Review: Dark, Seedy, HOT!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2014
4.5 starsHoly Smokes! The Blood and Roses series has taken me to a dark and seedy world and I do not want to return. They were not hearts and roses, but edgy and confusing and totally engrossing.Zeth Mayfair is dangerous, damaged, and sexy as hell. As the right-hand man in the Seattle underworld, he is both terrifying and mesmerizing. Drawn to Dr. Sloane Romera from an encounter years before, their paths cross again and both find themselves battling the sparks that scorch between them.There is no way around it. Zeth is just uber-alpha male hotness. He is arrogant, deadly, and yet I couldn’t not just completely fall for him. Saying he is a “bad boy” doesn’t do him justice; he makes some of my favorite book bad boys look like little children playing games. He is complicated and dark and the sex between him and Sloane, while always consensual, is gritty and violent.As the heroine, Sloane is confusing. She finds herself in situations with Zeth where she questions what she is doing and why she can’t just walk away. But I find myself wondering if I wouldn’t do the same thing for a man like Zeth.I knew that this was a serial before I started, so I can’t really fault the author here for something I knew going in, but I am impatient now for the third installment. With interesting secondary characters, an actual plot, and the danger and betrayals following Zeth and Sloane I could not put either of these books down. Literally.If you can’t tell from my complete gushing over Zeth (swoon), I loved these books. Dirty and twisted, they were a complete escape from reality and descent into the darkly erotic world where Sloane and Zeth reside.