Review: Hybrid story telling
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 3, 2012
The book continues to follow the lives of the Hybrids, Alison and Harvey, as well as an increasing cast of other characters (in the main also hybrids working for the police).As with the first book the plot centers both on the  police murder department, and their private lives, again with high levels of extreme BDSM sex.  The murder / thriller element of the plot concerns a serial killer with a twist. The body count is extreme, but the political struggles between the local police department and the cenreal government are well depicted and add texture to the narrative.As the book opens there are only 3 known hybrids, Harvey and Alison (now married), Jo (who works for them), and who has a human partner called Hillary.  The number is enhanced when a couple are discovered, the victims of an attack, and as they are homeless they become part of the growing group of hybrids. Unfortunately in this novel I felt there was an element of predictability surrounding the hybrid / human situations that arose, which for me, made the book lose some of it's appeal. For instance when a character is introduced who has suffered traumatic injuries in childhood, and who is gay, I could foresee the path his experience would take, even if not the exact manner of turning the plot.The second star was lost for me again by the increasing extent to which BDSM started to take over the storyline, and became ever more routine. As I commented in the review of the first book in the series the author takes the BDSM element of the story into extreme and unusual pathways.  However, the BDSM sexual elements soon became almost routine. There are a couple of exceptions, and I am aware that this is a personal reaction which may not be shared by other readers.In summary an enjoyable book, but one which is a bit of a mixture.