Emily M. (dangerouskitchen) reviewed on 7/25/2009 + 8 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

The story here had such potential, but frankly really did not live up to it. The worldbuilding felt stilted and incomplete- the attempted complexity reminded me of the Dark-Hunter books, except that the mythos here was developed in half of one volume instead of over the course of the entire series. I wanted so badly to like the characters but found that they weren't developed enough for this, and several storylines vied for my attention so it was hard to know what was important and what wasn't.

Another thing that bothered me was that there wasn't really any explanation for why the characters did the things that they did. I'm not someone who has to know every contributing factor to why the bad guy does what he/she does or needs every iota of detail spelled out and organized, but in this book the bad guys dropped in, blabbed for a few pages about something to advance the plot, and left! It was like the story was added as an afterthought and a distant one at that.

I don't know if I'll read any more books in this series, right now I feel like there are so many good PNRs out there that continuing with a series that got off to as flawed a start as this one might be a waste of time.

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