Review: Could have been - but failed to be  - excellent.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2010
If you like the early Anita Blake books, you might enjoy this short novel.  It stars a kick-ass protagonist dealing with the good and the bad of various paranormal players, and taking the lead in trying to stop a super-powerful evil adversary who threatens both the paranormal and mundane worlds.  Unfortunately, the editing was horrid.  The story abounds with misspelled words, missing words, duplicated words, missing or incorrect punctuation, gramatical errors, and so on, to the point that the story was often difficult to follow.  Consequently, neither did the plot move forward as smoothly, nor were the characters developed as fully, as the author no doubt intended.  The book ends with umresolved issues which will presumably be addressed in other volumes, and I will probably read them at some point, but it's a shame, because I suspect that if the editing had been better, this author might have been on my must read list.