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Immortals After Dark is a urban fantasy/romance novel series by Kresley Cole. The world of the \\\"Lore\\\" -- beings that humans think are myths -- is violent and brutal, but there are advantages, like incredible hotness and immortality.
Most of the time (unless you are a red-eyed vampire), other immortals will leave you alone if you aren\\\'t one of their allies. However, about every 500 years or so is the Ascension, a war of attrition that pits different species of immortals against each other. Rather than any one pitched battle or declared war, immortal factions find themselves drawn into conflicts that often end with immortal deaths. (One theory is that the universe is mystically controlling the immortal population, driving them to fight each other when the population gets too high.)
While many species within the Lore have friends and allies in other factions, but there is always an us-against-them vibe to those who are \\\"Other\\\". Intermarriages within Lore factions, while not unheard of, are pretty rare -- between some groups more than others.
There are 10 books out so far, number 11 is due out in January 2012 and will cover a major recurring character in many of the previous books.
Most of the time (unless you are a red-eyed vampire), other immortals will leave you alone if you aren\\\'t one of their allies. However, about every 500 years or so is the Ascension, a war of attrition that pits different species of immortals against each other. Rather than any one pitched battle or declared war, immortal factions find themselves drawn into conflicts that often end with immortal deaths. (One theory is that the universe is mystically controlling the immortal population, driving them to fight each other when the population gets too high.)
While many species within the Lore have friends and allies in other factions, but there is always an us-against-them vibe to those who are \\\"Other\\\". Intermarriages within Lore factions, while not unheard of, are pretty rare -- between some groups more than others.
There are 10 books out so far, number 11 is due out in January 2012 and will cover a major recurring character in many of the previous books.
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Immortals After Dark is a urban fantasy/romance novel series by Kresley Cole. The world of the \
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Immortals After Dark is a urban fantasy/romance novel series by Kresley Cole. The world of the \\\"Lore\\\" -- beings that humans think are myths -- is violent and brutal, but there are advantages, like incredible hotness and immortality.
Most of the time (unless you are a red-eyed vampire), other immortals will leave you alone if you aren\\\'t one of their allies. However, about every 500 years or so is the Ascension, a war of attrition that pits different species of immortals against each other. Rather than any one pitched battle or declared war, immortal factions find themselves drawn into conflicts that often end with immortal deaths. (One theory is that the universe is mystically controlling the immortal population, driving them to fight each other when the population gets too high.)
While many species within the Lore have friends and allies in other factions, but there is always an us-against-them vibe to those who are \\\"Other\\\". Intermarriages within Lore factions, while not unheard of, are pretty rare -- between some groups more than others.
Major groups in the Lore include:
The Valkryre -- Valkryre have three parents, a mother (who can be human or one of many factions of the Lore), and the gods Woden and Frejya. When a maiden warrior screams in defiance and courage as she dies in battle, the gods strike her with lightning, rescuing her to Valhalla. She is healed (and, if human, still mortal) but pregnant with an immortal Valkryre daughter. The Valkryre revere three things: fate, fighting, and shopping. If the series overall has a lead character, it is Nix -- often known as Nucking Futs Nix -- the oldest (and possibly first) Valkryre, who is three thousand years old and sees the future more clearly than the past or present.
Vampires -- 90% of the Lore feels that there are two kinds of vampires: dead ones, and should-be-dead ones. Pretty much no race is as universally hated as vampires. But within the vampire race, there is a splinter group called the \\\"Forebearers\\\" who are almost all turned humans (rather than born vampires) and who abstain or \\\"forebear\\\" from drinking from living creatures. They fight the main vampire faction, the Horde, who kill as they drink and descend into madness doing it, while their eyes turn redder the madder they get.
Lykie -- Scots werewolves. More human-like than a lot of the Lore (they eat food, among other things) and considered little more than noisy, smelly beasts by a lot of other Lore species. (They are not wrong.)
House of Witches -- Mystical mercenaries that sell their spells. A lot of the Lore resent that they never do anything without reference to the almighty dollar, but, as one of the witches puts it, they learned long ago that witches that lived in nice houses and had the ear of the king got BURNED TO DEATH a lot less often. Witches are born, not made, and are immortal.
Demons -- Catch-all term for several races with strength, speed, immortality and horns. Some demons ally with the Horde and are enemies of most of the rest of the Lore, while others ally with factions like the Valkryre and the Noble Fey, and fight the Horde.
The tone of the whole series tends to pinwheel madly between wild pop-culture references and epic battles for good, evil, and true love. Lampshades are hung with wild abandon off of every conceivable surface, and a few inconceivable ones.
There are 10 books out so far, number 11 is due out in January 2012 and will cover a major recurring character in many of the previous books.
Most of the time (unless you are a red-eyed vampire), other immortals will leave you alone if you aren\\\'t one of their allies. However, about every 500 years or so is the Ascension, a war of attrition that pits different species of immortals against each other. Rather than any one pitched battle or declared war, immortal factions find themselves drawn into conflicts that often end with immortal deaths. (One theory is that the universe is mystically controlling the immortal population, driving them to fight each other when the population gets too high.)
While many species within the Lore have friends and allies in other factions, but there is always an us-against-them vibe to those who are \\\"Other\\\". Intermarriages within Lore factions, while not unheard of, are pretty rare -- between some groups more than others.
Major groups in the Lore include:
The Valkryre -- Valkryre have three parents, a mother (who can be human or one of many factions of the Lore), and the gods Woden and Frejya. When a maiden warrior screams in defiance and courage as she dies in battle, the gods strike her with lightning, rescuing her to Valhalla. She is healed (and, if human, still mortal) but pregnant with an immortal Valkryre daughter. The Valkryre revere three things: fate, fighting, and shopping. If the series overall has a lead character, it is Nix -- often known as Nucking Futs Nix -- the oldest (and possibly first) Valkryre, who is three thousand years old and sees the future more clearly than the past or present.
Vampires -- 90% of the Lore feels that there are two kinds of vampires: dead ones, and should-be-dead ones. Pretty much no race is as universally hated as vampires. But within the vampire race, there is a splinter group called the \\\"Forebearers\\\" who are almost all turned humans (rather than born vampires) and who abstain or \\\"forebear\\\" from drinking from living creatures. They fight the main vampire faction, the Horde, who kill as they drink and descend into madness doing it, while their eyes turn redder the madder they get.
Lykie -- Scots werewolves. More human-like than a lot of the Lore (they eat food, among other things) and considered little more than noisy, smelly beasts by a lot of other Lore species. (They are not wrong.)
House of Witches -- Mystical mercenaries that sell their spells. A lot of the Lore resent that they never do anything without reference to the almighty dollar, but, as one of the witches puts it, they learned long ago that witches that lived in nice houses and had the ear of the king got BURNED TO DEATH a lot less often. Witches are born, not made, and are immortal.
Demons -- Catch-all term for several races with strength, speed, immortality and horns. Some demons ally with the Horde and are enemies of most of the rest of the Lore, while others ally with factions like the Valkryre and the Noble Fey, and fight the Horde.
The tone of the whole series tends to pinwheel madly between wild pop-culture references and epic battles for good, evil, and true love. Lampshades are hung with wild abandon off of every conceivable surface, and a few inconceivable ones.
There are 10 books out so far, number 11 is due out in January 2012 and will cover a major recurring character in many of the previous books.
