Review: Pretty dark, interesting premise, gonna continue the novellas
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
I picked this one up as a freebie about a year ago and I am trying to work through my short reads. I randomly decided to read this the other night. It was very quick but it had some heavy aspects. There is violence, rape, and kidnapping. There are vamps, druids, rogue vamps, pheromones, all kinds of stuff. I wouldn't read this if you can't deal with the dark elements. It's in the title so please avoid if that's not your cuppa.The GOOD: I like the world that is being built in this short read. You have the dying race of vamps whose females are becoming sterile, you have druid human females and males (I guess) that can mate with the vamps and produce the next generation. With that world in place, it brings the vamps to a level of desperation and animalism just cause well...what else do you do when facing extinction? That's right people. You freak the hell out.I also liked the semi-menage scene. It was pretty hot.The BAD: It was pretty short so you aren't given a lot to go off of. And you wonder why the heroine, under her circumstances, would be attracted to her captor. Almost like the lesser of two evils - cause there is a big bad vamp and his group that also want her and the hero isn't gentle but is gentler than the other options.The UGLY: I had a laugh out loud-are-you-serious- moment when I read a euphemism for how the author described a body part. It was hilarious in a I'm-laughing-at-you kind of way. Something about breasts looking like creamy flesh ballons. Really? REALLY??!! Okay if that's what you want to imagine... I mean I guess... Flesh balloons are weird. Please don't ever use that again. For the sake of my brain, I'm begging you.