Review: Many spoilers in this review:
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2013
Let me start by pointing, out that my opinion may be influenced by my boredom with vampire and wolf paranormal themes.  However, I like to read romance that features Alpha males, and for that, the market seems to only offer wolfs, vampires, etc. Where have all of the regular human alpha male heroes gone? Anyway, Vampire Mine held my interest for about 53 % of the book.  I loved that Trey was planning to find and make up for past wrongs to Sadie.  She has a strong take charges and protect the one's she care about attitude, and she has the skills to kick the bad guys butt.  Leigh comes to Trey for help to save Sadie.  So begins a side romance introduction for Leigh and the Beta wolf Nathan. This made the story more enjoyable for me at first.  I liked Nathan and Leigh started out with potential.  However, there was no room for Nathan's character once the many, shifts in the plot with the bad guys began varying and never stopped.  The continued changing in danger for the characters was distracting and annoying. Of course, the bad guys start out as being the Shepherds.  Personally, these individuals are human and crazy so it should not be too difficult to outsmart them, especially by book three. But no, they are still a danger to shifters everywhere well maybe. The Shepherds have to get in line behind the other perils to mankind.  There is the rogue vampire Aldon, who is using Sadie to get to Leigh. Then there is the head of the vampire coven that may be also a threat.  With so many dangers Trey and Nathan are unable to protect their mates so run to Diskant for protection, which makes  since as he is Omega and has the "gargantuan house ". Diskant is at first willing to help, however, Ava gets upset with Leigh, and really, who can blame her? Leigh cannot take care of herself and continually cries poor me, etc. It is poor Nathan as he is stuck with her as a mate.  Nothing the authors reveals about Leigh's past and changing into a vampire is enough for to actually feel sorry for her. Leigh needs to go to cry somewhere else so Sadie can get some rest, develop her relationship with Trey and figure out whom the bad guys are.  Especially since Diskant and Ava withdraw their protection and threaten to kill Leigh and Sadie, if Leigh cannot get a grip. I became frustrated that Trey did not leave with Sadie, once this happened he stays there making nice with Diskant who is supposedly the Omega. However, since the real danger might actually be an amulet that Ava's brother has stolen and has the potential to destroy mankind Diskant is not Omega enough to handle this so he calls a  panther shifter to help him and Trey.  By this time Nathan can only stand by while Leigh cries, and I guess hope that Diskant or Ava do not actually kill her , after all he is only a Beta. Then another plot shift again because remember Shepherds are a still a menace so Trey will need to ensure his pack  accepts  he has mated a vampire because he will need his them to band together for the safety of the pack.Confused by my review?  Confused is how I felt after reading about 63 % of this book.  If the males had stayed strong and Alpha types then I could have over looked the many plots.The positive about this book is that since Sadie is a vampire, she did not have to endure the painful mating process during sex like Ava and Mary did, which made for hotter sex scenes without the cringe factor.