Once Burned (Sophie Turner Mysteries Book 2)

Once Burned

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By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Then he gave me a jaded look. They're supposed to smell. The stench might have actually killed my new appetite. If Hell could fart, it would smell like this. View all 18 comments. Nov 15, C. Quite frankly I'm a little disappointed because I felt he lost some of his edge. I thought he became soft. Hehe Leila got to him. Vlad did it to please Leila, some kind of human formality thing.

I also felt bad for Vlad because he lost two of his closest friends. I was getting the traitor vibe from Maximus but Shrapnel? I didn't see that one coming. Too bad, I really liked him. My goodness, sometimes it was a little too much. How many times did she almost die in this book? She also became clingy which kind of irked my irritation, however, she still kicks major butt. The whole story pretty much revolved around Leila trying to stay "alive", Vlad trying to save her, accept as well as admit his feelings and the blossoming of their relationship blossoming?

Lastly, Yay for book 3! I think this was supposed to be a 2-book thing but hah! This book didn't even show the main baddie so I'm hoping that the 3rd book would have action packed butt kicking. I miss Cat and Bones, they'll always be number one. I couldn't even read the excerpt, don't wanna torture myself with it. View all 4 comments. You know, Vlad was just so awesome in this one. However, I can already see him slipping into Frost's default "whatever you wish, darling" male characters. I would really like if the character remained mostly the same as they were before meeting their love.

But I wish the ending wasn't so fast. It ended when it was finally interesting;. Wonder when we will see Maximus again. I really, really don't know what to do with this book I can't even decide how to rate it I change my mind every ten minutes. It had moments where I wanted to clap my hands and have a little happy dance and then I'd read something and want to close the book and save myself the disappointment. I wanted to cry at some points because all my expectations turned to dust! I will begin by saying that this Vlad has nothing to do with the Vlad from Night Huntress, he doesn't even resemble the more mundane edition of him from Once Burned.

I want the unyielding, arrogant, heartless, full of dark humor SOB he once was back. He kept threatening her with ramifications to her decisions, and then he forgave her every time. As if that wasn't enough, he had to go out of his way to give her everything she wanted in the end. And I do mean every single thing, even the ones that he'd promised never to give. I can't believe I'm saying it but my favorite moment in the book with him was when he broke Leila's heart.

At least at that point he was the Vlad I knew and loved you know The worst drawback in this was that you couldn't see the changes happening. There wasn't a developement period. One day he was cold and heartless and the next he was a mat for Leila to walk all over. I just can't see this happening. Maybe if the changes happened one at a time I could suck it up and say "well, the man fell in love, of course he would change" but it was like he slept one night and woke up another person.

I knew that at some point he'd relent, I just wanted to be able to see what led to it. And then of course we have Leila. Leila the strong, brave, gutsy heroine of the first book, has become Leila the whiny, naive, needy little girl in the second. What happened to her? So Vlad can't love her, so what? He said he can't love you first thing in the relationship. He never promised you anything. If you want more than he can give you, you man up and leave him. She had to become clingy and humiliate both of them before she finally got that he couldn't give her what she wanted.

And of course after that she had to believe the worst of him believe he was capable of some pretty awful things-and willing to do them- because Yeap, I can deffinitely see why she would believe that after he gave her exactly what he promised her, he could do the things she suspects him for. Grow up and stop acting like a bratty 15 year old who thinks the world goes in circles around her.

Concerning the book in general, mostly my bigest disappoinment in the book were the characters. That isn't to say that it didn't have it's good moments. Moments when the good, old Vlad we know and love, came out to play. Moments when Leila thought of someone besides herself. But they just couldn't tip the balance with the rest in my opinion. There were also exchanges where the old Vlad the ruthless, dark one showed his beautiful self and then, just when you thought the guy still had "it", Leila caught his balls again.

I don't know if it was the high expectations I had for this one or the anticipation for something good but I was brought down to Earth none too gently. I read through the book, praying that my beloved Vlad would come back, but in the end I ended up with "Leila's Man".

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That's exactly what happened to him, he wasn't Vlad anymore, he was "Leila's man". I know the book had good moments. I actually quite enjoyed it at some points but I just can't even remember them right now. My mind has stopped at the bad things and can't get over them. Please Frost, give us Vlad back in the next book. Sh3lly grumpybookgrrrl I hated this book. Leila is so annoying and I want the Vlad with a sense of humor back. Aug 04, This book was so much better than the first one. Leila grew into her character and Vlad has come back to us!!

The steam factor was off the charts, they don't call him 'The Impaler' for nothing. Actually it 5 Searing Stars!! Actually it's for other reasons, but in my mind I loved the witty banter between Vlad and Leila, which usually led to more impaling! It smelled like someone had mixed together kerosene, rotten fruit, stale blood, urine, and dog shit, then blown it up. How had I not noticed this before? I listened to this book on audio and then went back and read my favorite parts.

