A Rogue Hunter Novel (Argeneau Vampire Book 11) - The Immortal Hunter

I liked this book, it had enough adventure and romance mixed in. I would recommend this book, it was enough to make me purchase another in the series to see what became of the other characters mentioned in it.

Lynsay Sands continues to make me love & laugh with her characters. I've read all her vampire novels and can't wait for more. Nicholas is sweet and edgy. The leading lady is unpredictable, loyal, and defiant. You'll love it.

I really enjoyed this and felt it was another great book in the Argeneau Vampires Series by Lynsay Sands. This series can feel repeatative and not recommended unless you are a fan of the series. If you are a fan, this is another great book where you meet and fall in love with another family member while be reaquaited with old friends.

Big fan of Lysany Sands. I enjoyed this book just as much as all her other books. Excsiting and wonderfull to read. I cant wiat for her next book to come out. I give this book and all her others 5 stars

Her books have everything you could want. A great mix of funny, sexy and romantic. I'm always happy with the ending, but still left wanting more. She always gives you more with the next book in the series, and really makes you feel like you know and love the characters.

I loved this book. It is everything I was waiting for and more. It automatically downloaded on my Kindle and I started reading right away. I could not put it down. Nick is the best and I love Joe. I am such of fan of Sands. A great addition to her new series. Keep them coming, Ms. Sands!

This review has spoilers

This book is a very weirdly plotted book-and honestly may be the one that makes me stop reading her vampire books. Nicholas, one of the Argeneau vampires believes he killed a pregnant woman shortly after his lifemate died in a tragic accident 50 years ago. He's been on the run from the vampire council while hunting rogue vampires ever since. He chases Ernie, a rogue vampire, to just outside of a party at the Hunter's compound where Josephine (mortal) is a guest. He saves Josephine from Ernie and discovers that they are lifemates.

The story then descends into the normal Lynsay Sands "the couple can't get together too soon" sex that isn't sex-i.e.; they are interrupted while kissing, while having dream sex, phones ring, etc. Honestly I've seen it before from her too many times. I probably would have given up on the book if I hadn't been stuck on a bus with nothing else to read. I used to find this part of the story fun, but this time if felt like she'd cut and pasted scenes from previous books.

And then, on page 214 we get a plot. In about 150 pages Nicholas confesses the crime he "committed." While Sam (the lawyer from Rouge Hunter and Joanne's sister) couldn't lawyer her way out of a paper bag, Jo is able to see that Nicholas didn't kill the woman, his memory has been wiped, and that he was set up for something his dead lifemate was about to tell him. What's more, after Josephine gets hurt and Nicholas is forced to turn her into an immortal, she manages to convince the Hunters and Lucian that Nicholas might be innocent and that they need to investigate further.

And then the story almost literally stops. Nicholas and Jo are locked together in a cell with a double bed, some furniture and privacy while everyone else conducts the investigation. Weeks later Nicholas and Jo are released and told "he's innocent." End of story, and I mean that literally. The book ends there. We don't know who committed the murders or why. Now it's pretty clear that Lynsay Sands is going to tell that story in another book, but come on... I bought *this* book-and I feel like my $7.99 deserved a plot resolution.

So that's it. 1/2 a book that is formulaic at best, with what felt like cut and pasted sex scenes, 1/2 a book that is a decently paced mystery and no ending. Honestly I wish I'd reread Single White Vampire, Tall Dark and Hungry or Bite Me If You Can instead. They were better written and I enjoyed them a heck of a lot more.

Once again, here I am struggling through a Sands vampire book. The story line hasn't changed in the past 3-4 I've read.
I do wish I had saved my money. She's not worth it any more. Hell has frozen over.

I was very disappointed with this book. I'm getting tired of having a "short story" packaged to me as a romance novel. The story was not bad, and the author did some unique things with her storyline that did a good job of not simply re-hashing the ideas from her previous stories in this series. (Yes, I've read them all, and absolutely loved some and found others to be a bit short of that mark)

That said, the story ended too abruptly, with many plot points not finished. Come on, authors, we're not buying romance novels to read serialized books. We want a nice tidy ending, clean it up and finish it. You want to put out another book, come out with a new idea. I'm tired, so tired, of picking up paperbacks and finding out what could be conveniently packaged as a very exciting story gets split up into three separate romance novels. Take out the 30+ pages of explicit sex scenes, fill it up with dialogue and plot and move the darned story along, for pete's sake! Maybe I'm just getting old. I've been reading romance since Barbara Cartland and Rosemary Rogers in the early 70s, and have seen it all. I'm getting bored with this latest machination to get more books out of one or two good ideas.

Back to this book, do I recommend it? Maybe, after the next one comes out, and you can read them back to back. Not on its own.