e-ALC, 21:26:29
Narrated by: Jordan Cobb, Gabriel Micharl, Zoleka Vundla, Andre Santana, & Cary Hite
Release Date: November 4, 2025
Published by: Hachette Audio
Read from: December 18-19, 2025
Immortal Dark Trilogy, #2
Source: Netgalley (I received this ALC free from the publisher and Netgalley. This did nothing to influence my review!)
Content Warning: Blood, Violence, Death, Death of a Parent, Murder, Confinement, Vomit, Gore, Slavery
For Readers Interested In: Fantasy, Vampires, Dark Academia, Paranormal, Romance, Romantasy, YALike all ruinous things, he came from the abyss.
Kidan Adane has finally embraced her darkness. She’s killed without remorse, lied, and broken Uxlay University’s most sacred law by inviting elusive rogue vampires, the Nefrasi, into Uxlay.
Trapped with a violently unstable vampire, and reeling from her sister’s return, Kidan wields her anger like a weapon. She vows to master her house and protect the sacred artifact hidden inside, even if it means forging an alliance with the depraved leader of the Nefrasi, Samson Sagad—and betraying Susenyos.
A dangerous new philosophical text seems to hold the answers and promises the very thing Kidan has control. Even as the dark pages consume her, Kidan knows no soul at Uxlay is trustworthy—least of all Susenyos. For Kidan and Susenyos, the lines of loathing and attraction may blur, but the quest for power rules them both. And neither is willing to surrender.
As devastating secrets resurface from the past, Kidan and her sister, June, must finally confront each other and take their rightful places in the looming war.
*MY THOUGHTS*
I really don’t know what to say about this. I have to be honest, I didn’t love Immortal Dark, but I finished it anyways because I had the audio. But I didn’t love it. However, when I heard the second one was on audio via Netgalley, I grabbed it immediately. Why? Idk.
I liked that this starts almost immediately after her sister returns. But with her return comes its own set of problems. She sides with the rogue vampires. Which I didn’t understand. It obviously caused a bunch of family drama to come up and they had to duke it out. It was all a hot mess lol
Kidan gets worse than what she was in the first one and is moving real weird. I didn’t recognize her in a lot of those later choices she made. Like those other vampires she invited into the school. And the way she turned on Susenyos genuinely had me shocked and confused. I’ll say it again, it was all a hot mess.
I DID like that we learned more about Susenyos and the other vampires. But it still did feel a bit like an info dump. I also DID really like the information about the slaves and what the mask represented. I thought that was an interesting way to bring it into the story. The healing properties, but it couldn’t heal that one thing. It sounded cool, but also too powerful for me lol
This was ok, but I spent way too much time trying to figure out if it was over yet. I felt way too long and with the numerous places in the book that had me re-reading after not paying attention. It was just too much. I’m definitely going to have to listen to this again before the next one. IF I read the next one…..
Overall, I give this
Sad to hear you didn’t quite enjoyed this one. I liked the first one well enough and I decided to get this one as well! It’s hard for me to turn down an intriguing vampire novel and I did like Tigest’s take on them. Glad you found some enjoyable parts to the story! I am definitely going to need my recap of the first book since I read that as an ARC when it came out and still haven’t circled back to this one yet. Nice review! I’m a little bit prepared for some weird chaos now! Lol.