After Midnight

After Midnight by Teresa Medeiros
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

“Perhaps it’s time you learned, Miss Cabot, that beneath the silk waistcoat of every gentleman beats the heart of a beast.”

With him looming over her in the moonlight, his voice a smoky growl, that claim wasn’t difficult to believe.
“Even beneath yours, Lord Trevelyan?” He leaned even closer, his brandy-scented breath grazing her lips.

“Especially beneath mine.”
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Caroline Cabot is the elder of three sisters of the Cabot family and has been taking care of her two younger siblings since their parents died. She loves her sisters dearly and worries about their financial status and finds suitors for her sisters.

when she received a letter from her sister, Viviane saying that she is about to marry Adrian Kane, the notoriously mysterious Viscount Trevelyan, her younger sister, Portia tells her that Viviane is being courted by a vampire.
Initially, Caroline dismisses the stories/Gossips about Adrian but it is more difficult to deny the mounting evidence against him and she is about to find the truth before it's too late.

This story is a mix of Historical Romance with paranormal elements and the first book of the Cabot series.
Also, the May pick for#therakeappreciationsociety and I was so intrigued to read the story after seeing the synopsis.

The things I like most about this story are the characters and the setting. Adrian is a swoon-worthy hero with his mysterious and seductive personality. Caroline is a strong and courageous woman who goes above and beyond to make her sisters happy.

But sadly the story does not focus much on romance between two leads but the caroline's process to find out whether Adrian is a vampire.
Also, from time to time I was confused with the plots where it jumps from one scene to another without any indication and the villain barely exists in the story and showed in the last 100 pages.

So overall, I think this story had great potential but was poorly constructed but not too bad to be my first reading experience with Teresa Medeiros's Books.
I did enjoy the reading journey and curious to read the next book.

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