I have heard many great things about Kresley Cole and her unique spin on the urban paranormal romance genre. After reading this book, I can concur that those speculations were correct. The heated tension between the main characters in this unique supernatural backdrop will keep you immersed in the story until the late hours of the night. Usually I don't like the push-and-pull between love interests, but the author wrote their dynamic in such a way that leaves you eagerly anticipating what will be in store for their romance. Some parts of this story did feel a little more geared towards young adults, but very few throughout the plot. Otherwise, I would recommend this book to any reader who loves the urban paranormal romance genre.

This was so good. Oddly, the first I have read in the series, but I WILL be going back and reading them all. Her being a ghost? Genius, so fun.

Conrad Wroth is the brooding mmc of my dream! Neomi, a phantom in New Orleans, is used to protecting her home as a haunt but when Conrad comes to her home she ends up farlling in love.

Dark Needs at Night's Edge remains one of my all-time favorite books in the Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole.

Dark Needs finds a vampire and a ghost trapped in a mansion together. Not only is my favorite character Nix next level hilarious in this book, but the hero and heroine both have really fantastic, emotional journeys to their HEA. There's incredible sexual tension between them, fun dirty talk, and some brief heartache. It truly has it all. For new to IAD readers, this is a book that I always tell them to look forward to. It will forever be a five star book to me.

As a note to my fellow series fans: In rereads of these new releases, I'm noticing some updates that are being made to the text. They mostly seem small, changing older references to newer ones and things like that. It honestly makes me a little sad. I always loved how grounded these books felt in a specific Crazy Frog ringtone-era. It felt fun and campy and nostalgic to me because Kresley was so unapologetically about it. Also I wonder if this means characters' ages are being updated? Like certain characters are older than others - and i feel like if you create characters with the idea that they've lived through certain time periods and would be affected by those times - then this changes that if the book is suddenly set further into the future. I do think that worldbuilding edits to fix plotholes (which naturally happen in long series where no one could've predicted in book one where things needed to go) make so much sense. But the other edits feel a bit like they're taking the personality out of the book in a way I don't love.

I don't know if this is an author choice, or a publisher choice based on wanting to market the books to a newer audience without them feeling specifically dated. Either way it's one that leaves me feeling a bit disappointed and makes me grateful that I also have the audiobooks (narrated y the incomparable Robert Petkoff) to keep the story as I first read and loved it. And it makes me more invested in keeping my original copies of the books, rather than getting the updated releases.