Halo's life as a hunter changed one night when he momentarily let down his guard. He was always vigilant and was the best hunter there was. It was something he excelled out until the hunter became the hunted. Finding himself trapped he meets Felice. She called every protective instinct to protect her and keep her safe from harm. Felice has no idea the vampire community exists let alone uses humans for their energy source. She is desperate to keep her memories of Halo and all ththe time they spent together. The good and the bad memories are something she will always cherish.

So... Hmm, where to start? This one was okay. I have read books by this author that I really liked, then some that I kept waiting for the action to start. This one happened to fall in the second category.

i like the idea. The way the story is it is very dependent on dialogue to keep things going, and sex too. The dialogue to me would have been okay for a story where it wasn't the only thing keeping the story going, but here I feel it needed to be more complex and consistent to the characters. It starts with a man vamp and a human woman kidnapped and trapped together... Oh and they're naked too. No clothes, no sheets, and only a narrow window in which to gauge time and days past. There is starving evamp, and tainted girl. Tainted girl could mean bad bad things for vamp should he lose his control and feed on her heroine tainted energy. Yes, it is one of those, there's lots of cheesy goin' on here.

I feel the the characters fell a bit flat. They didn't seem real, they seemed cookie cutter and convenient to me. I wanted more layers. The woman kinda got on my nerves. The male was mean at times and was forgiven too easily making the woman seem desperate.

i do so like the idea of energy vamps. I like the idea of their history but wish the topic was more explored and more detailed.

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This is book 2 in the Energy Vampires series and it doesn't disappoint! I highly recommend you read the first book so you understand what exactly is happening and aren't confused. This one follows Halo and Felice. They both wake up in a separate rooms with no door's or window's. I really liked how Felice and Halo interacted while they were being held. They are both snarky individuals and I enjoyed how they talked to each other. And I really liked how concerned Halo was about Felice when they escaped. How he always made sure she was safe. I would have given this book 5 stars but there were a few issues I had with it. I didn't enjoy how Halo acted after he eliminated the main threat to Felice. He went from being this strong man who stands for her to a big jerk. I didn't like that at all. And I didn't like how Felice had to go after him and what he was doing when she did. It left me with some questions of what else had he done. Over all, this book is a great book. I am just left with some questions at the end that I hope are answered in the later books.

Hunger, The Energy Vampires Book Two, Jacquelyn Frank

Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews

Genre:  Romance, Sci-fi and fantasy. 

I really wanted to like this, I love the vampire romance genre but...it wasn't to be. 

I found it really dragged, with the first half covering Halo and Felice in captivity. Just the two of them talking, arguing, bickering with occasional voice overs from the captors, that's all it was. Halo wants to know why he and Felice were taken, thinks he can guess at who's behind it but has no idea where Felice fits in.
Frankly by the time I'd got to halfway and they'd finally managed to escape ( I think its about 55% they make it out) I didn't care who took them and why, I was tired of the plot, tired of the characters and just wanted it to go somewhere. At 25% I was amazed they were still improisoned and started flicking forward to see if that was going to be the whole story or if they would ever breakout... 
When they finally escaped and met back with the others I still didn't really feel the story was going anywhere. I wasn't convinced of the love between him and Felice, and had lost heart for the whole story. 

It felt unreal to me, I know its fantasy but for me the plots and characters have to feel as if they could happen if the setting was real life. It didn't.
I just didn't feel anything for either Halo or Felice, we knew so little about them really, and what did come out didn't make me like them. I think that first half with all its eternal talking everything to death, bickering and Felice's constant changing her mind spoiled it for me. Then would anyone really get the hots for a total stranger when you've been captured, stripped and imprisoned with him? Surely panic and anger would be more likely, not steamy make out sessions knowing the cameras are watching...

Ah well, you win some you lose some, and this was in the lose column for me. Doesn't mean you wont like it, I've loved stories others have 1 and 2 starred, we all want different things to read, have different triggers and things we enjoy in a story. 

Stars: Two, novel that just didn't work for me, that I felt was going nowhere for far too long. 

ARC supplied for review purposes by Netgalley and Publishers

Oh wow! Hunger is an excellent paranormal romance. awesome plot.

Full review to be published online in early August.

As with the first book of “The Energy Vampires” (Thirst) the cover and the blurb drew me to HUNGER. It is difficult with so many vampire books out there to find something different; but with energy vampire soaking nourishment from the sun as well as humans, this certainly seemed to fit the bill. I struggled with the beginning of the book which just couldn't seem to get going. Normally with a book that would be it, but since I'd requested this I felt I should make an effort to actually finish it.

HUNGER is written in the third person, which is part of the reason I believe I struggled with the read. However, this has been sitting on my kindle for weeks, so I pushed ahead. While I appreciated the different angle and it's one of the things which drew me towards the book in the first place, I'm not sure how well it worked. One of the things I like about these vampires is the darkness in them. I like that while they're so powerful at night while sunlight is not a great weakness; and that these vampires have very little to be afraid of.

The storyline has all the right ingredients. There is Halo, the hot, sexy powerful vampire who's drawn inexplicably to Felice who is so different from him, the vampire wars, and the New York City setting. Felice is a strong independent woman and for the most part I liked her although at times I felt she was a little too independent for example after a run in with sycophants (evil vampires) she continues to insist she can look after herself. While she's incredibly capable, she needs to realize that she couldn't stand alone against an evil group of immortals attacking her.

Overall, HUNGER is an enjoyable read, if a tad slow; and “The Energy Vampires” an ambitious effort for Jacquelyn Frank. The series, however, is still finding its legs, and hopefully the pace of the next book will pick up a bit. Frank has had better series, in my opinion, but fans of the authors writing style will enjoy this story.