn't have had it if it wasn't for him. I could have killed her. Again she didn't think before she acted. She went into the situation with no plan and no backup.
I'm glad that most of the bad guys ended up getting what was coming to them. I liked Renata at the very end as well. She showed that she actually had a heart. She was just too screwed up in the head for most of the book. Niko I loved but I'm disappointed a little that he fell in love with a crazy lady.
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