Review: ‘Night Rebel’ trilogy by Jeaniene Frost (vampires and demons, oh my!)
I fell head over heels with Jeaniene Frost’s books last year when I discovered her ‘Night Hunstress’, a vampire action adventure romance spanning seven books (and a surprise eighth book in Bones’s POV which has just come out!). I didn’t just fall for half-vampire vampire hunter Cat and her cheeky, English Master vampire love, Bones, I fell in love with the world and the mythology and the supporting cast too.
You can imagine my joy when I discovered that there are three spin-off series’ from the original series set in the same world!
The ‘Night Rebel’ trilogy revisits Bones’ best friend, Ian, set a short while after the events of ‘Night Huntress’ and the other spin off series, ‘Night Prince’ (which is next on my Frost line up!).
Ian has made a few enemies over the last few hundred years, and his biggest is Dagon, a demon who branded him and claimed his soul. The only option Ian has to take down Dagon and retrieve his soul as his own is to team up with the millennia-old Veritas, a formidable Law Guardian who Ian and his friends have tangled with before. She has her own revenge to deliver to Dagon, and teaming up with Ian gives her the perfect bait, but she’s not expecting that behind the scandal and rebellion surrounding may be something a little deeper, a man worth getting to know. But that burgeoning something between them could ruin both of their plans…
I started rediscovering my love of paranormal romance and urban fantasy in 2020 and it doesn’t seem to be stalling for me. It’s all I want to read, even while I’m trying to force myself to read the things that I think I should be reading: the popular literary fiction novels, Prize nominated books, the BookTok big hitters. But I honestly just want my vampire romance, you know?
Damon and Elena from ‘The Vampire Diaries’, one of my fave vampire romances EVER
And ‘Night Rebel’ delivered.
I will admit that it took me a few chapters to warm up to Ian and Veritas. Ian is very bolshy and arrogant and hard to warm to, but Veritas is also hard to warm to because of her cold logic and seeming hardness to the rest of the world, but they warm up and they warm up gooood. I grew to love them and their relationship, the way that they slowly peeled back their layers as they became closer and the danger got more…dangerous. It sealed them together in a bond and a relationship that felt really different to Cat and Bones’ which I was really pleased to see having only read one series from her before. There were definitely some similar tropes and manoeuvres, but it felt familiarly new.
It was also great to have cameos through the series from everyone I fell in love with in the ‘Night Huntress’ series: Bones, Cat, Spade, Vlad, Mencheres, Denise, they all came to say hello.
As ever in paranormal romance, there were huge twists and death defying adventures, crazy coincidences and game-changing reveals, but it never felt unbelievable or out of the realm of what the characters would do which is sometimes an issue that occurs when worlds are stretched further than they were originally intended. Frost has a real handle on the limits of her world and the knowledge of her characters and it makes me feel safe in her books. And it’s one of the reasons I’ll keep going back for more.
I loved the ‘Night Rebel’ trilogy and I highly recommend it if you’re in the mood for a high octane paranormal romance.
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Written by Sophie
