Review: Good, with flaws
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
Overall, I enjoyed this book pretty well.  There were a few things that bugged me, but I'll start with the positives.Good:  One, I think the characters are interesting and the dialogue is pretty fun.  Rachel in particular is kind of a hoot and is probably the most unique version of an angel I've ever seen.  I wouldn't mind seeing a short story about her by itself.  I also like that her relationship with Lorelei was explored a bit more, rather than everything being about Alex and Lorelei with the angel being the third wheel in the romantic triangle.  I thought that the plot advanced pretty well and there weren't any slow patches.  There was a bit more sex in this book, but it didn't really bother me, particularly since the book was pretty long anyway (500+ pages), and I thought those scenes were pretty well done . . . a little bit sexy with some genuine romance thrown in.  I like that the same-sex partnerings (both erotic and romantic) get equal attention.Bad: The constant changes in "perspective" really bugged me.  I'm not a fan of when the author follows the perspective of more than one character, but in third person perspective it can work as long as the transitions aren't too common.  In this book, they were way too common.  I counted dozen different characters that we wound up following around for at least part of the time (Alex, Lorelei, Rachel, Onyx, Molly, Amber, Jason, Hauser, a couple of feds, at least two of the villains, Alex's other cohorts), and that's just off the top of my head.  In the next book (and I do hope there is one), I think it would help to concentrate a little bit more on the principles.  Also, Alex's incessant moral dilemmas about how he feels regarding having two gorgeous supernatural lovers who are okay with an open relationship got a little old.  It felt like he had the exact same conversation with different people and while I appreciate the need to keep the character seeming grounded, the author almost crossed the line into making him whiny.Overall, definitely good enough and entertaining enough to make me want to buy a third book.