Review: Night of Sin
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2012
Detective Chandra Hunt receives a cryptic message that says if she wants to see her friend again, to go to a night club on the edge of town and seek out the Stoner brothers. But she has to go alone...or else. Her friend Val has been gone a month with no clues to her whereabouts. As the first lead, she's determined not to screw it up. So she goes, and meets one of the sexiest men alive.Sin-Bad Stoner is an old vampire who believes he's finally found the one woman who can fulfill his every need and desire. Unbeknownst to her, the brown-skinned beauty has been the subject of all his thoughts and efforts for a long time and it looks like those efforts are finally paying off.  However, she's not about to surrender quietly. So he'll just use all his vampiric wiles to lure her to his home and dominate her until she does.As a reviewer and as a reader, I've long loved everything vampire and everything BDSM:  The darker and edgier the better. When I saw this book contained both those subjects, I was intrigued. After all, what could be more compelling than an uber dominant vampire?  There were references in the story that Sin did not use any mind tricks to compel Chandra to remain with him that first night, or to like the sex they shared. But it did seem, all the same, that she was trying to fight her natural inclination to get away from him.Sin was not a very likeable character, sad to say. All throughout the story, he waxed on and on about the size of his package, but it was actually difficult to discern which was larger: that, or his unbelievably inconsiderate arrogance. On the one hand, he anonymously sent Chandra gifts before they met, so one would think his desire was to romance her. But then, after they met, he expected her to automatically capitulate blindly to his whims and desires. At one point, he even demanded she eschew all her thoughts of upholding the law as was her credo as a police officer and blindly submit to his dominance. And when she wouldn't do what he asked, he would toss her declarations of love back in her face, saying that she would do it if she loved him, reminding me of a petulant school bully, rather than a dark and intense vampire regardless of his origins.With Sin's two other sexy brothers, and a delicious premise, I really wanted to like Night of Sin but I just couldn't get past his boorishness to like the rest of the story. Because it had such promise, I find myself wanting to read other works by Marilyn Lee. I refuse to give up on this author after one read. After all, others might enjoy it, but I'd recommend giving it a pass.