Review: A "Righteous"ly entertaining romance novel!  @badwordplay
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2014
Man, the Catholic church can’t catch a break.  After all of their other scandals, come to find out, according to this book, that they knowingly recruited Vampires to help them during the Crusades!  It’s a wonder why this scathing tell all book isn’t getting more press…Being a big Dr Who fan, and a big Torchwood fan, I was really excited to see this book was set in Cardiff.  However, instead of present day Cardiff, the story is set in 1715, and we follow Rachel, a woman scorned, who also happens to be a vampire.  She must deal with a plethora of issues and problems, with her love life, and (due to vampire hunters on her trail) her literal life.While this book is a “vampire romance” novel, I am pleased to say that it is much better than that “OTHER” vampire romance novel series (looking at you, “Chicken Soup” series!).  It wasn’t the saccharin sweet teen love story that you sometimes get with romance novels:  this is a very well done romance novel, with honest and believable characters, and a female main character that is actually a strong, independent woman.This is the second book in the series, but it still reads well as a standalone story.  If you are interested, you might want to start with Judgment of Souls, but you could absolutely jump in with this volume.