Review: good start but a bit light for me.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 7, 2013
Viper. Sons of Sangue. Patricia Rasey.ARC supplied by Netgalley.I love vampire romance, so Viper seemed a good read for me. Cara is very anti- vampire, works for law enforcement and is on the case of women that are turning up dead, drained of blood. The police are puzzled but Cara knows vampires are real, saw one years before drinking from a woman. As it happened that was Kane, president of MC Sons of Sangue, a vampire MC. He broke vampire laws not using his mental powers to wipe her memory of what she saw. He's not sure why, and now he's working with her on the murders it's difficult for both of them. He's really attracted to her, she's terrified of him...Good team eh?I was ok up to that point, but even though as with most vampire romance Kane is sex on a stick, I had a hard time dealing with Cara going from terrified aversion to (very) close contact in such a short space of time. They got together, danced around the attraction, Kane did his vampire "me protector you defenceless woman" Macho thing, and Cara fights back with her "no one tells me what to do" attitude. Kane is on the outs with his twin Kaleb over his stance on Cara, especially when they learn the killer has her in his sights, and he wants to bring her back to the club.....Add in one of her past work colleagues who she thought she's left behind in her old town after a horrific experience, and now he's been brought in as her boss temporarily, and poor Cara is in between rock and hard place.There's the usual hot vampire sex scenes ( very hot, Kane certainly has staying power), the developing romance between them, the danger from the killer, awkward scenes for Cara with the ex who's been brought in, Kane's skirting of the MC and Vampire laws and its one hot, enjoyable read. Still,the way Cara had such an about face so quickly, and the breaking MC rules and getting away with it felt a bit wrong for me. Laws and rules are made to be broken of course especially in fiction novels, but I felt Kane was going just that bit too far, that as the only suspect he was bringing danger right to their doors, and angering and endangering his brothers and their lives, and the Cara situation just felt rushed. I did like the jealousy angle behind the killer, I love something like that and would have liked to see that vamp take a greater role.Despite the action everything seemed to be over with just a bit too quickly and I didn't feel the drama and tension I need for a five star read. Somehow the novel just felt a bit too neat, too convenient, too slick with the answers, making it a bit of  light read for me and not enough depth for more than a one off enjoyable treat.Stars: four, a good one off read, and fair priced at 2.00 for 316 pages. I don't have word count info but its 532 KB. An author recently contacted me to explain that due to differing formats page counts can be very varying and word count a better VFM guide.