I love the audio version and Tavia Gilbert does an amazing Vlad, Romanian accent and all! When he says Leila…long and drawn out…Leeiiiiiilaaaa…it just made me melt! This book gave me that feeling I had when I first read Halfway to the Grave. Plenty of action, world-building, fantastic secondary characters, a real page turner! Jeaniene Frost, you did good! This is the picture I will have in my head as I continue to read this series. She also posted some of my favorite quotes and wrote a great review! Our love for Vlad shows no bounds, does it my friend?!

We are Vlad groupies! Dorsey gifted me my own Vlad pic to post on my review!! He's so perfect, thank you my dear sweet friend!! View all 57 comments. Aug 02, Sophia Triad rated it it was amazing Shelves: Maybe it is because Vlad does not seem to care for her needs There is no bathroom in his room! Maybe it is because Vlad wants to make her a vampire Doesn't he like the fact that she is a puny human?

Maybe it is because this wedding proposal is not offered Leila leaves Vlad and surprisingly Vlad lets her abandoning him. Leila goes back at US, but Martin ha Once burned Leila goes back at US, but Martin has already found a replacement, new enemies appear and some old friends -although they seem like they want to help- cannot be trusted Maximus, what are you trying to do?

Leila is penniless and desperate. Has Vlad really let her leave him? Before, I told you if you wanted to end things between us, I would let you go, but, Leila"--his voice deepened--"I lied. Vlad and Leila, congratulations!

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I closed mine and it made no difference. I could still see his through the shield of my lids. It was a promise. View all 13 comments. Mar 26, Desiree rated it really liked it Shelves: View all 30 comments. Dec 15, La-Lionne rated it it was ok Shelves: I still don't understand what happened to the characters I met in the first book. I really enjoyed the first book. I liked both Vlad and Leila. I loved the whole mystery surrounding his character, his darkness, his arrogance and his possessive unapologetic behavior.

I loved Leila's innocence, her bravery and her struggle to understand and control her powers. I also like that she feared him, but at the same time felt this uncontrollable pull towards him. But in this book I almost didn't recognized I still don't understand what happened to the characters I met in the first book.

But in this book I almost didn't recognized her. She was whiny, demanding, constantly nagging him. What I dislike the most about this book was the fact that she made her decisions based on assumptions instead of actual facts. For me, the story started to go south pretty early in the book. I understand why she would assume that, but her reaction to it was very childish. First of all, if there was anything to be pissy about it was the fact that he wanted to turn her into a vampire. But she didn't dwell on it for very long.

She started to nag him why he haven't said I love you to her. Let's back up a little. When she first saw the jewelry box she started to squirm in her seat and couldn't wait to say "yes" even without his I love you, so why complain about it afterwards? Vlad have lived, loved, hated, suffered and killed for hundreds of years. He's a vampire who doesn't live by our mortal rules. I would say she had a thing or two to learn from him. I was on his side when it came to the whole I love you thing.

What are words compared to that? And when he didn't she told him it was over. It was so annoying. Another thing that I didn't like was cartoon-like descriptions. Which made it hard for me to get into the story and take it seriously. Leila comparing the remains on a deck to a lasagna and the crime scene at the hotel she compared to a Swiss cheese.

You've got to be kidding me? I expected to be scared, grossed out or creeped out, but it was written to sound like an anecdote. It's a story about a prince of darkness, is it not? Not an episode of The Simpsons. I thought that her constantly calling him ex-boyfriend completely ruined and emasculated his character. Why don't you just call him Vlad?

But she made it sound like he was some nerdy boy next door. Here are some of "WTH" lines: Your enemies will think you are week if you try to hide every ex lover you ever had. It shows your weakness. Isn't that what they do, exploit them? The author needed to come up with a better reason for him to bring her with him, because this one didn't make any sense. Then, the scene where her sister slapped her.

Is that the first thing you do after you find out your sister Is alive? Don't even get me started on the whole wedding thing. It was beyond silly. First, it was to late, then too soon and then not soon enough. Suddenly the I love you's started flying left and right, and the proposal out of the blue.

And, the wedding, which had to happen the same day. The dress got designed and made the same day. Vlad also managed to invite people in that short amount of time. The only characters I liked was Vlad and her father, who was a man of reason. I'm sorry to say, but I won't be reading anymore books in the series. Mar 31, Ferdy rated it did not like it Shelves: I thought Once Burned was an okay read - it was cliched and predictable but it had its entertaining moments. I obviously didn't expect much from Twice Tempted but I didn't think it'd be this fucking awful.

