Review: decent
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 10, 2012
This author seems to be falling into the good but not great category every time for me.Good enough to keep me reading and looking forward to the next book, but never great enough that, when the story is over, I keep thinking about the story and feel like re-reading it again and again.The premise of the whole second installment was a bit flimsy for me.  The heroine's reasons for coming back were really pathetic and I had to suspend disbelief.  Helping out some little girl who is a stranger and getting paid the amount of the cost of an average car for it is not a strong enough reason to come out of hiding and facing the possible consequence of being tortured, drained, and killed for her blood.  Returning out of loneliness is even more pathetic.  Her father's disappearance was a side reason that would have been the strongest reason of all to come out of hiding and still could have been looked into initially with a some phone calls and not making a personal appearance until she had no choice.Also, while those who were in the know about her secret were "friends", since she left town out of fear of the truth coming out, it was weird that she did not try very hard to hide.  She was still using parts of her real name and in the same country, presumably paying taxes and doing other traceable things under her real name.  Seems unreal her father did not report her missing to police or hire a private investigator since she appeared to have told him nothing and not contact him even once before disappearing.The pacing of the series overall is a bit slow.  There was not much progress in the "romance" department in the first book.  Then, seems like this second book would have been the logical installment to explain more of the mystery of her parents but, instead, was all about the escalation of the north-south wars and only a few teasing "maybes" revealed about her past.Lastly, there are still spelling/grammar/malaprop errors that need some work.  Story is good enough that a re-edit and re-release would be worth it.