Originally Reviewed At:Mpother/Gamer/Writer
Rating: 5 out of 5 Controllers
Review Source: Author for Honest Review
Joint Review By: Heather and AimeeKay




Heather’s Thoughts on The Darkest Day:


The Darkest Day is best described as a captivating, sultry, sexy, page-turning read. It spans the genres of adult romance, urban fantasy, dystopian, and paranormal, which is not an easy task. Yet this author does it right, no, perfectly. Ok enough of my schmooze for now!


Our two main characters are Kelvin and Izel; one is a pookah, the other a Fionn, and both are sworn enemies from a feud that has been brewing for over a thousand years. They both live in a society that has the human race extinct, and residing on Earth are the many races of immortal beings. When immortals fight their battles, they can last forever, spanning millennia before they are finally laid to rest.


But what happens when Izel, though born to the Fionn clan and is their Warchief, finds out she is 100 percent human with a startling prophecy that begs her to turn her back and heart on the man, her captor sent to kill her, she has grown to love.


Kelvin is a razorback pookah who has spent a lifetime of bathing in the blood of the Fionn clan. He is even responsible for killing Izel’s father on the battlefield, and it was then, 1,000 years ago that Kel vowed to kill every last Fionn male.


Fate had other plans when she threw these two unlikely, though not unsuspecting to some, pair together to trek across the Scottish countryside. Ok that is all I’m giving folks, and I’ve left out an enormous part of the plot. There is only so much I can tell, and I hate spoiling books (and the like) for others.


This one will make my top 10 to read, so hands down I recommend it to those 18 and older who enjoy hot, sexy romance with a fantasy/paranormal twist. The world building was done quite well, and I loved the glossary in the back that went over every aspect of the world with a fine tooth comb. In my opinion, I love when an author goes the extra mile, especially if it helps to clear up questions, but you couldn’t fit it all into the story.


The pacing was perfect. I dove right into this story, stopping only to tell a friend she needed to read it now. It interrupted my life, and it was a much needed one at that! Every time I tried to put it down, I found myself giddy, needing to know what would happen next, asking myself if … and when it ended; I smiled, but secretly wanted more.


I laughed, I got angry, I smiled (a lot), and of course I cried when reading The Darkest Day. I felt, in my core, the excitement, the worry, the suspense, and the lusty romance was just icing on the cake. There are few books that can draw me into the pages, making me a bystander, feel just like the characters do. This is one of those rare treasures, and I hope you will enjoy it too.







AimeeKay’s Thoughts on The Darkest Day:


Paranormal romance is one of my favorite genres. This doesn’t mean I love every PNR I read. Some are just downright dull or annoying. However The Darkest Day by Britt Bury was neither of these. LOVED IT! I really got attached to the characters and I actually enjoyed most of the supporting characters as well. Bury did an awesome job bringing the characters to life and giving them depth and personality.


I also love the world she built. There is just soooo much possibility in it. No humans are left, but immortality doesn’t mean that you can’t be killed. And all the different supernatural species running around, they all interacted with each other in one way or another. Plus, Earth isn’t the only realm, Heaven and Hell get involved with Earth as well and then there is the ominous Cypher. I really hope there are more books in the series if just to explore all the possibilities.


Seriously I got lost in the book from the first page and didn’t want to come back. Fortunately the ending while satisfying, is obviously a lead in to another book. (I guess the whole Immortal Heat Series on the cover kinda gives that away too)


But really I can’t wait for the next book. I hope it’s about Ian, but at the same time I hope to find out more about Ramsey and even Andrew. (Certain lines in the story make me think he has a little more to him than just an uppity battle chief!)


Definitely a great book to pick up! Even though it is part of a series it is still good as a standalone novel. I’m giving it 5 out of 5 controllers! Awesome book, can’t wait to hear about when the next one comes out it’s definitely going on my wish list! ( )

There's a lot of issue in this book that far outweighs the abysmal plot it have. Just a word of warning, if you like Twilight fanfiction, maybe you will love this book. If you like Fifty Shades of Grey but hated the 'BDSM' in it, maybe this would suffice. To me, there's nothing in the world more saddening than having to read these kind of characters again and this is the moment where I would have wanted some warning with those "If you love Twilight and 50 Shades then you will love this..." labels.

Apparently the story started with a Pookah on a revenge against the Fionn Clan Campbell because they slaughtered his family. So Kelvin Kerr vow to kill every last bit of the family. Some thousand years later, he found the heir of the clan and wanted to kill him until he saw that its a girl. And for some reason, the 'ugly' blonde girl magically changed into a brunette human and was overwhelmed by this bombardment of human emotions. Apparently, she's a pure human and last of her kind in the world where everyone is a supernatural creature. This would have gone into a beautiful reading relationship filled with smut had Bella Swan Izel doesn't became that Special Snowflake she is.

One of the major issue I had was the character Izel. I suppose its a trend for authors to make a virginal airhead girl to mirror the readers in a way which said a lot about writer herself who think her readers is dumb enough for that. I for one, have no problem with virginal girl since I am one and one of the reason why this is laughably bad was the intention of providing the male character a virgin so that one could reintroduce themselves again with the idea of sexually incompetent and the eventual exploration.

If this book was plain erotica, this would suffice but no, it is a very lengthy novel about a virginal born-again human falling in love with a boar shapeshifter in completely nonsense plot just to have them exuding emotions and their feelings and trying not to hump on each other because there's a magical prophecy with the girl who apparently a superhuman herself since she's not completely human either.

