Beast In The Darkness (An Elighan Dragen Novelette) Plus two extra Eli POV Scenes!
We know the story from Ember’s POV, but what happens to Eli after Ember disappears? Or when he first see’s her in the police station? Crawl inside Eli’s mind and experience what he goes through. Be warned his mind in not a fuzzy warm place to be….
Warning this contains sexual content and language.
Contains … and language.
Contains Spoilers if you have not previously read Darkness Of Light or Fire In The Darkness.
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3.5
Finally we get to have Eli’s POV.
I really like reading dual POV’s, I like reading each of the MC’s thoughts so I could understand and connect to them better. In this instance albeit short we were able to get a very quick read of Eli’s perspective after Ember left for the Otherworld. I just wish there could’ve been more of it.
This novelette takes place during ‘Fire in the Darkness’ when Ember runs away from Lorcan and Eli in the forest, outside of Lars’s property and goes missing. When Ember finds out about her tattoos purpose. (Vague but I don’t want to spoil the book for you). It also skips ahead three years and end where ‘FITD’ does.
We have followed Ember on her journey, but now it’s time to find out what has been happening with Eli why Ember was in the Otherworld trying to get her friends.
It was an insight into the mind of this complicated man and felt almost like prying into his very broken and fragmented mind. Thinking the one woman who has always been more than just ‘another woman’ or Dae is dead, Eli spends two years searching for her until it’s clear she is lost, he becomes a hopeless. He has completely lost control, forsaking his duties, drowning in his failures, and letting go to the Dark Dweller needs, violence, sex and drinking to dull the pain of losing Ember. He is cruel, reckless, getting into trouble frequently with the law. Eli has lost most of his rationality during his time away from Ember.
I really enjoyed getting inside Eli’s head, it is dark and dangerous just like him. I need more from his POV. This was a guilty pleasure of mine. I really hope that Eli and Ember are able to work things out as I think they are great together.
I love the 2 small bonus chapters of Eli’s POV. The struggle between his clan and Ember is something that can been seen clearly. I can’t wait to see what’s to come for them both. FYI I need more of Eli’s POV…
This review MAY contain spoilers.
Okay, so I really love multi-POV books! This series was not multi-POV, so this novelette was a great addition to the series. Not only do we get to see what happens to Eli in between books two and three, but we also get two scenes from the first two books completely from Eli’s point of view. I loved that the new story was very raw and clearly shows the emotional turmoil that Eli went through when Ember was missing. He pretty much gave up on everything and has become numb to it all. This story really brings that out in an atmospheric way. I also very much enjoyed experiencing the initial scene where Eli and Ember see each other for the first time from book one and the scene in book two where they see each other for the first time after Ember has been on the run. I like getting into his head and rummaging around in his emotions and thoughts on those already established scenes. I think that this does add something great to the series. I am glad that I decided to read it since I am regrettably terrible at reading novellas and novelettes.
See things from Eli’s point of view. This novelette tells certain scenes from the books from Eli’s perspective. And it shows what he went through when Ember was missing and presumed dead. You seriously don’t want to miss this.
I love the Darkness series and this was a novella of one of the characters in the series, told from his point of view but I don’t know, I didn’t enjoy it as much as the other books in the series. I read the Collector series first, and totally loved it and then found the Darkness series, even though I read them out of order, I totally loved them both. Now, I am reading the Lightness series, same world, focused on different characters, I am loving it as well. I have read everything Stacey Marie Brown has written so far and will definitely read anything and everything else she writes. This one just was not my favorite.