Review: I like bad boys
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 7, 2011
Let me come clean: there hasn't been a book by this author that I haven't liked. There's something ... I don't know ... uncompromising about her characters that I adore. They are sometimes aloof, sometimes flawed, they might be addicted to drugs or to pain or to a person, afraid of commitment, but what I love about them is that they have a hard time expressing their feelings and they fight against them until they have to accept them.Adam is a man whose flaws are what make him strong, because he is used to them. He is an undercover cop who uses his job to indulge in his vices. His lover, Peter, is a model detective, who's always waiting for Adam's return and who forgives him anything. Adam dies in the arms of a devastated Peter, but then he wakes up in a morgue as an undead and with a strange thirst for blood. Adam's reputation is ruined, since his role in the operation that got him killed is not clear, Peter can't believe he is still alive and he craves blood and sex, his body can do incredible things for a human and he has no mirror reflection. It takes a while for him to understand he is a vampire. In the meantime he decides to investigate his own murder and the new world he finds himself in.Very little has changed: he has sex whenever the need or mood strikes him, but then he goes back to Peter, and here's what the unbelievable is happening. Adam is developing feelings of longing and need for Peter, right at the moment when Peter is starting to detach himself from him. Adam doesn't hide behind a wall of excuses, he knows he is always f***ing up because his will to be a better man is not strong enough, but, as unpleasant as he might be, there's such an intensity in him that I couldn't help forgiving him.The author is always able to pair up her flawed men with other men who have the patient of saints, but they are strong and are not humiliated or diminished by their lovers' questionable behaviors. Peter is not a doormat, because even when Adam is using him, he is able to keep a core of dignity and integrity that is the perfect balance to Adam's infidelity.There were a lot of funny moments, because Adam has a unique way of making fun of himself and the situations he finds himself in. He knows himself so well, but it's incredible how he can keep his feelings for Peter compartmentalized from the rest, but they are there even when he tries to push them away. Adam is not in denial of his flaws and addictions, he is in denial of what's good in his heart.If you like your heroes stable and faithful, this book might not be for you, but if you like bad boys, this is just perfect!