Review: Enjoyable and intriguing, but a bit rushed
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2013
I really enjoyed this book - the heroine was interesting and strong yet still had some flaws, and she has some cool powers going on.  There were many other interesting characters as well, people I'd like to know more about.  The plot was interesting as well.  I had only two small quibbles.The first was that the book seemed like a suitcase that someone had packed about twice as full as it should have been.  In other words, it seemed like there was so much backstory, world-building, and character-defining stuff in there it probably could have made at least two, maybe three books.The second thing was that some of the themes/world-building seemed a little bit too close to Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake's world and characters.  For instance, you have a woman that works with cops to help solve crimes related to "Others" (supernaturals).  You have an opportunity for that woman to get "grandfathered" into a status of cop with badge and gun based on her history helping the cops.  That woman is full of strange powers and she collects men as mates as she goes along.  She has multiple strains of were-animal spirits roaming around her core but can't change shape, and multiple strains are unheard of.  Oh, and you have the vampire that she loves but can't be with (at least for now...).I think if the author had slowed it down a little and developed some of her ideas as she went along, it could have worked much better.  That said, I still enjoyed it very much and will certainly buy the next one when it comes out.