Review: Poor Jack and Val
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2013
I think this addition to the Valerie Dearborn collection could be read either before or after book one and two.  I thought it would have been better if I'd read it before, but it seems the author recommends it to be read after.  I feel like even though we wouldn't have known some of the characters it would have peaked our interest in them and that it wasn't necessary at that point to have known more about them.  I think it gave a better undertanding about why Valerie was so resistant to learn more skills to kill vampiries when you read book one.  I thought she was just being kind of a brat for no real reason.  Learning more about her background made me understand that she had already had years of very intense issues with her father and most of the resistance comes from their history of hunting vampires.  She's just kind of wanting to remove herself from this life, with good reason.  This book is really all about Jack and how he came to be with Nate and Valerie and explains better his intense hatred of Marion.  I liked it.  It's a nice addition to the series.  (It really should have been the beginning of book one though)