Review: A Melting Pot of Paras
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
This book was OMG -awesome!! From the first page I could tell Cynthia was not going to play with Marked By the Vampire.So let's see what I can tell you without giving anything away. First off is the female lead, Dr. Olivia Maddox. She is a professor and she specializes in serial killers. We know she suffered a childhood event that has her determined to study killers of the paranormal ilk and find out why they snap and kill innocents. What better place to do this than Purgatory, an uber secure prison for paras. Olivia is in denial or mostly unaware of a great many things about her past, her self and those she believes she can trust. So, knowledge is power, and what you don't know can totally ruin your day.Now we have Shane, who is a vampire, but a very SPECIAL vampire. He is at the top of the food chain and is immediately drawn to the secretive Dr. He knows she is hiding something but hasn't ever run across her scent before. He also knows that everybody and their grandparents are gunning for Olivia and he is going to protect her know matter who has to die.My goodness, there are so many secrets and betrayals going on in this book that you really need a score card to keep them all straight. There are also some highly unusual beings coming into play. Nobody is a straight up anything in Marked by the Vampire. Talk about a melting pot, you would need a Nobel prize winning chemist to sort out this DNA mixture. But the best chemistry going on is between Shane and Olivia. Cynthia was feeling her oats when she wrote their love scenes. It practically shorted out my kindle! (or maybe that was my sweaty palms) I can say without reservation that this is probably my favorite Cynthia Eden book to date and I have read ALL of Cynthia's many, many wonderful books, so that is a STRONG statement.  I read the slightly under two hundred pages twice in one morning (although really, this is definitely a bedtime book!) just to make sure I loved it and was not just having morning mind. Nope, it was even better the second time because I wasn't reading so fast to find out what happens. You really, really REALLY need to read this book!! Excellent job, Ms. Eden, bravissima!