Search - Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer, Bk 1)

Another decent but not great book. I liked the characters but the ending was stupid. I was very angry when I got to the end. I cant say why its stupid because I dont want to spoil it for others but in my opinion it made the book less than good. Its a 3 out of 5

I agree with the other reviews in that Chance could have done less telling in this entry and revealed more backstory and mythos over what is obviously going to be a series. I also found the constant use of famous historical figures as vampires a bit irritating and felt she used that to "cheat" on some character development. That said, by the end I was enjoying the book enough to keep the second on my WL and I disagree with those reviews that felt the ending was a "to be continued" - there was a complete story set above an obvious series arc. There are sex scenes, they are actually in context and, unlike LKH, Chance at least understands what is interesting and anatomically possible.

I'm a huge vampire fan, but this one didn't quite meet my expectations. It had all the ingredients, but just fell short. The plot doesn't never really gets going, because the author keeps interrupting the flow with another fight scene, and never quite explains what's going on until near the end. And the end was too abrupt, even though I know it's because this is the beginning of a series, the ending just sort of...hit, and then you were left standing there. I like a bit more of a conclusion, even with my series novels. However, the urban setting is in right now, and this is very urban, and the book has some good characters to redeem it. It certainly is worth a try--you might find you like it more than I did.

For me the story seemed to start out slow compared to what I'm used to but after a few pages it picked up. I did get confused a bit here and there in the book some parts just didn't seem to be clarified enough/or not at all but it didn't interfer with the main story itself. I would have liked more in the ending but I always do so no change there. =) I guess my main issue with this book was the lack of feeling I felt after reading it to go read the next one in it's series. Normally I jump up and want to grab the next part of the series to read and with this book I didn't have that feeling.

Very disappointed in this book. There are far too many characters with complicated names. I couldn't keep them all straight! The constant flashbacks was confusing, too. I wanted to give up on the book multiple times. I don't think I'll be continuing the series. I recommend trying other vampire/paranormal series before this one.

Read another one.

I'm into the whole vampire thing but this one went over the edge... I mean, it kinda started out *eh* and her writing doesn't flow all that smoothly. I keep thinking she is going to say something else, but then I have to go back to reread what she wrote. Maybe this isn't my lingo... but this book just got more and more boring and uninteresting as the chapters wore on. I couldn't finish it and wouldn't finish it even if someone was twisting my ear.

I quit in the middle of chapter five cuz they started talking about Rasputin from Czar Nicholas time and a bunch of other guys from way-back-when being vampires. It didn't make sense that they would even be brought up in this book. It was just too weird.

And the 'interesting information' that the ghost [that inhabits her necklace] tells us, isn't that interesting. I kept rolling my eyes.... is this ever going to end??

I had to put a stop to this one; but like I said before, it started out good enough... to get me to chapter five... but you're better off going for something else.

I enjoyed Jennifer Armintrout's 'Blood Ties: The Turning'. That one is so much more easy-going.