Review: Cliche
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2013
I think this writer had seen too many crime dramas and police procedurals.  The scenes that are supposed to be tension filled come off reading like scenes from Hill Street Blues, and because of I found them to be trite and silly.  There was nothing compelling enough to read beyond my standard give-it-a-chance 20%.As far as the writing is concerned, I felt that there was a bit of a juvenile quality to it.  The author seemed to think that the Vampires needed to use street slang.  If he had employed it consistently to establish characterizations that would have been one thing, but instead it was used sporadically so that it ended up seeming forced.  I could almost hear the author say, "Oh yeah, I need to make this character sound tough."  That's when the character would suddenly start using street talk.All-in-all, I found it to be amateurishly written and not terribly interesting.