Kindling Flames: Burning Nights (The Ancient Fire Series) Paperback – March 14, 2016

I figured there would be children coming based on the previous book, but to find some mixture of daemon versus angels dealing with the supernatural world made for a fun read. Would have liked a bit more depth on the wedding preparation. You don't need to read the previous books to enjoy as a stand alone, but it helps. And now I wonder just exactly where Ms. Wetzel is going with the pregnant werewolf, pregnant fay, and the Vampire Grand Council mixing with the two antagonists introduced in previous book and only nodded towards in this book. Enjoyable reading and Darien is a very, very, very complex creature as is Elliot, Victoria not so much. Plus the fun of more humans interacting with the supernatural world makes you wonder how the Enforcers are going to react. Enjoy

I can't wait for the next book!! I read these 5 in 3 days. 😢 I want to know more . As with the previous books , again this one was a lot of twists and turns and subtle clues towards the future a great read.. I know what happened during the honeymoon is important for their future whatever that might bring , but it left me lacking .

Such a beautiful series! Cannot wait to see what the future holds for Darien, Vicky, their twins and everyone else!

I've enjoyed this series so much ! I love the characters....the story line was interesting and I learned about different species. Darien and Victoria were great from the 1st book! Who can't love Zak! Elliott, the twins...the rest of the kiss. And Victoria's friends, and her mother! This was a really good book BUT again I have to say read from the 1st book so you can enjoy the story better. Definitely recommend this whole series! I'm hoping for another book and more about Darien's past.

This was once again another great book in this series. I don't know if more are coming but it was left where more could come. I really hope we get at least 1 more that lets us know about the twins. While this is an expensive series I have read each book several times and will be reading again. This is a clean sex free series that I really appreciate. I recommend this series to all.

I wavered between a 2 and a 3, and finally went with the lower score because I really don't think I'll be re-reading this book, unlike the others in the series.For one thing, Burning Nights was a bit of a letdown compared to what I was expecting. Julie says at the end that it was hard for her to write, and I think it does show a bit.There's a lot going on with Darien and Victoria and instead of retreating and regrouping, giving the characters a bit of a respite to sort out what's going on and make some headway with everything that's piling on them, even more stuff gets heaped on top of Darien. It's getting to be a bit silly, especially as what happened was almost certainly avoidable if Darien had followed proper protocol. Instead, he didn't, which seemed rather odd for someone as worldly as he is, and of course everything goes to pieces.There's little to no Zak in this book, which was disappointing, because Zak was always good for a smile or chuckle. Without him around to leaven the story, it wasn't quite the same.I felt like Julie had fallen into the "how do I top what's come before" plotting trap, where the writer tries to outdo herself at every turn and ends up with a frenetically paced series where the characters never quite seem to come out ahead no matter what they do, you start questioning if the MCs really get to have any life to their own, and everything starts to feel incredible because seriously, how did they manage to get to their age without all this happening and now it all comes in one big glob?Also, this entire detour just felt...unnecessary, again. It could have been easily avoided, but no. It also didn't feel like it did too much for the overall plotline than revealing yet more crazy waiting for them in the wings, which, again, I'm tired of things blowing up at this point.For another thing, and this was my main sadness -- I've my first two Asian character sightings of 2016 -- and they're the baddies.*sigh*To a certain extent, it really felt like Julie went, what can I possibly come up with that is cooler than what came before?, and then went oh yeah, Japanese youkai stuff is really cool and has shiny things that I could use, and then of course if you're using stuff from Japan, then oh yeah, the baddies are Japanese too.What's troubling is that in a previous book, there were the ifrit who had been being used by the bad guys. So there was already a "welp, cool, the brown people are the bad guys again" feel, but that was made marginally better because they had been forced to it.There isn't that solace in this book.The main dude is a sociopathic, paranoid (wait, is that redundant?) monster and Japanese. The person helping him is a kitsune (of course, because heavens forbid we use anything else interesting from Japan), who he forced into his service, true, but still.*sigh*It's just frustrating. It's really hard to see Asian characters anywhere and it just burns when they almost inevitably turn out to be either stereotypes or the baddies or both.That aside, I'm seriously uncertain if I want to continue this series at this point. I feel like I signed up for a mostly-sweet, playful, light romance with some paranormal elements, but right now with the new reveal of Darien's abilities/specialness, it seems like Darien and Victoria are far, far away from just being able to to be two people making a life together. The plotline is turning out to be massively more epic than I anticipated coming in. There's a lot of stuff going on and it doesn't seem to show any signs of winding down or getting manageable and even if Darien and Victoria can keep going, I for one feel like I need a bit of a break.

I am so hooked on this series! I love the way the characters have been developed, the new settings,and just the way this story sweeps the reader up into what is going on. I just can't get enough. At the end of this book, I still have many unanswered questions and I hope there will be at least one more book in this series to answer them!😀

An interesting outing in that we are taken to Hawaii and exposed to the machinations of vampire politics and laws that are much more rigid than those espoused at home. The revelations of both new characters and old change perceptions of formerly accepted truths and suggest changes that are exciting to speculate on. I am eagerly awaiting further books.

Darien and Victoria head to Hawaii on honeymoon. This book is not my favourite as I had become attached to the other secondary characters from the other books and they are missing in this one, I miss Zack. There is one more in the series so I will read this one too as I hate to not finish but I hope it takes us back to familiar Brenton.

Love the mythology behind each character

Wow! I love this series by Julie Wetzel! Burning Nights takes you on another enticing walk through Victoria and Darien's life. This story is filled with unexpected twists and amazing characters. Each book has led you on an unbelievable journey to Darien's unexpected take over of a council. I can't wait to grab the next book to see where Julie takes Victoria and Darien.

This series has been a very good read, plenty of interesting characters and a good story line in each book following Darien and Vicki on there struggles with e erythema that's comes with being a vampire and a human couple?? Or not!!!

I love this series so much, I can't seem to get enough. I read them all one right after the other, must say I didn't get much sleep, recommended read