It was positively horrible. I'm even more pissed because I loved Cat and Bones's books even though the last few have been boring and I quite liked Spade and Mencheres's books too. Sadly, Vlad's books make me want to throw up. It was like no effort or thought or imagination were put into his books. I loved Vlad in the Night Huntress series, he was mysterious, attractive, funny and caring. I couldn't wait to read his spin-off. Unfortunately, he turned into a dull, cliched loser. I could have coped with that if not for the fact that he was paired with a boring clingy doormat who had no self respect.

Leila was kind of blah in the first book but in this one she was down right annoying. I was hoping she would drop dead and Vlad's vampires would just dump her in a dustbin… And then maybe Vlad could disappear for a century or two to cleanse himself of all that Leila awfulness so he could return with an actual personality. No such luck though. The worst thing about Twice Tempted was Vlad and Leila. They were boring, insufferable, cliched, pathetic, lame, rubbish and cringey. If I was Leila I would have stopped whining and told Vlad to fuck off, then had sex with that other vampire bloke and kept him on the side for his super healing blood, and then joined the carnival again and become a free loving hippie.

Did Leila do that? No, she just whined and moaned like a cow. If I was Vlad, I would have impaled Leila and not in a sexy way. I would have used dozens of metal pikes to slowly kill her. What did Vlad see in Leila? She was the worst. I think that Leila just wore Vlad down and forced him into having feelings for her. I don't think Vlad truly loved Leila, she was unloveable and he treated her like shit for too long to make me believe he loved her.

A breakdown of Vlad and Leila's relationship: I love you so so so so so so so much. Do you be also loving me? Please please pwease be wuving me. Me no like how you torture people. I loving you lots yea? You please loving me? Remember I be always loving you.

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I no be loving you being the cold torturer bastard but I still loving you. That makes no sense. Vlad being so evul and mean. I love him so so much. Why on earth do you love him?

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I hate him because he evul but I love him, all of him. Why no-one understand that? It being so simple. I love the Vlad but I hate the Vlad personality. You see why I loving him?! I built you a toilet. A toilet and a marriage? A toilet must be meaning you loving me. All I ever being wanted is the toilet.

I bought you toilet paper too. I being the luckiest girl in the whole widest world!! I be getting a toilet and a toilet paper that be meaning I being the loved like no other. All other girl being jealous of my toilet. Come watching me on the toilet machine! Look what I do!

She goes back to her carnie life and mates and then someone blows up her trailer. Naturally, Leila puts on her Mary Sue knickers and investigates. Yes, it was as boring as it sounds.

She sounded like a tween girl instead of a grown woman. She said things like: Yuck, this days sucks, Eat me! And she also burped in a vampire's face… She was so immature and childish. And the way Leila kept monologuing about how slutty she was really pissed me off. The silly cow has only had one sexual partner yet she calls herself slutty! I felt like I was reading 50 Shades of Grey. Oooh my inner voice said this and oooh my inner voice is saying that now. It wasn't cute or endearing, it was just annoying. Of course, she would have thought he was proposing! He was so thick. And why would he even offer to make her a vampire without discussing it with her first?

And Leila was just as stupid. Why would she get happy that he was 'proposing' when they'd only been dating for a few months and when Vlad hadn't even told her he loved her? What a silly cow. It was so fucking obvious.

It was a shallow and superficial love. It was the lamest love triangle ever. It wasn't even a love triangle. Maximus never stood a chance.

Leila was obsessed with Vlad, she wasn't torn about who she wanted. Maximus wasn't even competition for Vlad. The synopsis is misleading, I was expecting a love triangle but got nothing. It was all so cringey, pathetic, cheesy, cliched and desperate. Leila was boring as fuck. What does Vlad see in her?

I lost all respect for Leila when she was begging Vlad to love her, and I hated her when she said she'd stay with him if he could one day possibly love her. Basically she would have stayed with him for years loving him and not being loved back because there was a small chance he might one day love her. Have some self respect girl! He was always cold to her, plus it took him ages to build her that fucking toilet she wanted! If he had loved her he wouldn't have hurt her or watched her be in pain, all because he couldn't say three fucking words. Vlad being occasionally growly and possessive doesn't translate into love.

She would have grown old, bitter and alone dreaming about Vlad and Vlad would have just replaced her with another lover -Vlad pushed Leila so far that she had to use her powers to prove that she loved him… which led to her dying. Vlad only gave Leila the time of day because she killed herself for him.

Bones and co can show affection and softness when they're around Cat and co but does Vlad show any affection towards Leila? No, he treats her like he treats everyone else, like shit. When he's with Leila he just acts a little more hornier… Yet I'm meant to believe Vlad's deeply in love with Leila?! How is being horny and kind of possessive love?! I think that Leila loves him in a way a tween girl loves their favourite pop star… And I think Vlad has some feelings for her because 1. She was a virgin when he fucked her and 2. He's intrigued by her unique powers. I actually wish Vlad's HEA could have been with his reincarnated first wife or something — maybe then he'd be a more three dimensional character instead of the caricature that he is.

