Rainbow Reviews

BOOK BLURB:
Adam has gone through a lot of changes in the past year, a new taste for 'O' neg blood and allergy to sunlight being the least of them. Maybe it's the cute young grad student who has been sniffing around Adam's longtime sex partner, Peter. Or maybe immortality gives a man a little too much time to think. But Adam's feeling motivated to change a few of his ways. If he could just get Peter to stop working long enough to notice.

Peter has his own issues with dating a dead man. And after over a decade of being in love with a commitment-phobe, he's finding it hard to believe that Adam isn't sampling the goods of the hot young vampire he works with.

They manage their issues the way they always have. By not talking about them ... until a high profile computer software genius turns up drained in Hollywood, revealing a new vampire gang in Los Angeles, and all of their troubles come to a head. There's no rest for the wicked.

BOOK REVIEW:
I make no secrets about being a huge A.M Riley fan. I may not have read everything this author has written as I still have to be attracted to the blurb, but the few stories I have read have made my all-time favourite list. I fell in love with Adam and Peter when the author released her holiday short “What to buy a Vampire who has Everything” I didn’t expect anything after that holiday short, but when the author wrote “Immortality is the Suck” I couldn’t have been happier. I had recently finished “Immortality is the Suck” when the author had released the sequel “No Rest for the Wicked.” Whilst the holiday short can be read in any order, I would recommend reading “Immortality is the Suck” first as “No Rest for the Wicked” is the direct sequel.

Things have changed for Adam and so has his relationship with Peter. As a human, Adam had taken advantage of Peter and whilst he cared for and cherished for Peter when he was human, as a vampire he has realised a lot of things. How much Peter loves him and how much Peter has sacrificed to be with him. Now being a part of the ‘undead’ Adam is willing to do whatever he can do to make Peter happy, and when dead bodies turn up and Peter’s lovesick puppy named Jonathan keeps showing up ~ Adam is not willing to give up without a fight.

“No Rest for the Wicked” like the other two books in this series are all character driven. The characters leap off the page and drag you along with the ride. Adam has grown up a lot, and whilst we have never met Adam as a ‘human’ we are told how he was through his own internal musings. He wasn’t a great guy is probably the least we can say about him. As a vampire he’s marginally better, but that has more to do with Peter’s influence, and how much Adam is now willing to go for the man. Adam is an anti-hero most readers will probably despise him. He’s outspoken, rude and a tad mean at times, but the love and care he dotes on Peter (in his own way) is amazing to read. Adam’s love for Peter isn’t all flowers and ‘I love you’ more than a decade of friendship and sleeping with each other and being cops their relationship was never going to be conventional, even after Adam realised how fragile life is. The thing that awes me when I read these two is that their relationship is theirs. It isn’t pretty and they don’t claim to be more than something they are not. They are honest, raw and beautiful.

Peter is the guy who wants the romance and the holidays, and that dog and pretty house. He realised he’ll never find that from Adam, and yet he loves him regardless. Peter is that character who could have anyone, and the author never makes him out to be perfect, because he’s not. He’s simple and he has dreams, but he’s also realistic, and he'd rather have Adam than any of the frills on top of a cake. That is why their relationship is amazing to read, and that is why I’ll never get tired of reading Adam and Peter.

A.M. Riley has a cast of interesting secondary characters, which any of them could star in their own novel. I proposition that Caballo get his own story. The initial premise was very well crafted, filled with action and gore. Whilst I may rate “Immortality is the Suck” a tad higher, because the plot was more intense and thrilling ~ “No Rest for the Wicked” is a great addition to the series, and a great story to see Adam and Peter grow in their complicated yet fascinating relationship.

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