Review: Paranormal, mystery, romance.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2013
Bad Mouth read as equal parts Paranormal, mystery and conventional romance. The author created an original world of vampire castes, vampire wanna-bees, humans and the political intrigue maintaining the balance.Kade was a vampire with a potty mouth and a bad reputation. He was raised to hate humans ultimately so that he could be an unwitting cog in the political machinery of those who  would upset the balance. He was all things considered, despite being misguided; a good and decent man...errmmm...vampire. I think a potty mouth is sexy, but honestly his felt a little bit forced. It seemed more like a plot device as opposed to actually a part of his character. Perhaps I feel that way because I myself can be quite an eloquent and inventive curser (granted I save most of my best work for my own ears); so I guess when the book is named "Bad Mouth" I was expecting a bit more over the top originality. Of course that would likely have alienated a good part of the readership; and Bad Mouth read as very much a conventional paranormal romance; not the quirky, fringe read I was hoping for.The heroine Valerie has grown to hate vampires due to her ex. husband's obsessive desire to become one; which resulted in his becoming deranged which in BM world means a transformation-gone-wrong psycho vampire that needs to be put down like a rabid dog. So Val blames vampires six ways to Sunday for every aspect of the entire sordid ordeal and then for a bunch of other stuff as well.Kade and Val are thrown together in the hopes that these two bigoted haters will be the catalysts to set off a war. Surprisingly however, Kade and Val discover some MAJOR moth-to-flame chemistry and before you can say "discrimination is wrong" Val and Kade set off some sky rockets in flight, afternoon delight (except for it not being in the afternoon, obviously)...and here is where it became for me, very much a traditional romance. (And can I just say that if anyone EVER referred to me as "My Sweet" in a serious tone of voice, I think I really would throw up all over his sexy, dark, ominous shoes).But overall, BM was an original, fun and quick read. I liked the secondary characters (Ian and Alice were especially cool) AND they also happen to be the MC's of the next installment which I'll definitely read.