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14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Amazing Story! Mar 11, 2010
By jenjaylynn
Hello everyone! I just got finished reading "The Alpha Promise" by Hayat Ali and I really want the second installment of this story. It hasn't come out yet; however, according to the author's Facebook page, she hopes to have it completed by the year's end. :) I truly hope so because this book was awesome! Without giving away too many spoilers, here's what it's about:
Adina Carr moves to London with her boyfriend. Said boyfriend turns into ex-boyfriend and ditches her in London. Adina tries not to feel blue about that and continues to work so enough money can be saved so she can move back home to the States. Coming home one evening, Adina finds a bloody and torn-up man in her apartment building. Turns out that the man is a vampire and really needs her assistance in hiding from his enemies. The remaining story is about how they fall in love, are separated, and then reunited again.
Positives:
*This book involves many races (African American, White, Asian, and so forth) and the author does a fantastic job of blending them together and has respect for each
*The characters are well developed but not boring and predictable
*This was the author's first book and it can only get better (No pressure if you read this Ms. Ali-lol)
A couple of downsides:
*this story has an extremely abrupt ending
*a few spelling/grammar errors (it doesn't take away from the story at all but I can be a little picky when it comes to errors like that)
*the next installment is a little over a year away :( - I know, I know, I already mentioned that
The author does mention on her Facebook page that the next book may be "self-published" so hopefully some big-wig publishing company will read this and realize that they can have a star/money-maker in this author if they give her a chance.
I know that this is a lot but it's so nice to have a fresh face in the book world.
Sincerely,
Jennifer
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Alpha's Promise delivers Jan 29, 2009
By J. L. Landry
"vampire lover"
I originally read the shorter ebook version called Mating Season and thought it was excellent enough to read numerous times, which I did by the way. Now I've finished the expanded and re-titled version and am thoroughly impressed with Ms. Ali's updated version. Jin and Adina are wonderful star-crossed lovers. I've fallen in love with Flaxon. If you're into vampire stories, this is an excellent one and if you're into I/R vampire romances, you definitely won't be disappointed. I am really looking forward to the next book in the vampire saga.
I liked this so much I will have to read it again.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
alpha promise Feb 10, 2009
By kathleen
I orignally purchased the shorter ebook version and impatiently waited for the release of the expanded version for approximately a year. This is an excellant book vewith good characterization (all the characters have human failings) which make them easy to identify with and emphatize with their plight. Anyone can read this book and enjoy.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 No ending, just cliffhangers.... Jun 06, 2011
By S. Thomas
"stlivingston"
I found this to be a very interesting read, but also a little weird and unfinished!!! It's okay if you want the book to be part of a trilogy or series, but at least come to a level of closure with each book introduced. Oh, I said each book....hmmmm. This book truly ended, no not ended, stopped abruptly. Imagine reading a book that's building up to a climax; the heroine's life is in dire jeopardy and the book just stops. That's it-- with major cliffhangers (plural) concerning the hero and the heroine. The same unanswered questions you had in the middle of the book you have them at the end. Very frustrating and you feel a little cheated.
So I said, what the hay, I'll just buy the next book to see what happens. So I checked to see when this book was published--- January 2009, great! I don't have to wait months for the sequel. Imagine my disbelief when I discovered there is no sequel published yet. It's now June 2011, where is the second book to provide us answers to some major cliffhangers? The author should have finished this story to a point, and then picked it up with a new hero and heroine but still followed the overall theme and included some of the characters from this book.
As for the story, it was a good interesting read. The author added her own unique twist to vamps--some fun and others very Alien Resurrection'ist--freaky. I also wish that the hero and the heroine were brought back together sooner so we could truly see their relationship develop. As it is, they were only together for less than 36 hours the entire book. Adina spent more time with Flaxon that Jin.
There are times when I thought the author beat a subject to death that showed how truly illogical and immature Jin was; especially in regards to the predicament Adina was in. After their world wind relationship, he enlists the help of Flaxon (a shady vamp that owes him--and might I add a very sexy vamp once you get to know him; and you will), to ensure Adina is placed on a plane back to the states for her own protection. It was against the law for a vampire to be intimate with a human. Anyone doing so was to be put to death--including the future high prince, Jin. Flaxon knows immediately of Adina's new true predicament and her importance to his own survival and others like him. He also knows how Jin's parents have kept him in a shroud of ignorance, so he decides to follow Adina and look after her from a distances....someone has to because Jin is in the process of resuming his role as the high prince where he must mate with another vamp for the advancement of peace among the other vamps.
Well as it is, several vamps know he's been with a human and many want that human dead while others want him dead. I know Jin is supposed to be the main male hero, but he comes off as `semi' in charge in portions of the book whereas Flaxon always come off as strong, informed and in charge through the entire book with the exception of one scene--a scene between him and Jin which I know that if the author had kept true to the picture she had painted of them thus far, Flaxon would have beat Jin's royal butt.
Instead of Jin appreciating the fact that Flaxon saved Adina's life on numerous occasions, he could only dwell on one incident that was of his own making between Adina and Flaxon. If Flaxon had not done something as a last ditch effort, Adina would have died. But Jin who was a little full of himself and seemed to miss that major point. I wish the author had painted him differently before she stopped the book. I found myself not liking him so much and liking Flaxon a lot.
The book is riddled with typing errors, but at the same time a very good read. The three stars is to represent the fact that this book was incomplete.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Pretty Good Read Jan 21, 2009
By T. Thornton
I wasn't a fan of the vampire genre until I stumbled across The Alpha Promise. Hayat Ali's vampires are sexy, funny, and suprisingly likable. The heroine, Adina, is smart, even if tragic. The story has plenty of action from beginning to end, a believable romance, and very real interplay between the characters. A sequel seems inevitable, and I can hardly wait!
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