Instead he's with boring pathetic desperate Leila who he either ignores, belittles or acts possessive or lusty towards. And that's not enough for me to believe that he 1. Loves her and 2.

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Has a layered and complex personality. One minute he was cold and uninterested and the next he wanted marriage and couldn't stop saying I love you to Leila. It was dumb and I didn't buy what Vlad was saying because there was very little evidence to support his I love you's. I already know he's fit and wears sexy clothes. I don't need to be told a thousand bloody times. She thought they were her friends but they turned their backs on her as soon as she wasn't fucking Vlad… Basically all her friendships with Vlad's vampires were false and reliant on Leila being Vlad's girlfriend… Nice.

The only reason the other vampires are friendly to her at the end was because she was with Vlad again. So Leila has to live centuries with a bunch of vampires who only pretend to like her because she's dating Vlad. What a bunch of fuckers. Marty and Maximus were the only decent characters. She acted like she was disfigured and ugly Loads of fit guys fancied her and it couldn't have been for her rubbish personality so it must have been because she was gorgeous.

Oh boo hoo, poor Leila has a little scar on her beautiful face. They've not been a part of her life for years and they've shown no interest in her but as soon as she becomes a part of the vampire world, they're all up in her arse. I liked that Leila's sister slapped her though, I would have liked it more if her sister wasn't such an awful character. The cliched jealous ex-girlfriend that can't get over the hero because he's just that desirable. Give me a break. Skip Vlad's books because they're utter rubbish.

It's filled with one dimensional characters, a loveless and passionless romance and an unimaginative story. View all 44 comments. Feb 21, Stacia the club rated it really liked it Shelves: Maybe we're not quite at the point of pure Vlad depth but at least this time we got to see more tyranny at work. Two vampires hung from the spiked silver chains embedded in the rock, a third impaled in front of them.

It's hard for me to imagine though, to figure out how gruesome Vlad should be portrayed, whi "I'd rather bleed to death. It's hard for me to imagine though, to figure out how gruesome Vlad should be portrayed, while he's still somehow supposed to be a love interest. Leila seems to handle her prince of darkness just fine. She isn't one for sugar coating things. I can get behind that. Do I think she's taking everything in stride a bit too easily?

While she realizes what he's done, does she really get it? Seeing the bigger picture through visions would have had me headed for the hills! This wasn't the most action-packed book from Frost. There were some story lulls, I thought, but the getting was good enough for me to overlook a few lazy moments. The magic from the first few Night Huntress books still isn't there yet and the chemistry isn't quite at the Cat and Bones level, but there was a mini version of the infamous chapter 32 which happened after a big turning point in Leila's life.

It was verrah nice. You'll just have to experience it for yourself if you want to know! Even though Vlad and Leila are still stumbling through their feelings, there were still plenty of moments which stood out. I wasn't real thrilled to see this. I can't say that I found Twice Tempted to be the tightest-written second installment for a series but after a few just okay books, this worked fine for what I wanted to read in the moment. I'm looking forward to what's up next for these new partners in crime.

But please, no more "love is a drug" crap. I get enough of it in my contemporaries. His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was too many - and a thousand never enough. View all 20 comments. Vlad is still a commitment phobe…struggling to let go of the demons in his past and giving in to his feelings for Leila. But soon Leila finds herself being targeted by an unknown forces, she finds herself unable to trust who her friends are and even if she can trust Vlad. Fast paced action ….. I really liked this book. Jun 05, Rachel Reads Ravenously rated it it was amazing Shelves: Loved this Vlad follow up!!

Leila is by far the best heroine of the spin-offs. She's a strong, admirable lady and I love that she refuses to be second best in life and stands by her choices. Great plot, great angst, and a great romance. I highly recommend the Night Prince series and it can be easily read without reading any other connected books but I still ur 4. I highly recommend the Night Prince series and it can be easily read without reading any other connected books but I still urge you to read Halfway to the Grave first. One note, others have said that this Vlad is not the same as the one we met in Cat's books, but I choose to think of him as a different character in this book, so it doesn't bother me as much.

Jul 12, Alexandria Tale rated it it was amazing Shelves: I'll say it out loud, I love Vlad! Vlad is my favorite character aside from the-obvious-Bones. He, alongside with Ian, seems to have a sick humor. I want Vlad's book to be more than 2 books, and I want Ian to have his own story! Make it happen, Ms. I've read Once Burned, and I'm completely and utterly satisfied! Frost never fails to impress me!

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