Review: Urban Fantasy With Sex
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2012
In the beginning the book is set up like a standard urban fantasy. You have your dangerous, superpowered, not exactly human heroine hunting for some mystery monster that may or may not be more than she can handle. She runs into her frenemy vampire who, from what I could tell, helps her monitor the particular city where they live. They engage in a sexual-tensiony battle of words that experienced readers of urban fantasy will recognize for exactly what it is -- foreplay. The worldbuilding is dumped in in spots and smoothly inserted in other, so that quality is erratic. The writing itself was fine.The heroine, however, discovers that the mystery monster will indeed be more than she can handle, and her convenient spell-casting girlfriend lets her know one way to boost her power for just long enough to defeat the creature. One very interesting, sexy, potentially humiliating way. I won't spoil it, but it involves the hero. Since I went into this book knowing it was meant to be an erotic romance, the contrivance was acceptable, though outside of this particular subgenre, it may not have been as believable within the context of the urban fantasy setup. One twist I enjoyed about this (though this is more common in urban fantasy than in paranormal romance) is that the heroine is allowed to be "strong" even through to the end. I believe this is the first in a series.Nothing ground-breaking here, but a fun, short read.