As for Kelvin Kerr who was supposed to be this powerful alpha male that was said to rival the alphas of "Immortal After Dark", I can't find a single moment worth likable about the male character. He is like a mesh between emotionally needy and abusive and borders on having a sexual predator personality. There's a couple of scenes in this book that was supposed to bring conflict in the plot but end up being totally out of context and overly non-sexy. Izel decided to go into a bar alone because she have this magical potion that hide her scent and then baiting Kelvin with other men so that he would feel jealous. And then later Kelvin suddenly throw some verbal insults or 'hurtful' words to Izel and then Izel bolts away and then Kelvin said he's lying and that he like her more than a lot and basically molesting her even when she said "No" but then the writing were like "she means yes" when she said "No". Add to that, his dialogues is completely illegible. Was it suppose to be a Scottish romance or just spelling errors to make it sound like an accent?

This book is a mess of confusion and mixed signals and virtually emotionally problematic characters and riddled with immature dialogues that made me question whether my sense of humor has gone AWOL. If you regularly read Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy and aren't one of those chic-lit jump shippers, reading this would be disaster. ( )

There's a lot of issue in this book that far outweighs the abysmal plot it have. Just a word of warning, if you like Twilight fanfiction, maybe you will love this book. If you like Fifty Shades of Grey but hated the 'BDSM' in it, maybe this would suffice. To me, there's nothing in the world more saddening than having to read these kind of characters again and this is the moment where I would have wanted some warning with those "If you love Twilight and 50 Shades then you will love this..." labels.

Apparently the story started with a Pookah on a revenge against the Fionn Clan Campbell because they slaughtered his family. So Kelvin Kerr vow to kill every last bit of the family. Some thousand years later, he found the heir of the clan and wanted to kill him until he saw that its a girl. And for some reason, the 'ugly' blonde girl magically changed into a brunette human and was overwhelmed by this bombardment of human emotions. Apparently, she's a pure human and last of her kind in the world where everyone is a supernatural creature. This would have gone into a beautiful reading relationship filled with smut had Bella Swan Izel doesn't became that Special Snowflake she is.

One of the major issue I had was the character Izel. I suppose its a trend for authors to make a virginal airhead girl to mirror the readers in a way which said a lot about writer herself who think her readers is dumb enough for that. I for one, have no problem with virginal girl since I am one and one of the reason why this is laughably bad was the intention of providing the male character a virgin so that one could reintroduce themselves again with the idea of sexually incompetent and the eventual exploration.

If this book was plain erotica, this would suffice but no, it is a very lengthy novel about a virginal born-again human falling in love with a boar shapeshifter in completely nonsense plot just to have them exuding emotions and their feelings and trying not to hump on each other because there's a magical prophecy with the girl who apparently a superhuman herself since she's not completely human either.

As for Kelvin Kerr who was supposed to be this powerful alpha male that was said to rival the alphas of "Immortal After Dark", I can't find a single moment worth likable about the male character. He is like a mesh between emotionally needy and abusive and borders on having a sexual predator personality. There's a couple of scenes in this book that was supposed to bring conflict in the plot but end up being totally out of context and overly non-sexy. Izel decided to go into a bar alone because she have this magical potion that hide her scent and then baiting Kelvin with other men so that he would feel jealous. And then later Kelvin suddenly throw some verbal insults or 'hurtful' words to Izel and then Izel bolts away and then Kelvin said he's lying and that he like her more than a lot and basically molesting her even when she said "No" but then the writing were like "she means yes" when she said "No". Add to that, his dialogues is completely illegible. Was it suppose to be a Scottish romance or just spelling errors to make it sound like an accent?

This book is a mess of confusion and mixed signals and virtually emotionally problematic characters and riddled with immature dialogues that made me question whether my sense of humor has gone AWOL. If you regularly read Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy and aren't one of those chic-lit jump shippers, reading this would be disaster. ( )

Too cheesy for me. The actions of both main characters were silly and frustrating. I'm giving up after 150 pages of nonsense. ( )

I only made it 16% of the way through this one (thank you, Kindle, for pointless specificity). My first issue was with regards to the hero reacting to his father's death, NOT with the vow to kill the murderer. Oh no. He was going to wait for said murderer to find a wife, settle down, have children, and then our fine boy was going to kill them all. That's pretty darn premeditated and creeptastic. Skip forward to the "present", humans are extinct, our heroine, despite seeming pretty normal all around, claims she's never experienced an emotion. She claims this just as she's, well, experiencing emotions for the first time. And growing boobs and new hair. Yup, insta-puberty. Raging hormones, new body... despite the deep psychological consequences of having your face changed (in the real world), she reacts to her "new self" pretty well. Especially considering the fact that physical attraction sends her off the deep end, but for some reason a complete identity/species change doesn't flip her switch.

Then we get to the goodstuff, the "Fated Mate" explanation. Both hero and heroine are fighting their attraction when Kelvin decides to explain some little "quirks" of Razorback Pookah biology. They can only have sex with a woman once (winners). If she's not their mate, they're never interested again (typical). If she *is* their mate, they'll never want anyone else again (awww, that's sweet), unless they sleep with her on any day other than the Solstice, in which case, even though she IS their mate, they'll never sleep with her again and live life alone (what the hell?). In addition to being silly arbitrary, this little science lesson sucks any anticipation that may have survived thus far right out of the book. Let me tell you a secret, they're going to sleep together on the Solstice. Not until then, nope, feel free to skip all the weird family feuds and heavy breathing, they're going to wait until the Solstice. Someone will probably try to kill them or they'll have decided they're mortal enemies or Izel will have to chose between Kelvin and her "family", but it's going to happen, they're going to bang. And I have no desire to jump through more weird narrative hoops and wait for them to just get there already.