Review: Good Character Development.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2014
Which is always important for the first book in a series.  I found the characters to be likeable and interesting.  The Heroine was especially pleasing, and the Hero was a Hunk.  The sexual scenes were nicely done, and the action scenes were exciting.  World building was decent for a relatively short first installment.  It was kind of a fun read, with lots of supernatural aspects.  YA or Adult due to strong language and sexual content.I've personally found that the "Mate" premise (or in this case, the  Magical  "Created exclusively for one another"  idea) sometimes gets in the way of a nice, slow buildup of a romantic relationship.  It provides an excuse that enables a character to say "One night won't be enough" by page 56, and  "I love you" by page 61.  Just saying--sometimes it seems too quick and easy.It's rather obvious that the Author is either British or Scottish.  Because of that, an American reader will note words that are spelled somewhat differently.  These are not necessarily errors (although I have some doubts about a couple).  And I'm willing to acknowledge that the slang and wording will also be less familiar to us.  But I still found the dialogue and sentence structure to be poor no matter what version of English one is using.  Commas should be used where necessary,  and further editing should definitely be given to this book.Example:"Try to drink a little honey, please,"  He coaxed.  (This one was pretty comical.  Especially as he was trying to get our Heroine to drink his blood--not honey.)Another issue that could have  easily been rectified was the habit of using all Caps for emphasis.  All caps sound like SHOUTING to me.  I would have preferred italics.  Using italics also would have made it more apparent whenever the main characters were speaking to each other telepathically.  This would have made the reading flow smoother.The plot was ok, if not real unique.  I'm glad that the ending was not a cliffhanger.  It does give hints of further adventures, and the large volume of characters in this first book allows for many possibilities.  I will probably read more of the series, as it shows promise.  Especially if the editing improves.  The potential is there; it just needs a little work, in my opinion.